Why you'd want to when you can't use the downloads on a mobile device mostly is another question entirely. For now though, please enjoy the newly-added 2012 entries!Īlso the site now works properly in mobile view. Whether we'll be able to bring you any years previous to this is unfortunately going to be a lot harder, but we're going to do our very best to attempt to.

UPDATED - The 2012 contest entries have now been added to The Vault. There should not be any issues with downloading from the new location, but if there are do let us know. UPDATED - Thanks to all of your downloads amounting to more than 1.2TB of bandwidth, we have had to move the downloads to a new location. UPDATED - A long time coming, the entries for the 2020 contest and expo are now available in The Vault! UPDATED - The entries for the 2021 contest and expo are now available in The Vault. Blame a combination of work and COVID for the lateness of this set.

Once you start playing there are no banners or anything of the sort to slow down your experience.UPDATED - The entries for the 2022 contest and expo are now available in The Vault.

All are free-to-play, meaning you'll simply see a few ads in the start menu. The game makes up part of the so-called SEGA Forever line, a series of games for mobile devices officially released by the company that are both identical in gameplay to the originals and offer the chance to customize the touch controls and even save your progress at any time. Warning: you may well tear up a little explaining this premise decades later to a new generation of gamers coming at this classic for the first time. Plus it's got the option to unlock Tails and Knuckles in the first installment, something seen only in hacked versions of the Sonic & Knuckles combo, a cartridge that had an extra expansion slot to hook up the other 16-bit games from the saga.īeyond that, the game is practically identical to the original: you've got to trek through eight worlds made up of three levels each in your attempt to get back the jewels from the chaotic clutches of Dr. This port isn't a simple replica run over an emulator. In fact the original code has been modified to offer substantial upgrades in the Android adaptation, like a panoramic resolution that doesn't stretch the image or fudge the aspect ratio. Sonic the Hedgehog Classic is the first game of the saga of SEGA's famous spiky hero released in 1991 for Mega Drive/Genesis – and the company's original standard-bearer thanks to being a well-rounded game in all sort of ways.

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