Sonic Retro

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Where do baby hedgehogs come from? Not from company mascot contests, despite what you’ve probably heard (tho that was a thing that happened, too). How did Sonic 1 REALLY come to be? Plotting the milestones on a timeline is hard because we have so few concrete dates, but let's connect some dots 🧵

Timeline of Sonic 1 development Part 1: 1988 - 1989

1988/10/05 – 06: The 26th AM Show is held in Tokyo. Yūji Naka sees Daimakaimura

1988/10/29: The Mega Drive is released in Japan

1988/11/21: Nintendo unveils the Super Famicom

1988/11 or 12: Naka begins working on the MD port of Daimakaimura

1989/05: The Daimakaimura MD master ROM is completed
1989, May or later: Naka begins working on Metal Lancer

1989/??: Naoto Ōshima meets Shigeru Miyamoto and is inspired to make a game to rival Mario

1989/07/28: Nintendo reveals Super Mario World under its working title of Mario 4

1989/08/03: Daimakaimura on MD is released

1989, after July:  Ōshima formally proposes his Mario killer, Twins Special

Second half of 1989 (probably): Metal Lancer is scrapped

Second half of 1989 (probably): Naka joins Ōshima on the Twins Special project

34 years ago today, in the hallowed halls of Electronics Boutique, the first known copies of Sonic the Hedgehog were sold in Palo Alto and Cupertino, California. Over the coming days, it would pop up in cities coast to coast. He wasn’t the most famous hedgehog in the world yet, but oh boy, would he…

I wrote a grand total of 2 Sonic the Hedgehog stories. It's so weird to me one of the characters I co-created in them continues to live on. We find out in a multiverse with PARALLEL realities, the cop who polices them lives sideways in the one PERPENDICULAR reality that runs through all of them.

DogyDayz@dogydaydreamz.bsky.social · 2y ago

one day. one day ill get to see you just to have one of these fuckass comics signed by you. thank you for creating one of the most unhinged character concepts that ive ever gotten attached to im being so genuine. Zonic pissing comic.