What was your reaction to Sonic Jam coming out for the Saturn?
>>11107390I didn't even know about it until the early 2000s and at that time I was an edgy teen that saw sonic as an outdated concept and laughed at each clusterfuck of a release. Now I quite like all retro sonics, less so for the 3d ones but they're ok too.
>>11107390"Neat"Honestly I was more interested in the Sonic World part at the time since the internet was still in its early stages as far as Sonic went.
First heard about it from the Scott the Woz meme.I think it's a pretty nice collection. The fact it's actual ports instead of emulation makes it desirable, but also because of all the extras and careful presentation. It feels a lot more personal and special than later collections.I would buy it if I had a Saturn.
>>11107390I was born in 91 and I didn't even know the Saturn existed before the late 00s
>>11107390I prefer Sonic Jelly
What was your reaction to seeing a DBZ reference back in '92?
>>11107390>Why won't they release a real Sonic on the Saturn?
>>11108878>"Super Sonic? So it's like Super Mario?"
>>11107390>They're making at last a 3D Sonic for the Saturn? Looks co...>What? It's a compilation game? The 3D world is just a menu?
>>11107390this is my first time hearing about it.
>>11107390I don't remember previews of the game, but remember reading somewhere that it was supposed to reintroduce the franchise/characters to the Japanese, since the Mega Drive was not popular there. I didn't have any interest in it because I already had 1/2/CD for the original Genesis, but I saw this on clearance for $20-30USD so I still got it anyway. I really haven't played it, but I remember it did not sound the same as it did on the Genesis which was how I preferred it.
I'm a 3rd worlder, gaming mags here weren't popular so I didn't even know the Saturn existed until like the mid 2000s
>>11108935Jam actually fixes the sound glitches on Sonic 3's Ice Cap Act 2, playing both the sound effects and bgm without problem.Its a great collection, you should play it. The best thing is the time trial mode.
>>11107390I only had enough money for this or Resident Evil and I chose Resident Evil, because that was awesome and the future of gaming. Choosing Sonic would have meant staying as a kid and living in the past.
>>11107390I already had them all on Genesis, plus I had both Sonic CD and Sonic R on PC.
>>11108925What’s your reaction?
>>11107390i didn't know there was a Saturn until my cousin showed me his
>>11107390>What was your reaction to Sonic Jam coming out in real life?
>>11107390Literally no one I knew had a Saturn. I didn't even know the Saturn existed, nevermind that this game collection released. In '97 I would have been playing N64 and PS1 games when this came out. Sorry.
Sonic 2 played and especially sounded like shit on this collection. I’m wouldn’t call myself ocd or a purist but I basically consider it unplayable. With my favorite of the 3 downgraded so much compared to the genesis version I don’t think too highly of this. Sonic World was cool, but essentially just a tech demo. Would’ve played the hell out of 3d classic Sonic if it ever existed. Putting the spin dash in Sonic 1 is an interesting addition. The easy modes were dumb.The museum and art galleries and stuff were great additions. I used to watch the Sonic CD cartoon every time I played the game.Why they didn’t include Sonic CD when they could have is beyond me.If they had just included the basic ports of the genesis games and made them run and sound perfect and nothing else it would be better than what they did.
>>11107390>What was your reaction to Sonic Jam coming out for the Saturn?The game came out in mid 1997, when the Saturn was basically being snuffed out of the home console market. I remember renting it, thinking it was a neat collection of games that I already owned. But the 3D world thing was neat, and the main highlight of the collection. Very few people actually got to play it on real hardware.
>>11107390I played it in 1997/1998 here in Europe, one kid in my neighbourd had a sega saturn and sonic jam.It was really nices to play those games but we were kids and we didn't know how to save our progress.
>>11107390Blew my mind with all the bonus video content/animated shorts. They never brought this kind of stuff back with future Sonic collections, though I suppose we have YT now for that.
>>11107390Largely celebratory, bought three copies release day, still have one in shrink.
>>11108957I never really played the 3 games, rented it and got stuck at the barrel. The music in 3 doesn't seem up to the quality of the other titles in the series aside from the hook of Hydrocity Zone 2.
>>11107478Same here. Gaming magazines would talk about it but I never saw Saturn games at stores, never saw an advertisement, nothing. Same thing with Game Gear.
>>11109621The sound differences are minimal and not really inferior to the Genesis (in fact it will sound better than a model 2 genesis for sure).Slowdowns on Sonic 2 are annoying but not game-breaking and also at the same time it removed slowdown where the original Genesis game had it.2 player VS mode is actually playable thanks to 0% slowdown whereas the original was 80% slowdown
>>11107390I thought it was pretty great.
