A Sonic Game So Bad It's Hard To Believe

A Sonic Game So Bad It's Hard To Believe | Sonic Jam (game.com)

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2 ай бұрын

A lot of you brought this game up after my previous video so here I am playing it. Though I'd struggle to call Sonic Jam for the game.com a game to be honest...
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@awesomebeast5799 2 ай бұрын

2:22 Sonic 3 unused idle animation!

@No_True_Scotsman 2 ай бұрын

This isn't a game, it's a PowerPoint presentation

@YaPalSpeedy Ай бұрын

True.

@thecringeofficer Ай бұрын

ok guys so this is my uhhh this is my presentation of a sonic game for our programming… uh yeah

@Крингечеликс Ай бұрын

Even a PowerPoint presentation is better

@JomasterTheSecond 2 ай бұрын

Sonic 3 music in Sonic 2, all while running at a crisp 10 frames per second. Thanks, Tiger!! Very epic!

@jaysherman2615 2 ай бұрын

Having a Gamecom and this game, the emulator is a superior experience. The screen refresh rate is so bad that it turns into a blurry mess. While the graphics look decent enough, on a real console the second you move it turns into a blurry mess that reminds me of accidentally looking at the sun and your eyes are screwed up for a minute or so. All I have to say is, "It stinks".

@MaxOakland Ай бұрын

The frame rate is so low it looks horrible even on an emulator. I don’t understand how they thought this was releasable

@jaysherman2615 Ай бұрын

@@MaxOakland I actually doubt that it could get much better than this. The specs of the Gamecom are strange. The CPU was an 8-bit Sharp industrial controller clocked in at 10MHz. Now this sounds great, 2 and a half times more powerful than the Gameboy's CPU. Well that is great until you realize that the graphics, the I/O and everything else are run by the CPU. Now I am no expert when it comes to programming the Gamecom, but if I had to take a guess, the CPU has to render the graphics every other frame since it is trying to run the game's code as well. So you get one frame for graphics and another frame to execute code. For an industrial machine this is fine, for a game console, "It stinks".

@MaxOakland Ай бұрын

@@jaysherman2615 Yikes. What were they thinking using that CPU!?

@darkfalzx Ай бұрын

When you say low refresh rate, you actually mean ghosting. The ghosting was so terrible, I can’t even think of any modern examples of what it was like. Like, the second you start moving the entire screen becomes a featureless grey smear!

@PilaCiu 2 ай бұрын

This game has prototype Sonic 3 sprites, and pre-release material even featured stuff we have never seen before.

@RADish-official 2 ай бұрын

Sonic Adventure 7 was worse

@ShaneBarton2005 2 ай бұрын

Yes, but that game's a bootleg, so it being bad is to be expected.

@user-mf2yn7dd7z 2 ай бұрын

Sonic adventure 8

@szonig_pl3024 2 ай бұрын

Sonic 3D Blast 5

@jotta.069 2 ай бұрын

Sonic & Knuckles 5

@keripikto 2 ай бұрын

Sonic the hedgehog 4 (snes bootleg)

@BIayne 2 ай бұрын

Sonic on a console with a 10FPS screen. What could go wrong?

@Meow-n1y Ай бұрын

Everything

@CassiusStelar 2 ай бұрын

Symphony of the Night is the only game that actually functions on the gamecom, and that one was cancelled before the first area was complete

@That-Ninja 2 ай бұрын

I don't remember asking about that... 😮‍💨

@CassiusStelar 2 ай бұрын

@@That-NinjaYou don't need to, YOU ARENT THE OP.

@CassiusStelar 2 ай бұрын

@@That-Ninjahow about you BUTT OUT

@That-Ninja 2 ай бұрын

@@CassiusStelar why didn't you use an apostrophe with that one word? You were supposed to use an apostrophe. Do you not like them or something 🤔

@CassiusStelar 2 ай бұрын

@@That-Ninja apostrophe?

@ANGRY_ALA 2 ай бұрын

I'm going one step further for a even worse game, sonic the hedgehog for the leapfrog didj (or sonic didj in short) and yes, it's also a official sonic game.

@GreenKnight07 Ай бұрын

Random fact: there are early screenshots of this collections featuring some parts of "Sonic 3D Blast"

@sansthecritic2093 2 ай бұрын

If we’re talking about dumb sonic ports, might as well talk about sonic N

@walkerslegendz 2 ай бұрын

I actually talked about Sonic N in my Super Sonic video! I pretty much said all my thoughts there, so I don't think I'll ever make another video about it unless it's a part of a video with multiple games.

@BigOofs2213 2 ай бұрын

@@walkerslegendz What the Sigma is Sonic N 😂

@SurfRay 2 ай бұрын

isn't it just sonic advance ???

@Salnax 2 ай бұрын

Sonic Advance ported to the N Gage

@BigOofs2213 2 ай бұрын

@@Salnax you actin like I know what the N Gage is 😏

@RobiWanKenobi_567 2 ай бұрын

I remember doing a play through of this game, this game is definitely hell to play.

@jeeemama5254 2 ай бұрын

i know i have not commented in a while ive busy but these videos just keep getting better and better and you are growing a ton as a channel i hope you keep doing what you love best and keep making great vids

@OrimaJam Ай бұрын

It’s not a game, it’s a tech demo

@earlwilliams7754 2 ай бұрын

Beating a Special Stage isn't worth it either. There are no chaos emeralds to obtain. Beating a Special Stage gets you more points.

@Sonic_The_Hedgedog_Reddit 2 ай бұрын

Sonic Jam (GameCom) sucks. Thank you for making this video essay. ❤

@thepg24-official 2 ай бұрын

Sonic Genesis GBA is still worse imo

@aedan742 2 ай бұрын

⁠@@thepg24-official i mean atleast sonic genesis gba has more than 4 colours

@andrewmetcalf8397 Ай бұрын

I once would’ve fancied a game com. Never got 1. Now I’m glad

@2_many_alts 2 ай бұрын

Now you’re gonna freak out, but have you heard of a game called “Sonic the hedgehog” (2006)?

@mr_red3 2 ай бұрын

at least that game is somewhat playable, had more than 3 levels, and the levels were all somewhat different

@2_many_alts 2 ай бұрын

@@mr_red3 somewhat playable my ass that game glitches out every time you try to use a loop’de’loop

@mr_red3 2 ай бұрын

@@2_many_alts and this game glitches anytime you try to play more than one zone of a game

@sonicmaiden2871 2 ай бұрын

@@2_many_alts at least it had better music and visuals and also more content as well than Sonic Jam on the game com. Also if you hold the stick forwards while on loops they don't break.

@robertanderson9447 2 ай бұрын

@@2_many_altsThe only level I'd say is anywhere close to unplayable is Flame Core, because of a few genuinely awful parts. It IS a very glitchy and messy game, but it's not a Superman 64 situation. You won't have to restart the entire level because Sonic decided the entire floor doesn't exist or something.

@jennysaymow7886 2 ай бұрын

Somehow the Saturn version is one of the best ways to play the genesis games, so the comparison between these is insane

@bluespheresguy2306 2 ай бұрын

How did you play this game?

@hypnovertigo7200 2 ай бұрын

what an all time classic! known about this game since i was 6.

@Tarquin23 2 ай бұрын

“Sonic Jam is harmlessly bad” - said by someone who didn’t pay full price on release

@STRENGTHTHROUGHUNITY 2 ай бұрын

Yeah the reviewers "looking back on it, it's not that bad". Well, yeah you're playing it for free on an emulator which can mask some of the problems that the original copy didn't or they are playing an update which was a year after the initial release

@lillianapabon2683 2 ай бұрын

all fun and games till he sees sonic the hedgehog on the leapfrog diji

@XX-sp3tt Ай бұрын

0:43 I remember LOVING playing those.

@user-mf2yn7dd7z 2 ай бұрын

Sonic 3d blast 5

@bluetoyguy2022 2 ай бұрын

That's not official so it doesn't count.

@trolmite6149 2 ай бұрын

Wow, ok, so not the worst then. That is a first, thank you for this, I was genuinely convinced that there was nothing redeemable or even remotely satisfying about this piece of garbage. I am very impressed you found some fun out of it.

@ImThatGuy64x360 2 ай бұрын

Sonic leapster & didj games?

@mr.monotone1908 Ай бұрын

"The gang plays a bad game" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

@agilortiz21 3 күн бұрын

We need this on steam as an April fools game.

@orderofmagnitude-TPATP 2 ай бұрын

I like how the case is sonic R as opposed to sonic jam.

@Aria-lp4rv 2 ай бұрын

This looks like creepypasta material xD

@Burns_RED 2 ай бұрын

Did you do voice acting for Sonic in some fan game a long time ago? Damn, you sound familiar

@walkerslegendz 2 ай бұрын

Nope. There must be someone else who sounds like me!

@heather769969 Ай бұрын

man this looks so bad that i could've mistaken it for a bootleg lmfao. it fr looks a lot like sonic 3d blast 5

@FViola440 Ай бұрын

Clearly that song was the Blue Spheres Song. Not sure how you can't hear that

@cabbusses Ай бұрын

It baffles me that this system has a half-decent port of Castlevania SOTN that never got officially released, yet this did.

@TKize777 Ай бұрын

uh why is the one Sonic Jam the cover of Sonic R?

@isbragg Ай бұрын

Tiger was never one to care about quality.

@shiruotakuno28 Ай бұрын

Scott Wozniak isn't going to be happy about this

@Vulpas 2 ай бұрын

Checking the Sonic wiki, it says Sonic Jam for GC was developed by Sega.

@LJLMETAL Ай бұрын

You should look at the game known as Somari

@lockout5731 2 ай бұрын

i love sonic advanced games cream is broken and overpowered in the second one and oh my she's awesome

@brontomage20 2 ай бұрын

yo why did they use sonic r box art??? Lmao

@DrBagPhD 2 ай бұрын

As dire as this game genuinely is I do wonder if some of the bugs you encountered are because of the emulator rather than the game

@Rgoid Ай бұрын

0:32 - 0:38 Basically similar to Nintendo’s Game and Watch.

@rodrigomarcondes5857 2 ай бұрын

I think one thing that maybe would sway you into considering this game annoyingly bad is playing it on real hardware. You have no idea how much work this emulator is doing for the game, the original gamecom screen makes the game looks so much worse and it has terrible refresh rate

@randomcommentog 2 ай бұрын

Nah Sonic Jam the Gamecom is easily the best Sonic game in the entire franchise it’s peak

@bluey-next777 Ай бұрын

1:13 G E T R O A S T E D

@DarkCloudVA2 27 күн бұрын

The only good thing this game did was use unused and beta elements from Sonic 3 tbh

@JirachiOfDreams 2 ай бұрын

Am i the only one who likes Sonic 1 GBA

@nebins 2 ай бұрын

Somari looks better

@user-pe7up5od7i 25 күн бұрын

Which is worse, this or the crappy GBA port of Sonic the Hedgehog 1?

@justinw7323 Ай бұрын

Gamescom released crappy games thats why it failed. Choppy framrate too.

@i_am_gohan9232 Ай бұрын

Seeing this, Segw deserved to crumble. Every decision they made after/post sega genesis was horrible. Game gear flopped, sega cd flopped, Saturn flopped, this nonsense handles made form their license, and the Dreamcast flopped.

@dariasoos6721 2 ай бұрын

SONIC BLASD 5 is bad

@SonicGen1992 Ай бұрын

No, the worst is sonic edusoft

@mspaintspartanman5230 2 ай бұрын

sonic chronicles the dark brotherhood is pretty terrible

@AmberLB93 2 ай бұрын

I agree that Sonic Genesis is overall worse, Sonic Jam Gamecom is like Spyro Enter the Dragonfly where it's a funny kind of bad, but Sonic Genesis has no comedic value it's just a horrible port.

@rishyrish Ай бұрын

Bruh should have been unsubbed for saying sonic on genesis was trash matter fact why even listen to this guy 😂 You mean sonic 07is better than the sega one yea bro trippin not watching nothing he got to say

@isbragg Ай бұрын

He’s calling the official Game Boy Advance port, which is literally titled “Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis”, bad. If you haven’t heard of that port, then that’s probably for the better. The original game on the original hardware is good, but the GBA port was a mistake.

@rishyrish Ай бұрын

@@isbragg bro brought up GBA when this game came out on sega in the 90s lol wtf are you talking about bro

@isbragg Ай бұрын

@@rishyrish I, and the video, are talking about the GBA port of Sonic the Hedgehog, literally titled “Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis”. Released in 2006 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise only in North America. It was, let’s just say, not good. Go look it up yourself.

@lpnp9477 Ай бұрын

@@rishyrishGenesis game is pretty good for its time. The gba port "Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis" is abysmal because they completely botched it.

@pizzathehut1011 2 ай бұрын

The worst 3D sonic game is Sonic 06 on PS3. p.s doesn't play p 06 even though you should play that instead.

@sahelebrahimal-wasti4829 Ай бұрын

Sonic 4. Lost world. Black knight and dark brotherhood is bad

@SicMetalMaggot4life 2 ай бұрын

You missed one of the worst parts because you used an emulator…the SCREEN of the Gamecom is quite possibly the worst thing even created by humans. No backlight, agonizing sprite ghosting, severe blur, and a generally faded look made basically everything on there with speed faster than a powerpoint slide literally unplayable. People who complain about the OG Gameboy having a bad screen have never tried to play that garbage device.