What’s YOUR favorite handheld Sonic game?🤔

Thank god someone out there is preserving the didj sonic lore

Sonic X on leapster actually does have an ending. There are 6 chaos emeralds and you get one for getting 100 rings on either act 1 or act 2 of any of the three zones. Once you have all 6 emeralds and beat Eggman's Base Act 3 you get the ending and credits. There is no super sonic in that game. Also, fun facts about the game, there is a soft lock in Angel Island Zone Act 2 and the game has an unironicly good soundtrack (which is entirely original) that was sadly never remixed anywhere, even by fans. The OST was only held back by the god-awful sound quality.

Unrelated to Handhelds but, There's an obscure Sonic game I've come across the existence of, It's a bowling game with the Sonic X brand that was featured on JETIX-I in the UK. I was part of early on Demand cable services. I only know about it cause it was featured in a promo for Jetix-I

Forget the Mean Bean Machine, the Super Sucky Machine is where its at!

This video was incredible for the simple fact that I got to hear the words Eggman’s Super Sucky Machine spoken out loud.

I was unironically obsessed with Sonic X Leapster when I was little. I remember it used an enhanced version of the scrapped Sonic 3 idle animation… which younger me thought was adorable😅

I like how sonic pocket adventure is literally a transition from classic to modern sonic (and Eggman) as Sonic’s eye color changes mid game and so does Eggman’s design.

“Sonic doesn’t always get it right, but when he does… boy does he nail it” Sonic and or Sega watching this:(sniff) thank you.

I love the image of Gilly bounding upstream as a majestic trout. Not sure why.

Gamecom's sonic jam is the first sonic game that i can confidently say it looks, sounds and feels like a bootleg

I remember owning sonic x on leapster when I was a kid, definitely gave me quite a few memories.

In many of the adverts, the Sonic Jam G.C was shown in 1.5+ the original speed, which makes me wonder how playable it is with that setting.

Pocket Adventure is the only game I have for my Neo Geo Pocket Color. And it’s fantastic. Clicky-stick forever. ❤️

Neo Geo Pocket in general was an amazing handheld, with some of the best portable fighters of it's time (and even now). Thanks for another great video, Gilly!

Sonic Didj might be the most obscure Sonic game I've ever heard of.

I'm just shocked the Leapster one not only uses modified Sonic 3 sprites, but they look surprisingly good and smooth.

To be honest, a remake of the didj game in the form of a ROM hack or something could work really well. Helping is that it's the only Leapster game that's the closest to an actual Sonic game. Fix up the controls a bit, and we actually got something competent. There's already a precedent for remakes of the more obscure Sonic games, so it's more than possible. I'm going to coin it "Sonic the Hedgehog didj", or just "Sonic didj" for short.

There is an official Tiger Gamecom emulator which exists. Check out the speedrun Sonic Jam page for more info. Also, nothing happens when you get all the black spheres in Jam, you just get extra points.

I can't believe you tracked down a didj

A Gilly video over half an hour long? Hell yeah.

The Didj was how I was first introduced to the Sonic franchise. After replaying the game a million times, I managed to find the Archie sonic comics in libraries and book stores and got pretty invested in the series. Thanks for bringing back great memories! I couldn't remember how I first played sonic for a while and only remembered brief flashbacks.

This video is so good. Thank you for going to great lengths to breakdown some of these. I had the Game Com Sonic Jam as a kid and never made it very far. Never saw that special stage!

You need more views with how much effort and humor are in your vids Gil.

Honestly, the original sprite work for Sonic X is quite nice, especially those super smooth victory animations for all the characters. Clearly *someone* had put some passion into the game

My fave is Sonic advance, unless Genesis games on the Nomad count. Then its Sonic 3 and knuckles which made the Nomad even less portable.

That Knuckles animation in the leapster Sonic X game was quite impressive. I also noticed an Amy sprite in the style of 3K

I love Sonic Pocket Adventure. It’s such a charming game with gorgeous art, stellar music (despite the fact they are placed weirdly) and just a general fun time. My favourite Sonic handheld game hands down.

Honestly, I loved Sonic Rivals 2. The story was confusing (trust me, it's way more confusing once you start playing literally any of the other teams), I don't get why Shadow and Eggman were still friends, but the gameplay itself was really fun to me.

Man the neo geo pocket color is such a good handheld console I love that the joystick nub thing uses micro switches.

This video was well done, entertaining, and informative! I like your voice and your cadence. Definitely subscribing.

If the pure, undiluted EFFORT in this video isn't worth a like...then I dunno what to tell you man.

Man, this video was certainly worth the wait! These were definitely interesting Sonic games on very different handheld systems... and Sonic Pocket Adventure is the big champ of them all! Which, son of a gun, is the second time I have seen a video in which SNK is involved. This one being the SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color and its dedicated Sonic game! This is the day after I have watched GuileWinQuotes' video on Athena: Awakening from the ordinary life on PS1. Strange, isn't it?

It's sure been a ride. Glad we can finally closure this shindig.

26:12 interesting how this game is 90% Genesis sonic styled, but came out when sonic reference material was still based off of sonic 06, so the logo is styled that way. But it also has adventure sonic styled art in the menus, so it really is a sonic generational frankincense monster.

I don’t remember where I found it but there is actually an official emulator for the gamecom, and from what I remember it was able to run this game pretty easily. I did this like a few months back so it should still work

Glad to see you posting, best retro reviews on KZfaq bro 👊

Fun fact: The Game com Sonic Jam has some early sprites not found in the main Sonic 3 roms/prototypes. One of them is Knuckles' weird Sonic 2 proto design (at 5:14 when he's skidding) . Apparently, no one noticed them until the Sonic 3 proto came out.

This is the first video of yours I've seen, and I like it. I'm gonna go watch more now.

Loved the vid! I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the advance series, personally

I remember actually liking Sonic Rivals 2, despite playing it way past it's prime. Maybe I just got used to the jank, but I remember having a lot of fun with it. Plus it was my first PSP game (and only non-Final Fantasy game until I got Metal Gear Ac!d years later), so I suppose that contributed to my enjoyment of it

15:37 now Eggman is really ready to taste de-feet.

Hell yeah! New GillyTheKid video!

Love the video Gil, keep it up man.

“Hey, what are you doing?” “Oh, I’m Sonic’n”

Watching the Sonic Didj portion made me happy that I chose to get a Nintendo DS Lite over that system although I originally considered getting a Didj growing up.

Real talk, though, the new sprite animations made for the Leapster game are actually really well made.

Glad to see you post again!

I remember owning a Gamecom with Sonic Jam back in 97 a year before I got a Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Blue. The worst thing about is that I legit enjoy the Gamecom Sonic Jam because it was the only handheld I own at the time even though many years later I question myself on why I like that game 😂 😅

Man this was a cool video, I wish handhelds were real

Honestly sonic rivals is a game that I played so much as a kid and my memories of it are so vague I had a hard time trying to find it again recently. Those menus hit like a truck tho and now I want to play it again. Shame the psp was my dads and I’ve recently moved out so I’d have to go far if I wanted the original back qwq

can't believe Sonic Rivals predicted Inscryption

ah sonic didj will not be forgotten.

Great video 💙 you ever gonna cover the handheld LCD games by Tiger and others?

Nice video! If you do a compilation video of all Sonic handheld games, could you also include the Sega Pico games (Sonic's Gameworld and Tails and the Music Maker) as additional bonus and to be even more complete? I guess they count as handheld games as a well.

Sonic X Leapster seems to have some interesting Sonic 3-styled sprites beyond the ones in actual S3.

19:18 Reminds me of that episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! where Yugi's grandpa gets trapped inside of a Yu-Gi-Oh! card. Somehow. (I don't remember much of the details)

Great video as always. Pocket Adventure is indeed a great game.

I remember the sonic leapster game. That one and the spongebob one where you count money taught me how to count😌

I actually saw some tiger electronic games in GameStop the other day. They still produce them!

Some of the animations on the classic Sonic sprite in that Sonic X game are very nice.

okay those Sonic 3 style sprites with Sonic Advance-esque animations from Sonix X Leapster look really, really nice. I'm impressed by Amy in particular since she didn't have a Genesis era sprite to go off of, so they had to make her from scratch (and from editing/tracing(?) her Advance 3 sprites I guess).

It's interesting to me that the Sonic edutainment game had unique sprites.

Wow a gilly video thats longer than 10 minutes, it felt like you didn’t care about us tbh

I'm not even sure if the NGPC was even released in the UK. I sure don't remember seeing it advertised anywhere.

I remember being a kid and playing sonic rush. It was my second psp game. I 100% loved then cause you could play as silver..... thats it. Only reason why I liked the game lol.

Your videos are really cool I'm glad I found your channel. Didn't have consoles as a kid, only a PC which in the 80s and early 90s wasn't that inspiring for gaming so I never played sonic, mega man etc.

Remember Sonic Pocket Adventure is made by the same dev that made the Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush series so essentially the game is like a Sonic Advance 0.

I really loved sonic rivals. I played it when I was younger then I last year played again and it was quite good.

I'll say one thing about the Leapfrog Sonic games- the modified Sonic 3 sprites are super fluidly animated for no good reason and I wish someone would dump the whole spritesheets online.

It's a real shame Sonic Pocket Adventure never became part of the game collections. Like did we really need Sonic Drift 1 and 2 over this? I really like the artstyle it went with and I salute those devs for giving people the Sonic experience on the go.

I can’t believe Didj is the name of a Console and not just a typo lol I thought I used to be fairly knowledgeable when it came to video games and some of the weirder more obscure retro stuff, but man I think I can whole heartedly say, I don’t think the Didj was even the faintest whisper, in the background conversation that is my mind. Like it wasn’t just not on my radar, I don’t think it’s existence was in my solar system. Also speaking of the Milky Way did anyone else know that the name “Milky Way” in part owes itself to a Greek fable that involved Hercules Breast Feeding from Zeus’s Wife, and in said action he somehow hurt her, which then cause her to somehow spray Godly breast milk all over, which in turn was the creation of our galaxy hence the name “Milky Way” I’m sorry that tidbit of trivia was just too weird not to mention after I just briefly mentioned our galaxy! Anyways thanks again a Gilly for another funny and informative video. And I’m always looking forward to more! Keep it up dude, your 1 of my favourite creators!

Ur new vid is doin great keep goin bro

Good stuff!!

Great video

Anyone Else Remember The McDonalds Handheld Sonic Video Games That Came With Happy Meals In the Early 2000's LOL

Ironically, if I remember correctly, Sonic Pinball Party takes place solely in the universe of Sonic the Hedgehog.

What the heck though why are the sprites in that leapster game so good though. As you said they're based on Sonic 3 but the have extra frames and sprite sheets in weird places

Great content thanks man!!!

I had Sonic Rivals but the UMD popped open after playing it just once so I never got to play it again.

It took me a while to realize the Game Com Sonic Jam themes were laughably poor renditions of Genesis Sonic tracks. I thought they were run-of-the-mill plinky-plonky background music in the first place...

Oh yeah i remember the leapfrog sonic game weird that i still have it

Good job gilly now do those spin-off games you skipped over

When using the official gamecom sdk emulator, set the speed to 125. You can't do it directly from the emulator, only can set up to 100%. That has to be done in the config file. A ini file. The emulator will throw an error but works if you click ok when prompted. I have not had any success in mame for Android other than loading the bios. I haven't tried the PC port yet

PLEASE i need to know the name of the song that you use at the end of the video (the one with the 'go' samples). PLEASE DUDE

Pocket adventure is my favorite handeld Sonic

I actually beat both Sonic Rivals games using all the characters. In the first game, the fifth character is Metal Sonic, and he copies the other rival ability. I actually like both those games, and beat the levels and bosses on the first try. Also, in Pocket Adventure, there is a way to play as Tails in the single player mode.

I don't see how the PSP is considered an "obscure handheld" when it sold roughly the same amount of units as the GBA

Sonic Rivals looks like a spiritual successor to Iggy's Reckin' Balls.

Love it!

can we talk about the custom sprite animations at 16:58 tho

I do like to know about obscure things

22:02 This was run on PPSSPP.

Fun fact! The Gamecom screen was so bad, that it could not even handle this game as you see it. I had a Gamecom it was absolute trash.

You the, man!

Ive always wondered about the leapfrog sonic x game. I'm so glad I didn't waste my money on it!😂 I was 9 when they came out with that too.

16:24 That intro

I HAD THE HO DIEGO GO GAME LMAO

I have both Sonic X and Go Diego Go on leapster

Wait, Gilly, how did you mention an N-Gage without summoning Gruncle Derek from SSFF?!