Dude ur brother is lucky that u let him play as tails my brothe told me to use my imagination and pretend that I was tails

Nobody ever notices or points out the gradual daytime transitions between Zones, I always thought they're quite neat. GHZ - Morning MGZ - Noon or daytime SYZ - Sunset LZ - Takes place indoors but presumably twilight SLZ - Night SBZ - Dawn FZ - Indoors but presumably close to morning, then in the final cutscene Sonic returns to GHZ in the morning just like he started Thus the entire game transpires over the course of one day.

Trivia: Sonic Genesis on the GBA was such a trainwreck in part BECAUSE Sega already had a successful trilogy on the handheld! What you're seeing there is Sonic 1 assets crowbared into the Sonic Advance engine. Not only was SA supposed to use assets of a completely different scale, but it was also carefully optimized to make the most of the GBA's processing power. Putting in too-large assets, loading whole levels at once, and using completely the wrong physics results in the hot mess that is Sonic Genesis.

It's important to remember, when replaying Sonic 1, that the game was never "all about speed", but they realized, when making it, that "going fast" was the most fun part of the game, so they made that it's main selling point

And thus, Green Hill Zone was milked to death from that day forward.

I'm glad you called them "sparkles". Made me feel all nostalgic and fuzzy.

Good Lord, I thought the GBA port of Wolfenstein 3D I had as a teen was the laggiest GBA port ever made...

Labyrinth was going to be Zone 2 originally.

Me playing sonic 1: where’s that damn seventh chaos emerald?

18:46 in the words of the great and wise cybershell "do you know how embarassing it is to tell people that the best way to play sonic 1 is on a phone?!"

CONGRATS ON GETTING IT DONE!!! HUZZAH!!!! That being said, this was an amazing watch! I can tell so much work was put into it, wow! I never knew about that there were only 6 chaos emeralds in the beginning ((I never got them all)), or even that there was a switch release. So many good facts here~

Kinda makes sense that green hill is milked for nostalgia because its the only part of sonic 1 anyone wants to remember

Seeing your take on Scrap Brain now makes me wonder if Terminal Montage's depiction of that stage was just him throwing shade at an obnoxious level.

Another great video as always, Asprey! Keep up the good work. Your channel is getting better every year.

I love the soundtrack for labyrinth zone, although you can’t hear it most the time because of du du du du DU DU DU DU *DU DU DU DU*

10:41 the only cheat I have had memorized for 25 years. I'm in my 30's and use it often

I could never get into it because of the “go fast into spikes” gameplay if you’re a beginner.

The developers have actually explained why the slow levels were added to the game. It was an intentional decision intended to give the players a chance to take a break from the fast pace of the previous levels and settle down before going into more fast levels.

Marbel Zone music was definitely my favourite

You rarely ever upload, but when you do, it's a treat! Keep up the amazing work!

Great video! Keep them coming! Love your channels.

I had a port of Sonic The Hedgehog for my flip phone back in the day, and it was actually very good and playable. It was a very good time-waster away from home. Also, I loved this video, you should do a video for Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Here's one small thing to mention that I feel doesn't get mentioned often. There's a very special pattern to the stages that is worth mentioning, the game seem to alternate between two types of levels, which are fast levels where you are more able to take advantage of Sonic's speed like Green Hill Zone and Starlight Zone. Meanwhile between them, you got slower stages like Marble Zone and Labyrinth Zone who, seems to follow the philosophy of other games and even movies where you put breaks between the action as to not exhaust the viewers, or in this case the player with constant action. Though with how much peoples enjoy the more fast-paced stages in this game... it kinda ended up having an opposite effect, where the slower stages ending up being the more stressful stages. In summary, Sonic 1 definitely was aiming to be a very traditional platformer with a taste of high speed to give itself an identity. And the feedback from this game resulted in Sonic 2 having all stages be all fast-paced ones, as they were the stages that peoples enjoyed the most. It was still a rather humble start in the end, whereas all the other games in the series would crank up the speed ten fold. Personally I would love to see another game where the premise isn't only about "going fast", but rather "using speed to complete another objective". But that's just me speaking.

Sonic the Hedgehog 1: Worth Playing? : Worth Watching? need answers now

Sonic 1 was my first game ever, and the reason why I wanted to have a video game at home. I can still finish it with all Emeralds, and I always have fun while playing it. While I agree with you and yes, Sonic 1 could have used some of the improvements shown in the sequels, I think it is a pretty solid game, with its own unique, yet weird, pace, giving us a full experience about platformers. All in all, even though Sonic 1 is my favorite game, I agree with many of the topics you covered in your review. Thank you for another excellent video! And if you are open to suggestions, I think you may like Gunstar Heroes. P.S.: Scrap Brain Zone is my favorite zone of all Sonic games.

There was also a 3DS version with a neat adjustable 3D effect and save states. Also worth playing.

I really liked Sonic 1 when I was a kid, but, similarly to a lot of people, I've never gone back to it since Sonic 2 came out. Great content as always fren, keep up the excellent work! Cheers!

I appreciate these analyses. Keep up the great content

Fun Fact: The 7th emerald was only added for 2 because Yuji Naka liked the Super Sayan transformation Goku could attain and wanted something similar for sonic as a super mode, and since they had the emerald mcguffins, they simply added a 7th in the second game (to mirror the dragon balls). This was then incorporated into the lore that, South Island, the island where sonic 2 takes place and where Tails lives, is where the 7th emerald was hidden away from the other 6.

Sonic 1 is underrated in my opinion. I'd say that sonic 1 progressively gets harder with every zone but has some really solid gameplay and takes full advantage of sonics momentum. People just say sonic 2 is better and while 2 has some things 1 doesn't I think 1 is a far more solid experience and the mobile port being the ideal way to play the game.

Ay always enjoy an upload from this mans.

Before Sonic was a franchise, did the devs highlight the fast pace platforming as a selling point? It was the first game after all. Maybe they just didnt iron out the kinks of the gameplay because they didnt realize how successful it would be. Kinda like how gen 1 of Pokemon is broken.

Hello from the Seth Everman shout out!

Sonic the Hedgehog is really fun and worth playing if you're into platformers, but it's also very difficult to actually beat.

OH MY GOD, I HAVENT CHECKED UP ON THIS CHANNEL FOR AGES AND YOU HAVE OVER 300K FOLLOWERS. Bruh I subscribed like 5 years ago when you had like 8k sub and thought your content was so good. I'm really glad you blew up, your content was always amazing

Lorelei: *Sigh of relief*

New Pikasprey Yellow! This is not a drill!! I love me some sonics, so I'm glad to see this video.

Marble zone is actually quite fun when you know the shortcuts

You are so right about Spring Yard Zone! Great video!

I know you were mostly critical but MAN does this make me happy. I love Sonic 1. I played it again about a year ago and just had a stupid fun time. I like to imagine all the places where sonic dies a miserable death are examples of Robotnik designing his dungeon(s) properly.

I think we might need to call in the coffin guys because by the time you are done with labyrinth zone you are going to need them to bring sonic to the after life in style.

there's also the DS port - it has the original and a few of the old games, too. it also has a form of save states, which I thought was interesting. I always thought the controls weren't great, though.

You can really see the effort put into this episode.

Awesome video! I was a bit sad you didn't talk about the Sonic 1 Master System port. That was the one I played first, and later played Sonic 1 and the rest on Mega Drive.

Marble zone is slow so you get to listen to that banger of a soundtrack

Remembering the times when I was given a controller that didn't work and thought I was playing the game- Lies it was all a lie I never got a turn

I thought 1 was okay, I thought 2 was a fun nostalgia trip, but 3&K is the one that always feels good every time I play it I'd be interested to see you do some various Sonic reviews of the classic titles. Your review style and opinion is always a nice way to see reviews outside of skit-heavy or joke-heavy reviews that sometimes forget to finish their entire point.

Nothing says awesome like Pikasprey and Sonic music in the background.

Holy cow! A Sonic 1 video that features the Labrynth Zone and DOESN'T force us to listen to the drowning music!

I love your videos please make more of these pikasprey yellow style

Hope we get that Order of Ecclesia review soon. Can't wait for it.

i would definetly recommend checking out the first one just to see where it all started, but i also felt the same way about 2/3 compared to it and im glad that the mega collection on gamecube wasnt as botched as on PC lol

thx for the vid, i hope u make one for that horror game on the blue channel. the horror game overviews are my favorite vids on this channel since they're always really intriguing but i'm way too scared to play or watch someone play them.

Hey there, Pikasprey! Nice video as always! You should consider taking a look at the Master System version of this game. It's a different beast.

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It should be noted how most of the game is a symptom of how the devs wanted Sonic games to follow a specific formula: Fast levels with optional platforming combined with slow levels with optional speedrunning. Sonic 1 does an awesoms job of showcasing the former, which explains why Sonic 2 focuses so much on it, but the latter isn't well executed. That said, Sonic 3 marks a return to form that brought back the slower platforming and exploration of Sonic 1, except done well.

Sonic 1's stages feels more of a experiment on what sticks or not.

I actually like Marble Zone and Labyrinth quite a lot. People mostly just point towards Green Hill and maybe Star Light Zones as the good stages and while they are the best stages in the game, I appreciate the platforming elements and change of pace that Marble & Labyrinth offer. The spin dash and drop dash do improve the game overall despite the levels not being designed with those abilites in mind but even without these abilities, I don't mind the platforming sections in Marble Zone or the underwater sections of Labyrinth In Marble Zone, All but 1 of the lava sections can be skipped if you know what you're doing and there are parts where you can go pretty fast in the level, again if you know what you're doing. The crushers don't really bother me in this stage because if you're fast enough at the beginning of a zone, you can get past the first crusher before having to wait and then get past the rest of the crushers quickly. And the boss is actually pretty fun, trying to get as many hits in on Robotnik before he flies over to the other side of the screen, and like the Star Light boss, uses the lava mechanics of the stage in the boss fight Labyrinth Zone is honestly not a bad level imo. Sonic 2 imo has much more annoying underwater sections and zones 1 & 3 of Labyrinth have shortcuts that drastically reduce the length of the stage, like Scrap Brain Act 3. Like Marble, there are also some sections that allow for speed. There are the waterslide sections which, while automated, do give a bit of spectacular to a mostly slow paced stage. But the final section before the boss fight is a speed platforming section, trying to jump up as fast as you can to the end of the level Spring Yard Zone is a weak point for me because it tries to be both a faster Green Hill/Star Light type stage while also having some of the platforming based sections of Marble, except worse. Those slow moving block sections which are required for at least 2-3 parts of the entire zone are worse than any of the platforming in Marble, Labyrinth or the other zones because you can't do anything other than wait in these sections. Arriving sooner doesn't reduce the amount of time spent waiting at all and there's essentially no way of trying to go faster here without getting crushed, unlike with the crusher sections in Marble Scrap Brain Yard sort of falls into a similar category as Spring Yard Zone, has a lot of straight or downhill slopes where you can run and pick up speed but then puts a lot of obstacles and enemies neccessitating you to either slow down or risk your coins or your lives for speed. It makes sense to end this game which alternates between momentum-based speed level and platforming-based stages but I can't say this is a favourite of mine to replay. It is pretty much painless with the spin dash and drop dash but at the same time, it sort of removes the difficulty that this stage is supposed to offer

It don't matter what you cover I always love it. Pikasprey always worth the wait 😁. I always felt like the first sonic had the biggest problem with speed. Cause it forces you to slow down more than any other sonic game. But I have some nostalgia for it cause it was my first sega game.

I like your vids man

yes! review all sonic games! if you do, i cant wait to see what you think of unleashed

Its so cool that you bring this up, I'm a Sega fan over Nintendo but I have to agree that Sonic never made Mario sweat (other than at the Olympics in distance running) every Sonic game I ever played I found that there was something more they could have added, either something major or something minor but there was always something that could obviously have been added. Sega wanted to beat Nintendo so bad yet they were their own worst enemy in so many ways during the 4th and 5th generation of consoles. But the little blue blur will always go fast 💙

I'm so happy Pikasprey Yellow is back... for now.

cool vid bro thx

Back in action on the yellow channel!

I’ve played the mobile port of Sonic 1 before. Screw Marble Zone, it’s worse then Labyrinth Zone.

I love this because you look critically Sonic 1 in a way I can't because was one of my first video games and I am used to everything. I can understand how jarring the speed of the Marble Zone and beyond vs. what was advertised can be. Sega try to fix that by making the opening four zones of Sonic full of speed of loops.

"This game can be beaten in an hour." *cries in can't beat marble zone*

Dude I'd kill for a vid about the Sonic Advance or Sonic Rush series in this format, I was always a handheld kid so that was Sonic to me, I had barely played the console versions so getting peoples reactions and opinions sounds great!

I wish Sega would milk zones from the lesser known games like Neo Green Hill, Bridge zone, Mecha Green Hill, etc. Also a cheat in the iOS version can give you the elemental shields.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the Master System games.

I liked this video. You should experiment more with the format. Maybe something like, "taking off the nostalgia goggles", where you review classics in an unbiased manner.

2:08 Until Sonic 1 was ported to the Saturn, to be accurate. I still play the first Sonic game from time to time. It's still a good game.

Damn, I had almost exactly the same experience, right down to playing on Mega Collection, always having trouble getting past Marble Zone, and playing 2 and 3 instead. The only difference was I had a sister instead of a brother.

I hope you cover the Sonic Advance games eventually. I never played those and would love to know how they stack up compared to the rest of the series.

He’s back boys

pretty good review

I love Star Light Zone’s theme

What’s ironic is that I actually like marble zone

Something funny about this game is that originally, Labyrinth zone was supposed to be the second level of the game, but they feared it would be too difficult for being so early in the game, so they swapped it with the easier Marble Garden. So both the 2 slowest levels in the game were in contention for level 2

Guess you could say, "Long time no see." Aight ill get out of the time travel machine

Well, this was an interesting surprise. Though I've never gotten past Labyrinth Zone Act 3. Also, shoutouts to the DS Classic Collection.

Your brother played Sonic 2 with you as well huh? Those were some memories

surprised he was able to make this video after spending 30+ hours trying to get a mew in mystery dungeon

Thanks for reviewing this game, Pikasprey. I've never played through Sonic 1 in full, I too just sort of lost interest/gave up in Marble Garden. It's been nice watching your take on it! I just wanted to say, on an unrelated note, I was writing a script for a video I needed to record in class, and when I read over it, there were some sentences that seemed... not quite me? Upon reading them out loud, I realised they were like how you phrase your words and I ended up reading them that way too. Hehe! Influential, amirite? Thanks again for another awesome video! I hope you review Sonic Rush sometime!

Honestly when I was a kid I didn't know any better or think about things like game design. I approached Marble Zone with the mentality of "well this is the game, I'm going to beat it" I beat all the classic Sonic games from start to finish and got everything, even got all the chaos emeralds in Sonic 1

I actually still have my copy of the sonic 1 gba port and never realized what a monstrosity it was until seeing the other ports and the original

I didn't own a Genesis growing up, but I did have a Game Gear and Sonic on it. I can still remember how the battery life for the thing was so bad that I could never beat Sonic from start to finish before the system going dead.

The Sonic Classic Collection for the DS was also a decent rerelease of 2D Sonic games.

I was never able to finish any of the Sonic games on the Sega Genesis but I always had fun playing the games. My personal favorite was Sonic 2 but I did and still do enjoy the first game.

The mobile version also added some areas to a couple of levels that were made just for knuckles and maybe tails. The mobile release really is the best most complete version.

Great video but also *Push down! You have to push down at the breakable walls in green hill!*

pikasprey climbed out of his den? pog

Extra life item in special stages still exists in the game and can be placed with a level editor, or escaping the main maze with debug mode.

For some reason, I can't even play these anymore, even though I'm positive I'd beaten both 1 & 2 when I was 10. Then again, watching this video I actually barely remember any of this beyond Marble Hill Zone, making me question whether or not I ever did beat the first one.

Play Sonic for the thick and juicy plot as it is pretty deep man

The only Sonic game I've ever completed was Sonic Rush on the DS. I wonder how this compares to that, so I hope someday in the future you'll make a video on that. Apparently it's "92% The Best Sonic Game Ever". I did enjoy it though. And Wrapped in Black is one of the coolest final boss themes ever!

Some of this bad design in stages was fixed or remaded in sequels. Labyrinth zone is bad water level - Hydrocity zone in Sonic 3 is good and fluid(ha ha) water level Marble zone - Marble Garden Zone from Sonic 3 Scrap Brain - Metropolis from Sonic 2 Casino - Casino from Sonic 2

Yes, purely for the music alone. The actual game play is merely an added bonus

Labyrinth Zone was originally going to be the second zone. American localization team decided it was too much of a difficulty spike and shoved it further down. Ideally, the level configuration would be Green Hill, Spring Yard, Starlight, and Scrap Brain, maybe with another act or two per zone, and Marble/Labyrinth as optional unlocked bonus levels (or more ideally, simply revamped into levels that would actually be fun to play with Sonic's movement options)