Listening to this track always reminded me of the Pink Floyd song “High Hopes” from their 1994 album, “The Division Bell”. Both of these tracks have a sense of melancholy and nostalgia. In a way, this music piece kind of feels like a complementary answer to that one song. In other words: What this track is to Sonic fans is what “High Hopes” is for PF listeners: a sad piece of music about how times were more simpler.
The name “Rock Rock Mountain” makes sense because it’s Rock (for the music), Rock (for the physical object) and Mountain for the large, hilly areas of the track
I remember this song as I was looking at the different designs and I noticed that the official designs were labeled “ International version” meaning that every nation in the world uses these renders and so I think that was really cool how everyone can look at those designs and say “ I recognize that design”.
composer accidently dropped a atomic nolstalgia bomb to us sonic fans with this one. Reading the comments, I realised that I did and felt same things with people. I was 3 years old when I met Sonic. I mean I met him from the Ultimate Flash Sonic. Im Turkish so its hard to find content, merchandise or people that likes Sonic as much as I do. Because of that I never fully experienced the classic titles. I remember that on my 11. birthday, my father bought me a PS3 and Sonic Generations. I never knew Sonic Games existed before buying this game. But boy... here comes the part. When I was 12 or 13 (I cant fully remember) we stayed with my Grandmother . I didnt know it back in the days but my grandma had chest cancer. We stayed there like 4 and a half years. One day, me and my grandmother went shopping. She was looking for the groceries while I was searching for sonic things. And finally and finally... I FOUND THIS MASTERPIcEcE! I was so happy that I finally found a Sonic title that has classic games. My grandma came to me and said, " Oh! this is the blue hedgehog you always talk about it" and after that she bought the game with no hesitation. Those days, when didnt had GamecAnd after finished it (yes I completed every single thing) my grandma actually beats the cancer and start to live a normal life once again. Dudes, If you are a sonic fan and struggling through life, always remember that there is a second father figure like sonic that always cover your back no mather what you do or where do you live. (Im litteraly crying from nolstalgia)
It's songs like this that really bring the whole fandom together to share their histories with the blue blur, and it warms my heart each time. We are lucky to have composers as talented as these.
What's happening here: I boot up the game and automatically see two Italian plumbers from New York City and two weird beings with mushroom heads and tiny white pants walking in some green, open meadow with a bunch of different colored hill like things for no apparent reason a few seconds after turning on my Wii. WoW!
I can’t explain what this song does for my soul. A deep, deep sensation of everything there is. A deep knowing that I can’t fully explain. I feel lonely, I feel old, and young at the same time. I feel like my life is just beginning, but also ending all in one. I have always loved Sonic. My mom introduced me to the blue guy when I was young and he changed my life forever. I will always love him, all of them. We will all be ok.🙌
I keep coming back to this theme and writting comments every year. This theme song changed my life. This game changed my life. I will cherrish these childhood memories forever
As a toddler, I was afraid much less of the dark than I was sleeping alone, so my mom decided to move her bed from my parents' bedroom to my bedroom so I wouldn't be afraid. Fast forward to when I was 7, I remember reading the comic and coverart at night when I was younger, and I also remember mom taking a liking to the music as well as I did, saying something like "I like this music, it's so calming." That's how you really know a song is impactful when it also reaches the heart of a parent you love. She went to a better place 8 years ago, and I miss her. I wish she could give me wisdom as an adult, and I wish she was here, so I could show her this song again.
My mum has always supported my love for gaming, I recall playing mega collection on the gamecube way back when and while I was browsing the history section my mum was captivated by the music, she really enjoyed it and would occasionally ask me to jump the history bit while playing. Fast forward to now 2024, my mum is currently in special care due to brain issues and bad memory, However I played this song hoping she would remember and she did. She could even recall watching me flick through the comic cover pages. So not only is this song a good memory for me but for my mother too.
The first time and only time for a long time that I heard this, I was upstairs playing Pokemon White with the sound off just looking at the awesome sprite animations in the Pokedex after beating the game. My big brother had the mega collection and I heard History playing from the living room once as he was flipping through the comics. Not long after he moved out and we had gotten the Ultra Genesis collection on PS3. Confusing it for the same collection I kept searching for the song nonstop in the Ultra Genesis Collection and obviously couldn't find it. Years later, History randomly popped up in my youtube recommended one day courtesy of BrawlBRSTM3's extensions, and I'm glad it did, because I would've probably been thinking I imagined this song up in my childhood months or possibly years later until it would've inevitably played in some random youtube video as background music for whatever topic they were discussing. Going through the comments, even if I never was the one to just sit on the History menu, the shared feeling of just sitting and scrolling on a in-game trivia menu still resonates with me due to that residual similar experience.
