The Most Obscure Sonic 3 Music Fact 

btw, it's funny because there seems to be a deeper legal reason on why neither Sega nor SNK can re release Pocket Adventure, heck, they aren't even able to say it's name for some reason, as said by Ian Flynn on why the Sonic Encyclo-speed-ia didn't even mentioned it.

I've heard about this story too, or what I also heard about is that SEGA didn't have the money to keep the composer of Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 until Michael Jackson proposed creating the music for Sonic 3 since he already had games of his own on the Sega Genesis. (I never imagined a Touhou channel suddenly talking about Sonic haha)

I’ve alway found the situation with Sonic 3’s music to be really interesting, Sega is clearly still allowed to use the ‘Jackson’ music in multiple rereleases of Sonic 3, however the music must’ve been produced with some kind of deal where Jackson’s team or whoever owns his music these days get royalties from each game/rerelease that uses the music. So with the original PC port, Origins and any other games Sega decided to just avoid that. Pure speculation on my part but seems to make sense to me

funny to think that the one place you’ll find this is in a game released on a console most people have either never heard of until now or never owned *classic obscure sonic facts, never change*

It reminds how one of the vocal samples from the Sonic 3 Jackson tracks actually got used in at least 1 Sonic Superstars track (forgot which, though).

Peak vid 🔥. One of my favorite pieces of odd Sonic trivia in general is Sonic Rush’s “Wrapped in Black” ost sampling Malcom X, such a cool fact although maybe not as obscure.

I was disappointed that I already knew the fact, but I'm still really happy someone actually talked about the Sonic Pocket Adventure OST! I really love the game's chiptune arrangements, something about the drums speak to me.

Ice cap has the best classic sonic soundtrack, fight me.

Megapig is a Sonic fan?! :O Awesome! That’s cool! As for suggestions about Sonic music related content, let me think… You know any cool facts about the Sonic CD ost? I like how Metallic Madness bad future has some short lyrics of “You can do anything, so don’t even try.” In contrast to the opening lyrics that is “If you try, you can do anything.” Neat little poetic detail. Also some of the original recordings have unused portions.

Not 100% relevant, but something I've practically never seen people mention in regards to the music licensing that I noticed - Michael Jackson died in 2009, and the last times Sonic 3 was rereleased with the music were the year after in 2010

I play Sonic 3 and knuckles on my original Xbox. Just in time before copyright

Great video, it's nice to see coverage of more obscure games and Sonic music matters! 😃 Not covered in this video, but definitely worth mentioning, is the fact that Mushroom Hill Zone: Act 1 uses a percussion beat with a strikingly similar structure to that of Sonic 3's Knuckles theme. That still intrigues me to this day, was it a deliberate nod or a stroke of coincidence? 🤔

For when you listed the tracks that needed to be replaced, you forgot the Competition Menu Theme.

Nice, I was a big fan of sonic, growing up, but I had no clue about this I would love to see some tracks from Sonic Unleashed talked about

My brain is completely fried i already knew this

I actually didn't know this! If SEGA did rerelease Sonic Pocket Adventure, people would probably buy it. Sonic's still popular after all, and I'm sure there's more than a few people who'd wanna try a Sonic game they've never played before. As far as the legality of the music snippet? Ehhhh who knows? It's a short drum loop that plays once for a few seconds. I don't know that the rights holders would even bother to pursue legal action for that. If they really wanted to play it safe, I suppose they could swap the song out for something else, or just mute the music for that cutscene.

Now do a Touhou Bonus Video.

0:50 more so, the earliest prototype those tracks are more similar to the ones from the PC version than they are to the ones found in that nov 93' proto 3:17 i don't think you can copyright a drumbeat, can you?

Wait sonic 1 has legal issues?

OBSCURE FACT?!? Dude almost everybody knows it at this point, especially since Sonic Origins