Top 10 Surprising Sonic 3D Facts (SEGA's surprise & disappointment) 

I seriously thumbed through the comments to see if there was anyone besides be that had this exact same thought. My effort was not in vain. I needed this validation, thank you! 😂

Clikbait. I'm sure not only you (and me myself) watched the video just because of that.

I'm sure at least 80% of us watched because of that. It was super clickbaity, but it was effective.

Saaaaaame

Same

FrameRater I suspect so too. The game came out late in the Genesis’ life, and 3D was the big hype. And then Nintendo also had Donkey Kong Country two years prior while Sony was hyping how the PSOne does 3D graphics. So I imagine Sega chose the name to play up the 3D qualities in a bid to stay relevant.

"3D"

Why would it even be named "Spindrift" when you can't drift in it?

But it's called flikies island in Europe

BmanBman Bman It's called "Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island" in Europe.

I think it was kind of the "& Knuckles" of the time, in that people tried to put it in everything.

Looks creepy

Down syndrome sonic

I would have loved it if he implemented a 1/100 chance of Derp Sonic appearing in place of normal Sonic in the menu in the Director's Cut as an easter egg.

Imagineif you read the thumbnail and thought "oh that's ez! It's sonic s^&*!"

Surprise game mechanics

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LOL

Mindblowing. What's next? Will we learn that the mirror room music is also from 3D Blast? Or that Open Your Heart was 3D's main theme, but it had to fit into 32KB of ROM, and Jon could only crunch the vocals down to 64 KB? :P

Pfft, I wouldn't be surprised if the mirror room theme was also recycled from unused content. -I can't tell if you're serious or being sarcastic tho.-

The what now?

...wait. hol up. That song was from Strong Bad? Huh. Shows how well versed I was in RU-vid Poop knowledge. Lmao

Wow, good memory... also, it's a small world!

Either that or SEGA really wanted the game to have "3D" in the title for marketing purposes; this was during that whole 3D craze after all, where everyone wanted to see their favorite characters in 3D.

I'm using this name for my fan game actually!

sonic blast sms/gg markeitng

Intros for TV shows?! B-but I thought only Amiga made it possible! :P

you should called Mr. collector jr ha ha!!!. are they still functioning? are you still able to design 3d models on them?

Use them to make Donkey Kong Country 4 for us please ;-)

Hello you!!!

Larry Bundy Jr Would love to see you partner up with him and make a video about these machines and showing their capabilities :)

I agree with the second point.

Drift was the dodgy cart racer type thing on the SMS/GG wasn't it?

Spindrift sounds cooler than 3d blast and even it's European name Flickies Island.

"spindrift" sounds cool, but it has the problem of not really having anything to do with the game at all. Sure, you can spin of course, but that's always been a staple move for sonic. And there's no drifting whatsoever. "3D Blast" was probably the better name, at the end of the day, even if it sounds a bit generic. At least the european game renamed it to "3D: Flickies Island". Makes it sound a tad less generic, whilst also telling you more of what the game is about beyond being 3D.

Sonic Spindrift - The Pinball based Kart racer that never was...

imagin if it actually came out in that quality on the genisis

On the OST it's titled "Pleasure Castle ...for Twinkle Park" Definitely one of the best sonic songs from that time

sieonigh it would require the Sega CD to be in that quality on the Genesis unless you're talking about a version in Genesis quality using FM synthesis.

@@GoldenGrenadier I reacted the same way :D

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@@vinnyj1234a r/wooosh for no fucking reason other than annoy you.

would have been accurate...

Sonic Spindrift : Flickies' island Sound cool.

The whole Blast Processing advertisement thing was used only in the US, so it makes sense that they used the 3D Blast title over there. In Europe nobody would have understood the reference. As for why the alternative Flickies Island subtitle, I’m not sure. Maybe the original Flicky game was better known in Europe, because of the Master System’s bigger presence there?

The PC version combined the names into Sonic 3D Blast: Flickies' Island, interestingly enough.

Flickies' Island was also in the Japan title as well I recall. It was only America that changed it to 'Blast' to help market that and the Game Gear 'Sonic Blast' since they were both using pre-rendered sprites. In other words - good old marketing buzzwords!

+Astfgl Flicky is not available for Master System

&Knuckles

He's talking about the castle part of Twinkle Park, not the Go Kart part

Yeah, I forgot for a minute that there were more than one songs in Twinkle Park.

Game Sack it looks like the screen real estate is just cut in half since sonic and the terrain are both still proportional.

Squishing the screen probably would have been a good idea, but even the one-player game barely gives you enough room to see.

Game Sack I love me some Gamesack. Please do one on nfl2k

I'm guessing the interlaced mode would have been very difficult to implement with just the Mega Drive's processors. It was already difficult in Sonic 2, water stages could not be implemented at all.

Same, wish they used it for the upcoming Sonic racing game, but it has an "R" in it, so... No Spindrift... :(

I hope he listens. That does sound interesting.

I don't think he has any of the code/tools for the Saturn version... he might not be able to.

Sam Za Nemesis I don't think he made the Saturn port himself.

From his description it sounds like he didn't make it and may not have it anymore.

Considering he did the Directors Cut patch to the Megadrive version, I'd say the Megadrive

Well, Saturn is a difficult console to make games in it, so i guess thats one of the reasons he didn't make a Satun DX version, the other could be that everybody knows about the Genesis version

Kimarnic y e s

Among fans it seems like the genesis version is the overall favorite so that’s probably the one he prefers too lol He could be in the minority though, so who knows (unless he responds, of course lmao)

The Saturn version looks awesome and has better bonus stages, but some of the music isn't nearly as good as the Genesis version. Diamond Dust, Panic Puppet, Green Grove and the Lava levels had much better compositions on the Genesis in my opinion. Loading times were pretty long on the Saturn, but it still looks beautiful!

Are you talking about Panic Puppet Act 1?

Modern - No, near the middle of the video, it's revealed that Twinkle Park's Main Theme was lifted from a bonus stage theme that wasn't implemented due to running out of cartridge space. Had that theme made it in, Tails bonus stages would have played one song and Knuckles bonus stages would have played the other.

Actually, he said in another comment that it was for Knuckles's stages, not Tails!

I would imagine they sound different. Can't imagine the Mega Drive/Genesis would have been able to create the instruments and sounds required to make it sound like the Sonic Adventure version without taking up a ridiculous amount of cartridge space. That's why Sonic never had rock music in his games until the CD console era.

While I can't say for sure what kind of quality the track's original recording had, it's pretty obvious that the Genesis couldn't support CD-quality sound, so it would have sounded much lower fidelity. It should also be pretty apparent that cassettes do not exactly have the capacity for high quality sound either - as such, there is no way that the original demo tape sounds the same. Another video explained that he has not been able to get SEGA's permission to use the tracks from the demo tape in a video, so of course he had to superimpose the official SA version in place of it for this video.

Wait BOTH? I only thought it was the first one!

Jackson Green The bumper cars part is from 3D Blast's story part and the unused Tails bonus stage so yep. Also Windy Valley part 3 is Green Grove

Well theres still the creepy mirror area in twinkle park which I don’t think originated from this game

Sonic Adventure blew my mind playing it when you get to the part of Stage 2 where the first stage Sonic 3D Blast for Genesis played (*points his finger at the screen reading that sentence back). I am the only person I know that bought the game on Genesis (I got it for a bargain of $20 brand new when 16-bit stuff started clearing out.. bought it on a whim because I thought the game was Saturn only). I prefer the BGM of the Genesis version over the Saturn.... the Saturn music never fit the game.

sonic 4? eh.

(watches the "cart punching vid".) Oh, nevermind. lol

Delet tehs

In a nutshell, Jon's original video mentioned that the menu was made to catch errors so it would pass Sega's quality checks. Tilting the cartridge causes an error condition, like you mentioned, and sends the player to that menu.

To summarize, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!™"

Hmm, I already remember this trick happened before.

The last thing you want in your sonic game is someone's foot fungaas

*burger king sonic lettuce*

An sega employee produced a music track anonymously to the company showcasing the soundtrack of twinkle park with the statement: "this is my new track" Admittedly, the cartridge ran out of space, but that's even worse

Sonic drive in foot lettuce

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HE would if he could but unfortunately LEGO has his hands tied

I think that's a fair trade, the FMV is badass.

Plus the game is using a 3D landscape with rendered models. It's sprite based pseudo-3D but still 3D.

there is spinning- thats it

"I'm too cheap!"

Gotta go on a tight budget!

This is the Sonic for those kids who are now adults. Can't wait to race through an ASDA or Lidl.

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