14 years of Sonic
Ok so it's 20 minutes premature but I'm bored and I can't wait until midnight comes so I can finally post Sonic adventure zero.
Sonic the Hedgehog had it's worldwide release on the 23/6/1991 and in 20 minutes (as I type this) it will be 23/6/2005. That's 14 years and I've loved every one of them.
I first got into Sonic when a neighbour bought Sonic 1 and a Mega Drive. Sonic 1 was a bit too hard for me at that point, I couldn't even get passed the Green Hill zone. Perhaps if I owned it I would've mastered it.
I had some following of Sonic 2's hype and played the beast at my cousins around november 1992 (it's worldwide release). My home only had a master system so it would be foolish to own the Mega Drive games. The Xmas I played Sonic 2 for the master system, the first Sonic game I owned.
In 1993 I got my Mega Drive and Mega CD. It came with both Sonic CD and Sonic 2. I was in heaven.
Sonic 3 came out just before my birthday, so I got that on release date.
I had to wait until the following Xmas for Sonic and Knuckles.
Needless to say that Xmas was all about S3&K.
About that time I started reading fleetway. I got to the 50's and stopped collecting as I felt I was "too grown up for comics". Ocassionally my mum would get STC when I was sick.
The thing was, by then he was my hero. The cartoons, the games, the comics all excited me and still do.
By now I had started Secondary school and met The Virus. He too had a fondness for the blue hedgehog and we would often draw or own comics (naturally his were miles better than mine).
For a while Sonic Mania had died down a bit. Games were less frequent and it wasn't until 1999 we would see the next ST Sonic. My interest in gaming died down and I actually started to get a life. :)
1999 was the end of Secondary school, the first real job I had and the beginning of a whole new Sonic. Sonic adventure came out in the UK on 14th October 1999. Naturally I bought it on release despite going on holiday on the 16th October. To this date SAdventure is the only sonic game Virus has beaten before me, and it's all because of that holiday.
Sonic Adventure 2 was the next big game. Virus and I followed it closely and aimed to get our hands on that birthday pack. I would get mine much later but got the actual PAL game way before he did. By then that and my Sonic HQ account showed me that I was more than just a Sonic fan.
It was after SA2 that I started writing my own fiction. The Seven Chaos beings (see my twinseeds fanfiction list) was my first and longest fic ever. I started writing smaller fics for a while and when A Rose by Any other name came along I had started to write longer ones.
In 2004 I joined fanfiction.net, bought Sonic Heroes, and developed a taste for Sonic Team collecting. In 2002 I started TwinSeeds as a site dedicated not to Sonic, but to Sonic Team. I later learned of Green Hill zone and decided to quit it as it was too much for one man alone.
2004 saw the release of The 3 Shadows and 2005 is the year I created my DeviantART account to host all info on all my fics as my bio was getting too big. I also got my first real fan Arorn, who did fanfiction of my fanfiction.
Well it's almost midnight so I'm off to upload Sonic Adventure 0. Tomorrow I will be binging on Sonic big time. I already plan to go through all the classics on Sonic Mega Collection plus, as well as maybe played the 3D games too, If I have time.
23/6/1991 - present and beyond, never stop running Sonic.
Sonic the Hedgehog had it's worldwide release on the 23/6/1991 and in 20 minutes (as I type this) it will be 23/6/2005. That's 14 years and I've loved every one of them.
I first got into Sonic when a neighbour bought Sonic 1 and a Mega Drive. Sonic 1 was a bit too hard for me at that point, I couldn't even get passed the Green Hill zone. Perhaps if I owned it I would've mastered it.
I had some following of Sonic 2's hype and played the beast at my cousins around november 1992 (it's worldwide release). My home only had a master system so it would be foolish to own the Mega Drive games. The Xmas I played Sonic 2 for the master system, the first Sonic game I owned.
In 1993 I got my Mega Drive and Mega CD. It came with both Sonic CD and Sonic 2. I was in heaven.
Sonic 3 came out just before my birthday, so I got that on release date.
I had to wait until the following Xmas for Sonic and Knuckles.
Needless to say that Xmas was all about S3&K.
About that time I started reading fleetway. I got to the 50's and stopped collecting as I felt I was "too grown up for comics". Ocassionally my mum would get STC when I was sick.
The thing was, by then he was my hero. The cartoons, the games, the comics all excited me and still do.
By now I had started Secondary school and met The Virus. He too had a fondness for the blue hedgehog and we would often draw or own comics (naturally his were miles better than mine).
For a while Sonic Mania had died down a bit. Games were less frequent and it wasn't until 1999 we would see the next ST Sonic. My interest in gaming died down and I actually started to get a life. :)
1999 was the end of Secondary school, the first real job I had and the beginning of a whole new Sonic. Sonic adventure came out in the UK on 14th October 1999. Naturally I bought it on release despite going on holiday on the 16th October. To this date SAdventure is the only sonic game Virus has beaten before me, and it's all because of that holiday.
Sonic Adventure 2 was the next big game. Virus and I followed it closely and aimed to get our hands on that birthday pack. I would get mine much later but got the actual PAL game way before he did. By then that and my Sonic HQ account showed me that I was more than just a Sonic fan.
It was after SA2 that I started writing my own fiction. The Seven Chaos beings (see my twinseeds fanfiction list) was my first and longest fic ever. I started writing smaller fics for a while and when A Rose by Any other name came along I had started to write longer ones.
In 2004 I joined fanfiction.net, bought Sonic Heroes, and developed a taste for Sonic Team collecting. In 2002 I started TwinSeeds as a site dedicated not to Sonic, but to Sonic Team. I later learned of Green Hill zone and decided to quit it as it was too much for one man alone.
2004 saw the release of The 3 Shadows and 2005 is the year I created my DeviantART account to host all info on all my fics as my bio was getting too big. I also got my first real fan Arorn, who did fanfiction of my fanfiction.
Well it's almost midnight so I'm off to upload Sonic Adventure 0. Tomorrow I will be binging on Sonic big time. I already plan to go through all the classics on Sonic Mega Collection plus, as well as maybe played the 3D games too, If I have time.
23/6/1991 - present and beyond, never stop running Sonic.
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