My personal definition of “Classic Sonic” would be everything pre-1998 redesign/3D jump. I honestly believe that the Sonic franchise died when they tried to translate the gameplay to 3D. It just doesn’t work IMO. A lot of people like SA and SA2, but the Mega Drive/Mega CD games will forever be all I need.
And just for the sake of it, these are my rankings on the games:
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (sans Knuckles)
- Sonic & Knuckles (sans Sonic 3)
- Sonic Spinball
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- Sonic 3D Blast