Sonic CD Was A Bold Vision Of What Sonic Could Be

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Two of Sonic's primary development staff, Yuji Naka and Hirokazu Yasuhara, joined future PlayStation console architect Mark Cerny at Sega Technical Institute with a few other Japanese staff in the US to create Sonic the Hedgehog 2--a very unusual America/Japan co-production for its time.

Meanwhile, other original Sonic Team members stayed back home in Japan to plan a Sonic game for the fledgling Mega-CD (Sega CD in western markets) add-on.

In many ways--and quite fittingly, given its time-travel theme--Sonic CD feels like the start of a different evolutionary path the Sonic series could have taken into the future, but didn't.

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Written By: Heidi Kemps

Category: Gaming

Tags: Design Sonic Sega Other Stage Different Development Games Fans Game Time

Date Published: 23 Sep, 2023 (2 months ago)

Publish Time: 07:00 (GMT +8:00)

Language: English

Story Length: 1677 words

Reading Time: 10 minutes read

Attachments: 1 Pictures

Story Rating: Rated #49 (out of 85 stories this day)

Estimated Value: $0.00

News Source URL: gamespot.com

Copyright: © GameSpot

Story ID: #1599937

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