You knew it was coming, someone was going to talk about Sonic 06, and who better than its biggest defender, Eoghan Watters.
He chronicles the chaotic development, troubled release and the game’s strange legacy.
All tagged Sonic the Hedgehog
sonicmenu | Sonic Boom – Why It's Okay To Keep Watching This in 2025
The Sonic Boom games aren’t exactly classics of the franchise, however, the TV show released alongside this sub-series is not only excellent, but holds up in 2025.
Scott Nowbaveh sums up why he’s still watching.
sonicmenu | The Architecture Of Sonic Unleashed - And Why It Just Works
The Sonic franchise is home to some of the most famous level designs in games, but Joe Richards feels Sonic Unleashed might the series peak.
Why? It’s architecture.
sonicmenu | How Shadow The Hedgehog Got His Groove Back
Few video game characters have had as varied depictions as Shadow The Hedgehog.
Michael Beckwith puts forth where Shadow started, how things went wrong, and how Sega has righted the edgy ship.
sonicmenu | Why Sonic Robo Blast 2 Matters
Sonic is a franchise for sickos [positive], DOOM is a franchise for freaks [positive].
DOOM wads that are actually Sonic fan games, well Adam Wescott thinks those are quite special.
sonicmenu | Why Knuckles Rapping Is Important Or: Why Sonic Adventure 2 Is The Apex Of Sonic Games
Sonic Adventure 2 is the apex of Sonic games and Branford Hubbard doesn’t just think that because of Knuckles rapping.
sonicmenu | TOP 5 GENRES THAT SHOULD HAVE A SONIC GAME
The Sonic franchise has dipped into countless genres but there are still a few untapped wells.
Vivian Winn highlights the ones Sega need to give us.
sonicmenu | Open Zone Sonic Is Basically Tony Hawk
What if we told you that Sonic The Hedgehog was this close to becoming gaming’s next Tony Hawk?
Edward Lee says, “YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!”, it is!
The startmenu Podcast | 004 - Supermassive Giants
On this week's podcast Dave, Lex and KM are joined by Ashley Schofield to talk about the Nintendo Direct before the Nintendo Direct and talk about Lex's adventures with her RetroTink… oh… and Sonic 06…
10 The Wildest Video Game News Stories of 2022 | Winter Spectacular 2022
A lot of news happened in the games industry in 2022, and some of it was almost too wild to believe… and yet here we are.
Michael Beckwith has a top-ten-list-worth of wild stuff, that barely scratches the surface of this industry.
startmenu Podcast Episode 17 - Why Does Anyone Like Sonic?
startmenu has assembled its finest minds in an attempt to answer the unanswerable.
What is up with Sonic?
Games, Mental Health and The Digital Realms We Escape To
Mental Health is a hard and complex thing and sometimes we just need a break from it all. Sometimes we just need to spend some time in another world.
Kelsey Raynor looks at the relationship between our mental health and the faraway worlds we spend time in.
Update Patch | August 2021
Last month felt like the beginning of a long reckoning and so it felt very strange to be “celebrating games” this month with Gamescom. Alex Green is back to help us run this strange gambit of news.
PRIDE 2021: The Definitive List of Queer Video Game Characters - 2021 Edition
We’ve crossed the i’s and dotted the t’s, tabulated the numbers and analysed the results. Now Oma Keeling is here to reveal the only 10 gay video game characters as determined by science.