Prototype Sonic

Fun With Early Prototype Sonic the Hedgehog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wsuZwQLYaI

This Sonic 2 prototype has made the rounds of Sonic fans for a little while now. I had always seen pictures and read stuff about some of the changes made from this version and what we see from the final version. Here some buggy things and small things that were dropped from the game.

Keep in mind that Sonic 2 and Sonic CD were developed around the same time by different teams and some elements were suppose to crossover. I haven’t ever played Sonic CD, but I bet some of these things in the early prototype were carried over from CD, but later dropped.

I noticed the impact ability present in this form of the game. That’s when your character would run into walls and bounce back. Luckily, the developers dropped this concept, because it would have slowed game play to crawl.