Sonic the Hedgehog Oddities
Posted by Benj Edwards | Wednesday, June 22, 2011
An Illicit, High-Speed Mario
The world of unlicensed, black market video games has brought more than its share of oddities to the console area. Exhibit A is the game “Somari,” a bizarre mashup of Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog created for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
In Somari, the player guides Mario in a speedy, Sonic-like fashion through levels pulled from the Genesis version of Sonic the Hedgehog. It’s not a great game, but the technical achievement of stuffing a play-alike clone of Sonic in an 8-bit NES game should not be overlooked. Illegal titles like this were available only in Asia and rarely made their way to the US due to strict trade laws.
June 23rd, 2011 at 4:59 am
You cant go wrong with an article about sega that includes reference to Steve Urkel 🙂
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:25 pm
This trivia is very cool. But have many people actually played the original Sonic recently? Give it a try and then read this and see if you don't agree: http://tevisthompson.com/sonic-and-tension/
June 25th, 2011 at 9:17 am
My favorite bit of Sonic weirdness? The Sonic / Harry Potter / Barack Obama backpack:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2010-02-04/sonic-harry…