I know I'm going to get tomatoes thrown at me, but I didn't really like the first Sonic game. Sure it looked really cool on TV, but once I played it at a demo station (remember those), I asked myself, "This is better than Super Mario World...HOW???" Like you said, for a game all about speed, they sure do penalize you when you go fast. For me, Sonic didn't get good, or at least halfway decent, until 3. Sonic 2 made me take notice because I thought Tails was cool. Tails and Ulala are my favorite SEGA characters.


