Carlos wrote:Roonmastor wrote:Vermilion wrote:Jezo wrote:Vermilion wrote:Getting to Icecap zone in Sonic 3 generally relied on sheer dumb luck thanks to THAT bastard bouncy thing in the Carnival Night zone.
Pressing up and down to control it. What
were they thinking?
I know, but at the time, there was no indication that this was how you do it, and i certainly wasn't the only one who got stuck at that point.
In fact, it was pretty notorious.
Ruined my childhood. I'd spend hours jumping on that thing trying to get past it. I only beat Sonic 3 by doing it as S3&K and playing Knuckles who doesn't have that bit in his level.
Now I’m in my 40’s a good test of my dropped reaction time in gaming is that I can no longer complete any of the special stages on Sonic 3. Zero. Back in the day I finished S3&K with full Hyper Sonic on Doomsday Zone multiple times. Surely the crowning 16bit platformer?
I had every single file completed with a variation of all the character combos with every single super emerald. Obviously some were doubled up to have every file completed but it was my proudest accomplishment as an 8 year old.
My younger brother deleted them all because he thought the animation of robotnik deleting them was funny. I don't think our relationship ever recovered from that.
As an aside those bonus levels make me feel sick now! Even with the higher framerates, I just can't do it.