Wherever Sonic may be, you can be sure that
his arch-nemesis Dr Ivo Robotnik isn’t too far
away, lingering like a bad smell. The rotund, egg-
obsessed scientist has trapped South Island’s
fluffy inhabitants in the shells of violent robots, and
it’s up to Sonic to free them – and give Robotnik’s
egghead a bounce or two for good measure, too.CLASSIC VILLAIN
No survival horror has anything on the clammy-palmed
tension of the underwater sections. Any time Sonic
found himself short of air, a countdown would begin,
with the insistent music steadily accelerating to
send you into a panic as you scrambled
for the surface. Terrifying.CLASSIC MOMENT
02
01 In the largely-underground Marble Zone, the
pace slows down dramatically as Sonic attempts
to avoid insta-death via spine-crunching pistons.
02 The disorientating special stages are where
you can find the Chaos Emeralds – if you can
remember which way is up, that is.