The pinball madness of the Spring Yard Zone
had its fans, and there something gently
hallucinatory about those rotating special
stages, but it was impossible to look beyond
Green Hill Zone Act One. Loops and leaps and
rings and spikes: it all added up to the most
iconic stage since Super Mario Bros’ World 1-1.CLASSIC LEVEL
Sonic himself, of course. A masterpiece of
character design with a bold, striking look and
an irreverent streak captured perfectly in his
smirking, finger-wagging antics. Better still was his
idle animation which saw him impatiently glaring at
the player, tapping his feet to encourage you to get
a move on.CLASSIC HERO