Hey Tumblr! I have another request to help me answer a question Google isn’t helping with:
So when I was younger- like middle school age at the latest, like 15+ years ago- I had a ZSNES emulator packed with games courtesy of my dad, one of which was APPARENTLY Sonic the Hedgehog. But, unbeknownst to me until several years later, it was not the actual Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis.
I did not play a Green Hill Zone or a Chemical Plant Zone or anything, the first and only level I could get through was a dim, barren forest in dark browns and purples, full of deadly pits and not a ton of vertical platforming. There was also the occasional wooden structure like a tree stump or a ruined shack, I think? Think Twilight Town/Creepy Steeple Path from Paper Mario TTYD but like WAY duller.
For years I thought that was what Sonic was supposed to be and brushed off the franchise, only for proper exposure to smack me in the face as a special interest years later. Trying to look up anything about that version today just leads me to generic Sonic.EXE content, which this definitely was not. It was never full horror, just a spooky background and a hard level. So does anyone out there know what the hell I’m talking about? Can anyone provide an answer to my decades-long confusion??