25 Oct 1991
28 Dec 1991 - Sega Game Gear
25 Oct 1991 - Sega Game Gear
31 Dec 1991 - Sega Game Gear
07 Jun 2013 - Nintendo 3DS
04 Dec 2013 - Nintendo 3DS
Main story
Main story + extras
100% completion
This Game Gear port of the Sega Master System version makes some changes to emerald locations and bosses.
This one in particular was the Game Gear version, the "handheld" version, which is basically the port of the inferior version of the game.
Oddly enough, I actually preferred THIS version to the other version, maybe because it was shorter and it cut out the horrible way to get the Chaos Emerald and, therefore, the Good Ending.
For that only I would rate this version higher than the other two, but honestly, the game suffer from EVERY problems the other two have (bad level design, useless gimmicks, boring boss fights) except for the unfair enemy placement, since the Game Gear wasn't powerful enough to have that many elements on screen at the same time. Yeah, whenever there were more than two elements moving on the screen, the game brutally slowed down... The result was that there were so few enemies that I can't even remember them, except from the spikey worm. Because he's a fucking ass.
The soundtrack is... Not good, but not really that bad. I just don't want to ear it ever again, but it wasn't THAT bad.
Well, at least you could play Sonic on the go in 1991. I gotta give that to SEGA!
Because I definitely wouldn't want it.