Sonic SatAM is my favorite show from the Sonic franchise! I watched it a lot in the 90's on Saturday mornings. I even read the Sonic Archie Comics too. This show is why I read those comics, why I love that theme song and why Princess Sally is my favorite Sonic girl character. Plus, Jaleel White as Sonic...Way past cool!
This makes me remenber when i was like 5 years old in school, i remenber sometimes the teacher bringing a tv and would put some cartoons and most of the times it was SatAM sonic, everyone loved that cartoon, including me, that was like my first interaction with sonic
I remember watching it on channel 4 when I was 7 years old back in 1994 I absolutely loved it also loved Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog. Now aged 35 Years old Sonic is and always will be my hero since 91
I saw SatAM few years before I discovered AoSTH. And when I did, it took me some time to realize it was a separate show. And while both are pretty different from the games, SatAM felt kinda parallel to 2000s Sonic games to some extent
I get so happy everytime I watch this show! The Crush 40 singing of the theme song made me happy. I wonder if they could make a full 3 minute song out of it(not longer)
Sonic The Hedgehog SatAM is continued in the Archie Comic's Sonic The Hedgehog Series. I saw the Pilot Episode 1 Summer Friday Night in 1993 before Fall that year, watched it all the way through and was saddened that it was left on a cliff hanger and cancelled due to Power Rangers...
it was powerful for me and my sister in the early 2010s when we discovered reruns of it while literally fighting over the remote. and it stunned us, and ended the fighting. i had never taken sonic seriously before then, my generation looked down on sonic so i hadn't given it a 2nd glance before this. i definatley fell in love with the show, and so did my sister. and we would make time to catch all the episodes we could. although i think it had a bigger impact on me, seeing as i still return to it every once and a while and of course, i actually got into other sonic stuff as a result of the show and she didn't. but SatAM and the semi-related archie comics are still my favourite part of the franchise. it disapointed me greatly when i discovered there was a canceled tie-in game.
SatAm is how many of the fans want the series to progress-darker, more nuanced elements; Robotnik as more of a threat, and overall a great dynamic of characters-especially Sally.
I wish I remembered my original reaction to Sonic SatAM as vividly as you do Hill Top Terebi! As a 90's kid I watched the Sonic cartoons every weekend on Channel 4 religiously and made sure to record them all on video so I could watch them back later. The Doomsday Project finale was one of my most hyped moments of the show 😁
I actually saw this when it first aired on ABC back in the nineties right around your age of 8/9, only 1992/1993 when the series was first getting off it's feet and in it's infacy. Jaleel White was the hot thing...he was doing Family Matters AND this show. Just shows what incredible range the dude had. This show was so awesome to me back in the day and I'm glad it left such an incredible mark on many Sonic fans to this day. Ben Hurst left behind a great legacy and the incredible folks over at the Sea3on Project are continuing that. I hope they succeed.
Fellow Brit here, I remember watching this back then too in 1994 since the first episode as well, and I believe the first time I actually knew about this show before it debut in the UK was from an episode of GamesMaster that gave a preview of the intro. SatAM in general is such a great TV show and it's definitely one of the better pieces of official Sonic media outside of the video games, I mean talk about the complete opposite to AoStH which came out at the same time. It was darker, more serious, better written and animated, and it was actually cool!
Wow I had no idea it was featured on GamesMaster. I watched that show pretty regularly (it was *so* good) but must have missed that one! Agreed on SatAM. IMO a million times better than AoStH. Cheers!
I love this series! Though they’re A LOT of differences in this show though for instance it takes place in a world where Robotnick already won, The series has a darker tone, Sonic’s partner/sidekick of the show replaced Tails with Sally etc. It’s really sad that they had a lot more planned for the series and planned on expanding the heroes & villains of this show and probably have a AMAZING and different story.
I had the exact same experience with the intro! I expected AoStH. Except, what really locked it in for me, was the Title Card right after where you cut. Killer intro into an epic orchestral fanfare. Made it sound so friggin epic. It set me up for the rest of the episode, which was Sonic Racer; one of the series' best
Im from the UK and I remember that the last episode of the 'Adventures' that aired before Satam aired that following week was the second part of the 'Chaos Emerald saga' ? Everything you said in this video was spot on with how surprised it was (as a kid existing in a time without Internet) I felt exactly the same way.
That's awesome! I wonder how many of us were sat there absolutely blown away that morning? Thinking about it, probably a LOT considering how popular Sonic was at that point. Good times!
I first saw SatAM on CTV, a Bell-owned channel in Canada, the week it premiered in 1993. I was already familiar with Sonic, having played the first two games at a friend's house. I was 5 years old at the time, and the premiere just blew me away! AoSTH had already started its syndication run on YTV, a channel run by Corus Entertainment. Like you, I didn't particularly take to its brand of humor. But when SatAM began, I was hooked. I then soon discovered that Archie Comics was already publishing a monthly comic book that had the SatAM cast in it!
When I was 6 years old(in 99), I remember seeing a little bit of one episode in the morning(I missed the intro) & I was enjoying it. Sadly I couldn’t watch the full episode because it was a school morning. Later my mother and I walked into a block buster and I saw a tape 📼 with a couple of the episodes on it. Then I got home and watched the episodes and MAN I was hooked. I loved the intro, The story, everything! After that I got into the comic books(& games) and I became a Sonic fan lol 😂. I’m 30 now and I have the full series on DVD. The Mobius freedom fighter sonic is my favorite version.
I watched AoStH and Sonic Underground as a kid, but one day my dad swaped on SatAM Sonic and I was mind blown. About a year ago (12 at this point) I started to look up what I could watch it on. I forgot what it was, but I started watching and it was epic. On a separate note; I would watch Sonic X as a kid, but I would specifically look up Shadow Vs. Sonic or Knuckles Vs. Sonic.
I still vividly remember the buildup to this show back in the day as a kid in the US... The earliest comic issues of Archie Sonic hyped it up with each issue in the page where they shared fan letters and I remember as a kid wondering what Sonic's voice was gonna sound like... I didn't expect Steve Urkel, but I quickly got used to it as we got not only SatAM on Saturdays, but also AoStH on weekdays... which had a nasty habit of airing when I was in school so I had to set the timer on my VCR to watch it when I got home. I won't deny that SatAM isn't without its flaws, but it was my first experience to a semi-serious, dark kind of storytelling in a cartoon where there were actual stakes and a villain that had already won before the show even began... and I was never into superheroes back then. It still remains my favorite incarnation of Sonic, despite it being nothing what Sega of Japan envisioned... as Sonic Forces later taking the very same premise and botching it... felt like an insult to us older fans :|
Hey! Just gotta say! I love your take on SatAM! I first watched it back in 2014, and I was hooked after a couple episodes. And I’m so happy to see that Team S3ason is making a fan made season 3 for the show! Anyway, loved the video. My first video I’m seeing from this channel. 👍
Thanks so much for your comment. I'm happy to hear people are still finding and enjoying this show so many years after it's release. This is a pretty new channel, but got a great big road map of stuff planned, with plenty more SatAM in future. (Among all other things Sonic and SEGA!) Cheers again! Can't wait for Sea3on!!
The first time i watch that serie, i told myself that it is way better then Sonic Boom and i was searching for Sonic Boom on RUclips as a kid when i saw the first episode of Sonic Satam, i watched it and watched all of the episodes.
So, fun fact: America got Adventures and SatAM at the same time! Apparently SatAM was originally planned to be the only sonic cartoon running (hehe) in the US, but there was some drama with some networks. Something about exclusivity deals and tone, I don't remember the whole thing, but the end result was two Sonic cartoons running side by side. On one channel, was the comedy-oriented Adventures for younger kids. And on the other, was the more story driven SatAM for older kids. Was this confusing for Sonic fans in America? I have no idea, I was born in 2000 and had no idea what a Sonic was until 2008 XD! I think my first exposure to SatAM was on a DVD I rented from a local Redbox, and I absolutely loved it! Don't have much more to say about it other than that I remember rewatching that DVD over and over as a kid, until I found it on Netflix and proceeded to binge watch the entire show. Oh, and imagine my surprise when I discovered the Archie comics and saw all the SatAM characters alongside all of the modern characters! Blew my little 10 year old mind! XD
@BlankBlares Actually, no. Adventures didn't really have much of an effect on SatAM season 3. You can thank the Archie comic writer Ken Penders for season 3 not getting made. But that's a whole other rabbit hole with its own twists and turns. I don't want to get too into it because, as far as I know, we don't have much proof that Ken was the cause beyond just one man's word against his, but if you'd like to look into it yourself, and don't mind diving into the insanity that is the Ken Penders drama, there are plenty of RUclips videos on the subject. Be warned though, this drama is Adventures level insanity
The saturday market and weekday market were very much influenced by who they sold the ad packages to, which is part of why you had a saturday show and a weekday show. The weekday show means bigger ad revenue, while the weekly sat show is aimed more at international syndication (which it got). And several countries over the long run did play both shows, on different networks.
I’m of a very similar age, and my own experience nearly mirrors what you describe in the video. With maybe the slight exception that I didn’t actually like SATAM on initial viewing of the episode with Cat. That changed the following week when they expanded the world a little, and then I was hooked. Just like you, I was a Sonic fan who tolerated “Adventures” because I was that much of a Sonic fan. SATAM came out of absolutely nowhere and I even remember some SATAM repeats being packed with the Adventures intro sequence. They seemed to always run them together as a continuous season. Fun to hear others who also read «STC» experienced SATAM back then in Channel 4
Unfortunately I missed out on the cool Sonic stuff back in the day. I was a Nintendo nerd. A big Mario fan (was even somewhat bullied for it) and anything that challenged my beloved Nintendo I was obviously against. That's not to say I did not find Sonic intriguing. I remember fondly staying at my friend's house on the weekends and watching him play Sonic 3&k while snacking on nutty buddy bars and drinking diet soda (mmm delicious pure aspartame to fuel my 'sperged little brain!) And the aesthetics of that game really inspired me in my artwork and other things. I did not really get much into Sonic fully until the late 90s. I was living in Florida at the time, the year was 98 (I think) and I stumbled across the website Team Artail and discovered the wonders of Sonic fanart, comics and.... yeah... Sonic OC's. I started collecting the then current Archie Sonic comics And from there on I began to sperg really hard over the blue blur. I even bought my first Sega system, betraying my beloved Nintendo their still amazing Nintendo 64 console at the time. I wanted to play Sonic Adventure because it looked damn amzing so there sat the new Dreamcast next to my dusty Nintendo consoles (I still have it :D)! Still, I did not get to watch the SatAM series until my post college days (early to mid 2000s). Living in my own apartment, having my own internet. I found a website that had a download for the entire SatAM series and I lay on my couch between long work hours and marathoner each episode religiously. My fanboyism eventually died down and I found the Sonic fandom a little too cringe for my liking. Gone were the glory days of the old internet, Team Artail and the ever so exciting roleplay forums that got me into some creative storytelling. I was beginning to feel modern sonic was overated, and a little overkill at times with teen edginess, plotholes and terrible voice acting (Sonic Adventure just did not age well also I should add here) amid other things that gradually turned me away fully the franchise. Today I still find the older Sonic comics fascinating. I discovered Sonic the Comic back around 2010 and I've read all the issues after torrenting them to a portable hard drive. I still really do like Sonic even the more current iterations with Sonic Mania and some of the other games that I was able to get on my Switch. I'll stop here for now. that's pretty much my story with the blue blur. :)
I remember getting a Redbox copy of this with the first season if this back when I was a kid me and my brother watched it on our DVD player built into our car at the time while we were on a Christmas trip and I just remember watching it on the way back it was dark on an empty freeway idk why but something about just sitting in the back seat at night with this playing while eating a pack of skittles (yes I remember exactly what snack I had) just gave off this sort of cool atmospheric feeling I can’t really put my finger on what it was but it’s one of my favorite memories of my moms 2005 Nissan Pathfinder as a kid
That sounds awesome. Great to hear of you discovering it so many years after it aired in quite a unique setting. I guess those memories will pop into your head every time you watch it. Thanks for your comment. Also, I'm craving Skittles now 😁
SatAM was my introduction to Sonic the Hedgehog. I only saw some bits of one episode back when it was current, but that was enough to hook me and become a fan. I tried to get my hands on as much Sonic stuff as possible. Never got the video games until I got Sonic Advance on the GBA years later (I wasn't a fan of the Sonic Adventure redesign then. Still technically not a fan, but it's somewhat grown on me now so I don't mind it). Still a fan to this day and I've even finally binged all of SatAM ages ago.
As much I think highly of Rob Paulsen the second season had way too much Antoine. This show was really good. Especially after having suffered through years of Super Mario Club, CPT N, Mario 3, and Mario World.
I didn't get into Sonic until it went multiplatform, and as luck would have it, the rental store in my town was offering free rentals of kid videos, at the time, which included a bunch of old Sonic cartoons. The first time I saw SatAM, I didn't like it, because I was expecting AoStH, and had rented the wrong type. But I've been watching the series on RUclips recently, and it's pretty good
I first saw Sonic SatAM back in the fall/winter of 1995 on the USA network. I was already watching AoStH on UPN at the time and I felt SatAM was just a little "too dark" as I was used to watching things like Rugrats, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life. As of the early 2000's, Sonic SatAm is my bread and butter interpretation of Sonic The Hedgehog, along with the Archie published, Sonic the hedgehog comic book series. The comic is largely set in the same universe as SatAM throughout its entire run, and in my opinion, was the spiritual continuation of SatAM, continuously evolving. It was devastating for me to see the Archie Sonic series end in 2017 as that meant the end of anything officially licensed by Sega tied to the SatAM universe. No more Sally, Rotor, Antoine, or Bunnie Rabbot, Muttski, or Uncle Chuck.
It would be great if the SatAM cast could make an appearance in Sonic Prime, but I don't know if they're going to go down the route of going to old cartoons etc. It would be awesome if they did, but from the concept art it looks like new, original multiverses Sonic will be visiting. (Just thinking outloud of ways Sally etc. could return. Probably a licensing nightmare though!)
Dude. I’m just 1 year older than you and from the U.K.! When I also turned on Channel 4 and expected to watch ‘The adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog’ that day, then I saw this ‘new’ series instead! My mind was blown too! I enjoyed the ‘SAT:AM’ sonic series as well! :D and yes I did see the video for that fantastic group of animators creating ‘season 3’ I too cannot wait to see how the pilot turns out! Cheers mate! ^^ oh and btw I met Jim Cummings, who of course, voiced Robotnik :)
It's awesome to hear from someone else who experienced exactly the same thing! It was a crazy day to be a Sonic obsessed kid back then. You met Jim Cummings? That's awesome!!
@@HillTopTerebi yeah! He came to MCM Comic Con in London as a guest before the pandemic. I met him there and got a photoshoot opportunity with him ^^ I go to comic cons and anime conventions a lot and I met some famous faces and awesome cosplayers too ^^
@@spinballpac-man Yes it was indeed! I always go to MCM Comic Con in London and Birmingham every year :) plus other conventions too. Btw did you know there is a Sonic Convention happening in the UK in Manchester in October? :) Lookup on Google, Sonic Con UK! : D
Man when I first came across this show and the 90s I completely lost it as a kid, it was great! Shame it never continued on to season 3 though. I hope the fan project is able to come out but they can be iffy, so my hopes aren't high unfortunately.
i like the fan comic made by the same team that is making the fan series, i think the story atleast will be cool. the animation snipets they have done seem good too, although i am not sure if the voices work (eg: ruclips.net/video/hNLn6fhcWjM/видео.html)
I watched a lot of cartoons in 1993 and 1994 when I was 10 and 11 years old, but for some very odd reason, this particular one completely slipped my radar back in the day. Three years ago, I was in contact with what I initially believed to be the voice of Sally Acorn on Facebook, but found out very quickly that it was a scam artist when they asked me to buy a very specific gift card for them. Worse than that, this person didn’t even get Kath Soucie’s age or date of birth correct when I quizzed them about it.
grew up with this show as well! I distinctly remember the first episode i saw was that episode where sonic blows up Robotnik's mining facility with those weird tentacle-burrowing machines - i even did a video on it for the shows 30th birthday! ruclips.net/video/tYaGPyHifNU/видео.html
Although I was never born when the show first aired, I had dvd's of all of the seasons of sonic satam. To me, this show was wayyyyy past coool. But looking back at it now, I remember back then when I was younger I always asking myself "Is the Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog, Sonic Satam, and Sonic Underground all connected as some part of one grand universe" Because the artstyles from those 3 are so similar, I treated them as one continuity of sorts. But Of course they're not. Also I was looking foward to the reveal character of that mysterious figure with glowing red eyes in the finale. Where they by any chance going to introduce metal sonic?
1:03 I watched AOSTH and I actually the hilarious slapstick humor. I don’t hate it as much as everyone else but yeah it’s still a little too goofy for Sonic the Hedgehog. I still prefer SatAm Sonic as it’s much darker and serious but still fits with Sonic’s personality and character.
Lol i remember when i was like 8 or 9 i was watching Clements sonic 3 maybe playthrough a guy who played every Sonic game and he mentioned this show then i was like wtf is sonic Satam and yeah.
Sonic satam came out a week after adventures of sonic the hedgehog ended in the uk? Well over here in America it came out a few weeks after adventures of sonic the hedgehog came and they both ran throughout the rest of 1993
So strange that they developed two completely different shows and had them run side-by-side when you think about it. How confusing! 😁 Yep, we got AoStH and then SatAM in the UK.
It was great. I watched it 1995 when I was young but I didnt like how the show appeared Sally like that. Were kids bro kissing and stuff wasnt for us hahah
I was born in the 2010s so I never saw it on tv , but I remember going to a cex one day , seeing that sonic dvd and INSTANTLY buying it . And I was was EVEN MORE FLABBERGASTED when I saw that intro . It was amazing ! When I bought it I was a little worried it would be sonic underground because I bought a sonic underground dvd at a church sale once , but this was no underground, THIS was SONIC THE HEDGHOG.
One of my mom's friend's gave it to me for Christmas way back in 06 or 07 can't remember and I would always boot up the season 2 disc (3&4) and have a rocking time with it. Unfortunately I no longer like this continuity thanks to ken penders and all the BS surrounding it. Also with crazed sonally ants, but now I think it's ok.
@@TheBLUEM64 Thats your personal issue, not the shows. Ken Penders screwed over Sonic SATAM Season 3 after he betrayed Ben Hurst in 2007. I don't like Penders, but I like Ian Flynn's take
This is like the Game Manuals. But the base setting is based off of Scrap Brain Zone. AOSTH is as much like games with little to no story as you could get. In Sonic 2, you are just running and jumping on enemies with no plot
Satam has a spectacular setup with a sadistic Robotnik and it’s very serious and the characters are great as well as the atmosphere. It’s very immersive but, it doesn’t have enough action and it doesn’t push the story as much as it should have. I hope the fan made season 3 is much better and I hope it’s very successful. This is just my opinion.
Agreed on the set up and atmosphere for sure. I can't actually remember what the action was like as it's been sooooo long since I saw it last but you may be right. Looking forward to giving the whole series another rewatch soon. Cheers!
You want SATAM to be a childish show like Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't respect this opinion because you want SATAM to be like a show that failed to catch its popularity despite having less episodes. Appeal to the majority instead of appealing to the minority is best for business
@@HillTopTerebi CrashBan4 is an AOSTH fan. His idea of "good" is contradictory to alot of people. There is a good reason none of the 60+ episodes of AOSTH cracked 1 million views.
For me, the biggest mistake when it comes to Sonic Franchise is its tone. There is no need to be dark to be serious, especially if your plot is already ridiculous, all will ends up on a bad edgy product. Maybe this show would be different, i mean, i only watched as a kid so i'd give it another try.
Hell no. The serious tone is what attracted the fans. Its why Sonic Adventure's story is globally the most preferred. Why Sonic SATAM got 4.9 million views per week during its run.
I don't (and didn't) like Sonic Satam all that much... As for Japan, they got that manga where Sonic's alter ego was some school boy hedgehog for some reason....
@@HillTopTerebi Japan got a Sonic manga that was so obscure and unpopular that it got scrapped quickly. Sonic SATAM got 4.9 million views per week in America. Almost no one in Japan knows the Sonic manga
It’s mind blowing but, The adventures of sonic the hedgehog is objectively better because it has more action and Dr.Robotnik appears in all of the episodes and it’s a full vision unlike Satam.
@@Alicia_Tomoko_5x I wasn’t trying to say that you are wrong for liking it. I was saying that it’s objectively worse than The adventures of sonic the hedgehog and I gave my reasons.
@@crashban4t.f.s.b783 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a low budget show with poor writing. Despite it showing 5x a week, it got less views than a single episode of SATAM. That shows how few people liked it. Compares to SATAM's 4.9 millions views per week. SATAM was created because multiple networks rejected AOSTH. Robotnik appearing and being a complete joke is not a good thing.
😂 Crash you are like that one kid that sat alone at school. Then rushed home to the internet hoping to find someone that can relate to you. Embarrassing
Sonic SatAM is my favorite show from the Sonic franchise! I watched it a lot in the 90's on Saturday mornings. I even read the Sonic Archie Comics too. This show is why I read those comics, why I love that theme song and why Princess Sally is my favorite Sonic girl character.
Plus, Jaleel White as Sonic...Way past cool!
That's... real good
This show is the reason I checked out the comics
@@amandadraws8682 Me too! I have tons of memories reading the Sonic Archie Comics!
This makes me remenber when i was like 5 years old in school, i remenber sometimes the teacher bringing a tv and would put some cartoons and most of the times it was SatAM sonic, everyone loved that cartoon, including me, that was like my first interaction with sonic
Awesome!
Me too
I loved this show. But it was rare, since TV seemed to show Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog every day
my first interaction with the blue blur was S&K
If only we could have used SatAM and Underground in schools more
I remember watching it on channel 4 when I was 7 years old back in 1994 I absolutely loved it also loved Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog. Now aged 35 Years old Sonic is and always will be my hero since 91
SatAM is the reason I became a Sonic fan from the franchises beginning.
I saw SatAM few years before I discovered AoSTH. And when I did, it took me some time to realize it was a separate show.
And while both are pretty different from the games, SatAM felt kinda parallel to 2000s Sonic games to some extent
I get so happy everytime I watch this show! The Crush 40 singing of the theme song made me happy. I wonder if they could make a full 3 minute song out of it(not longer)
team sea3on rules
Sonic The Hedgehog SatAM is continued in the Archie Comic's Sonic The Hedgehog Series.
I saw the Pilot Episode 1 Summer Friday Night in 1993 before Fall that year, watched it all the way through and was saddened that it was left on a cliff hanger and cancelled due to Power Rangers...
it was powerful for me and my sister in the early 2010s when we discovered reruns of it while literally fighting over the remote. and it stunned us, and ended the fighting. i had never taken sonic seriously before then, my generation looked down on sonic so i hadn't given it a 2nd glance before this.
i definatley fell in love with the show, and so did my sister. and we would make time to catch all the episodes we could. although i think it had a bigger impact on me, seeing as i still return to it every once and a while and of course, i actually got into other sonic stuff as a result of the show and she didn't. but SatAM and the semi-related archie comics are still my favourite part of the franchise.
it disapointed me greatly when i discovered there was a canceled tie-in game.
It's awesome to hear you discovering this show a couple of decades after it aired. That's awesome. Cheers!
SatAm is how many of the fans want the series to progress-darker, more nuanced elements; Robotnik as more of a threat, and overall a great dynamic of characters-especially Sally.
Exactly.
I wish I remembered my original reaction to Sonic SatAM as vividly as you do Hill Top Terebi! As a 90's kid I watched the Sonic cartoons every weekend on Channel 4 religiously and made sure to record them all on video so I could watch them back later. The Doomsday Project finale was one of my most hyped moments of the show 😁
I actually saw this when it first aired on ABC back in the nineties right around your age of 8/9, only 1992/1993 when the series was first getting off it's feet and in it's infacy. Jaleel White was the hot thing...he was doing Family Matters AND this show. Just shows what incredible range the dude had. This show was so awesome to me back in the day and I'm glad it left such an incredible mark on many Sonic fans to this day. Ben Hurst left behind a great legacy and the incredible folks over at the Sea3on Project are continuing that. I hope they succeed.
Fellow Brit here, I remember watching this back then too in 1994 since the first episode as well, and I believe the first time I actually knew about this show before it debut in the UK was from an episode of GamesMaster that gave a preview of the intro. SatAM in general is such a great TV show and it's definitely one of the better pieces of official Sonic media outside of the video games, I mean talk about the complete opposite to AoStH which came out at the same time. It was darker, more serious, better written and animated, and it was actually cool!
Wow I had no idea it was featured on GamesMaster. I watched that show pretty regularly (it was *so* good) but must have missed that one!
Agreed on SatAM. IMO a million times better than AoStH. Cheers!
I love this series! Though they’re A LOT of differences in this show though for instance it takes place in a world where Robotnick already won, The series has a darker tone, Sonic’s partner/sidekick of the show replaced Tails with Sally etc. It’s really sad that they had a lot more planned for the series and planned on expanding the heroes & villains of this show and probably have a AMAZING and different story.
I had the exact same experience with the intro! I expected AoStH. Except, what really locked it in for me, was the Title Card right after where you cut. Killer intro into an epic orchestral fanfare. Made it sound so friggin epic. It set me up for the rest of the episode, which was Sonic Racer; one of the series' best
This show was everything to me.
Im from the UK and I remember that the last episode of the 'Adventures' that aired before Satam aired that following week was the second part of the 'Chaos Emerald saga' ? Everything you said in this video was spot on with how surprised it was (as a kid existing in a time without Internet) I felt exactly the same way.
That's awesome! I wonder how many of us were sat there absolutely blown away that morning? Thinking about it, probably a LOT considering how popular Sonic was at that point. Good times!
I first saw SatAM on CTV, a Bell-owned channel in Canada, the week it premiered in 1993. I was already familiar with Sonic, having played the first two games at a friend's house. I was 5 years old at the time, and the premiere just blew me away! AoSTH had already started its syndication run on YTV, a channel run by Corus Entertainment. Like you, I didn't particularly take to its brand of humor.
But when SatAM began, I was hooked. I then soon discovered that Archie Comics was already publishing a monthly comic book that had the SatAM cast in it!
The moment Sonic raced across the my tv screen I instantly fell in love with Sonic and all of the other characters. It was totally awesome
When I was 6 years old(in 99), I remember seeing a little bit of one episode in the morning(I missed the intro) & I was enjoying it. Sadly I couldn’t watch the full episode because it was a school morning. Later my mother and I walked into a block buster and I saw a tape 📼 with a couple of the episodes on it. Then I got home and watched the episodes and MAN I was hooked. I loved the intro, The story, everything! After that I got into the comic books(& games) and I became a Sonic fan lol 😂. I’m 30 now and I have the full series on DVD. The Mobius freedom fighter sonic is my favorite version.
I watched AoStH and Sonic Underground as a kid, but one day my dad swaped on SatAM Sonic and I was mind blown.
About a year ago (12 at this point) I started to look up what I could watch it on. I forgot what it was, but I started watching and it was epic.
On a separate note; I would watch Sonic X as a kid, but I would specifically look up Shadow Vs. Sonic or Knuckles Vs. Sonic.
I still vividly remember the buildup to this show back in the day as a kid in the US... The earliest comic issues of Archie Sonic hyped it up with each issue in the page where they shared fan letters and I remember as a kid wondering what Sonic's voice was gonna sound like... I didn't expect Steve Urkel, but I quickly got used to it as we got not only SatAM on Saturdays, but also AoStH on weekdays... which had a nasty habit of airing when I was in school so I had to set the timer on my VCR to watch it when I got home.
I won't deny that SatAM isn't without its flaws, but it was my first experience to a semi-serious, dark kind of storytelling in a cartoon where there were actual stakes and a villain that had already won before the show even began... and I was never into superheroes back then.
It still remains my favorite incarnation of Sonic, despite it being nothing what Sega of Japan envisioned... as Sonic Forces later taking the very same premise and botching it... felt like an insult to us older fans :|
SatAM still is the best sonic canon.
Hey! Just gotta say! I love your take on SatAM! I first watched it back in 2014, and I was hooked after a couple episodes. And I’m so happy to see that Team S3ason is making a fan made season 3 for the show!
Anyway, loved the video. My first video I’m seeing from this channel. 👍
Thanks so much for your comment. I'm happy to hear people are still finding and enjoying this show so many years after it's release.
This is a pretty new channel, but got a great big road map of stuff planned, with plenty more SatAM in future. (Among all other things Sonic and SEGA!)
Cheers again! Can't wait for Sea3on!!
I was born in 1994, but I didn’t even know that SatAM existed until about 2008 when I just happened to stumble upon it browsing the web
The first time i watch that serie, i told myself that it is way better then Sonic Boom and i was searching for Sonic Boom on RUclips as a kid when i saw the first episode of Sonic Satam, i watched it and watched all of the episodes.
So, fun fact: America got Adventures and SatAM at the same time! Apparently SatAM was originally planned to be the only sonic cartoon running (hehe) in the US, but there was some drama with some networks. Something about exclusivity deals and tone, I don't remember the whole thing, but the end result was two Sonic cartoons running side by side. On one channel, was the comedy-oriented Adventures for younger kids. And on the other, was the more story driven SatAM for older kids. Was this confusing for Sonic fans in America? I have no idea, I was born in 2000 and had no idea what a Sonic was until 2008 XD!
I think my first exposure to SatAM was on a DVD I rented from a local Redbox, and I absolutely loved it! Don't have much more to say about it other than that I remember rewatching that DVD over and over as a kid, until I found it on Netflix and proceeded to binge watch the entire show. Oh, and imagine my surprise when I discovered the Archie comics and saw all the SatAM characters alongside all of the modern characters! Blew my little 10 year old mind! XD
@BlankBlares Actually, no. Adventures didn't really have much of an effect on SatAM season 3. You can thank the Archie comic writer Ken Penders for season 3 not getting made. But that's a whole other rabbit hole with its own twists and turns. I don't want to get too into it because, as far as I know, we don't have much proof that Ken was the cause beyond just one man's word against his, but if you'd like to look into it yourself, and don't mind diving into the insanity that is the Ken Penders drama, there are plenty of RUclips videos on the subject. Be warned though, this drama is Adventures level insanity
The saturday market and weekday market were very much influenced by who they sold the ad packages to, which is part of why you had a saturday show and a weekday show. The weekday show means bigger ad revenue, while the weekly sat show is aimed more at international syndication (which it got). And several countries over the long run did play both shows, on different networks.
@BlankBlares No Season 3 because of Ken Penders.
Ohh yeah! Tim Curry is King Acorn in this series btw. And why robotnic is Perfectly evil is that the voice actor is no other than Jim Cummings.
That's awesome! I had no idea Tim Curry was in it. I have learned something new today. Thanks!
I look forward to seeing the full review. 😊
I’m of a very similar age, and my own experience nearly mirrors what you describe in the video. With maybe the slight exception that I didn’t actually like SATAM on initial viewing of the episode with Cat.
That changed the following week when they expanded the world a little, and then I was hooked.
Just like you, I was a Sonic fan who tolerated “Adventures” because I was that much of a Sonic fan. SATAM came out of absolutely nowhere and I even remember some SATAM repeats being packed with the Adventures intro sequence. They seemed to always run them together as a continuous season.
Fun to hear others who also read «STC» experienced SATAM back then in Channel 4
Ok but really shit was amazing and I still watch it to this day. Well before it's time.
Unfortunately I missed out on the cool Sonic stuff back in the day. I was a Nintendo nerd. A big Mario fan (was even somewhat bullied for it) and anything that challenged my beloved Nintendo I was obviously against.
That's not to say I did not find Sonic intriguing. I remember fondly staying at my friend's house on the weekends and watching him play Sonic 3&k while snacking on nutty buddy bars and drinking diet soda (mmm delicious pure aspartame to fuel my 'sperged little brain!) And the aesthetics of that game really inspired me in my artwork and other things.
I did not really get much into Sonic fully until the late 90s. I was living in Florida at the time, the year was 98 (I think) and I stumbled across the website Team Artail and discovered the wonders of Sonic fanart, comics and.... yeah... Sonic OC's. I started collecting the then current Archie Sonic comics And from there on I began to sperg really hard over the blue blur. I even bought my first Sega system, betraying my beloved Nintendo their still amazing Nintendo 64 console at the time. I wanted to play Sonic Adventure because it looked damn amzing so there sat the new Dreamcast next to my dusty Nintendo consoles (I still have it :D)!
Still, I did not get to watch the SatAM series until my post college days (early to mid 2000s). Living in my own apartment, having my own internet. I found a website that had a download for the entire SatAM series and I lay on my couch between long work hours and marathoner each episode religiously.
My fanboyism eventually died down and I found the Sonic fandom a little too cringe for my liking. Gone were the glory days of the old internet, Team Artail and the ever so exciting roleplay forums that got me into some creative storytelling. I was beginning to feel modern sonic was overated, and a little overkill at times with teen edginess, plotholes and terrible voice acting (Sonic Adventure just did not age well also I should add here) amid other things that gradually turned me away fully the franchise.
Today I still find the older Sonic comics fascinating. I discovered Sonic the Comic back around 2010 and I've read all the issues after torrenting them to a portable hard drive. I still really do like Sonic even the more current iterations with Sonic Mania and some of the other games that I was able to get on my Switch.
I'll stop here for now. that's pretty much my story with the blue blur. :)
I remember getting a Redbox copy of this with the first season if this back when I was a kid me and my brother watched it on our DVD player built into our car at the time while we were on a Christmas trip and I just remember watching it on the way back it was dark on an empty freeway idk why but something about just sitting in the back seat at night with this playing while eating a pack of skittles (yes I remember exactly what snack I had) just gave off this sort of cool atmospheric feeling I can’t really put my finger on what it was but it’s one of my favorite memories of my moms 2005 Nissan Pathfinder as a kid
That sounds awesome. Great to hear of you discovering it so many years after it aired in quite a unique setting. I guess those memories will pop into your head every time you watch it. Thanks for your comment. Also, I'm craving Skittles now 😁
SatAM was my introduction to Sonic the Hedgehog. I only saw some bits of one episode back when it was current, but that was enough to hook me and become a fan. I tried to get my hands on as much Sonic stuff as possible. Never got the video games until I got Sonic Advance on the GBA years later (I wasn't a fan of the Sonic Adventure redesign then. Still technically not a fan, but it's somewhat grown on me now so I don't mind it). Still a fan to this day and I've even finally binged all of SatAM ages ago.
"Do we have money for backgrounds this time?" YES
Oh leave AOSTH’s backgrounds alone! They’re cool!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got the same feeling playing sonic 3 and knuckles as watching SATam , it was dark and gritty
As much I think highly of Rob Paulsen the second season had way too much Antoine.
This show was really good. Especially after having suffered through years of Super Mario Club, CPT N, Mario 3, and Mario World.
I didn't get into Sonic until it went multiplatform, and as luck would have it, the rental store in my town was offering free rentals of kid videos, at the time, which included a bunch of old Sonic cartoons. The first time I saw SatAM, I didn't like it, because I was expecting AoStH, and had rented the wrong type. But I've been watching the series on RUclips recently, and it's pretty good
I first saw Sonic SatAM back in the fall/winter of 1995 on the USA network. I was already watching AoStH on UPN at the time and I felt SatAM was just a little "too dark" as I was used to watching things like Rugrats, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life. As of the early 2000's, Sonic SatAm is my bread and butter interpretation of Sonic The Hedgehog, along with the Archie published, Sonic the hedgehog comic book series. The comic is largely set in the same universe as SatAM throughout its entire run, and in my opinion, was the spiritual continuation of SatAM, continuously evolving. It was devastating for me to see the Archie Sonic series end in 2017 as that meant the end of anything officially licensed by Sega tied to the SatAM universe. No more Sally, Rotor, Antoine, or Bunnie Rabbot, Muttski, or Uncle Chuck.
It would be great if the SatAM cast could make an appearance in Sonic Prime, but I don't know if they're going to go down the route of going to old cartoons etc. It would be awesome if they did, but from the concept art it looks like new, original multiverses Sonic will be visiting. (Just thinking outloud of ways Sally etc. could return. Probably a licensing nightmare though!)
Well, Archie writer Ken Penders stopped Season 3 from happenin. He wanted his own version of the Freedom Fighters to be a movie. He is so petty
That's was my favorite sonic show back in my young time in the year of 13. Sega sonic Satam show was so popular it had it's own comics book.😉👍
Love the DREAMCAST controller bring back so many memories
The greatest console IMO!
Dude. I’m just 1 year older than you and from the U.K.! When I also turned on Channel 4 and expected to watch ‘The adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog’ that day, then I saw this ‘new’ series instead! My mind was blown too! I enjoyed the ‘SAT:AM’ sonic series as well! :D and yes I did see the video for that fantastic group of animators creating ‘season 3’ I too cannot wait to see how the pilot turns out! Cheers mate! ^^ oh and btw I met Jim Cummings, who of course, voiced Robotnik :)
It's awesome to hear from someone else who experienced exactly the same thing! It was a crazy day to be a Sonic obsessed kid back then. You met Jim Cummings? That's awesome!!
@@HillTopTerebi yeah! He came to MCM Comic Con in London as a guest before the pandemic. I met him there and got a photoshoot opportunity with him ^^ I go to comic cons and anime conventions a lot and I met some famous faces and awesome cosplayers too ^^
@@Giovanni_Team_Rocket_UK HOLY CRAP! I went to the same con and saw him too! It was the 2018 con, wasn’t it? 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
@@spinballpac-man Yes it was indeed! I always go to MCM Comic Con in London and Birmingham every year :) plus other conventions too. Btw did you know there is a Sonic Convention happening in the UK in Manchester in October? :) Lookup on Google, Sonic Con UK! : D
Man when I first came across this show and the 90s I completely lost it as a kid, it was great! Shame it never continued on to season 3 though. I hope the fan project is able to come out but they can be iffy, so my hopes aren't high unfortunately.
i like the fan comic made by the same team that is making the fan series, i think the story atleast will be cool.
the animation snipets they have done seem good too, although i am not sure if the voices work (eg: ruclips.net/video/hNLn6fhcWjM/видео.html)
No Season 3 due to Ken Penders (Archie Comics writer.) Believe it or not, the main writer of the Archie comics saw SATAM as a rival or foe
I love the sonic SatAM series
0:44 "Wrinkled old bag of bones"
😂
Hmmm interesting and memorable
I watched a lot of cartoons in 1993 and 1994 when I was 10 and 11 years old, but for some very odd reason, this particular one completely slipped my radar back in the day.
Three years ago, I was in contact with what I initially believed to be the voice of Sally Acorn on Facebook, but found out very quickly that it was a scam artist when they asked me to buy a very specific gift card for them. Worse than that, this person didn’t even get Kath Soucie’s age or date of birth correct when I quizzed them about it.
I saw the first episode of sonic satam and it was great
around in the 90s, but not every episodes and seasons where avaible, and suddenly, Sonic x did take it over
I love sonic satam!!
Satam is good
But i personally prefer AOSTH
Too bad the comics series was cancelled. I loved it better.
grew up with this show as well!
I distinctly remember the first episode i saw was that episode where sonic blows up Robotnik's mining facility with those weird tentacle-burrowing machines - i even did a video on it for the shows 30th birthday!
ruclips.net/video/tYaGPyHifNU/видео.html
Although I was never born when the show first aired, I had dvd's of all of the seasons of sonic satam. To me, this show was wayyyyy past coool. But looking back at it now, I remember back then when I was younger I always asking myself "Is the Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog, Sonic Satam, and Sonic Underground all connected as some part of one grand universe" Because the artstyles from those 3 are so similar, I treated them as one continuity of sorts. But Of course they're not. Also I was looking foward to the reveal character of that mysterious figure with glowing red eyes in the finale. Where they by any chance going to introduce metal sonic?
According to the creator, the glowing red eyes dude was Naugus (?).
1:03 I watched AOSTH and I actually the hilarious slapstick humor. I don’t hate it as much as everyone else but yeah it’s still a little too goofy for Sonic the Hedgehog. I still prefer SatAm Sonic as it’s much darker and serious but still fits with Sonic’s personality and character.
i wonder if he will ever put down his dreamcast controller
NEVER! 😁
@@HillTopTerebi as it should be😎
Lol i remember when i was like 8 or 9 i was watching Clements sonic 3 maybe playthrough a guy who played every Sonic game and he mentioned this show then i was like wtf is sonic Satam and yeah.
SEASON 3!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!
have you ever watched Sonic OVA when it came out? If so, will you make a video covering your reaction to it when it released?
Hello! I did watch it. The OVA video is my next one and it will be up either this week or next week. 😉 (It's taking a loooong time to edit) Thanks!
I like The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog better.
Ok, I had no idea SatAM aired on Channel 4! I always assumed it aired on The Children’s Channel and that’s why AOSTH was more popular over here
I know Channel 4 had AoStH and SatAM first, but they may well have gone to other channels after that. Cheers!
Sonic satam but with shadow the hedgehog music
Sonic satam came out a week after adventures of sonic the hedgehog ended in the uk? Well over here in America it came out a few weeks after adventures of sonic the hedgehog came and they both ran throughout the rest of 1993
So strange that they developed two completely different shows and had them run side-by-side when you think about it. How confusing! 😁 Yep, we got AoStH and then SatAM in the UK.
I love this show! it was the only good adaptation of sonic until the live action movies.
not even Sonic X? I know it had its flaws but it had more game characters and more accurate personalities
@@scr0ngle108 I enjoyed all Sonic cartoons except Sonic Underground
It was great. I watched it 1995 when I was young but I didnt like how the show appeared Sally like that. Were kids bro kissing and stuff wasnt for us hahah
I had no issue with it. Its tame considering Disney movies always had kissing after saving the princess. Unless Lion King bothered you as well
Check out Sonic SatAM RPG! I think you’ll like it
I was born in the 2010s so I never saw it on tv , but I remember going to a cex one day , seeing that sonic dvd and INSTANTLY buying it . And I was was EVEN MORE FLABBERGASTED when I saw that intro . It was amazing ! When I bought it I was a little worried it would be sonic underground because I bought a sonic underground dvd at a church sale once , but this was no underground, THIS was SONIC THE HEDGHOG.
One of my mom's friend's gave it to me for Christmas way back in 06 or 07 can't remember and I would always boot up the season 2 disc (3&4) and have a rocking time with it. Unfortunately I no longer like this continuity thanks to ken penders and all the BS surrounding it. Also with crazed sonally ants, but now I think it's ok.
The Ken penders stuff is based off of this, but it isn’t the same continuity, so SATAM still is it’s own thing
@@GetemNewellRules I know but now when I rewatch satam I can't look at sally without thinking of the slap or ricmunk.
@@TheBLUEM64 Thats your personal issue, not the shows. Ken Penders screwed over Sonic SATAM Season 3 after he betrayed Ben Hurst in 2007. I don't like Penders, but I like Ian Flynn's take
Wait a second.. You crap on the AoStH for being nothing like the games. This is nothing like them either!
That is called Favoritism my friend.
This is like the Game Manuals. But the base setting is based off of Scrap Brain Zone. AOSTH is as much like games with little to no story as you could get. In Sonic 2, you are just running and jumping on enemies with no plot
Unpopular opinion: I prefer AoSTH to SatAM.
I like SatAM, but it's far from great.
Satam has a spectacular setup with a sadistic Robotnik and it’s very serious and the characters are great as well as the atmosphere. It’s very immersive but, it doesn’t have enough action and it doesn’t push the story as much as it should have. I hope the fan made season 3 is much better and I hope it’s very successful. This is just my opinion.
Agreed on the set up and atmosphere for sure. I can't actually remember what the action was like as it's been sooooo long since I saw it last but you may be right. Looking forward to giving the whole series another rewatch soon. Cheers!
You want SATAM to be a childish show like Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't respect this opinion because you want SATAM to be like a show that failed to catch its popularity despite having less episodes.
Appeal to the majority instead of appealing to the minority is best for business
@@HillTopTerebi CrashBan4 is an AOSTH fan. His idea of "good" is contradictory to alot of people. There is a good reason none of the 60+ episodes of AOSTH cracked 1 million views.
Stupid comment. The story is not the problem. You are.
We don't need CrashBan4 T.F.S.B as part of the fanbase anyway. I think he realizes his position deep down inside. Unwanted
For me, the biggest mistake when it comes to Sonic Franchise is its tone. There is no need to be dark to be serious, especially if your plot is already ridiculous, all will ends up on a bad edgy product.
Maybe this show would be different, i mean, i only watched as a kid so i'd give it another try.
Hell no. The serious tone is what attracted the fans. Its why Sonic Adventure's story is globally the most preferred. Why Sonic SATAM got 4.9 million views per week during its run.
I don't (and didn't) like Sonic Satam all that much...
As for Japan, they got that manga where Sonic's alter ego was some school boy hedgehog for some reason....
That Manga is actually one of the only pieces of Sonic media I haven't read yet. Maybe it's time. Sounds very strange!
@@HillTopTerebi Japan got a Sonic manga that was so obscure and unpopular that it got scrapped quickly. Sonic SATAM got 4.9 million views per week in America. Almost no one in Japan knows the Sonic manga
Disliked
It’s mind blowing but, The adventures of sonic the hedgehog is objectively better because it has more action and Dr.Robotnik appears in all of the episodes and it’s a full vision unlike Satam.
No👎
@@Alicia_Tomoko_5x I wasn’t trying to say that you are wrong for liking it. I was saying that it’s objectively worse than The adventures of sonic the hedgehog and I gave my reasons.
@@crashban4t.f.s.b783 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a low budget show with poor writing. Despite it showing 5x a week, it got less views than a single episode of SATAM. That shows how few people liked it. Compares to SATAM's 4.9 millions views per week.
SATAM was created because multiple networks rejected AOSTH. Robotnik appearing and being a complete joke is not a good thing.
@@crashban4t.f.s.b783 thats why every comment you make is hit with so many dislikes. You are the odd one out. Thats nothing to be proud of.
😂 Crash you are like that one kid that sat alone at school. Then rushed home to the internet hoping to find someone that can relate to you. Embarrassing