I've played Sonic games since day one and whenever I hear the Mega Drive and Master System Special Stage music it makes me tear up a bit. Nostalgia is a powerful thing for sure.
I had a dream once (after playing Sonic 1, and well before Sonic 2 came out) where there was a regular game stage that combined the rotating elements of the Sonic 1 bonus stage with the industrial environment (and especially the combustion engine in the final boss sequence) of Scrap Brain Zone. Sonic would be going mostly in ball form through rotating tunnels and being pushed through a maze by pistons that acted like yellow springs. I recall the environment being mostly yellow-orange. It also had some moody "deep dark" music in it that I've used as inspiration for some of my own music - the closest equivalent I can think of is the Tourian theme in Super Metroid, to give you an idea of how it sounded. Interestingly, some stages in both Sonic 2 and 3 had portions that looked and behaved a lot like what I had in that dream, with the main differences being that the stage wasn't rotating, and the "pistons" were plungers that you'd wind up to propel Sonic through. But the interconnected tunnel concept was definitely there, so maybe my dream foresaw the future. :)
@@phillysteak997 Yeah, pretty much, except Sonic 3's bonus stage - are you referring to the gumball machine stage, or the checkerboard planet where you collect the blue spheres? And I don't remember exactly when that dream was. But I was born in 77, so I was in my teens when the games came out.
@@phillysteak997 Not sure I see the connection between the pistons on my dream and the yellow bounce balls in that stage. But yeah, would have been in that time range.
@@phillysteak997 ah, I was thinking more the yellow and red springs found in nearly every level. And yeah, this would have been on Genesis - I remember it being an actual Sonic level. The rotation was similar to how the Sonic 1 special stage moves.
@@phillysteak997 Not sure what you mean. In my dream, it had the same chunky rotation as the special stage - rotating either clockwise or counterclockwise in steps, with Sonic's position and direction moving along with it. Basically, replace that special stage with a level that looks more like a mix of Scrap Brain and Casino Night zones, but keep the rotation and have most of it be an underground maze of tunnels. I'd imagine it would otherwise run as smoothly as the original games in general.
If you look closely at Tails in the original Sonic 2 special stages, you'll notice he also has tan arms - they probably had Sonic's arms as separate sprites and either didn't bother to/couldn't make new ones for Tails and Knuckles
It's hard for me to say which special stages are my favorite (the ones from the Genesis era I can easily get through, and IMO, the half-pipes since Sonic 2 have been done to death), but my least favorite are definitely the ones from Sonic Advance 1. It's just so difficult to get enough rings that to this day, I still can't get that darn fourth Chaos Emerald. What I'd like to see for a Special Stage in a future Sonic game is a race between Sonic and Dr. Eggman. Think of it like the Johnny races in Rush Adventure; Sonic has to stay ahead of Dr. Eggman by collecting rings to charge up his boost gauge, and also collect a certain amount to get past the midway checkpoint. Sonic can also go faster by running over dash panels that don't affect Dr. Eggman because the Egg Mobile flies over them.Dr. Eggman is invincible, but can damage Sonic by dropping bombs and firing missiles in addition to using his own boost gauge. Another unused Special Stage idea was meant to be in a cancelled Sonic game for the Sega Saturn (which was a different idea from Sonic X-treme). In it, Sonic was in a giant pool table and had to get all the balls into the holes within the time limit. Later special stages would have Dr. Eggman's robots trying to stop Sonic from putting the balls into holes. Though the game was cancelled, the special stage was later planned to be included in the Saturn version of 3D Blast, but was cut due to time constraints. It eventually got mythology gagged in Sonic Lost World; in Frozen Factory Act 2, Sonic was on a giant pool table and had to get nine balls into the holes to get the first Red Star Ring.
Separately, it always amazes me just how powerful the Sega Master System and Game Gear were. They were competitors to the NES and Game Boy, respectively, but in some respects were quite a bit more powerful graphically, and the fact that they could make Sonic games that played at all like the Genesis games was a pretty awesome achievement, IMO.
For those of you wondering why Sonic Crackers' special stage appears broken, it is. Sonic Crackers was a WIP game that got shitted on and abandoned. Soo it's just a broken glitch hell.
@@darkendchat7882 wait, it was? All I heard about it was that it was work in progress and got restarted as a different app\template while being the same game. I didn't know it was supposed to be Knuckles Chaotix though, I thought they were completely different...
Knuckles be like in sonic 3: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I ALREADY WORKED SO HARD TO FIND THE DAMN SPECIAL RINGS AND YOU GOT ALL THE CHAOS EMERALDS ALREADY?!?!
Always loved how Advance 3 did it. No searching for a secret in the stage over and over just to have a second attempt. Just enter it in the hub world after collecting a key. Wanna try again? Have another key ^^
They're spheres that were added into the Blue Spheres stages, acting like a sphere that, when you hit it once, it becomes blue, and when you hit it again, it becomes red
THE BEST SONIC SPECIAL STAGE IS MISSING HERE!!! Now I'm triggered! How could you leave out the special stage from the Saturn version of Sonic 3D. That is BY FAR the best special stage of ANY Sonic game ever. It is the gold standard of a Sonic special stages. The others don't come even close. It's in a leaque of it's own and you left that one out. This is unforgivable! Obviously I'm being overdramatic here. But seriously those special stages in the Saturn version of Sonic 3D offer some of the best gameplay of any Sonic game ever.
@@darkendchat7882 it doesnt, any stage that gives you a chaos emerald is a special stage, which means bonus stages were added for watch time for this vid
Will it be the psychedelic music, will it be like the birds changed to be fish, will it be that rather it seems that sonic had smoked something and the giant ring was his imagination? I think it was because of everything I mentioned.
Sonic Forces wasn't really an exception. Special Stages did become rarer after the Genesis. And apart from Mania and Heroes, they were mostly on the handheld versions of games. Adventure, Adventure 2, 06, Unleashed, Colors, Lost World (main consoles and PC version), Forces, they all don't have a Special Stage ;)
1 thing I'm curious about is the sonic 1 special stage 1up's (16-bit version) I never found any so I would like to know if there is a video somewhere, thar someone has played these stages & found one, in any of the original 6, and white I'm on the subject I heard that a perfect is possible in the sonic 2 special stages for getting all the rings, but I haven't seen anyone do that either
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8:59 I love Sonic's little walk in the special stage, it's like he's walking on a hot floor
I've played Sonic games since day one and whenever I hear the Mega Drive and Master System Special Stage music it makes me tear up a bit. Nostalgia is a powerful thing for sure.
1:01 Love the theme music for this special stage!^-^
In retro games cc sonic classic heroes the theme is kinda broken. :(
@@tinawilliams6197 why do you say that?
Ah yes, you showed SO MUCH with the sonic and knuckles bonus stage. Didn’t lose immediately.
Sonic 1: No
Sonic 2: No
Sonic CD: Yeahno
Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Yeah
Sonic Mania: *YES*
True
Feel like sonic 1 has the easiest u literally jump to win
Sonic 2 is okay (in my opinion)
@@ytgwpal okay I respect you but the original genesis version sucks because of the draw distance limitations and Tails
I mean, Sonic Manias Special Stages are basically Sonic CD's Special Stages which means CD and Mania are the same rank
After all these years, there still 1 objective: *collect rings*
I dont collect rings in blue spheres.
Me too
Uta
Noo you remember the fire emerald sonic game that has keys
DarkendChat You do if you want a perfect
The first sonic bonus music is beautiful, it makes me well up.
7:12 "Oh whatever this whole game is broken anyway, moving on..."
I had a dream once (after playing Sonic 1, and well before Sonic 2 came out) where there was a regular game stage that combined the rotating elements of the Sonic 1 bonus stage with the industrial environment (and especially the combustion engine in the final boss sequence) of Scrap Brain Zone. Sonic would be going mostly in ball form through rotating tunnels and being pushed through a maze by pistons that acted like yellow springs. I recall the environment being mostly yellow-orange. It also had some moody "deep dark" music in it that I've used as inspiration for some of my own music - the closest equivalent I can think of is the Tourian theme in Super Metroid, to give you an idea of how it sounded.
Interestingly, some stages in both Sonic 2 and 3 had portions that looked and behaved a lot like what I had in that dream, with the main differences being that the stage wasn't rotating, and the "pistons" were plungers that you'd wind up to propel Sonic through. But the interconnected tunnel concept was definitely there, so maybe my dream foresaw the future. :)
@@phillysteak997 Yeah, pretty much, except Sonic 3's bonus stage - are you referring to the gumball machine stage, or the checkerboard planet where you collect the blue spheres?
And I don't remember exactly when that dream was. But I was born in 77, so I was in my teens when the games came out.
@@phillysteak997 Not sure I see the connection between the pistons on my dream and the yellow bounce balls in that stage. But yeah, would have been in that time range.
@@phillysteak997 ah, I was thinking more the yellow and red springs found in nearly every level. And yeah, this would have been on Genesis - I remember it being an actual Sonic level. The rotation was similar to how the Sonic 1 special stage moves.
@@phillysteak997 Not sure what you mean. In my dream, it had the same chunky rotation as the special stage - rotating either clockwise or counterclockwise in steps, with Sonic's position and direction moving along with it. Basically, replace that special stage with a level that looks more like a mix of Scrap Brain and Casino Night zones, but keep the rotation and have most of it be an underground maze of tunnels. I'd imagine it would otherwise run as smoothly as the original games in general.
7:09 sonic looks so weird while he's running
It’s a "Jungle Walk" and it isn’t weird
Nah
Wut
Looks like it
This is the early days of 3D animation, so it's understandable.
4:29 does anyone notice knuckles has tan arms?
yes
If you look closely at Tails in the original Sonic 2 special stages, you'll notice he also has tan arms - they probably had Sonic's arms as separate sprites and either didn't bother to/couldn't make new ones for Tails and Knuckles
now my happiness is destroyed
All of spacial stages are my favorite u did good on all of them
Cool! :D Evolution ofThe special stages in Sonic the Hedgehog video games ! Love the first one! M.C Escher would be proud! :D
I like sonic 3 and k because its so easy but the last one is hard espeacialy last super emerald
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@@letthatsinkin8569 shut up
@@letthatsinkin8569 Shut up.
Wat r u talking about easy
I like the first Sonic special stage theme song makes me want to relax 🎵🛌🎵
But they are fucking annoying to play
Look at the one in sonic 4 epI.
SILVIO x ep. 1*
True it sounds like a bedtime song
The song for the first special stage s relaxing! Like an instrumental lullaby! Plus you gotta love the inspiration from M.C Escher for that stage! ^-^
It's hard for me to say which special stages are my favorite (the ones from the Genesis era I can easily get through, and IMO, the half-pipes since Sonic 2 have been done to death), but my least favorite are definitely the ones from Sonic Advance 1. It's just so difficult to get enough rings that to this day, I still can't get that darn fourth Chaos Emerald.
What I'd like to see for a Special Stage in a future Sonic game is a race between Sonic and Dr. Eggman. Think of it like the Johnny races in Rush Adventure; Sonic has to stay ahead of Dr. Eggman by collecting rings to charge up his boost gauge, and also collect a certain amount to get past the midway checkpoint. Sonic can also go faster by running over dash panels that don't affect Dr. Eggman because the Egg Mobile flies over them.Dr. Eggman is invincible, but can damage Sonic by dropping bombs and firing missiles in addition to using his own boost gauge.
Another unused Special Stage idea was meant to be in a cancelled Sonic game for the Sega Saturn (which was a different idea from Sonic X-treme). In it, Sonic was in a giant pool table and had to get all the balls into the holes within the time limit. Later special stages would have Dr. Eggman's robots trying to stop Sonic from putting the balls into holes. Though the game was cancelled, the special stage was later planned to be included in the Saturn version of 3D Blast, but was cut due to time constraints. It eventually got mythology gagged in Sonic Lost World; in Frozen Factory Act 2, Sonic was on a giant pool table and had to get nine balls into the holes to get the first Red Star Ring.
The Sonic CD special stages are my favorite
Yea
Keep up the good work!
4:38 knuckles has red arms not beige
What the hell why did they do that?
Ah yes, they couldn't fix some pixels
Separately, it always amazes me just how powerful the Sega Master System and Game Gear were. They were competitors to the NES and Game Boy, respectively, but in some respects were quite a bit more powerful graphically, and the fact that they could make Sonic games that played at all like the Genesis games was a pretty awesome achievement, IMO.
1:01 "OKAY!"
oKaY
👌OKAY
For those of you wondering why Sonic Crackers' special stage appears broken, it is. Sonic Crackers was a WIP game that got shitted on and abandoned. Soo it's just a broken glitch hell.
Sonic Crackers was supposed to be Knuckles' Chaotix
@@darkendchat7882 wait, it was? All I heard about it was that it was work in progress and got restarted as a different app\template while being the same game. I didn't know it was supposed to be Knuckles Chaotix though, I thought they were completely different...
They are diffrent projects, however the whole physics thing was took from Sonic Crackers to Knuckles' Chaotix.
Sorry if i confused you a bit.
Everyone talks about the half pipe in S2. But triple trouble is CERTAINLY worse. I actually didnt mind halfpipe
Knuckles be like in sonic 3: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I ALREADY WORKED SO HARD TO FIND THE DAMN SPECIAL RINGS AND YOU GOT ALL THE CHAOS EMERALDS ALREADY?!?!
4:07 is that really the best showcase you could do?
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1:26 Is that Mario's hand?🤣
And with knuckles is luigi's hand
Muy bueno él video de Sonic
Always loved how Advance 3 did it. No searching for a secret in the stage over and over just to have a second attempt. Just enter it in the hub world after collecting a key. Wanna try again? Have another key ^^
Real men know touching the "goal" sign is enough to give you a stroke
Sonic 1 special stage gives me a night mare
12:56 I play Sonic Mania Plus, and that green color of those balls is odd for me (guess in Sonic Mania they were different)
The gameplay of sonic 3d blast and colors DS was horrendous, geez
And to this day I still dont know how to do sonic 1 special stages
Spamming the jump button at all times and trying to avoid the goal seems to work somewhat : )
The r, down and up spheres control the direction and speed of the rotation.
No One Chaos Emerald, INFINITYS Chaos Emeralds
3:39 4:07 4:12
Andrew louis : That's The Special Stages
Me : Nope, I'ts A Bonus Stage, Not A Special Stage
ME: NO ITS SPECIAL STAGE JUST DIFFERNT FROM SPECIAL STAGE
I remember having a hard time with the special zones in Sonic Heroes
Good
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The special stages are frickin hard for me
@@nintega_64 laughts in all chaos emeralds in S3&K in Marble Garden
@@luisjogos821 the hardest one is emerald 7 for sonic rush
@@luisjogos821 I usually have them all before then (except for knuckles)
12:56 does anyone notice those spheres have green spheres
They're spheres that were added into the Blue Spheres stages, acting like a sphere that, when you hit it once, it becomes blue, and when you hit it again, it becomes red
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5:30 so that's where sonic adv3 got its special stage
Sonic 3 & KTE is my favorite Sonic game
Bonus stage 3:14 4:00 4:25 knuckles goal ring jackpot
3:35 Gumball!
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THE BEST SONIC SPECIAL STAGE IS MISSING HERE!!! Now I'm triggered! How could you leave out the special stage from the Saturn version of Sonic 3D. That is BY FAR the best special stage of ANY Sonic game ever. It is the gold standard of a Sonic special stages. The others don't come even close. It's in a leaque of it's own and you left that one out. This is unforgivable! Obviously I'm being overdramatic here. But seriously those special stages in the Saturn version of Sonic 3D offer some of the best gameplay of any Sonic game ever.
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Cool is amasing wow ia beatiful
sonic in sonic chaos is cute!
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What about the Saturn/PC version of Sonic 3D Blast?
The music is catchy, especially the beginning
Daddddadadadadadadada, DAAAAAAAA!
@@yoshifan3611 Yoshi have you been playing as Yoshi in smash bros lately
@@MrFrog-ud2ul I n d e e d
@@yoshifan3611 I like Yoshi but his voice in mario party 6 was ruined
Awesome
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The most hardest are the special stage of Sonic 2
Nah once you get the hang of them theyre easy
Yeah, they’re much worse than Sonic 1!
@@Cool_Kid95 no
Hatchi The German Shephard it’s my opinion
Thats so easy its easier than sonic 1 and sonic 3 and knuckles stages are hard
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i love sonic spinball's special stage and sonic 3 bonus stage.
Which one from Sonic 3? Rolling on pseudo-3D spheres, the gumball machine, the slot machine, or the blue-spheres level?
12:54 that is a bônus stage not special stage
3:34 also
bruh it counts as a special stage tho
@@darkendchat7882 it doesnt, any stage that gives you a chaos emerald is a special stage, which means bonus stages were added for watch time for this vid
@@omarsoub_._ or a time STONE
@@omarsoub_._ or a super emerald
l love sonic 4 and sonic 2 special stages
Do evolution of LEGO video games!
I think he has already done it once
NO SONIC OR MARIO ONLY
You know that the classic sonic games were never on the amiga
3:00 The music is ok but the fact that he can cross a planet in second is a bit strange
And....The 3D Sonic Blast and the 3D Game Gear...,Sonic Blast,but it's a 38-bit 3D Remix...
Can you do Evolution of Green Hill next?
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1:50 when sonic enters f zero
3:00 this music is very catchy
The This Special Stage is cool 1:32
Please evolution of Mario in Game (1981-2020)
no
Yes
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ME GUSTA A SONIC
im getting real weird vibes from the first sonic special stage
Will it be the psychedelic music, will it be like the birds changed to be fish, will it be that rather it seems that sonic had smoked something and the giant ring was his imagination? I think it was because of everything I mentioned.
Well, the sonic 4 seems more psychedelic both the song and
I love them all!
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Do evolution of warp in videogames
All of the Special Stages are good in this but I'd never played Sonic Mania (2017) and Sonic Mania Plus(2018) but the Series from late 2018
You failed to show the Saturn version of 3D Blast's special stage.
Yeah I stopped watching when they skipped to Pocket Adventure.
But...The Sonic 3 and Knux Special Stage looks good and the original one look a little classic and the next game too with Knux in Sonic 2,1994
Gotten to play Sonic 3 never in my life well I I only played Sonic 1 and 2 that's it in Sonic mania
ohh! So Sonic Forces was the exception! And i thought all modern games past 3 & Knuckles didn't have special stages!
Sonic Forces wasn't really an exception. Special Stages did become rarer after the Genesis. And apart from Mania and Heroes, they were mostly on the handheld versions of games.
Adventure, Adventure 2, 06, Unleashed, Colors, Lost World (main consoles and PC version), Forces, they all don't have a Special Stage ;)
I love the Mania ones...
Sonic 3 is also on DS.
The sonic 2 special stages make me wanna commit unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Dude they are not that hard lmao
Biggest joke of the year, THE OUYA!! HAHAHAHAHA
Mds ai vc foi mt bem manin
One minute
3 and knuckles
Why they suck
Idk
@@sonicthehedgehog230 I like 3 and knuckles but I don't like the special stages
In Sonic the hedgehog 3 Knuckles has beige arms, but in Sonic classic heroes and Sonic 2 heroes he has red arms.
Sonic 1 with Sonic And Knuckles Blue Spheres?
Lmao at Sonic 3D Blast
i love you sonic
4:39 knuckles has sonic's arms
Sonic spinball has 4 bonus levels trapped inside clucker's defense robo smile 😁 and the march
I think I played the games from the 2010s like Sonic 4 and Sonic Forces or I played Sonic 1,2,and Sonic Classic 3 CD Remix...Is it a memorie?
En serio que ese Sonic 8 y dónde era grande en serio que son de Sonic 8 bits Y ése también está algo raro que está saltando como de Sonic 1
In Sonic CD: This Is Android Really Android
1 thing I'm curious about is the sonic 1 special stage 1up's (16-bit version) I never found any so I would like to know if there is a video somewhere, thar someone has played these stages & found one, in any of the original 6, and white I'm on the subject I heard that a perfect is possible in the sonic 2 special stages for getting all the rings, but I haven't seen anyone do that either
My favorite sonic character is Ray The Squirrel
falto la bonus stage de sonic mania plus