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Sonic Crackers

Unreleased Sega Mega Drive cart. published 30 years ago by SEGA Enterprises, Ltd.

Listed in MAME

Sonic Crackers screenshot

Sonic Crackers © 1994 SEGA Enterprises, Ltd.

TRIVIA

Development on the Sega 32X game Knuckles' Chaotix began around April 1994 as an engine test for the Sega Mega Drive dubbed Sonic Crackers. Although Sonic Team is sometimes credited for developing the game, it was developed by another internal Sega development team including young members of the staff who had worked on Sonic CD (1993). Developed as an idea for the next Sonic game, the prototype featured Sonic and Tails joined together by an elastic band of energy. Sonic Crackers was most likely a submission ROM shown to management to demonstrate new concepts. Some would go onto be used in Sonic 3D Blast (1996), while the level design, tethering, and some music resurfaced in Knuckles' Chaotix.

SOURCES

Game's ROM.