to my understanding, Sonic has always been more popular in the west than in Japan. they switched from Sonic Team to American developer STI for the second game
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I hear that in the first Japanese version of the first Sonic, you still die if you’re flashing when you hit spikes. = o
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However, it is worth noting that the only official revision of the game that ever changed the behavior of the spikes, in Sonic Mega Collection, was released more than a decade later. It was also changed in Sonic Jam, another compilation which was released much earlier.
I’m not a subject matter expert here, but I think this paragraph needs a rewrite.
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that reads weird but makes more sense in the context of the revision history from the main Sonic page:
essentially you have to buy that emulated game featured in SMC is a fully new revision (which was never used again) and assume ST meant as much with the designation and the port in Sonic Jam isn’t
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from what i hear from people slightly older than me: in 1980s britain, america was a mythological land where everything exciting came from. videogames, movies, tv shows, california/florida as concepts
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king of fighters is mexican, and no one can convince me otherwise
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oh, and starcraft is korean
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Bionic Commando started in Japan with Capcom and the reboots were both made by Grin, from Sweden
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On that note, the Grand Theft Auto series.
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