Sega and Nintendo are releasing new games within days of each other this October, both nostalgic callbacks to the era of 2D platformers. Can they push the genre forward?
Sonic the Hedgehog has always been an underdog to Mario, and he still is. But everything hasn’t been a loss: Sonic has succeeded where Mario hasn’t in winning our hearts.
In 1993, Sega’s Sonic balloon infamously crashed into a lamppost at Macy's annual parade. Almost 30 years later, we talk with those who set the balloon up and those who were there to see it go down.