Top 10 Insane Sonic Easter Eggs
Easter eggs are glorious things!
There’s nothing like finding an amazing easter egg while playing through a game, especially
if those easter eggs are referencing the franchise of the game you’re currently playing.
Which is something several sonic games are quite versed in doing.
So today we’re counting down the top 10 insane sonic easter eggs.
And some of them aren’t that insane, just really interesting if I’m being perfectly
honest.
So let’s jump in!
10 Sound Test Date Sonic the Hedgehog 2 introduced us to the
cheat codes of debug mode and the level select option.
Turns out the specific numbers you pop into the sound test in order to get the level select
- 19 65 09 17 - correlate to a certain date - September 17th 1965, the birth date of the
former head of the Sonic Team, Yuji Naka.
9 Sonic’s Face Sonic Mania is a game we’ll be talking about
quite a bit on this list.
In that particular game, when you’re on the home screen, if you look past the main
logo and down below it to the island it’s spinning above, you’ll notice a familiar
shape.
Or rather, a familiar face.
It’s Sonic’s.
8 Eggman on the PA In Sonic Colours, as you dash through the
park you’ll hear Doctor Eggman announcing things over the PA.
While some of it is original commentary from Eggman, he also quotes some other notable
franchises.
Including Alien.
And references the game Crazy Taxi
7 Translations Another Sonic Colours easter egg here, jumping
to the end of the game after Sonic has defeated Doctor Eggman, there’s an interaction with
one of the wisps who save him from dying via the exploding amusement park after the fact.
Tails uses a translator to figure out what the little guy is saying.
It appears in decimal code on the screen, and we catch a glimpse of it long enough to
see that there’s additional code at the bottom of the translator’s screen.
And the first two lines it translates are spot on in terms of what we get from the cut
scene, but there’s an additional third line.
Which translates into ‘if you can read this you’re a geek”.
6 Pink Bot In the studiopolis zone, there’s a reference
to another Sega game Streets of Rage.
The Pink Bot sign that appears incredibly similar to the Pine Pot Cafe that appears
in the Streets of Rage 1 and 2, in all of it’s neon glory.
5 Big the Cat cameos In Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, if you button
mash during various cut scenes.
Big the Cat will make a cameo in the background, seemingly not visible to the other characters
in the cut scene.
And he’s just kinda there, either running by or scratching himself.
Gotta love big the cat.
4 Suicidal Sonic Getting into darker territory for our next
number here, in Sonic CD, Sonic is a tad sucidial.
If you put down the controller and leave the game still for long enough, he’ll jump off
the ledge and kill himself.
After tapping his foot profusely, he’ll say “I’m outta here!”
and jump.
And then it’s game over.
Now, if you’re playing the US version, you also get this creepy music accompanying the
game over.
3 SegaSonic Popcorn Shop Sonic Mania is filled with a ton of easter
eggs, one of which is the Segasonic Popcorn Shop that appears in the Studiopolis Zone.
The Segasonic Popcorn Shop was actually a real life vending machine though back in 1993.
It dispensed popcorn - of course - that was microwaved and then dropped into a cup.
It had a game component too - you had to turn the green crank on the machine to help Tails
get the popcorn kernels into the fire.
2 Sonic 3D Blast Unintentional Easter Egg If you wiggle or smack the cartridge for Sonic
Blast 3D, you get sent to the level select screen.
Traveller’s Tales founder Jon Burt revealed this easter egg’s origins in a video he
posted.
He worked on the game, and one of the things they would do to pass cartridge regulation
tests was to cover up the error messages with easter eggs, turning what was a bug into a
bonus screen.
Meaning these glitches would just seem as if they were part of the game rather than
bugs and would still pass certification.
1 And Knuckles Sonic Mania was critically acclaimed, and
many fans felt that it was a love letter to the classic Sonic games.
Keeping true to it’s roots, the game has a throwback to the classic’s debug mode,
with it’s own classic level select cheat.
On this menu we also get a shoutout to the popular meme And Knuckles, which came into
existence due to Sega’s ‘Lock On’ feature that allowed you to add cartridges onto existing
games, made it possible to play Knuckles in Sonic 3.
The meme really blew up though in 2010 after a joke review of the fictional game Sonic
the Hedgehog 3CD and Knuckles and Knuckles.
So what’s all that got to do with easter eggs?
Well, there’s a easter egg in Sonic Mania that many think is a shoutout to the meme’s
infamy.
A mode that lets you play as Knuckles, with Knuckles as your side kick once you unlock
debug mode in the game.
There we have it friends!
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