♪ (old-school video game music) ♪
- "Sonic the Hedgehog."
- It's like Mario, right, but just he goes fast?
- "Sonic the Hedgehog." Okay.
Totally looking forward to it.
- (excitedly) Ooooh, classics! Sonic.
Okay, the one I have played was on SP.
There you go, the Nintendo SP.
- This was one of the first games I actually started playing.
- He runs really fast and the whole point, I think,
is to get as many points as you can with the gold ring?
I don't think I've ever played a Sonic game.
- (Derek) We're gonna give you one continue
and see if you can beat the first boss.
Think you can do it? - Yes, I am very excited.
I want to play this.
- I am excited. I want to try it.
I love retro games.
- Start.
- "Green Hill Zone 1: Act 1."
Oh god. I'm gonna do so bad, though.
- Ooh, okay! So I have to get rings.
Ooh, I'm being timed. Jesus, this is like Mario.
(Sonic boings) ♪ (Green Hill Zone theme) ♪
- Jump. Oh, no.
♪ (rings chime) ♪ Get the rings.
(enemy explodes)
(Sonic boings) ♪ (rings scatter) ♪
- No, my rings!
If you don't have any rings and you get hit by anything, you just die.
Like, rings are basically your health bar.
- Oh... I did something. ♪ (rings chime) ♪
Oh my god.
It's going too fast.
- Whoa, this is a lot faster than I remember.
It's pretty fast.
- Like, the more you hold down the left or the right, the faster he goes.
But I'm kind of scared, though, because I don't want to run into any guys.
- (giggling) Oh.
♪ (rings chime) ♪ I don't know where I'm going.
Ooh.
Okay, hold on.
(Sonic boings)
(soft gasp) (rings scatter)
Ooh. (Sonic dies)
I died.
♪ (Green Hill Zone theme music) ♪ Oops.
Do I just press Start again? Okay.
(Sonic boings) (rings scatter)
- Wow, that was-- (Sonic dies)
I just died by spikes.
♪ (rings chime) ♪ - Ooh, is this going to make me jump?
(spring boings) Ooooh!
(spring boings)
- But-- ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh.
That was close.
That was some Uncharted stuff right there.
- This makes me realize how much graphics have changed
throughout the years, and how much better they've gotten.
- Ooh! (ground crumbles)
What the heck? The floor can fall too?
♪ (checkpoint chime) ♪ What did that just do?
- (Derek) That was a checkpoint.
(Sonic skids) - Oh, it was a checkpoint.
- All right. ♪ (rings chime) ♪
- Oh, I wanna do the loop de loop.
Here we go. Gotta build up some momentum.
♪ (rings chime) ♪ There we go.
- Oh. Oh. Fast. Fast.
♪ (rings chime) ♪ - Ooh. Back at it.
Back at it again.
(spinning through tunnel)
(rings chime) I'm going real fast.
- Okay. ♪ (rings chime) ♪
Okay. Okay, okay.
Wait, I'm doing okay.
- I thought the whole point was that he could go super fast.
He doesn't go that fast.
(rings scatter) (gasps)
NO! Bastard.
God, I hate that. Okay.
Now I gotta get all my rings again
because that bastard made me lose all of them.
- 'Kay. ♪ (rings chime) ♪
(level sign spins)
- Did I do it?
♪ (clear level theme) ♪ I did it!
I'm so happy.
♪ (rings chime) ♪
- Yay! (laughing)
♪ (clear level theme) ♪ Aw, I missed that sound of victory.
(level sign spins)
- Oh, it was pretty simple.
It's just the first level.
I've run-- this is just to get used to the controls, you know, and have fun.
I'm sure it gets a lot harder.
- Sonic has passed Act 1!
That's me, 'cause I'm Sonic now.
♪ (Green Hill Zone theme music) ♪
- Woo! On Act 2.
- Gotta get some rings.
(Sonic boings)
Get away from me.
- People always have problems with these fish things.
- All right, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine.
No! Oh, thank god.
Okay, we're fine. (enemy explodes)
♪ (rings chime) ♪ - Gotta go fast.
- Oh my god. Oh my god.
What the shit?
(Sonic boings)
- Dang, going uphill, he really struggles with that.
- (titters) Maybe if I start from back here.
♪ (rings chime) ♪
Oh man.
- (laughing) Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't wanna go that way again.
(rings scatter) No-ho-hooooo!
Those stupid, random spikes that don't even need to be there
other than make my life harder than it already is.
- I don't even really care about the rings.
I just... I just love playing it.
- This level was pretty interesting 'cause there's a lot of stuff
I don't remember from this game, and now that I'm just realizing
how much stuff there is, it's like wow.
♪ (rings chime) ♪
(Sonic boings)
(tsks)
(Sonic dies) - I died.
I fell on the spikes.
That seems to be my main problem.
- Okay, go back. (breaking item box)
- Yah! Oooh, okay. I don't want to waste this.
Run! Run! ♪ (theme music plays rapidly) ♪
(Sonic dies) Wait, what the heck?
♪ (rings chime) ♪ - Ooh, yes!
Yes!
Okay, so let's see.
This is the whole fast thing that makes Sonic known.
♪ (theme music plays rapidly) ♪
(Sonic boings) Oh, what does this do?
(Sonic dies) - No!!!
I died?
I was trying to keep a good streak going.
Damn it! And I had just gotten that, like--
- (laughing) Yes!
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.
Sh-- (grumbles loudly)
(Sonic dies) - I just did it again.
♪ (game over theme) ♪
I'm never gonna get past those spikes.
It says "game over" and I'm assuming that was my third life.
- ♪ Sega ♪ - All right.
Does that mean you have to start from the first?
- (Derek, reluctantly) Yeah.
(Sonic dies)
- Did I really just miss that gap? ♪ (game over theme) ♪
That's so mean.
Being a kid and this happening, it always makes you want to keep playing.
You get really into it and you have to beat it.
- Yes.
I want this 'cause I think this does something cool.
♪ (theme music plays rapidly) ♪
Is this supposed to-- I think this is supposed to make me faster.
Yes! ♪ (rings chime) ♪
Oh my god, yes! I'm invincible.
(Sonic boings) - Okay, spikes.
(breaking item box)
- Okay, even though I have the star, I can't touch the spikes.
♪ (rings chimes) ♪ (Sonic boings)
(Sonic dies) - No!
(sighs) Dang it. I was going too fast.
Oh wait, what the heck?
Ah, dang it! - ♪ Sega ♪
- Dang it! I forgot.
What kind of rule is that?
You have to start all the way from level one?
Like, what if you're on the last act?
- Okay, I'm not gonna hit those spikes this time.
I promise you, I will not.
(Sonic boings) (enemy explodes)
(Sonic boings) ♪ (rings chime) ♪
♪ (checkpoint chime) ♪
- Ooh. Ooh, ooh. I waited too long.
Gotta go fast. Ooh, that was close.
- I've been missing out on a lot of stuff, I've been realizing.
Like, I don't remember this.
(breaking item box)
- Yes, speed! Speed!
(laughing) Yes!
Go, Sonic!
Ruuuun! ♪ (rings chime) ♪
- I'm dip-- (rings scatter)
I'm dippin'!
I'm dip-- I thought I almost died. I wasn't even mad.
- The good thing is that there's at least checkpoints
where you can just go back if you die.
(spinning through tunnel)
(level sign spins) Yeah!
Level 3!
- Yes, I am invincible. Go!
(level sign spins) Woo!
Act 2 done, and I didn't die that many times.
I feel good at this.
- I did it! I'm so happy.
- That was so hard.
Oh my god, I kept dying at the same exact same spots too.
- Act 3, let's go.
(Sonic boings) (spring boings)
(ground crumbles) - Ooh! Ooh, ooh.
Man, these Uncharted moments, man.
(spring boings)
- Oh my god.
Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!
Are you kidding? What is that?
- (gasps) Oh my god. Stop doing that.
Okay, I think this protects me from things.
(Sonic boings) ♪ (rings chime) ♪
- Oop. We shall continue. (laughing)
(Sonic loses protection)
♪ (checkpoint chime) ♪ I was gonna say--
I thought I died. I was gonna say, "No way."
- Checkpoint.
I did it.
♪ (rings chime) ♪
- Yes! Go.
(rings chime rapidly) ♪
Oh my god. I think that-- oh no!
What was that?
(spring boings) - Oh, wait!
Oh, wait. No, that wasn't supposed to happen.
- It's like it bounces you all the way back.
(Sonic boings) Big inconvenience.
- Can I go on these? I'm so scared.
But it's like spikes.
- Can I time this perfectly?
Go! Go! Go! Go!
(rings scatter)
- This is impossible.
(Sonic boings) I did it!
It's not impossible.
♪ (checkpoint chime) ♪
(Sonic loses protection)
- What the--? What? What?
What is happ-- what was that?
- Okay, get that ring.
(ring scatters) Okay, run!
Jump. Jump.
Aaah-ho-ho.
♪ (rings chime) ♪
- I can't see. (rings scatter)
It's like the game just got twenty times more crappy quality.
- Ooh, pixelated waterfalls.
I love it.
- This game's, like, intense for such an old game.
You just want to stay alive at all costs. (laughs)
Come on, just come back.
- Okay, there.
(ground crumbles)
- Okay.
I don't like the fact that it keeps breaking down everywhere.
(Sonic skids) Oh-ho. Did you see that combo?
- Oh-- whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Come on, buddy.
(holds breath) (rings scatter)
- No-ho! (Sonic dies)
Aaaah. Noooo!
Game over?!
(squeakily) No!
I was so doing so good, though.
(rings scatter) (sucking air)
- (pouting) Spikes.
(laughing) It's always the spikes.
It's always the spikes.
I'm glad I got that checkpoint, though.
- This game is giving me so much anxiety.
(Sonic boings)
- Ooh, okay. Don't shoot me!
(Sonic boings) All right.
- Okay.
I'm just gonna finish this level now.
♪ (rings chime) ♪
- Oh, I see a flashy thing. (bumps item box)
(Sonic boings)
Oh my god!
I totally forgot that they turn into little animals when you kill them.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Oh no! Checkpoint, 'cause I don't wanna die in case I do.
- I'm gonna jump on that. What do I need this for?
♪ (foreboding boss music) ♪
Oh man. Who are you?
- Wait, am I not done?
♪ (foreboding boss music) ♪ - What the--?
- Yes. Yes!
Wait... what's happening?
Oh, see-- it's, um-- he's like an Egg something.
- Oh, I'm not done. Oh, Doctor Eggman.
Doc-- or Robotnik, whatever you want to call him.
- (screaming) Damn it. Damn it!
This is the evil guy.
- I think I need to get him on the head?
(inflicting damage) Yes, okay.
No, and then I can't get hit by the ball, I'm assuming.
(inflicting damage) (Sonic boings)
- How many times do you have to hit this guy?
Oh shiz! (rings scatter)
I'm so screwed.
(Sonic boings) (inflicting damage)
(Sonic dies)
♪ (game over music) ♪
- It's depressing, man.
(Sonic boings) - Nope!
Please.
NO! NO! (rings scatter)
(gasps) Oh my god. And I don't have any rings.
I have one. I have one. I have one.
(Sonic boings)
(rings scatter) - Oh my god.
I have to jump on him.
[Bleep]!
(gasps) No, my ring is gone!
(Sonic dies)
Ooooh.
Damn it. Aaaaah!
I quit. I'm a quitter.
- This is some, like, difficult stuff for a kid's game.
(Sonic dies)
♪ (game over music) ♪
I died.
He came in like a wrecking ball.
(rings scatter) - Oh! Oh, oh, okay, okay.
(inflicting damage)
- Yeah. (Sonic dies)
Aw, dang it.
(snickers) See, if I would've saw that thing,
I wouldn't have known what to do.
Wait, do I have to go all the way back?
- No, please don't.
(Sonic dies) - (angrily) Mmmmmm!
Stupid egg-looking man.
(inflicting damage) (rings scatter)
- Oh, go get that. Go get that, please.
(Sonic dies) (sucks air)
Two lives.
I died. Robotnik got me.
- This Eggman needs to chill.
I need rings.
I need that.
(breaks item box) Yes.
(gasps) Yay! Okay, that gave me rings.
- Um, so... I'm gonna try to go on the edges more to dodge the ball.
- All right... okay, jump.
See, but when I hit him, it makes me go down,
but at an awkward angle, so it makes me go almost to the ball,
like right there. (rings scatter)
(Sonic boings) - Go!
(voice wavering) Oh my god! Please, nooooo!
Okay, I have a ring. I have a ring. I have a ring. I have a ring.
(inflicting damage)
(tittering) He can't get me in the corner, I think.
(inflicting damage)
- Shhhh-- he's not-- can I duck?
(collecting ring) Oh my god!
- Just keep doing the same thing.
(Sonic boings) (inflicting damage)
Oh, okay. Okay, go.
- Please, just die already! (rings scatter)
No, no, no, no, no, no. I have a ring. I have a ring.
I have a ring. I have a ring.
(Sonic boings) (hovercraft blowing up)
- (victoriously) Yes!
Heck yeah! That was awesome.
(hovercraft blowing up) - Yeah!!!
I did it!
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Don't hit me. Don't hit me. Don't hit me!
He has to die already.
(hovercraft blowing up) I've already-- yes!
Yes, blow up! Blow the [bleep] up.
I got it.
- Oh, okay, go. Go.
And this is where you free all the animals.
Eeeee!
- I saved the critters. I'm a boss.
- Oh, I saved all the fluffy creatures. That is so adorable.
I didn't realize Sonic was such an adorable game.
- I liked it.
The challenge was great.
- Really frustrating at times, but it's like fun frustrating.
You know, it's not like Flappy Bird where I want to punch somebody.
- Harder than it looks.
Don't want to play it again.
Ever.
- Eggman, the biggest douchebag in the world, decides to kill me in one hit
and give me that-- argh, that smirk!
I just hate that smirk so much.
It's gonna haunt my dreams, watch.
I'm not gonna be able to sleep at night because of this.
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♪ (old-school video game music) ♪