How did you get into Sonic?

[Miriam The Bat]

Another forced discussion topic!

I don't mean PHYSICALLY into Sonic, I mean mentally. When and how did you first become a Sonic Fan?  

[Miriam The Bat]

Personally, I've been a Sonic Fan ever since Sonic the Hedgehog 1. I was completely into video game storylines, since before it came out I was obsessed with Mario. The Sonic comics and SatAM just kept me going, and I ended up creating a ton of fan characters and fan stories. This was before I had the internet, btw.

I lost all faith in Archie Sonic after the "death" of Sally, and since Mom wouldn't buy me a Saturn, I had nothing else to go on, so I stopped being a fan.

Then when I finally got the internet, I was temped by Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and bought it to try it out. It's still one of my favorite games of all time, with 180 emblems and over 100 hours on it. And I've been a fan again ever since.  

[Vampire Watermelon]

The girl down the street had a genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog for it. She let me play and my basic reaction was "HOLY CRAP! A BLUE HEDGEHOG! I like blue so blue hedgehog = I likes!" I then got a genesis myself that came with Sonic 2 and then we got the original Sonic the same day. I watched SatAM almost all the time and rented the adventures episodes from the video store. I never got a Sega CD so it'll be my first time playing Sonic CD when I get gems collection. I sorta fell out of Sonic fandom because I didn't want a dreamcast for fear of having to sell one of my other systems. Then I started reading TMS Sonic AURG and FFS and I became hooked again. I saved up the money for a gamecube I bought myself as a post-christmas present at the first sort of sale thing they had. Event hough mom said if I waitded it might be cheaper (which happened, there was a sale on them the week after) but I wanted that free starter set with a memory card and 2nd controller as well. I got myself a platinum gamecube and SA2:B and after we pried open the plastic thingie the guy at the store forgot to remove, I was once again hooked. Now my friends all tell me I am obsessed with Sonic, but I really don't mind. I've gotten my little cousin hooked on Sonic as well as several friends. mrgreen  

[gudaguda]

Woo. I got into Sonic when I got my Genesis, it came packed with Sonic 2. I absolutely loved the music, the levels, everything. I'd start drawing my own pictures of Sonic and Tails going through levels I made up and stuff. I only got to play Sonic 1 a little bit after that. Then I played Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Sonic Spinball, and Sonic 3d Blast too. We were almost always renting new Genesis games. I played a few of the Gamegear games too... good times.

I was also absolutely in love with the cartoons, both of em. I watched the one with the Freedom Fighters more often though, they gave the other less serious one while I was at school most of the time. I never really bought the comics, I just got a few where I really liked the art or the cover. I wasn't interested in reading them, not sure why though. Anyways, there was that Sega Saturn time period, and sadly I never got to own one.

So on went a long period of time without any new Sonic games for me. I also never watched Sonic Underground, cause I didn't have cable at the time it aired. But soon time passed, the Dreamcast came out, and I was all over Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. Heck, I even played Sonic Shuffle with a few friends.

Fast foward to today, and I'm still a geekoid who enjoys Sonic. Huzzah!  

[Bubbles Preppy]

At first, my best friend told me about the new SA2B game, so I decided to buy it, and I quickly got addicted. It only took me two years to become a humongous Sonic fan. 3nodding

 

[psyniac_123]

Way-ha-hey back many a year ago my cousin got a Mega Drive I with Sonic the Hedgehog. I saw this game in action and was marvelled by it's graphics and speed. I only had a Commodore 64 back then, so this is was something else in a much larger sense. So I annoyed my parents until they let me get a Mega Drive (II) with, by now, Sonic 2. I was hooked. Loved it. More than I can describe. Actually I can describe a little. When I completed it, I cried with happiness xd redface
Didn't manage to get Sonic 3 or SnK (my cousin got SnK though, so we played Sonic 2 w/Knuckles a lot) until 5 years or so ago on SegaPC, but was always renting Sonic 3 from the video-rental shop down the road. Never managed to get a Saturn, so I missed out on a lot of action over the years, but always stayed a huge Sonic fan, making fanfics and THOUSANDS of fan characters and games. After playing Sonic Adventure around my friend's house (I had already wanted it just because it had "Sonic" in the title) I got a Dreamcast with SA, then got SA2 and eventually Sonic Shuffle.
Also, I bought Sonic Heroes the day after it came out, and have recently sold it (and regretting it sad ).  

[Oni Aeon]

Over here, in the general back-water of society, we called the Genesis the "Mega Drive". When my brother got it for christmas one year, it came along with a game... Sonic the Hedgehog.
My brother, the nice guy (though mostly an a**) that he is, allowed me to play it on the odd occasion. Though being young at the time didn't really help me out a lot, since I kept getting stuck on the first level a little bit. ;o;

And so, I kept on playing it, eventually finding the cheat codes. Hooray!

Eventually, we got new neighbours across the street, who had Sonic 2. Yay for them, my brother still had the original. So they allowed me to go over and play with them once in a while, using the two player option, or... something. I can't remember.

I missed out on the third, but rented it once from Xtra Vision. I was able, however, to aquire "& Knuckles".

Personally, I thought is was nice when the Sonic Mega Collection came out... brought back a lot of good memories... as well as the fact I hate an zone with the name "Casino" in it. Grr...
I still wish I'd been able to play the CD game, though. Ah well.  

[Furst]

I became a Sonic Fan when my cousin had Sonic on Genisis i kept playing it then i got addicted  

[Espeonel]

I remember playing it all the time at my uncle's house(the oringal ones) and when Sonic Adventure 2 came out I bought it and it revived my love for the series. The Dreamcast one never caught my attention, though I seem to remember playing the demo in Toys'r'us when I was 10 or so... sweatdrop  

[Scratch-N-Sniff Porn]

I became a sonic fan back in the 90s.. or sometime near that... when that old sonic the hedgehog show aired... with sally.. and sonic and chili cheese dogs... i loved that show... and the genisis games... heart heart

Both, got me addicted to sonic. 3nodding  

[Agent 009 Curse]

i got really addicted to sonic by the dreamcast and the multimedia platforms  

[Bubbles Preppy]

Wow, it seems like most people got into Sonic from the Genesis game. I feel stupid, like, I'm the only recent Sonic fan. gonk

 

[Miriam The Bat]

That's because if you liked it when you were a kid and still like it a decade later, you might be an otaku smile  

[Legend Ghost]

when sonic frist came to us i wached it at 1 seemed to like it . made me happy so my mom keept showing it so iv just liked it. eek  

[Suriko]

Well I was presented to it when my father bought a Sega Mega Drive(genesis for american folks)

starting with Sonic the hedgehog 1