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  • the tunes in sonic 2 and 3 were recorded by michael jackson after all

  • Food for thought.

    Sonic 3 was noticably incomplete, and nobody at the time was bitching about it.

    These days we had incomplete games show up such as Sonic 06, and many people were biting on it.

    So....I guess the sonic community got more hypocritical over time, then?

  • You got through that Launch Base Zone in 6 MIN. AND 25 SECONDS?! Jesus christ, it took me 3 min. and 5 secs. to finish it, and that's with SUPER SONIC! As normal Sonic it took me 4 min. and 15 sec., not this bullshit.

  • I just got this game today and Sonic and Knuckles to make Sonic 3 and Knuckles Im so glad they put in saves in the game.

  • @AshXXMayftw Money well spent, my friend.

  • @dragon12552  You know what's weird, I'm on Hydrocity right now, now usually water levels piss me off in Sonic games but I'm having so much fun playing through it I just can't get angry.

  • @AshXXMayftw Again, money well spent. Have fun.

  • WATS UP LITTLE BITCHES U AND ME WITH THE *STOP*

  • Knux is the biggest troll in gaming.

  • Love this game!

  • I think Satan snuck into the level designers' room and put that barrel in Carnival Night Zone Act 2.

  • This game is the first to introduce what's pretty much cutscenes, these scenes are all just when Knuckles screws you over. Amd it's fucking HILARIOUS if you ask me.

  • Where is that song from at 1:42??

  • @kizzagt The Knuckle's Section from Sonic by The Adventures Of Duane and BrandO.

  • The barrel was the only thing in the Sonic series that pissed me off. Took me three long years to get past it. There were two ways to get past it. I did it the hard way.

  • 6:40 Right then I was thinking "how the fuck did he pull that off"?!

  • I remember when i first played Launch Base Zone on Sonic 3. I noticed it sounded like the Peter Combe song "When I'm thirteen" but Peter Combe played it as a rock and roll song but in Launch Base Zone it play's like a Michael Jackson Song so I started to sing When I'm thirteen Michael Jackson Style.

  • Hyper sonic?

  • @MP2066 only S3 & Knuckles

  • Getting the level select code to work on the emulated version of Sonic 3 for pc was certainly no easier. @_@ (My poor arrow keys barely work now).

  • @billforigno You can set them so its on other keys. W for up S for down A for left D for right. Enter for start. 1 for A 2 for B and 3 for C. I recamend using those for emulated games.

  • @Eatmyassproductions Well I made a very safely kept save after I finally accomplished it a few years back, and I've grown accustomed to using the arrow keys for movement and D button to jump (I actually prefer it to any console controller for all the 2d games). But I'll certainly consider changing the configuration next time I loose that precious save state.

  • OH MY GOD! SONIC 2 CAN WIPE UP STAINS?! AMAZING!

  • HA great review! This is prolly my fav sonic title. It's just a blast to play through. I remember playing it in the mall before I had my mega-drive (in Australia) and always getting stuck at that stupid barrel! My only hope was to continue playing it after someone else beat it. Oh man sonic WAS my childhood

  • WE HAD PANCAKES! YOU OWE ME FOR THIS!

  • i would get mad about punching mario buut then again its a sonic video

  • I liked it when you were in Hydrocity, you could accidentally activate the Sonic and Knuckles mini boss theme, when playing against the Hycrocity mini boss XD

  • Shut up about the goddamn barrel already! Some of us got stuck, some did not.

  • barrels took me 1st time no joke, i see the barrels go up and down when you jump on them , so i decided too push down and went down some then up and it worked.

  • @SoulBandit99 press up and down until it gets low enough. Do it with a rhythm.

  • Oh my goodness. My brother and I ALWAYS got stuck on the Night Carnival level. Even after so many years, we're still stuck on it, in the same spot. 3:58 to be exact. How did you pass it? =___=

  • @SoulBandit99 patience and eventually jump to the right? o_O

  • I don't understand the comment about Knuckles being a playable character here... I never got that sense, and for years thought Knuckles was a bad guy. I think it's more weird that you never battle Knuckles in this game.

  • @mwermuthland knuckles its not a bad guy <.< he its brainwashed by robotnick and told him something about sonic coming too steal the big emerald and knuckles get mad.

  • @linkpwnsevery1 I didn't know that until after I first played a Sonic game (can't remember which one) on Gamecube. He was a bad guy in Sonic 3 and Tripple Trouble... I even thought he was a true bad guy in Sonic & Knuckles despite being able to play as him. Still, I find it odd you can't battle him in this game, especially considering you fight Dr. Robotnik THREE TIMES in a row in the very last level.

  • barrels? please! 12 hours is nothing.... it took me about 7 years..... 7 FREAKING YEARS!.... probably didnt help that i didnt have a manual....

  • @ZapBlaze I managed to get through the barrel once using the jumping method when I was 7. Looking back...I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I DID IT!

    Thankfully, I watched Sonic Shorts about 4 years later which basically showed everyone's reaction to the barrel. Then I saw it said you have to press UP....and DOWN.

    So I thought: "Hmm, does it really work?" and went on Sonic 3. I got there and pressed up...then down. And it worked.

    Me: -____- ....god DAMMIT!!!!!

  • i thought the only way to get to the level select screen on sonic 3 alone, was to do a cart swap with sonic 2,and most of the time that didn't work. oh the days before the internet knew better.

  • Playing this game recently (and finally getting farther than I previously had), I've only recently noticed that all the levels seem unusually long. And there's many things I've had trouble figuring out.

  • they need to put this game on Playstation Network :(

  • LOL! *Knuckles rap begins*

    Johnny: Stop.

  • Why is Mario in my Sonic review?

  • When you touched that red sphere, I felt a little pain inside...

  • How long is "about a split second" exactly?

  • @FireMocha Half a second.

  • hahahahah i definitely lol'd at the ending. I think I only got the level select once or twice in my entire life (almost 26 years now).

    also glad you guys rank this above sonic 2. sonic 3 is clearly the better game

  • i fuckin hated that goddamn barrel. worst case of poor level design ever.

  • @bladedaawesome2 It's not poor level design. You were just too stupid to press up and down.

  • @TheNogre That barrel is easily the most notable case of extreme misdirection in a game series that is otherwise totally intuitive. I could list about 6 or 7 good reasons why there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to think to press up or down.

    The only time anyone figures out how to use that barrel is after they've been stuck for some period of time, have exhausted all options, and just start dicking around.

  • @321cheeseman It shouldn't take more than about 3 minutes to come to the conclusion that up and down was the solution. Let's say you go on the barrel. Jumping almost works but not quite. You used about a minute and a half on the that. Left and right doesn't do shit on the barrel. So now you press up and down! Wow about 3 minutes. I figured that out when I was 8 in about a 1 minute and a half.

  • @TheNogre This is what I always see. Even people that think the barrel was no big deal because they figured it out IN A FEW MINUTES were stuck for what is, for such a simple obstacle, a LUDICROUS amount of time, especially when you die in ten minutes. It SHOULD NOT take whole minutes (nevermind hours, weeks, months, or even years) to figure out that you can press up and down.

    Think about that.

    That's bad design.

  • @321cheeseman I don't really think it should take weeks let alone years. But I guess I see what you're saying. I guess Sega assumed up and down was instinctive for people.

  • @321cheeseman yeah i remember i got this game in 94 and i had no idea how to pass the barrels so i finally just stopped playing it and let my friend borrow it and he passed it and showed me what to do

  • @321cheeseman i used to get stuck there and only a good year ago or 2 did i figure out to press up or down, i did manage to get passed it by jumping up and down with timing, but it scares the crap out of me and tests my reflexes due to rapid timing needed

  • @321cheeseman i knew what to do on the first time i saw the barrel

    :D or D:

  • @321cheeseman So that's what your supposed to do with them. I just jump a lot until it goes for me.

  • @321cheeseman I totally agree. They only way I found out was from that Sonic Shorts episode. Definitely bad game design right there.

  • @321cheeseman or if someone else tells you

  • @lildecable no shit dude, this came out in '92.

  • ima clement fan just to make jonny angry :3

  • U can't reach certain points because only Knuckles can

  • @lildecable lol

  • @Theawesomegamekid Are you kidding, they're MUCH better than that.

  • why did angel island look like emerald hill on the sound test menu

  • What did elliot said about pancakes??????

  • @TwodudesthatplayGame We had pancakes you owe me for this. I think thats what hes saying

  • 6:15 no...it's THE best.

  • this was DEF. my Fav Sonic game of ALL time! Even after the Wonderful Generations, Sonic 3 is STILL my Fav. Sonic game.. Other than Sonic CD.. this was actually the BEST reviewed game in Sonic history.. got like a 95%

  • Sonic 3 was my least fav out of the first three games not including Sonic CD but i still loved it but i just didnt enjoy the levels as much but with that said i still enjoyed them. Sonic 2 and its levels still remaind the best for me.

  • The only thing I never understood is how the hell does Knuckles punch the chaos emeralds, when Sonic's in super form?

  • @knucklesfan8 that was back then when Knuckles actually had brains and wasn't as stupid lol

  • @GamerGuyd7Aces

    YES! FINALLY SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME THINKS THAT! Like, it makes sense how Knuckles was fooled once, but in new games he gets tricked by Robotnik so many times its just so far fetched. And his extreme anger issues are ridiculous.

  • Johnny we're out of pepsi....(Play Unknown Item Music)

  • ''There is diffrent music in every act. But its not surprising if the game is developed by Micheal Jackson himself.''

    ''AAAAAUUU!!!''

  • @ThePrayingMantis08 It's the "Unknown Item" theme from Metroid Zero Mission!

  • What was the music at the end of the video when it was focussing on Johnny's face?

  • @ThePrayingMantis08 watch the metroid zero mission review

  • Now what was that rap for SA2 I think where it said, "Unlike Sonic, I don't chuckle."

    Bullshit, they didn't play this game.

  • @DarkDialga960 Yeah, Knuckles theme in Sa1 and Sa2 has him saying that lie. HE F*CKING CHUCKLES.

  • Electric shields protect you from spike balls fired from badniks

  • @mariokl117 Awesome. Not Forever Alone in that department

  • I sing good in my opinion, but the problem is, I sing like a girl.

  • @6000NoobTube That is not good, that is BAD

  • I love you're little skits in-between the reviews :)

  • Solidmario, it was the tune for Launch Base Zone.

  • What exactly was that tune that they were bobbing their head to?

  • @solidmario64 launch base zone

  • HELL YEAH MAN I AGREE..I Swear i think i went through this entire game again just to hear the SOUNDTRACK

  • @Somecallmejohnny What happens if you select Mushroom Valley, Flying Battery and Sandopolis.

  • @SonicSuperBoom1, as far as I know... nothing... you can't play them or anything...

  • Wait! YOU CAN PLAY SONIC 2? I have just been using it to cut vegetables. NOW WHERE IS MY MEGA DRIVE?!

  • 3:34 FIRE!!!

  • I prefer sonic 2 this game is cramped

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  • Got this on cart, fecking wicked game.

  • yeah!!!!!!!!! I still can't belive that Michael Jackson helped with the music :D

  • @bullseyety333 HYDROCITY ZONE 4DAWIN!!!

  • @overlordss yeah!!!!

  • You forgot to mention what happens when you collect a special stage ring when you have all emeralds. you instantly collect 50 rings and you can go super right out of the box

  • cookiez?

  • Maybe the insta-shield was meant to block projectiles Johnny boy.

  • You say it took you 12 hours to work out the barrels, to be honest, it took me YEARS to work it out...but then my copy of Sonic 3 disappeared sometime after I got Sonic Jam

  • That lvl select cheat is a pain to my fingers.

  • Lol metroid zero mission unknown item sound

  • This was my favorite in the series, right next to Sonic and Knuckles.

  • actually continues start you at your last checkpoint.

  • sonic 3 is the unfinished version of the game and sonic 3 and knuckles is the complete game.

    i think sonic 3 has the better debug

  • @metalsonic71 Not the unfinished version, but rather the first half of the game because the whole game could not fit in one game.

  • I tried doing that code on the Gamecube gamepad.

    Damn near broke my fingers trying to get it and I still couldn't get.

    Seriously I spent like half an hour trying one night.

    My sister tried and she couldn't get it.

    I mean do you really have to hide the level select that hard?

  • it took ryan 72 times to do that...i am a sad person for working that out :/

  • Killed by rings... Oh, the irony...

  • i had to have continuse at that stupid barol

  • "[...] who you just wish you could punch in the face."

    Even if, this is the same Knuckles who's own punches can...you know, shatter boulders and create fucking minature volcanic eruptions.

  • My favorite tunes in Sonic 3 are: Angel Island, Hydrocity, Ice Cap, and Launch Base. But out of all the classic Sonic games, my favorite tune to this day remains the Mystic Cave Zone music from Sonic 2. I don't know, it just has some sort of magical quality to it.

  • This video has 5 dislikes?RUINED FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!

  • Lmfao dj hero

  • @tedzothegreat that fact was true for me!

  • Does Elliot write his own lines? He sounds like he's reading right off the script.

  • I Want a silver ps3 controller to NOOOOO

  • The save feature was actually introduced in Sonic CD, not Sonic 3.

  • Does anyone else notice how it shows images of sonic 2 levels on the sonic 3 level select???

  • Why'd Johnny interrupt the Knuckles Rap? That's an AWESOME song!

  • 3:28 I LOL'd

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  • Pfffffft! This game is NOTHING compared to Sonic 3CD & Knuckles & Knuckles!

  • DRAMATIC METROID SOUND!

  • I wonder what would happen if combined all of these reviews into one video....

  • Cruse You Carnival Night Zone: Act 2!

  • WE HAD PANCAKES! YOU OWE ME THIS!!!!

  • I love how Super Sonic was crushed by a ring box when Elliot said keep an eye on your ring count.

  • @tedzothegreat 12 hours? It took me 9 years...

  • Sorry to say this, but you nerded out at 5:52.

  • @MetroidPeter LOL I know

  • @MetroidPeter Yeah but c'mon who wouldn't?

  • @MetroidPeter I didn't notice that, i guess it's because i'm always like that.

  • @MetroidPeter Um... I hope you mean the dance thing because this seriously is one of the best soundtracks next to sonic adventure 2, the musics amazing. People say the Genesis sounds like crap, but the sonic games have really good music

  • Love your "LOLASER" shirt XD

  • That is so cute! Tails swimming is just to cute!:D

  • hey johnny i wonder and i hope you can answer me but can you play the few S&K levels that are in the level select in sonic 3 alone

  • "We have pancakes, you OWE me for this!"

  • Who's just as broken as he was in sonic 2.

    Wait what? Broken?

  • @MetroidPeter as in he makes progression WAAAY too easy. "broken", in this context, means "over-powered".

  • Up, up, down, down, up, up, up, up...FUCK! Okay, one more time..

    Upupdowndownupupupup......GODD­AMMIT!! >:(

  • only 6 zones? werent there 7? yea laugh it up fat man

  • Mysterious item sound effect from metroid at the end! LOL

  • 5:28

    5:34

    5:40

    SUPER SONIC!!!

  • Your score for Sonic 3 alone?

  • 6:03 FALCON PUNCH

  • XD great cliff hanger Johnny! but honestly i never liked Sonic & Knuckles the zones in my opinion were crap compared to Sonic 3 :(

  • GOD I4M SO JEALOUS OF YOUR T-SHIRTS!!!!

  • 7:03 WE HAD PANCAKES! YOU OWE ME FOR THIS! LOL

  • And your score for Sonic 3 alone?

  • 6:16 You forgot Sonic CD...

  • @NeonTotodile he said Genesis

    Not Sega CD

  • Wow this video is a year old now.

  • When sonic first appears on the title screen, he winks. Well my computer froze on that frame, and now it just looks like sonic is having a stroke xD

  • i bet the ability to save progress in video games was revolutionary.

  • If you get the level select up on Sonic 2, carefully take the cartridge out so the screen is still up, put the Sonic 3 cartridge in, then reset, you'll have the level select in Sonic 3. I never knew about your method. :)

  • "To this day is the best selling Sonic game in the franchise...

    ...and in the Genesis"

    Huzzah?

  • 10 minute loop of 5:55 to 6:09 anyone?

  • I might make an LP of this game.

  • Damn Sonic; 2 is the best selling with only 6 mllion copies sold? Compared to; mario games like smb 3 18 mil even smb2 10 mil that ain't shit.

  • Actually, Tails's first playable appearence with flying is in Sonic Chaos (1993). Your wrong. :D

  • usually all sonic games take place in a forest or jungle of some sort in the first zones. lol

  • @SpartanForgeWorld300 Says Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Heroes, 06, Unleashed, Secret Rings, and Colors.

  • 6:02 Mario shall not dance to Sonic music! FALCON PUNCH!

  • @Toails77 Dare I ask: Why not?

  • You're right. That unknown sound makes everything more dramatic.

  • you are the funniest things that ever walked the earth

  • HEY WTF it was realy fun hear the unknow items from metroid zero mission XD

  • Why do I find it so adorable when tails is swimming?