Sonic Crackers
From Sonic Retro
| Sonic Crackers |
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive |
| Developer: Sega |
| Genre: 2D Platform |
Sonic Crackers (referred to as Sonic Studium in the ROM header) is an early prototype build of a game that incorporates many of the concepts found in the game Knuckles' Chaotix. Its name comes from a peculiar ASCII-art title screen, which looks like it was thrown together in 5 minutes. Sonic Crackers is thought to be an engine test, composed of various different game engines, swapped out using RAM coding.
The game features Sonic and Tails, held together by rings as seen in Knuckles' Chaotix. Sonic can also pick up Tails and throw him up to make it easier to reach higher platforms. The stages and music are also similar to those in Chaotix. There are no sound effects at all during gameplay. There are no badniks to be found neither, however there are spikes, and you lose rings when hitting them (even though you have none).
Interestingly, the date on the lower right of the title screen reads "19940401". This lead to some debate on if the title screen, or the ROM was a April Fools joke. With the discovery of the Chaotix protos this is clearly not the case.
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