Difference between revisions of "Sonic Eraser"
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| − | '''''Sonic Eraser''''' was a video game that was downloadable for players that had the [[Sega Meganet]], a modem for the [[Sega Genesis|Sega MegaDrive]] in [[Japan]]. It was released in 1991. After the Meganet modem became an utter failure like the [[Sega 32X]], ''Sonic Eraser'' became a long-lost Sonic game. | + | '''''Sonic Eraser''''' was a video game that was downloadable for players that had the [[Sega Meganet]], a modem for the [[Sega Mega Drive/Genesis|Sega MegaDrive]] in [[Japan]]. It was released in 1991. After the Meganet modem became an utter failure like the [[Sega 32X]], ''Sonic Eraser'' became a long-lost Sonic game. |
| − | Sonic Eraser was unknown to the Sonic community until 2004, when Sega launched an online system on their Japanese website, which for a small fee per game, allowed users to download and play some original Megadrive games. Included in the selection were a number of games only released on the Meganet system in Japan. In February 2004, [[PACHUKA]], the owner of the Sonic CulT website, discovered the online service and purchased several games, including Sonic Eraser, and various other previously unreleased Meganet games. The | + | ''Sonic Eraser'' was unknown to the Sonic community until 2004, when Sega launched an online system on their Japanese website, which for a small fee per game, allowed users to download and play some original Megadrive games. Included in the selection were a number of games only released on the Meganet system in Japan. In February 2004, [[PACHUKA]], the owner of the Sonic CulT website, discovered the online service and purchased several games, including ''Sonic Eraser'', and various other previously unreleased Meganet games. The ROMs provided by the online service were packaged with a licensed version of Gens, and came in the form of self-contained encrypted CD images, which could only be loaded by the software provided by Sega. [[Nemesis]] wrote a tool capable of descrambling the encrypted images, and converting them to normal ISOs. Once in the form of an ISO, the ROMs were simply copied out, and were released on the Sonic CulT website. |
| − | The game is a fairly simple puzzle game. In the versus mode of this game, when a player gets a combination of three consecutive "erasements" of pieces, that player's Sonic attacks the other player's Sonic. The other player | + | The game is a fairly simple puzzle game. In the versus mode of this game, when a player gets a combination of three consecutive "erasements" of pieces, that player's Sonic attacks the other player's Sonic. The other player momentarily loses control of his pieces. |
The game will be on [[Sega]]'s B-Club download service in Japan. | The game will be on [[Sega]]'s B-Club download service in Japan. | ||
Revision as of 22:42, 7 October 2007
| Sonic Eraser |
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Publisher: Sega |
| Developer: Sonic Team |
| Genre: Puzzle |
Sonic Eraser was a video game that was downloadable for players that had the Sega Meganet, a modem for the Sega MegaDrive in Japan. It was released in 1991. After the Meganet modem became an utter failure like the Sega 32X, Sonic Eraser became a long-lost Sonic game.
Sonic Eraser was unknown to the Sonic community until 2004, when Sega launched an online system on their Japanese website, which for a small fee per game, allowed users to download and play some original Megadrive games. Included in the selection were a number of games only released on the Meganet system in Japan. In February 2004, PACHUKA, the owner of the Sonic CulT website, discovered the online service and purchased several games, including Sonic Eraser, and various other previously unreleased Meganet games. The ROMs provided by the online service were packaged with a licensed version of Gens, and came in the form of self-contained encrypted CD images, which could only be loaded by the software provided by Sega. Nemesis wrote a tool capable of descrambling the encrypted images, and converting them to normal ISOs. Once in the form of an ISO, the ROMs were simply copied out, and were released on the Sonic CulT website.
The game is a fairly simple puzzle game. In the versus mode of this game, when a player gets a combination of three consecutive "erasements" of pieces, that player's Sonic attacks the other player's Sonic. The other player momentarily loses control of his pieces.
The game will be on Sega's B-Club download service in Japan.
| Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems | |
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1991 Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic Eraser 1992 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 1993 Sonic the Hedgehog CD | Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine | Sonic Spinball 1994 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | Sonic & Knuckles 1995 Chaotix | Sonic Classics 1996 Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island |