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Sonic Eraser

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Sonic Eraser
System(s): Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Puzzle

Sonic Eraser was a video game that was downloadable for players that had the Sega Meganet, a modem for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. It was released in 1991. The Meganet modem did not sell well in Japan and the related service was discontinued there, causing 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 is available on Sega's B-Club download service in Japan.

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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