Sonic the Hedgehog 3/Magazine articles
From Sonic Retro
This page has a list of articles for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and covers short magazine articles not deserving of their own page.
Contents
Full-length articles
- Game Preview - Sonic 3 (Famitsu, June 1994)
- Game Preview - Sonic 3 (Game Players, February 1994)
- Game Preview - Sonic 3 (Mega, February 1994)
- Game Preview - Sonic 3 (SEGA Magazin, February 1994)
- Game Preview - Sonic 3 (Sega Power, February 1994)
- Game Preview - Sonic 3 (Sega Visions, February 1994)
- Game Preview - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Electronic Games, February 1994)
- Mega Drive Review - Sonic 3 (Mean Machines Sega, March 1994)
- Mega Drive Showcase - Sonic 3 (SEGA Magazine, February 1994)
- Prototypes - Sonic 3 (GamesMaster, Issue 14)
- News Zone (Sonic the Comic, 25th December 1993)
- Review - Sonic 3 (Hyper, March 1994)
- Review - Sonic 3 (SEGA Magazine, February 1994)
- Review - Sonic 3 (Sega Power, March 1994)
- Sonic The Wonderman I'm Too Sexy - Sonic 3 (SEGA Magazine, 1994)
Mega
Top 100 (October 1992)
The original Sonic the Hedgehog is featured as one of the top 100 games for the Mega Drive. There is also a small blurb about Sonic 2. It also mentions Sonic CD and Sonic 3.
Sega Visions
Knuckles
This is a scan of a Sega Visions article which focuses on Knuckles. The font in the first image has an odd palette.
- KnucklesSonic3SegaVisions.jpg
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Electronic Gaming Monthly
Quarterman (March 1993)
This clip reveals that Sonic 3 development is underway.
- S3 ElectronicGamingMonthly March1993 Issue44 046.jpg
Sega, 1993 and Beyond (May 1993)
Sonic 3 gets a small mention on this page, along with other Sonic games.
SEGA Magazine
Tips
This clip from UK's official "SEGA Magazine" features tips and images of various things found with debug mode. This includes Sonics unused surfing sprite, and the strange 3D Epsilon balls.
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Stop Press : Sonic 3 Cheat
This is a magazine clip that explains how to activate the level select cheat with a Game Genie. This is from a time when the in-game cheat code was not known.
- StopPressSonic3Cheat.jpg
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Sonic the Comic
Preview (August 1993)
This is a clip from the cheats section of the August 5th issue of Sonic the Comic. Interestingly, the image of Ice Cap Zone shows Sonic running down the mountain, which he does not do in final. Normally he would be riding a snowboard.
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Preview 2 (December 1993)
This is another clip from Sonic the Comic, this time from the December 25th, 1993 issue. This is a preview of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in which all the screenshots feature Sonic 2 sprites. Once again Sonic is shown running down the mountain in Ice Cap Zone.
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Unknown Magazine
Exclusive! Sonic 3 Cheat - Without a Game Genie
This is a clip from some magazine that unveils the nearly impossible to do level select cheat.
- Sonic3LevelSelectCheatArticle.jpg
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