Sonic the Hedgehog 3/Magazine articles
From Sonic Retro
This page covers magazine articles for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles which are not large enough to create a separate page for.
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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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Knuckles
This is a scan of a Sega Visions article which focuses on Knuckles. The font in the first image has an odd pallette.
- KnucklesSonic3SegaVisions.jpg
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SEGA Magazine
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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Sonic the Comic
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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Sonic the Comic
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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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.
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