Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Limited Edition
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Limited Edition |
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive/Genesis |
Publisher: Sega |
Developer: Sonic Team |
Genre: 2D Platform |
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Limited Edition was a compilation of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles combined for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. This would be similar to what you get when locking the games together, however it would be in a single cartridge and would not allow you to lock the game onto any others, so playing Knuckles in Sonic 2 or Blue Sphere would not be possible.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was originally envisioned to be a large game but was split into the two smaller games Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. This was due to time constraints and Sega's desire to have a new Sonic game released by Christmas of that year. Sonic 3 was the game chosen to be released first and Sonic & Knuckles was released the following year.
Initially it was planned to also release the games as a combined game, similar to Sonic 3 & Knuckles. The cartridge would have been expensive due to the cost of memory. This concept was abandoned in favour of the "Lock-On Technology" of Sonic & Knuckles. Two prototypes of the combined game were released by drx on February 23, 2008 and the earliest can be found here and the later build can be found here.
Unreleased Sonic the Hedgehog games |
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Sonic's Edusoft | Sonic the Hedgehog (home computers) | Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 CD | SegaSonic Bros. | Sister Sonic | Treasure Tails | Pre-May 1993 Sonic arcade games | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Limited Edition | Sonic Sports | Sonic Ride | Sonic Saturn | Sonic X: Chaos Emerald Chaos | Sonic DS | Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme | Sonic Riders | Sonic the Hedgehog: Awakening | Sonic Central | Sonic Demo |
Sonic X-treme incarnations |
Sonic Mars | Sonic X-treme (Point Of View | Project Condor | SonicPC) |