Sonic Blast
Sonic Blast is a 1996 platform game featuring Sonic and Knuckles with pre-rendered 3D graphics. The fifth and final Sonic game released for the Game Gear, it introduced new gameplay mechanics but received mixed reviews for its slow pace and technical limitations.
Platform
game gear
Year
1996
Genre
Platformer
Developer
Aspect
Controls
About This Game
Notable for being the only Game Gear Sonic title to feature Knuckles as a playable character alongside Sonic, each with unique abilities.
Uses pre-rendered sprites to simulate 3D graphics, a technique popularized by Donkey Kong Country, but criticized for causing slowdowns on the 8-bit hardware.
Features five zones with two acts each, plus special stages. The game was never ported to other systems and remains one of the rarest Sonic titles.
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