Sonic and Shadow: Parallel Pains, Diverging Destinies
In many ways Sonic and Shadow’s journeys run parallel to each other, as both hedgehogs have endured far more than their fair share of painful losses and unprovoked challenges in […]
Sonic and the Secret of the Disappearing Rings?
One of the defining features of any Sonic game is the act of collecting rings as we race through the level… but no matter how many rings I pick up, […]
Sonic Adventure: An Action Stage for Every Season
As much as I loved Sonic’s first foray into 3D gaming in the Sonic Adventure series, there were still parts that I wouldn’t have minded skipping. For example, playing through […]
Sonic Adventure: Finding and Equipping our “Lightning Shoes”
In the Sonic Adventure series we learned that while Sonic is exceptionally fast, the secret to making him exponentially stronger and faster was finding and applying the hidden gear that […]
Sonic: Gotta Go FAST
If there’s one thing that Sonic, Sega’s mascot, has become known for over the years it’s that no matter where he is going, he’s gotta go FAST. Speed is the […]
Counting the Cost, Carrying Our Cross
Launching a new console is neither easy nor cheap, and in order to remain relevant in the “console wars” a continuing price has to be paid… a price that Microsoft […]
Genesis Does What Nintendon’t?
The original “console wars” between Sega and Nintendo got a little bit feisty… both companies battled it out for the hearts (and wallets) of the gaming audience in each successive […]
Mario and Sonic, Better Together
For years, Nintendo’s Mario and Sega’s Sonic existed in an adversarial relationship … as the mascots for their respective console platforms, the idea that we’d ever see them team up […]
Stubborn Love – My Love Affair with SEGA (Exodus 16-32)
I will admit that I have always been a Sega fanboy. I come by my Sega love honestly – it all started one night at a friend’s house when […]
Finding God in Video Games 