TODAY, WE ARE GOING TO UPDATE THE WEB SITE LIKE IT’S 1993
Because the 1993 Sonic The Hedgehog calendar features some AMAZING lost Sonic artwork. We are particularly fond of the one in which Sonic is rescuing Tails from the clutches of a giant crab.
The stories the pictures paint are many and thrilling:
1993 – when Sonic could sell products his name was on.
We recognise this one! It was on the box.
If you happen to have worked for SEGA in the early 90s and happen to have this artwork in a hi-res format on whatever kind of disc things were stored on in the early 90s, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
This one we recognise from somewhere.
Amazing! He’s like Tarzan and Superman rolled into one. And quite gay.
Moving. Genius. Storytelling at its finest.
Lots of inspiration for gay fan fiction there (we’re currently 50,000 words in and Richard Jacques has just got sucked through a portal into Sonic’s world…)
filed in HISTORY on Dec.05, 2006
December 5th, 2006 on 3:32 pm
I’m sure the third and fourth were on some game books that I used to read as a kid.
And yep, a quick search shows that I’m right.
December 5th, 2006 on 3:51 pm
Beautiful :) I think a couple of them were ‘pull out posters’ in Sonic The Comic at some point
December 5th, 2006 on 4:06 pm
Fuck yeah! I had those books!!!
I want my books back :(
December 5th, 2006 on 4:50 pm
I had a huge poster version of #2 on my wall as a kid. Wish I still had it.
December 5th, 2006 on 5:45 pm
Sega power gave away a huge double-sided poster of images 1 & 2. It was awesome, and adorned my wall for many years.
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Sounds like a drink from the future
December 5th, 2006 on 7:11 pm
I bought the very same calendar the day I purchased Sonic 2, which sort of reminds me how expensive the game was back then. I’m sure I paid upwards of £49.99 for it.
I popped into gamestation after work a few days back, and they sold Sonic 2 in mint condition for about 7.99 in the classics section :(
December 5th, 2006 on 11:31 pm
Ahh, Metal City Mayhem.
*eBays*
December 5th, 2006 on 11:57 pm
I remember getting ‘Sonic 2’ for Christmas back in the day, then crying when I realized that the one on the advert was for the Mega Drive and I couldn’t play as tails in the Master System one. Very traumatic times..
December 6th, 2006 on 12:17 am
#3 and #4 are respectively from “Zone Rangers” and “Metal City Mayhem”, published by Puffin and written by me.
Really.
December 6th, 2006 on 5:51 pm
Most of these artworks were commissioned out to an artist called Duncan Gutteridge. I managed to bump into him at a Collectormania event in Manchester where he proceeded to sign a large print of the Metal City Mayhem artwork for me – joy! He occassionally sells prints of these on eBay via his website if anyone’s that interested – just Google the name.
December 8th, 2006 on 7:43 am
That underwater one technically doesn’t make sense because Sonic can’t swim. That’s why he always runs on top of the water or under it (or just straight-on dying on contact in the new 3d ones).