Lost Media in Sonic the Hedgehog

damnn i was quick! sonic's trash tho

Seeing SA1 gameplay where the checkpoints get skipped entirely is honestly so fucking stressful 💀

I got one interesting bit of Sonic lost media, and that would be the missing complete cut of the Saturday Morning series’ pilot. Originally, the pilot was intended to be a half-hour TV special that would’ve aired on ABC, but for whatever reason, it ended up getting scrapped and the special got recut into a shorted 24 minute episode for the 1st season finale. The original intro animation was entirely different and all that can be found of its existence are bit of concept art, storyboards, animation cells, scripts, and a shoddy VHS recording of the very ending filmed at a game expo in the ‘90s.

Crazy that the Riders PSP port assets show it being called Extreme! Seems to confirm without a doubt that they adapted the concept from the skateboarding pitch from the Heroes CG house. Great video mate

While not games, most of the Sonic manga are definitely lost.

One piece of lost Sonic media I find really interesting that's rarely mentioned are the Motorola exclusive Sonic games. There's not a lot of info on them but I find it very fascinating that Sega made a deal with Motorola to make games exclusive to their early phones.

14:50 I don't know why the idea of sonic saying "piss" sounds so funny to me

10:58 If i remember correctly, collision data was found in the Autodemo. Not usable, but we're able to see the overall shape of the room.

The Cutting Room Floor and Unseen64 are worth taking a look at as well for lost / scrapped Sonic content. LMW is good, but I've noticed a lot of found media takes months or years before anyone updates the respective pages (see the cancelled Lego Island sequel that was finally unearthed in 2021 but still marked as "lost").

10:58 if I had a nickel for every lost prototype NiGHTS stage involving a spiral, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it’s more money than Sonic BOOM made.

lost media is one of my favorite topics on youtube, and i’m glad that you’re covering one of my favorite video game series, sonic 🙏 i always enjoy your videos, and i appreciate the hard work you put into them 🫡

My favorite technically doesn't count. Sonic x-treme. I absolutely love everything about it, not a single thing with it I dislike. It was the first piece of lost media I remember learning about actually! It looks so fun, I love the music, the level design is so boldly unique. Everything is just amazing. I'll actually be owning a piece of lost sonic media soon! A plush of my main man knuckles finally resurfaced after years of being lost and I'll be purchasing it!

17:49 not only that but the early soleanna had real time lighting and more objects casted shadows it just looked graphically better all around and I have no idea why the final games hub was so downgraded lol

28:11 I think the Mystic Cave thing was only done just to include the level in the mobile version. It was not intended to be how you enter the level.

Yo thanks for keep supporting my fav video game character of all time, keep up the good work for more sonic contents 👍🏻

This is so good. I’m so fascinated by the production process and everything else that goes on behind the scenes in sonic games. Even just random shit in the files is interesting to me. I really hope you continue making these types of Sonic videos, because I really do look forward to these. I would be hella interested in another in-depth look into Sonic 06 someday too. I loved your other video and am very curious if there is more to it. Even if just random oddities with the game honestly, weird glitches and such. —As a note on oddities - a couple extremely minor things I haven’t seen mentioned for 06 is in Dusty Desert, in the far right corner of the room with sand waves, the lighting for the whole room goes bright green. But only in one spot, if you move away a couple steps it’s back to normal. In another area you can walk on the wall as if it was the floor all the way to the ceiling. And in (multiplayer mode at least) Crisis City, there’s a building you can glitch around with the purple gem that has a whole side of it blank and untextured. They’re stupidly small errors in the grand scheme but I remember being excited to find those myself as a kid, and if you could ever find a use for that I could probably get footage of them. Dunno if you’ll read this but either way, I love your videos because they scratch an itch in my brain that’s just super intrigued by random game quirks. Thank you for putting so much effort into these videos :)

I’ve been waiting for this video since you mentioned it in the community post, I don’t have time right now to watch it, but I’ll definitely be sure to later when I do!

I remember tweeting about the lost ova dubs, but apparently the entire cantonese dub was found in october but I didn't know that when I made the tweet. The korean dub has some footage but the arabic dub might not even exist.

3:07 I can confirm Bare Knuckle Grind was totally released. The game came on cd roms sold with Tec Deck figures at Dollar General

Some I find interesting are CCXP 2018 trailer for the Sonic movie which seems to have showed an earlier Sonic then the early design we know, the conplete version of the AOSTH pilot, the early SatAM intro, and the early version of Super Sonic Racing shown in some Sonic R trailers