Sonic's classics holding up against time
Since then, the gaming world has moved on. It is no longer possible to woo people by sheer gameplay, but it now has to be on flash graphics, blood, gore and sex. But despite that, I still have a soft spot in my heart for Sonic, despite being an ardent Final Fantasy fan these days.
The reason for that is the sheer gameplay involved in the game. There's not a single flashy combo move in sight in the whole collection, which features Sonic's most memorable outings, such as Sonics 1, 2 and 3, Sonic and Knuckles and Sonic 3D, no moments that would have a thousand mothers on their feet screaming that it ought to be banned, because all it is is good, simplistic, clean fun with addictive gameplay.
And it's for the best that games like this exist too; sometimes it's nice to have a break from an epic RPG just to do some Robotnik-bashing for an hour on Sonic 2. But it's also a reminder that games do no have to be full of violence to be fun, that a great game is one that can be enjoyed by everyone, like Sonic's originals (sadly, the modern games far from live up to Sonic's truly great origins).
Sonic Mega Collection Plus deserves a place in every ardent gamer's collection, if just to remind them of what a game really is, something to be played for fun, something innocent to be enjoyed. Forget the fact that the soundtrack's midi, forget that the graphics are from 1991, and enjoy the pure rush of gameplay that comes with the Blue Blur.