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[mistajonz]

Sorry for the quality, but I no longer have a way to transfer stuff from my VHS tapes to my PC so I recorded this using Flare on my iPhone 4S. This is footage from an old show called Fox News for Kids, back when Sonic & Knuckles was brand new. I hadn't seen this posted anywhere and I found it on my Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM VHS tape (recorded from tv, each episode on their respective original air date) and figured I'd share it with all my fellow Sonic fans. I wonder where these guys are now?

[Autosaver]

It is always nice to see people uploading old footage back in the day. Great find.

[El Driver]

wow this is awesome! I find it funny though that Knuckles is australian he is now a reggae urban mayan/australian echidna also I wondered who won the tournament

[BakingBluePotatoe]

I had no idea such a thing even happenned. INCREDIBLE!

[Hogfather]

Ha ha! That's amazing! I knew that there were tournaments but never seen video of them. So... knuckles is Australian eh?

And those kids who lost are still on the island playing to this day...

[Meow]

Your name seems super familiar, like I've seen it somewhere before. V O I D perhaps? Not that I would have been there when you were there (way after the fact actually). If you weren't then my bad, I've got you mixed up with someone else.

Cool video nonetheless, its always awesome to see some old-school gaming events. It was definitely a very different time!

[iVYRAVE]

Wow that looks amazing. I wish I could have gone (but I was only 1 at the time :'( )
I wonder if SEGA will ever do something like that again?

[Shadzter]

Knuckles is an Australian etchidna?

I didn't even know there were tournaments for Sonic & Knuckles. The only promotional Sonic & Knuckles thing I remember is the Milky Way competition SEGA did in the UK.

[mistajonz]

Your name seems super familiar, like I've seen it somewhere before. V O I D perhaps? Not that I would have been there when you were there (way after the fact actually). If you weren't then my bad, I've got you mixed up with someone else.

Cool video nonetheless, its always awesome to see some old-school gaming events. It was definitely a very different time!

Yup, I used to be in V O I D....waaaaaaaaaay back in the day. I've moved on to bigger and better things since then though lol.

[Tylky]

I'd play Sonic & Knuckles in a tournament to win that much money!

[batson]

One kinda gets the feeling that Sega had a tiny bit more money to spend on marketing back in those days.

[Semi-colon e]

Yeah, how much fucking money did they spend on marketing and this tourney :|

It's unfortunate to know Sonic will never be this big again...

Edited by Semi-colon e, 23 January 2012 - 11:48 PM.

[The future]

One kinda gets the feeling that Sega had a tiny bit more money to spend on marketing back in those days.

That was before the 32X and CD flopped on the market. SEGA never really fully recovered from that mess financially.

[ArtFenix]

I had no idea Sonic was THIS BIG back then! Yeah, that required huge sums of money. I wish Sega did something like this now too.
Thanks for the vid!
P.S. That "Ultimate knucklehead" reminds me of Yuji Naka for some reason..

And it is also nice to know and see that the audience are not only little children, but teenagers as well. I can't imagine audiences like that now if Sega were to make a Sonic Colors tournament.

Edited by ArtFenix, 25 January 2012 - 08:24 AM.

[batson]

And it is also nice to know and see that the audience are not only little children, but teenagers as well. I can't imagine audiences like that now if Sega were to make a Sonic Colors tournament.

Yeah i know, i was thinking the exact same thing. I still cant get over that "have you ever been bullied about liking Sonic"-topic where it became clear that a lot of teens these days will actually tease someone for liking Sonic due to the character and series being percieved as childish. And then you see a video like this that shows how popular Sonic was with teens back in the early 90's and it's just like... what the hell went wrong!?

Hmm, let's see. Those who were teens in the early 90's most have been born in either the late 70's or the very early 80's. In other words, they belong to Generation X, or the so called "MTV-generation", usually stereotyped as being especially lazy and uncaring during their teenage years. You know, the dudes with attitude who sat there with their long hair and smoked weed and were just like "whatever" when their parents told them to make something of their lives.

Well, regadless of how much of that stereotype is true, i love you generation X! Sucks being part of this stupid generation Y.

Edited by batson, 25 January 2012 - 12:11 PM.