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Sonic The Hedgehog 3
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Item Condition
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Sega Genesis is here complete in box, meaning you're getting the cartridge, the original box, and the manual — the full package. Coolection photographs every game in hand, so the photos you see here are the real deal, showing you exactly what's on the shelf. The cartridge has been tested by our team and was running great. Please refer to the provided photos for the exact details of the item's condition.
Item Description
The first time Knuckles bursts out of the ground on Angel Island, punches the Chaos Emeralds out of Sonic's hands and chuckles off into the jungle, it is clear Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is playing for bigger stakes than the games before it. Picking up right where Sonic 2 left off, Sonic and Tails crash-land on the Floating Island, where Dr. Robotnik has hidden the damaged Death Egg and tricked the island's guardian into believing the heroes are the thieves. It is the Genesis platformer where classic Sonic stopped being a string of separate stages and started telling a story through the levels themselves.
The zones flow straight from one act into the next, and they change as you play. Bombers set Angel Island's jungle ablaze, Hydrocity sends you rocketing down water slides and through flooded tunnels, Marble Garden has spinning tops to ride, and IceCap opens with a snowboard run down the mountain. Three elemental shields add new moves to the formula: the flame shield's mid-air dash, the bubble shield's bounce and the lightning shield's double jump, which also pulls nearby rings toward you. Giant rings tucked into the scenery lead to the Blue Sphere special stages, a spinning checkerboard globe where you chase spheres for Chaos Emeralds, while star posts open a bonus stage if you pass with enough rings.
Sonic 3 was also the first main-series game with a battery save, so the adventure can be played over several sittings instead of in one heroic run. A second player can take control of Tails, who can now fly and carry Sonic over obstacles, and the Competition mode gives two players their own split-screen race courses. Built by Sega Technical Institute in California alongside Sonic & Knuckles, the game was designed as the first half of a larger whole: the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge has a lock-on slot that joins the two into Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the complete original vision.
The soundtrack carries every zone, from Hydrocity's slinky groove to IceCap's chilly synth melody and Carnival Night's swaggering theme, which plays over the infamous red-and-white barrel that stopped a generation of players cold until they discovered pressing up and down. On original hardware it is the Genesis sound chip at its most confident. With six zones running from Angel Island to the Launch Base, Sonic 3 is the cartridge where the classic series reached its full scale, and the opening chapter of the story that Sonic & Knuckles completes.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2024
- Publisher
- Sega
- Developer
- Paramount Pictures
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a special promotional cartridge created for the Sega Genesis by Paramount Pictures to promote the then-upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film. The cartridge was distributed to content creators on 21 November 2024, to promote the film and celebrate the release of advance tickets on 25 November 2024. Along with being a fully functional Sega Genesis game, the cartridge also includes a cheat code that, when entered, reveals the release date for the final trailer. As a result, this marked the first time since Sonic 3D Blast (1996) that an official Sonic entry for the system was released.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplaySonic The Hedgehog 3 on Genesis
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Genesis
Sonic The Hedgehog 3A · Collector Grade
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Genesis
Sonic The Hedgehog 3A · Collector Grade
$68.99
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