1992—Sonic
the Hedgehog the handheld game
Hanukkah holiday, November
1992. My sister and I were in second grade. It was one of the two years that we got presents on Hanukkah
as well as Christmas. It was only one
gift, I think. But it was a really cool
gift. Both my sister and I each got our
own Sonic the Hedgehog handheld video
game. The screen was LCD, which I, as a
seven-year old, thought it meant “liquid video game.” XD
At this point, I’ve never played
a Sonic the Hedgehog video game—not Sonic
the Hedgehog, not Sonic the Hedgehog
2 since I believe it had yet to be released.
Needless to say, we were very
pleased to have any kind of Sonic game, not to mention our very own (I guess if
we wanted to play it at the same time, it was possible.) Of course the game was in black and white:
the background was a pre-painted color of a sort but the moving characters
(Sonic, the badniks, Dr. Robotnik) were all in black digital form with
pre-planned moves. I forgot how often I played it, but I’m sure I was
entertained, as long as I got past at least the first level. Did I even finish the game? I believe I beat it once, but never again. And oh—the music is the same for
all…six…levels.
Something bizarre happened with
both of our handheld devices. After
bedtime, we heard noise coming from the bookshelf. It was one of our handheld Sonic games. The music from the game was playing on its
own. It played the stage music and then
a “tic” sound, then the game-over music.
As if…it was haunted! Was a ghost
playing it? I was still in my
afraid-of-the-dark age so it was scaring me that the handheld game would do
that.
I think both of our handheld
Sonic games went through the same thing the same week.
It turned out that the battery
power was low, and so the game looping the stage music and the game-over music
was just a sign that the battery needed to be replaced. Okay, so that was all it was. I forgot how long ago we started playing and
when the freaky “automatic music” thing happened.
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