In late June 2001 at the end of
our tenth-grade school year, my sister and I received #98 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book from
Archie Comic. Issue #98 featured a tie-in with the story for
Sonic Adventure 2. We were very curious
about this other male hedgehog that was added to the cast of characters. Who is this Shadow? Of course not all hedgehogs are blue (ha ha)
but I wondered why Shadow was colored black and red. Actually, in the comic book he was more like
dark navy blue and red. Oh no, an evil
hedgehog who looked like Sonic! Usually
if there was any kind of Sonic doppelganger, it would be a mechanical version
like Robo Sonic or Metal Sonic. But this
was a flesh and blood character, not a robot.
Issues #79-84 featured the tie-in
with the first Sonic Adventure. Of course, we read the comics before we got a
SEGA Dreamcast, so we were already exposed to the new form of Super Sonic
before playing the SA Last
Story. I wrote about my SEGA Dreamcast
experience often in my diary—just those three Sonic games, because those were
the only games we played for that console.
Now, I don’t have too good of a memory for what happened about getting
the new Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure,
Sonic Shuffle and later, Sonic Adventure 2. Fortunately,
those memories are kept secure in my diary.
I was able to find it, and I’m going to share an excerpt from it
here…since I’m so brave ;)
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July 3, 2001 OHMYGOD,
I cannot sit still, in fact I couldn’t even eat my breakfast this morning. Wanna know why? I’ll tell you know I can’t contain myself…WE
GOT DREAMCAST!!
Okay—it all began when Sunday
[July 1st], I saw this BestBuy sales papers thing and, I looked in
it and saw a sale for SA2. Then I looked above that, and I noticed
something even bigger…a Sonic Pack, complete w/ the Dreamcast machine including
SA and Sonic Shuffle, as well as a playable demo of SA2!! Ahhghh! The perfect opportunity! I told [Sis] that perhaps if we put our own
money into all that and ask our parents if we can buy it, maybe there’s a
chance that…well…we can own the new Dreamcast system after all. So [Sis] [and I] secretly talked to each
other about any pros and cons of those games—a lot of pros, too. It was decided that Monday would be the day
to tell our parents about it, so yesturday (sic) right after dinner, I brought
it up, and [Sis] and I told them about the stuff. And guess what? They approved!
[Sis] and I were absolutely
overjoyed and excited. We beamed “Oh my
god, this is GREAT! This is soooo
cool!” It was hard for me to sleep calm,
keeping in mind it was really warm in my room last night, plus I was really
excited ‘bout gettin’ Dreamcast and 2 ¼ Sonic games. Think what kind of music/songs are gonna be
heard,
and everything. I love Sonic.
Just knowing the fact that sometime this week we will own [the] SEGA
Dreamcast [console] made me the happiest girl in the neighborhood.
Well,
this morning didn’t start out so hot. I
was so nervous that when I started having cereal, I got gas that was bad enough
for me to run to the bathroom. It turned
to an upset stomach and I was forced to vomit my breakfast—what little of it I
ate. I felt much better after that, and
after a shower and clothes, I went with Mom and [Sis] to BestBuy to get the
Sonic Pack. ★
The next main chapter, Chapter 9, will be about Sonic Adventure.
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