Game Crimes Episode 6 - Gold Medal Games: Sonic Mania ft. Sid Menon
Description: Part 2 of our 3-part series on video game communities, the criminals are joined by Sid Menon of the We Thought About Games podcast as we examine 2017's retro-platformer throwback Sonic Mania. How did the Sonic fangame community go from a loose collection of gaming nerds to the creative forefront of the franchise? We stretch our legs in this extra-length episode to tell the story of romhackers going legit and how communities can wrestle back history from the forces of corporate-fueled nostalgia.
GAME CRIMES is a history project by Mike Bachmann (Greetings Adventures Podcast, Roll for Streetwise) and Jay (now June) Munford (SHU Podcast, Poor Skeleton Games) detailing the black market history of video games. Each podcast covers a single topic, provides some historical context and reviews a few games related to the topic. On the GAME CRIMES interactive streams, Mike and Jay answer questions, give how-to demonstrations and play these games for the first time.
Games Reviewed:
Sonic Mania (Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows) by PagodaWest, Headcannon and Sega of America
Music:
Unused Song 1 from Knuckles Chaotix by Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba (Sega 32X)
Spring Yard Zone Re-Imagined by Tee Lopes
Haunted Heights Zone from Sonic Robo Blast 2 by DrTapeworm (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Quick Escape from SegaSonic the Hedgehog by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keitaro Hanada and Naoki Tokiwa (Arcade)
Shield of Discovery from Sonic X-treme by Chris Senn (Sega Saturn, cancelled)
Sunset Town (unused) from Sonic the Fighters by Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (Arcade)
Shield of Discovery from Sonic X-treme by Chris Senn (Sega Saturn, cancelled)
For more info on GAME CRIMES or to contact the podcast, check us out here -
Website: www.gamecrimespod.com/
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/gamecrimes
Twitter: www.twitter.com/gamecrimespod
BIG THANKS to Steph, our (brave & intrepid) editor. You can hire her to edit your stuff @StephOKingston
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A note from June - that's poorskeletongames.com :)
0:49
1993 Sonic Mania Day Commercial
1:03
Unused Song 1 from Knuckles Chaotix by Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba (Sega 32X)
1:22
Introducing Sonic Mania and Sid Menon (@beamsplashx)!
11:42
Spring Yard Zone Re-Imagined by Tee Lopes
12:17
A Brief History of Romhacking, Fangames and The Sonic Community
29:48
Haunted Heights Zone from Sonic Robo Blast 2 by DrTapeworm (Windows, Mac, Linux)
30:14
Reading Series - Excerpts from "Pocket-Sized Archives: Classic Consoles, Consumed Nostalgia, and Corporate Rememory" by James K. Harris, The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 0, No. 0, 2021
51:55
Quick Escape from SegaSonic the Hedgehog by Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keitaro Hanada and Naoki Tokiwa (Arcade)
52:28
Why does Sonic as a "brand" attract such passionate communities?
1:10:56
Shield of Discovery from Sonic X-treme by Chris Senn (Sega Saturn, cancelled)
1:11:12
How much of retro gaming is just marketing? How do we distinguish corporate history from communal history?
1:35:09
Sunset Town (unused) from Sonic the Fighters by Maki Morrow and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (Arcade)
1:35:41
REVIEW: Sonic Mania (Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows) by PagodaWest, Headcannon and Sega of America
1:45:39
Signoff
1:49:58
Shield of Discovery from Sonic X-treme by Chris Senn (Sega Saturn, cancelled)
