![]() In the Genesis Sonic games, playing through all the stages without getting a single “Game Over” was hard enough. Of course, that would only happen if I didn’t get all the Chaos Emeralds. There’s still no way to select the levels naturally, but at least I have the option to start over from Green Hill Zone if I wanted to. If I was stuck in Labyrinth Zone in Sonic 1 and I exited the game for any reason, I could jump back in hours later and still continue playing from Labyrinth Zone, whether I was starting from Act 1 or wrapping things up in Act 3. With Anniversary Mode in Sonic Origins, I didn’t have to worry about losing all my progress and starting over from square one in every game. ![]() Not even a YouTube video would help me get out of the endless loop of restarting the game from Green Hill Zone, as iconic as that stage is. My ex told me about a cheat code to input at the title screen to get to the Level Select menu in order to pick the zone I left off of, like Marble Zone or Labyrinth Zone, but I couldn’t press those buttons in time. To make matters worse, I always have to start from Green Hill Zone every time I turn the game on. I was having a hard time seeing what I was doing through the static lines flickering down my TV screen (such is the consequence of plugging the ancient Genesis into my modern TV). When I was attempting to play through Sonic 1 in college nearly a decade ago, my experience was terrible. That neat feature is something more retro games should adopt if they’re ever re-released and adapted to modern current-gen consoles. Most modern games have the option to play through them without getting a single “Game Over” after dying so many times, such as Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, but Anniversary Mode made my experience of playing the classic Sonic games a lot easier than playing them on the Genesis. It’s a mode where you don’t lose any lives you can collect coins to redo the special stages as many times as you want to so you could get the Chaos Emeralds. Sonic Mania made me appreciate the classic Sonic games despite it being a compilation of the best levels from that era, but the newly released Sonic Origins collection (which features the original Sonic Sega Genesis trilogy and Sonic CD) has given me a newfound appreciation for them thanks to a gameplay mode called Anniversary Mode.
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