here’s the ending of the original sonic game. tsk, tsk. you forgot the chaos emeralds, mr. lazy!

as a kid, i loved nintendo like it was the little brother i always wanted to team up with, in order to overpower my bossy older sister. so when sega started yammering away about what nintendoes and doesn’t do, i was outraged. what does some ugly hedgehog have that my friends — two plumbers, a sword wielding hero, and frogs that reminded me of ninja turtles, for some reason — do not.

cut to: 15 years later. sonic is available as a download in the virtual console store of my nintendo wii. i download it, play it, and beat it. i beat sonic on my nintendo. seriously, if i said that to myself at age 15, he would have slapped me across the face. and quite frankly, he’d be right to do so.

i might finally be getting used to the nintendo / sega partnership. however, if mario and sonic somehow teamed up, it would still blow my mind. literally. there’d be blood everywhere!