About a year ago, an organization calling themselves The Hidden Palace, “dedicated to the preservation of retro video game development history, prototypes, artwork, source code, etc,” released several prototypes of 16-bit Sonic The Hedgehog games that were thought to be lost. Multiple versions of Sonic 2 and 3 were shown off on Twitch before being dumped, as well as a Game Gear game called “Sonic Chaos.” It was thought this was all they had, but they surprised us…
The Hidden Palace announced another Twitch stream would broadcast on New Year’s Eve and another prototype would be shown, though they wouldn’t say what it was. To find out, people had to tune into the stream….where they found the motherlode, the prototype for the original Sonic The Hedgehog!
Cut elements that until now had only been seen in magazine screenshots were now fully visible, like the sunflowers in Green Hill Zone, as well as the strange giant...
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