Oh, I went through this phase of my video game development with Madden 11 and 12, I think? The Packers had just come off their last Super Bowl win, and I was inspired to pick up a used copy of Madden 11 and see what all the fuss was about.

It really is kind of nuts just how much they expanded the scope of those old Sonic courses, while still preserving the look and feel of the originals (for the most part). I fully expected each Act I to be a direct copy of the original, and I was pleasantly surprised by just how much they’ve opening things up and…

They actually worked an “& Knuckles” mode into Sonic Mania, albeit not in the same way. You can choose to play as Knuckles from the first time you load the software, but you can also unlock a secret mode where Knuckles follows you around instead of Tails. This mode works even if you chose to play as Knuckles, which…

They don’t really dwell on it, though. It’s a purple flash, you’re back in the first course from Sonic 1, and you’re off, racing through the course just like you would before. It’s really just a plot device to get the characters back to the levels the devs wanted to recreate.

I saw that what appears to be the same comment policy came over from the previous AV Club site. Are there any updates or overlapping Kinja policies that we need to be aware of? All I could discern from what I found around the larger site is basically “no harassment, no hate speech, don’t do porn, no pyramid schemes…

Never left!

I think I did it right...

"This goes for those of you with old A.V. Club accounts, those who only have Disqus accounts, and those who already have Kinja accounts."

"This goes for those of you with old A.V. Club accounts, those who only have Disqus accounts, and those who already have Kinja accounts."

You'll definitely catch me over at the new Kinja site, still barely keeping up with the weekly articles and posting super late in the new WAYPTW. For those that haven't already jumped in, we'll be maintaining consistent radio contact during the transition over at the Unofficial Gameological Discord server. Stop by…

Sonic Mania! As I mentioned elsewhere, Sonic 2 has to be the game where I've logged the most playtime by far in the Genesis era, and this latest entry expands on that fondly-remembered time in almost every way. The music is fantastic, the animation is loud and fluid, and the gameplay is tighter than any Sonic game…

Yeah, I figured as much. It just tickled me to think of someone trying. I know folks have done similar things in the past, and the 2D proof of concept for Breath of the Wild comes to mind.

Oh definitely, I lost count of the number of times my runs would end before I even saw the final boss. Sometimes I'd run out of lives in the Metropolis Zone, but if I made it through there, I was more than likely dying to Mecha Sonic.

I'm sure I dumped more time into Sonic 2 than anything else in the Genesis years. Like others here, I didn't play much from the Sonic franchise after 3, but I have some strong memories of playing through Sonic 2, then stacking the Sonic 2 cartridge on the Knuckles cartridge, blowing away an entire day in the process.…

Because it was 20 years ago and people like to celebrate anniversaries at round numbers? Because it's fun?

So my younger brothers and I definitely had heated "debates" about whether screen peeking was acceptable behavior in GoldenEye. I thought the practice was fine, because everyone can screen peek at will, but they thought it was unfair (perhaps because they liked to focus on what they were doing, rather than trying to…

The "burner" accounts are in fact permanent. I set one up the other day, assuming I would need to do so for the change. Apparently, the transfer process the A.V. Club is setting up for us will reserve a Kinja account for you with the same display name you have now, and I believe it does not have to be linked to your…

I stuck around for the second hour, and had someone join around 9:30 only to have Nintendo boot me from the tournament midway through their first race! Naturally, it refused to connect me to them after I logged back in. It's really mystifying to me that this is a difficult problem for the Wii U to handle. The other…

After developing a good rhythm and communication style, my partner and I went back and three-starred every kitchen we could. Some kitchens are pretty tough to master with just two chefs, like anything where you get locked out of sections of the kitchen, but it was surprising how easy it was to three-star the early…

Judging by past performance, I thought for sure you'd be carrying Team Bikes to victory. Instead, it was Wolfman Jew against as many as four Kart players at a time.