Sonic R - Just Bad Games

Sonic The Hedgehog has a need for speed! But will Sega Saturn keep up?

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[rerez]

Remember folks: We're showing the Sega Saturn release of the game. The PC release was different. All ports of the game since have used the PC release to port from.

[swagzagoon]

Shane: "3 buttons all mapped to the jump button?"
Balan Wonderworld: "You can do that?"

[ArcaneEther]

The trick to completely breaking this game is...go backwards.

As soon as a race starts, turn around and go the wrong way. Complete one lap in the wrong direction, collecting every Ring you can. Since you're doing the lap backwards, you'll reach most of the Rings before any other racers do. This not only makes you insanely fast, but also denies the other racers of most speed boosts.

Once you have most of the Rings, grab the Emerald, then start heading the correct direction. Due to you having hoarded all of the Rings, you'll be fast enough to undo the difference in lap distance and still grab the 1st place.

[SpideyfanX]

Anybody else want the "Just Bad" video of Sonic '06 to be like almost an hour long or something?

[Jtrcks]

This game is super nostalgic for me. Me and my siblings would play it together on the Sonic Gems Collection. No, we didn’t race. We would play hide and seek by covering one half of the TV with a DDR mat and the other person had to run around the level looking for them.

[MSOGameShow]

"You can walk vertically up the wall"

Huh, so that's where Dimps got their inspiration for Sonic 4's physics...

[MrMegaManFan]

There’s one good thing though: “Can you feel the sunshine…” 🎶

[inklingpro]

It’s obviously crazy how the AI players actually know they don’t need to do the loop to loop and pass the finish line

[SecondBestArtMuseum]

“Three buttons all make you jump” A prelude to the magic of Banald Wonderworld.

[orrinmenkins]

I'm proud of you guys for not making a SPOOPY TAILS DOLL CREEPYPASTA!" joke.

[JSmoothGamer]

The game had some banger soundtracks, you can't argue with that

[BinglesP]

That little segment at 14:40 comparing Sonic R to Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing was pretty satisfying

[Bopperann]

Sega: Hey kid, wanna make a Sonic game?

Kid: What's Sonic?

Sega: You have two months to complete it.

[fragmentofself]

I like how the game tells you to "Reverse" when it thinks you're going the wrong way, but there is no reverse function. Very Sega of you...
Oh wait...

[KeybladeMasterAndy]

Developer Jon Burton probably has some stories of this game's development on his youtube channels, Gamehut/Coding Secrets.

[Sakf]

I really love that "WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE?" clip, that Saturn ad was so bad it's good lmao.

[tsukasa]

In regards to the Chaos Emeralds in Regal Ruins, the pyramids lose their collision the moment their respective doors are unlocked. So you technically don't have to return on the next lap or stand there and wait to collect; you can just run straight through them and grab the emeralds.

[Skippyxlxlxl]

The music was good, that I unironically listen to it from time to time.

[StormsparkPegasus]

Traveller's Tales actually did a great job with what they were given. They did a lot of graphical stuff thought to be impossible on the Saturn. The gameplay of the game sucked though, because TT was not given enough time to actually make it a decent game, and Sega rushed it out.

[andersgale]

*The head developer of this game has a YouTube channel called GameHut, he seems very proud of the translucent R icon in the main Menu, explaining how he managed that amazing effect.*