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Sonic The Hedgehog races onto iPhone
iPhone Buzz —
Sonic The Hedgehog for iPhone [iTunes link] was released today on the App Store. You can download Sonic for iPhone for $5.99 and start to conquer the seven zones.
Sonic for iPhone was announced by Sega’s Director of Production, Paxton Lazar, during the “Mobile Gaming Experience” panel at the Consumer Electronics Show, on January 7, 2009.
According to Sega, Sonic has been faithfully recreated to take advantage of the iPhone's powerful capabilities, enabling users to enjoy the classic style and breakneck speed of the game with responsive touchpad controls.
PocketGamers wrote:
It's very much classic ...
Sonic The Hedgehog races onto iPhone
Top iPhone News —
Sonic The Hedgehog for iPhone [iTunes link] was released today on the App Store. You can download Sonic for iPhone for $5.99 and start racing through various levels to free captured animals from the insidious Dr. Robotnik (more commonly known as Dr. Eggman).
Sonic for iPhone was announced by Sega’s Director of Production, Paxton Lazar, during the “Mobile Gaming Experience” panel at the Consumer Electronics Show, on January 7, 2009.
According to Sega, Sonic has been faithfully recreated to take advantage of the iPhone’s powerful capabilities, enabling users to enjoy the classic style and breakneck speed of the game ...
The Week In iPhone Apps: Sonic the Hedgehog Learns to Read [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... Sonic the Hedgehog: I was really looking forward to this one, but I've been let down by Sonic ports in the past, so I kept my expectations low. It's OK. Visually, it's a mixed bag: the classic Sonic aesthetic is intact, but looks muddy and pixelated on the iPhone's screen, as if they just dumped some assets from another platform onto this one. Adapting Sonic to the iPhone's limited control options was an obvious challenge for Sega, and one I had hoped they would rise to. With their onscreen d-pad and single button, they haven't. $6 feels excessive for a game that's best ...
The question of emulators
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, Open Source, Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchGizmodo recently posted this video, which is beautiful to any PSX-era gamers: it's Final Fantasy VII running right on the iPhone, like buttah thanks to the 3GS hardware. How is this possible? Through the magic of emulation -- ever since computers got powerful enough to pretend to be other computers, people have resurrected old consoles and hardware by writing code that makes old games and software think its right at home in the computer it belongs in (an ...
Apple rejects Commodore 64 emulator app
iPhone Atlas —
... ) and Sonic (iTunes link), are apps that emulate old game console ROMs, which is exactly what the emulator is doing for old C64 games. ...
