ANCIENT HEDGEHOG DISCOVERED

Prototypes of videogames can be fantastic resources for learning about how games were developed, showing unfinished and unrefined content that can’t be found in the final game, but they’re never easy to find. So you can imagine our complete surprise when reader Buckaroo emailed us out of the blue with images appearing to show a prototype of one of gaming’s biggest hits – Sonic The Hedgehog.

“I’m a retro game collector so I am buying bundles of games all of the time. By sheer fluke this cartridge was in a bundle prototype as an online search had led him to believe. “I started running through the first level which seemed familiar when I ran into this ball that looked like a brown version of the Amiga boing ball. I pushed the ball around a bit and then it squashed me and knocked me through the map.”