MC Griffin:
Six. Loved it from the beginning man. You know how long it took me to get past that first loop?
Sean Catlett:
Seventeen minutes?
MC Griffin:
Days sir. If someone had just told me "keep holding forward", but no...
You would see a lot of Sonic going upside down, then jumping. Took me a while to figure out. I would play it across the street at a friends house until I eventually got my own genesis.
But I just loved the character man. The whole idea just enamored me. This little animal fighting off the steady transformation of his world, trying to keep it from turning into a big factory. I always loved it.
Even before I saw the show I would dream up little narratives about his life and how his world worked.
I would watch the opening of Sonic CD over and over again in contemplative melancholy, just completely enamored by him and the world he existed in. It seemed real cool to live in such a fantastic, beautiful place and have something to fight for.
Sean Catlett:
How many of the videogames did you end up owning?
MC Griffin:
Man... I owned 1, 2, 3, Sonic & Knuckles. I eventually got Sonic CD and Sonic Spinball on computer my freshman year of high school. (When I was a kid I had to play those at a friends house, and it was good to have my own copy). I got 3D Blast and Nights and Christmas Nights (those fucking count, I don't care what anyone says) on the Saturn. Owned Sonic Adventure 1 & 2... shit man. The list goes on.
Sean Catlett:
And how many of them did you beat?
MC Griffin:
Never could beat Spinball or 3D Blast, but I destroyed the rest of 'em. And if you've never seen the end of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, you haven't lived.
Epic.
Epic is the word I'd use.
Continue to Part Four
