The following is an excerpt from a conversation in which I explained why Sonic 3 & Knuckles was my favorite game in the original Sonic the Hedgehog games.

S3&K is my favorite and you can suck it. See, I actually played Sonic 1 back in 1991, then Sonic 2, then 3 and then S&K, culminating in the fusion of S3&K; because of that, I enjoyed the growth of the series as it happened, and in that context, “more of the same” was exactly what I wanted.

I was actually playing Sonic 1 just recently and my girlfriend made an