Sonic HQ25 Years & Counting!

Today is Jun Senoue's birthday (82 = August 2nd). If you wish to send a happy birthday message, please visit the official Jun Senoue website @ http://www.junsenoue.com and visit the forum or guestbook.

Happy birthday Jun! Thanks for all the great music!

Sonic toys and games are once again available at Argos and Argos Extra.

Nothing big, except that Sega.com have released a new trailer for Sonic Gems. Nothing snazzy, but it's better than the last one.
Sonic Gems Collection will be released in North America on the 16th of August.

Ive been trying to contact Jetix for confirmation of the new series for ages! And at last they decided to reply.

But it seems they have decided to push back the date that SKY gave me, from September to November this year.

According to TV guides, CiTV are about to mess up Sonic X again by finishing the current run on Tuesday 2nd August with episode 36. This means they will be stopping 4 episodes into the 6 part Sonic Adventure 2 adaption!

Now doubt this is because of the previous change to their Sonic X scheduling (they were gonna miss out episodes 24 - 26). If they had missed out these episodes then the 2nd August would have been the date they showed episode 39 (the last episode in the set of 13 which they are currently showing) obiviously when they changed the schedule to show episodes 24-26, they didn't think about how it would affect later episodes if they stopped broadcasting Sonic X on the same date.

Again I ask as many of you as possible to email CiTV: webmanager@citv.co.uk and ask them to continue showing Sonic X to the end of the current run. It worked before so hopefully it will work again this time!

http://www.johnbaldry.com/index1.asp

Sadly John Baldry died this past Tuesday after a long battle with illness aged 64.

Although he is best known with Sonic fans for his excellent portrayal of Dr. Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, he is best known everywhere else for his Blues music career. He had a Number 1 hit in the UK during the 1960s and is also credited with starting the careers of many British musicians, including Rod Stewart.

He will be missed.

Sonic Gems Collection is now available to preorder for Gamecube on Play.com for £14.99. The release date is stated as October 7th. Here's a link

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=stcs3&page=title&r=GC&title=688821

For all those in the US, Sonic Gems might be... "lacking". Basiclly, the Streets of Rage Trilogy does not confer with the E rating, so its been omitted from the US version. Why they couldn't change the rating is beyond me.

It's unknown whether the PAL version will include this ommission. However, we can expect Vectorman 1 and 2. If you're wondering why Sega doesn't add Chaotix and SEGAsonic instead of games few of us have heard of, you're not alone.

By the way, the Sonic CD soundtrack is the US version and there may be game improvements, such as team battles in Sonic Championship.

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