Score: Chills From Another Era

Over at the Sega America blog, they've taken this week to celebrate the decade's anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with Hedgehog Week. While being totally objective it's totally shameless marketing and planning to play on the nostalgia of good Sonic games -something we've rarely seen since that era- to butter us up for an announcement Thursday I'm all for remembering and celebrating an era where Sonic was something to still get very excited about and Sega was at the top of it's game.

In appreciation of classic Sonic, I'm sharing a remix of the "Green Hill Zone" theme from Sonic the Hedgehog entitled "Green Chills" by William Harby, aka WillRock07. You can find it and other music from Harby from the WillRock YouTube Channel.

Vintage Sega

If you've wanted more Sonic, more Phantasy Star and some arcade Shinobi, today is your lucky day as Sega Vintage Collection 2 has been released on Xbox Live Arcade. The titles released include Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Phantasy Star II, the arcade version of Shinobi, Altered Beast and Comix Zone. Gunstar Heroes releases today as well on XBLA and tomorrow on the Playstation Network.

All of the titles well have online leaderboards and have been remastered for HD. Sonic 3, Altered Beast, and Gunstar Heroes will also feature network play.

Sega has also announced Sonic and Knuckles will release for XBLA later this summer.