reminded again that the Sega Master System version of Sonic 1 had some rad ass music and was also a really great sonic game in its own right surprisingly as opposed to just an 8bit port of the Megadrive game because it was aside from the name and a couple zone names (and one track - green hill zone obviously), VERY different.
also kinda blowing my mind that a whole bunch of speedrun strats for it, I discovered myself when I was young and exploited them mercilessly to avoid some really awful parts of the later stages lol.
Also discovered a massive half level skip in Sky Fortess zone in Sonic 2 on the megadrive that I used EVERY TIME.
