| The year 2001 is a year I've been waiting for, for quite a long time now for it is a very special year for me and my Sonic fan-ness. Because this year is the year that Sonic the Hedgehog was released 10 years ago. I celebrate the games legacy in style over a span of 3 days. Interested? Read on and discover my true geekiness ... Friday - 22nd of June 2001 - 9 am: I'm at school and greatly anticipating when I'm going to recieve my copy of the brand new Sonic team masterpiece, Sonic Adventure 2. Although today's school day is slightly different because today is a clothes casual day (or mufty day). A day that we can come in and wear whatever the hell we want (for a price of 50p or a couple of cans of food that is). And as it's the great blue one's birthday tommorrow, I walk into school proudly with my Sonic 1 T-shirt on. And get made fun of by my "friends" until I zip up my orange fleece in embarrassment. 12: 30 pm: So far the day has been going pretty well, the teasing has died down a little. Well, apart from this incident in Science with Jason Armstrong and Dean Brant who called me (and I quote) "a sad mother fucker". I simply replied that I hope there totally inability to have fun will never get them true happiness. This of course was met with a simple "fuck off". Idiots can never think of good come backs. 3: 17 pm: I've rushed home at top speed today. Today is the day, I think, today SA2 is mine. But alas, as I feared Streetsonline.co.uk have not delievered my copy of the game, so I sulk onto the internet until tea time. 7 pm: I am now playing the City Escape demo to calm myself down about Streetsonline.co.uk's total pig headed stupidity. Tommorrow they have sent it for and tommorrow I shall wait and wonder for it. But for now I am stuck with the demo. I think I'm gonna crack soon. 8: 30pm: I rome back onto the internet and read posts at the Moogle Cavern from people who have the game. This includes my GF, Ally. Fortunately unlike my last GF, she is not a sadist bitch and helps to cheer me up by having extra "special" time. This cheers me up alot and keeps me going through the night. 11: 30pm: I'm back on the SA2 demo, trying for an "A" (which I can get easily). Half an hour later I retire for bed. Saturday - 23rd of June 2001 - Sonic 10th Anniversary: 3: 45am: Can't get to sleep. The excitement is too much for me. I feel like I'm having Christmas in June. I pick up a Tenchi manga and try to read it but I'm too tired to concentrate. Typical. So I start thinking of Ally and her *ahem* assets and I fall asleep again. 5: 11am: I wake again thinking it's 7 am, so I turn on the TV and expect to see cartoons. Instead I'm greeted with some sort of amatuer video that looks like something we would do in Expressive Arts, so I shut it off again. I sit awake for about half an hour thinking about SA2 and how I'm gonna go about clearing the levels and such. Soon my thoughts wander back to Ally. I sit thinking about her and as my thoughts gets more horny I feeling some liquid running down face from my nose. At first I think my nose is running but then I remember the heat and look at my liquid smeared hand to find out it's blood(!). Grife! I run to the bathroom and stuff tissues into my nose as fast as possible. Man, talk about Tenchi Muyo! horniness nose bleed! Gah... as you can probably tell Allison is very proud that she made my nose bleed with the thought of her body in my head. I sit awake watching cartoons till seven. 7: 34am: I go onto the internet. It's early on in the morning, thusly meaning no one is on. This time, the net is a mere time waster and I just sit tight and wait for the mail. The tension is now unbearble. 8: 30am: YES! I HAVE IT! WHOO! YES! SA2! WOO! I tear off the packaging, tell a random person online I have the game and then run upstairs tripping over everything in the way to get to my DC. I slam the disc into the Dreamcast and play until 1: 30pm when I break for lucheon. 2 pm: More SA2 until 8: 30pm when Ally comes online. God, this game is good. 11: 30pm: More SA2 until 1am. Sunday - 24th of June 2001: 10: 30am: Woke up at a more suitable time today. Spentthe whole morning playing SA2. I'm half way through each side now. Taking it nice and slow and replaying all the levels a few times. 2 pm: I dig out my Mega Drive and Sonic carts for replay. Sonic the Hedgehog is first on the agenda I complete it in around an hour (this includes collecting the Chaos Emeralds). Next up is Sonic Mega CD, with it's addictive techno music, I finished this one in an hour and a half (I had a bit of trouble collecting the Time Stones and beating the last Doctor Eggman boss). Back to the carts now, Sonic 2 is next one. Sonic 2 having 10 levels and a devilishly hard boss makes it round a nice hour but gives room for a quick play of Sonic 3 before my net time. The END of Sonic's 10th. Happy B- Day Sonic. Live on for another 10 years. Return to the slug fest! |
| 10 years of Eggmen, Kitsunes and Golden Rings - Sonic the Hedgehog 10th Anniversary. |