Sonic is Lying...AGAIN! (Sonic Mania)

Game Theory

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Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he reveals the TRUTH about the Sonic Chaos Emeralds!

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0:00.0	You know, a lot of people give Sonic a hard time for ripping off the super-saying thing from Dragonball Z.
0:05.0	And can you blame them? I mean, DBZ has seven dragon balls. Sonic has seven Chaos Emeralds.
0:10.0	Dragon balls can give you superpowers, and so do the Chaos Emeralds and of course
0:14.3	there's the ever important superpower of having golden hair so yeah it definitely
0:19.1	looks like Sonic copy Dragon Ball until you know you look it up and you find out that super-sayon form premiered in the
0:25.1	manga issue that came out in August 1991 and Sonic was originally released in June of
0:30.6	1991, several months earlier.
0:33.6	Remind me again who's ripping off who here?
0:36.4	Yeah, it's still Sonic.
0:39.5	The Supersonic Forum didn't debut until Sonic 2 in 1992, but I totally had you going for a second there, right? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory calling Sonic Team Liars since 2012, unfortunately, will be no exception.
1:15.0	Hey, it's not like I want to hate on these furry-tastic games. In fact, my fondest childhood memories
1:19.4	are of playing Sonic 2 in the basement with my buddy Max and his younger brother.
1:23.1	I was Sonic and Max was Tails.
1:25.0	We would get together every weekend to make it a little further in the game.
1:28.3	I would inevitably Rage Quinn and his brother would be forced to sing Christina Aguilera's
1:32.0	genie in a bottle to make me laugh and
1:33.6	give me to keep playing the game. Now that I actually say it out loud, it was a weird relationship.
1:38.3	Anyway, Sonic Mania is great, a game reminding me of my love for Sonic and my frustration with these, the Chaos Emeralds.
1:46.0	Because my other childhood hobby, outside of getting a young boy to sing Christina Aguilera songs to me in a basement,
1:51.0	was gemology. I was fascinated by shiny rocks, precious gemstones, and most of all crystals.
1:57.0	In fact, I still have my collection to this day. It's also the reason why one of my favorite channels these days is J TV hosted by my friend Natalie.
2:05.3	It's a channel nerding out over all things gemstone, like what stones would power a
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