Nick “Nario” Hagman has completed the Genesis version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 entirely on a dance pad. He has previously completed Ninja Gaiden NES and a heck of a lot of other games.
Yes, this video is ninety minutes long. This is because it contains Sonic 2 from start to finish played on a dance pad.
Above is part 1 of 11 of a playthrough of a ROM hack entitled Sonic the Hedgehog NES.1 It’s an NES game2 hacked to include facsimiles of the levels from Sonic the Hedgehog. And it’s tremendously, tremendously bad. The gameplay is maddening and glitchy, the music is a pale, tuneless imitation of the original’s, and most of all the level design is just atrocious. For example, in the Labyrinth zone (which all told is nearly half an hour long) our host “jackaroo” passes through the same tired feature of the level so many times I lost count. Probably the only good thing about the game is the graphics, which look pretty good for an 8-bit NES game.
Oh, and jackaroo’s annotations are hilarious3, as is his cheesy custom pre-roll before every video.4 Good times.
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Also known as Somari — in that version, you play through the levels with a crude Mario sprite doing Sonic-esque moves, even including a spin dash. Nrgh. ↩
Super Mario Bros 3 perhaps? ↩
I’m not always laughing with them however. ↩
And as if “jackaroo” wasn’t an unimaginative enough handle, he’s since created a newer Youtube channel under the name “ssjjackaroo”. Oh boy. ↩