Released by Sonic Team in 1998. DREAMCAST! My favorite gaming era began 9/9/99 with this game. As long and bloated and buggy and broken as it was, I played this game “cover to cover” and was a real fanboy about it. Its revamp of Sonic's design was actually pretty appropriate for the character. Its intensely cinematic approach, though often responsible for the broken camera, was what really set it apart from Mario 64. This game captured the sense of speed people thought they remembered from the Genesis days. It created the kind of epic, over-the-top cartoony threats that were implied throughout the older Sonic games. And it had a killer soundtrack and cinematics, tailor-made to sell a CD-based console.