Sonic Robo Blast 1

Danni's picture

http://www.srb2.org/history/historic-downloads/

It's basically what started the whole Sonic fangame craze. Was made by Johnny Wallbank, who went by the monkier Sonikku.

Brief history, taken from the website:

Meanwhile, over in England at Sonikku’s school, many kids couldn’t understand why he liked
Sonic. "Sonic’s stinks, and Sega’s dead! No new games are coming out!", they
taunted. He took it to heart, and armed with MSPaint and Klik N’ Play, began work on a
game to prove them wrong, which later become known as Sonic Robo Blast.

Atrocious graphics, badly written Sonic MIDIs, and bugs everywhere. What's not to like? In particular, Sonic's sprite is an absolute classic. There's also a bug known as "killingdead" which means that you sometimes lose your rings even when you kill an enemy with your jump.

Latest version was built using The Games Factory, for those who are on 64-bit systems and/or using Wine. You'll need to download cncs32.dll, if you don't already have it.

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sergiocornaga's picture

The creation story behind

The creation story behind this is kind of heart-warming... it makes me forget, if only for a short while, how terrifying Sonic fans can be.

GoreCore's picture

I have to admit,

those games have such a feeling of products of real Sonic fan. I only regret I haven't discovered this site about 8-10 years ago, when I was still a huuuge blue hedgehog fanboy. Reminds me also a big MMF series, called Sonic Kaos Chronicles or similar - terribly buggy, awfully slow with big, empty levels.

leilei's picture

There's similar Megaman fan

There's similar Megaman fan trainwrecks from the day too, often abusing MM7 sprites. I remember one with 'scrolling' too and I might still have it still despite the page for it being taken off in July 1999 as he suddenly dedicated his time to become a pokemon master (like a lot of people).

In 1995 there was a 'Sonic Boom' game, or so "they" say that claimed to start the 'craze'.