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Sega celebrated Sonic's birthday with incredible tunes spanning 30 years of games
Video game concerts make everything better. Today’s livestreamed video game concert of Sonic music was so damn great it had me crying in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon—as opposed to my regularly scheduled Thursday cry.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog’s arrival on the Sega Genesis. In the lead up to today’s birthday celebration, Sega added the blue blur to damn near everything. I can play in a Sonic costume in Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. I can add Sonic arcade cabinets to my NICU unit in Two-Point Hospital, and if I’ve got 150 bucks laying around, I can pre-order a blinged-out Sonic necklace. But that’s all small potatoes compared to what went down today. To celebrate the 30th year since Sonic spin-dashed into our hearts, Sega put on a concert with the The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra that could reawaken the inner 13-year-old in even the staunchest Sonic cynic.
For close to two hours we were treated to orchestral and then pop-rock renditions of some of the Sonic series’ greatest jams, spanning multiple console generations and hitting some of the spin-off games in between. Y’all, if you need an instant hit of “feel-good” and don’t have any chemical (plant) substances handy, shoving this concert into your earholes is the next best thing. There were no skippable performances. Period. I know the Sonic community at large likes to shit on Sonic ‘06, and rightly so, but we’re not gonna pretend “His World” doesn’t slap.
Source: Kotaku
