Alright, on to the next one! For the record, I’m playing the Master System version, not the Game Gear version, because I like having a fuller screen. Makes it feel more like a Serious Video Game.
I think I played this once when I was playing a bunch of the 8-bit games and the Sonic Advance games on an emulator, but I’m not 100% sure. And either way, I don’t have a lot of distinct memories about it so I don’t have a lot to say in this intro, so yeah! Hopefully that just means I’ll have a lot to talk about in my last entry!
One thing I did notice as I started playing this is there are a few times when it feels like the game is laboring when there’s too many things on the screen. Sometimes the framerate drops a ton, other times Sonic sort of blinks in and out of existence, which is a little existentially terrifying for me. I don’t know if that’s an emulation problem or a limitation that existed in the original game, but I suspect the latter. I definitely remember seeing artifacts like that in Mario games when I had an NES.
Also, I like the fact that shields carry over from one act to another! That’s a neat little mechanic. And the sound effects and stuff are pretty good approximations given the limitations of 8-bit systems. They still evoke similar feelings to the 16-bit version despite being drastically different.
Anyway! Yeah. Not as much to say about this one yet, so let’s just get to it.
GREEN HILL ZONE
Hey, this one’s familiar! The 8-bit version of the zone and its music still give me very strong home vibes, even if it’s not quite as striking as the 16-bit version. Having the little underground section in the second act with some water and waterfalls was a clever way to change things up! And you aren’t really underwater for any serious length of time so that’s good. (Don’t worry, I’m not gonna say it this time.)
The Chaos Emeralds are just hidden in the zones themselves this time around, and for this zone it’s hiding in this neat little waterfall area! So that was pretty cool.
The boss for this one is super easy. Robuttnik just sorta shows up in the Egg-O-Matic and flies out of reach until he slowly lowers and then zooms at you. You can actually easily beat him in two passes, four hits each, which is exactly what I did. I don’t expect the entire game to be this easy, but it’s honestly super validating to be this good at a Sonic game I’ve only played once at most!
BRIDGE ZONE
This one’s kinda an extension of Green Hill! So that’s neat. But as its name suggests it’s a lot of bridges over water! Some of those bridges have individual pieces that fall down and drop you into bottomless pits if you stand on them for too long, some are just normal bridges, occasionally with Choppers jumping at you. The second act is an auto-scrolling level, which was honestly kinda weird to see in a Sonic game! I guess it’s a way to keep things interesting given the limitations of 8-bit systems.
Despite the severe limitations of the 8-bit system, the background is lovely! You can see mountains and a forest, and the whole setting seems very serene. I feel like I would love running or flying here. It’s basically just an extension of Green Hill, like I said, so you already know how I feel about it kinfeel wise!
The Chaos Emerald on this one is easier to find, but a little harder to get to! It’s in plain sight, but you have to stand on one of the bridge pieces long enough to let it fall on purpose and then jump up to grab the Emerald before you fall to your doom!
The boss is punishingly difficult compared to the first one! And so far both bosses have been without rings so I’m assuming that’s just gonna be a thing for all of them, which adds quite a bit of difficulty! This one has you jumping between three platforms separated by water which the Egg-O-Matic with a submarine attachment surfaces and shoots at you. Avoiding the projectiles it shoots is super difficult! You pretty much have to time things perfectly so it’s shooting in the opposite direction, which if you get the timing perfect you can do by hitting him twice. I actually ended up using save states, and am going to allow myself to use save states on the bosses going forward, because figuring out the timing was rough!
I ended up finishing up with 4 lives! But that’s a bit deceiving because I actually gained three extra lives, not just one. One from getting 100 rings on the first Act, one from a one-up box also in the first Act, and one from a one-up box at the very beginning of the third Act that you have to run backwards to get. Idk if you can see it in the GameGear version, but it’s just peeking out of the side of the screen in the Master System version. But I also lost two lives! Once by being a dummy and falling in a bottomless pit (I don’t get it, it says right in the name that I shouldn’t be in it!), the other time I got killed by the boss before I started using save states.
JUNGLE ZONE
Or: “The one where Tails decided, ‘Screw it, this game is baloney, I’m using save states.’”
Act 1 is a pretty straightforward platformer where you go across vines, ground that appears to be growing out of trees??? (idk) and jump across waterfalls with logs and such. There’s even parts where you run across the river on logs, which rules! And also the water seems to resist you more here, which makes sense because rivers have currents! But still, it’s neat. It kinda rules! And the Chaos Emerald can be found by riding a log almost to the bottom of a waterfall and then jumping onto a platform.I wouldn’t have been able to find it without looking it up.
Act 2 is a vertical level, which seemed neat at first as far as doing something different, but the way it’s implemented (you’re probably getting tired of hearing this, but: likely because of the limitations of the 8-bit systems) SUCKS. The camera pans up with you, and if you try to jump back down to a platform that YOU KNOW IS BELOW YOU, you just immediately die instead because since the camera panned up it must not exist anymore. I mean... HECK. I know you’re working with limited resources here, but if that’s the best you can do, maybe just don’t have a vertical level???
Add to that the fact that like 50% of the time if you take any damage you’re gonna die, because Sonic’s recovery in this version SUCKS (you get knocked backwards ridiculously far with no ability to control where you’re going and once that’s over you’re immediately killable at the same point where you can first move, not to mention how often you’ll just fall over ledges in this state) and it’s a recipe for me saying “screw it.” If the game’s gonna be unfair, so am I, and I don’t think there’s any shame in that. So yeah. Not gonna share my stats anymore on this one because I won’t have come by any of them honestly.
The boss is super difficult at first mostly because of that issue I just mentioned with how you recover! The Egg-O-Matic flies overhead and lowers down to drop some rolling bombs that you have to jump out of the way of. Oftentimes there are two of them at a time for you to avoid, while also trying to hit Robotnik eight times. Pretty rough until you figure out the timing! Honestly all the bosses so far except for the first one have been harder than the 16-bit version! So that’s interesting.
Anyway, this zone has some interesting ideas and Act 1 is pretty solid, but Act 2 is just a total dumpster fire due to bad mechanics. It’s a shame.
LABYRINTH ZONE
I. DO NOT. LIKE. MY. HEDGEHOG. BEING. UNDER. WATER!!!!
I like it even less when this game slows him to a crawl when he’s underwater, making it really hard to time anything or judge what jumps you can make, even adjusting for the fact that the controls here are kinda wonky if you’re used to 16-bit.
Basically, this is about as frustrating as I remember Labyrinth Zone being before I was good at it, but for much more genuinely frustrating reasons. Like, I’m sorry to say it just isn’t... good? I know it sounds like I’m just constantly complaining about 8-bit Sonic 1, but I just... it’s really not good, guys! I’m sorry! I’m giving it a chance because these games are hella important to me, but it’s got a lot of issues where it’s difficult in ways that just aren’t fair. But I’m a completionist so... I’m gonna keep trucking along.
The boss was kinda alright! Another one of those toughies until you figure out what to do. But once you do, it’s pretty straightforward. And hey, it’s pretty neat that the submarine Egg-O-Matic comes back!
But, as always. I DO NOT LIKE MY HEDGEHOG BEING UNDERWATER!
SCRAP BRAIN ZONE
Yeah, so. We know this one too, huh? The setting of the entire zone is the outdoor industrial sprawl from Act 1 in the 16-bit version of the game, but the zone itself is drastically different. Act 1 is actually a piece of cake and very straightforward? Like, I genuinely don’t get why it’s so easy? Acts 2 and 3 are basically mazes. And in Act 2 you don’t just have to figure out how to get out, you have to figure out how to get the Chaos Emerald. I guess at least that’s kinda a unique concept for a Sonic game? And unlike the previous zones there’s nothing gamebreaking about it or anything. My major criticism is just that I think it’s a bit too easy.
Weirdly, Act 3 doesn’t even have a boss! I know Scrap Brain Zone Act 3 didn’t have a boss in the 16-bit version of the game, but that seems like a weird thing to carry over here given that the context is completely different? Shrug.
In this one go through another maze, collecting rings along the way. (At first I was like, “Am I actually gonna have rings for a boss fight???”) Then you emerge outside and see Eggman waiting for you and he runs away and, in an inexplicable contrivance that will be repeated several other times in the series (but you probably remember it most prominently from Death Egg Zone in Sonic 2), he outruns Sonic??? And makes it onto a platform that carries him up into the sky. And then you follow him by taking the same platform to end the Zone.
SKY BASE ZONE
Now this is podracing! (Look... I'm not sorry.) Sky Base Zone is by far the best zone in this game, thanks to a strong concept buoyed (for once!) by strong execution!
For one thing, it’s the third original zone in the game. To recap, the other two were Bridge Zone (a nice little extension of Green Hill Zone, but nothing much to write home about) and Jungle Zone (a decent concept executed horribly). In this one, after you chase Robotnik all the way to Scrap Brain Zone, his base of operations in both this and the 16-bit version of the game, he escapes to an airship! We’ll see this type of escalation in a lot of other future games, but this is the first incidence of it!
Act 1 sees you go through what I assume is some kind of air base to get to the airship. The main challenges you face are platforms that you have to take over bottomless pits (well, ok, in this case it’s less pits and more just kinda the sky?) and (gulp) lightning generators. I guess Robuttnik thought he was fighting me instead of Sonic despite my not having appeared in the series yet.
It’s also worth noting that Act 1 is gorgeous, which is something I haven’t been able to say much about this game thus far!! It’s simple, of course. But there’s a deep blue sky behind you and everything else is kinda shaded blue as a result, even the rings you collect. And it really sets a particular kind of mood.
Act 2 sees you on the airship proper, and yeah parts of it are for sure blatant ripoffs of Mario 3 but guess who doesn’t care. And while there are parts that you could describe that way the Act as a whole still feels very much like a Sonic level. Also, it’s actually pretty difficult, but in ways that make sense and aren’t just objectively bad game design/hardware limitations!! Heck yeah. They really saved the best zone for last, guys!
Lastly, you have the final boss. He’s not the most punishingly difficult boss of the game by any stretch of the imagination, but he does get pretty difficult to beat after lulling you into a false sense of security with the first few hits and then suddenly drastically changing his pattern! Also, it’s a suitably dramatic final boss! Robotnik is standing inside of protective glass working controls while you get attacked by electricity and projectiles. It makes a heck of a lot more sense than the 16-bit version’s boss, actually! Even though I think I do slightly prefer the 16-bit boss all the same.
But, yeah! This is easily the best zone in the game, and it ranks right up there with a lot of the zones in the 16-bit version! Like, not the same tier as Green Hill or Scrap Brain, but still pretty hecking good!! So, somewhat improbably given that most of the entries about this game had me being a lot whinier than I would prefer, the game ended up finishing up on a high note! And I gotta say, it’s a bit of a relief!
ENDING
The ending of this one is similar to the 16-bit version, but a bit different and pretty satisfying in its own way! After you destroy his protective glass tube, Robotnik flees (once again outrunning you for some reason because why the heck not) and jumps into a teleporter, laughing. You jump in after him, and then we cut to Green Hill Zone! Robotnik is fleeing in the Egg-O-Matic when suddenly you fall from the sky and smash the Egg-O-Matic!
As Robotnik flees in his exploding vehicle, you run to the middle of Green Hill and release the Chaos Emeralds, healing the South Island! And it’s actually a little more clear than it is in the 16-bit version, because the game zooms out to a map of the whole island with visible pollution, which disappears after a bright flash! You did it! The credits roll. The only theme from the rest of the game that recurs in the credits is Green Hill’s theme, so that’s kind of a bummer, but oh well!
So. Clearly I didn’t like this as much as the 16-bit version, and I definitely didn’t get as many kinfeels from it except for secondhand ones that I also got (but better) in the 16-bit version, but I’m still glad I played it! Even a mediocre Sonic game is way past cool, and honestly I’m often going to get more out of them than an objectively better game from a series I care about less.
Anyway! Let’s just make this a tradition, shall we? Time for some arbitrary and highly subjective rankings that you might not care about! Woo!
Zones
Sky Base Zone (B-Tier)
Bridge Zone (C-Tier)
Green Hill Zone (C-Tier)
Scrap Brain Zone (C-Tier)
Labyrinth Zone (D-Tier)
Jungle Zone (D-Tier)
Bosses
Sky Base Zone (B-Tier)
Bridge Zone (B-Tier)
Green Hill Zone (C-Tier)
Labyrinth Zone (C-Tier)
Jungle Zone (C-Tier)
Soundtrack
Green Hill Zone (A-Tier)
Sky Base Zone (B-Tier)
Scrap Brain Zone (B-Tier)
Ending (B-Tier)
(unused) Marble Zone (B-Tier)
Labyrinth Zone (B-Tier)
Boss Theme (C-Tier)
Bridge Zone (C-Tier)
Bonus Zone (C-Tier)
Jungle Zone (C-Tier)
I think I played this once when I was playing a bunch of the 8-bit games and the Sonic Advance games on an emulator, but I’m not 100% sure. And either way, I don’t have a lot of distinct memories about it so I don’t have a lot to say in this intro, so yeah! Hopefully that just means I’ll have a lot to talk about in my last entry!
One thing I did notice as I started playing this is there are a few times when it feels like the game is laboring when there’s too many things on the screen. Sometimes the framerate drops a ton, other times Sonic sort of blinks in and out of existence, which is a little existentially terrifying for me. I don’t know if that’s an emulation problem or a limitation that existed in the original game, but I suspect the latter. I definitely remember seeing artifacts like that in Mario games when I had an NES.
Also, I like the fact that shields carry over from one act to another! That’s a neat little mechanic. And the sound effects and stuff are pretty good approximations given the limitations of 8-bit systems. They still evoke similar feelings to the 16-bit version despite being drastically different.
Anyway! Yeah. Not as much to say about this one yet, so let’s just get to it.
GREEN HILL ZONE
Hey, this one’s familiar! The 8-bit version of the zone and its music still give me very strong home vibes, even if it’s not quite as striking as the 16-bit version. Having the little underground section in the second act with some water and waterfalls was a clever way to change things up! And you aren’t really underwater for any serious length of time so that’s good. (Don’t worry, I’m not gonna say it this time.)
The Chaos Emeralds are just hidden in the zones themselves this time around, and for this zone it’s hiding in this neat little waterfall area! So that was pretty cool.
The boss for this one is super easy. Robuttnik just sorta shows up in the Egg-O-Matic and flies out of reach until he slowly lowers and then zooms at you. You can actually easily beat him in two passes, four hits each, which is exactly what I did. I don’t expect the entire game to be this easy, but it’s honestly super validating to be this good at a Sonic game I’ve only played once at most!
BRIDGE ZONE
This one’s kinda an extension of Green Hill! So that’s neat. But as its name suggests it’s a lot of bridges over water! Some of those bridges have individual pieces that fall down and drop you into bottomless pits if you stand on them for too long, some are just normal bridges, occasionally with Choppers jumping at you. The second act is an auto-scrolling level, which was honestly kinda weird to see in a Sonic game! I guess it’s a way to keep things interesting given the limitations of 8-bit systems.
Despite the severe limitations of the 8-bit system, the background is lovely! You can see mountains and a forest, and the whole setting seems very serene. I feel like I would love running or flying here. It’s basically just an extension of Green Hill, like I said, so you already know how I feel about it kinfeel wise!
The Chaos Emerald on this one is easier to find, but a little harder to get to! It’s in plain sight, but you have to stand on one of the bridge pieces long enough to let it fall on purpose and then jump up to grab the Emerald before you fall to your doom!
The boss is punishingly difficult compared to the first one! And so far both bosses have been without rings so I’m assuming that’s just gonna be a thing for all of them, which adds quite a bit of difficulty! This one has you jumping between three platforms separated by water which the Egg-O-Matic with a submarine attachment surfaces and shoots at you. Avoiding the projectiles it shoots is super difficult! You pretty much have to time things perfectly so it’s shooting in the opposite direction, which if you get the timing perfect you can do by hitting him twice. I actually ended up using save states, and am going to allow myself to use save states on the bosses going forward, because figuring out the timing was rough!
I ended up finishing up with 4 lives! But that’s a bit deceiving because I actually gained three extra lives, not just one. One from getting 100 rings on the first Act, one from a one-up box also in the first Act, and one from a one-up box at the very beginning of the third Act that you have to run backwards to get. Idk if you can see it in the GameGear version, but it’s just peeking out of the side of the screen in the Master System version. But I also lost two lives! Once by being a dummy and falling in a bottomless pit (I don’t get it, it says right in the name that I shouldn’t be in it!), the other time I got killed by the boss before I started using save states.
JUNGLE ZONE
Or: “The one where Tails decided, ‘Screw it, this game is baloney, I’m using save states.’”
Act 1 is a pretty straightforward platformer where you go across vines, ground that appears to be growing out of trees??? (idk) and jump across waterfalls with logs and such. There’s even parts where you run across the river on logs, which rules! And also the water seems to resist you more here, which makes sense because rivers have currents! But still, it’s neat. It kinda rules! And the Chaos Emerald can be found by riding a log almost to the bottom of a waterfall and then jumping onto a platform.I wouldn’t have been able to find it without looking it up.
Act 2 is a vertical level, which seemed neat at first as far as doing something different, but the way it’s implemented (you’re probably getting tired of hearing this, but: likely because of the limitations of the 8-bit systems) SUCKS. The camera pans up with you, and if you try to jump back down to a platform that YOU KNOW IS BELOW YOU, you just immediately die instead because since the camera panned up it must not exist anymore. I mean... HECK. I know you’re working with limited resources here, but if that’s the best you can do, maybe just don’t have a vertical level???
Add to that the fact that like 50% of the time if you take any damage you’re gonna die, because Sonic’s recovery in this version SUCKS (you get knocked backwards ridiculously far with no ability to control where you’re going and once that’s over you’re immediately killable at the same point where you can first move, not to mention how often you’ll just fall over ledges in this state) and it’s a recipe for me saying “screw it.” If the game’s gonna be unfair, so am I, and I don’t think there’s any shame in that. So yeah. Not gonna share my stats anymore on this one because I won’t have come by any of them honestly.
The boss is super difficult at first mostly because of that issue I just mentioned with how you recover! The Egg-O-Matic flies overhead and lowers down to drop some rolling bombs that you have to jump out of the way of. Oftentimes there are two of them at a time for you to avoid, while also trying to hit Robotnik eight times. Pretty rough until you figure out the timing! Honestly all the bosses so far except for the first one have been harder than the 16-bit version! So that’s interesting.
Anyway, this zone has some interesting ideas and Act 1 is pretty solid, but Act 2 is just a total dumpster fire due to bad mechanics. It’s a shame.
LABYRINTH ZONE
I. DO NOT. LIKE. MY. HEDGEHOG. BEING. UNDER. WATER!!!!
I like it even less when this game slows him to a crawl when he’s underwater, making it really hard to time anything or judge what jumps you can make, even adjusting for the fact that the controls here are kinda wonky if you’re used to 16-bit.
Basically, this is about as frustrating as I remember Labyrinth Zone being before I was good at it, but for much more genuinely frustrating reasons. Like, I’m sorry to say it just isn’t... good? I know it sounds like I’m just constantly complaining about 8-bit Sonic 1, but I just... it’s really not good, guys! I’m sorry! I’m giving it a chance because these games are hella important to me, but it’s got a lot of issues where it’s difficult in ways that just aren’t fair. But I’m a completionist so... I’m gonna keep trucking along.
The boss was kinda alright! Another one of those toughies until you figure out what to do. But once you do, it’s pretty straightforward. And hey, it’s pretty neat that the submarine Egg-O-Matic comes back!
But, as always. I DO NOT LIKE MY HEDGEHOG BEING UNDERWATER!
SCRAP BRAIN ZONE
Yeah, so. We know this one too, huh? The setting of the entire zone is the outdoor industrial sprawl from Act 1 in the 16-bit version of the game, but the zone itself is drastically different. Act 1 is actually a piece of cake and very straightforward? Like, I genuinely don’t get why it’s so easy? Acts 2 and 3 are basically mazes. And in Act 2 you don’t just have to figure out how to get out, you have to figure out how to get the Chaos Emerald. I guess at least that’s kinda a unique concept for a Sonic game? And unlike the previous zones there’s nothing gamebreaking about it or anything. My major criticism is just that I think it’s a bit too easy.
Weirdly, Act 3 doesn’t even have a boss! I know Scrap Brain Zone Act 3 didn’t have a boss in the 16-bit version of the game, but that seems like a weird thing to carry over here given that the context is completely different? Shrug.
In this one go through another maze, collecting rings along the way. (At first I was like, “Am I actually gonna have rings for a boss fight???”) Then you emerge outside and see Eggman waiting for you and he runs away and, in an inexplicable contrivance that will be repeated several other times in the series (but you probably remember it most prominently from Death Egg Zone in Sonic 2), he outruns Sonic??? And makes it onto a platform that carries him up into the sky. And then you follow him by taking the same platform to end the Zone.
SKY BASE ZONE
Now this is podracing! (Look... I'm not sorry.) Sky Base Zone is by far the best zone in this game, thanks to a strong concept buoyed (for once!) by strong execution!
For one thing, it’s the third original zone in the game. To recap, the other two were Bridge Zone (a nice little extension of Green Hill Zone, but nothing much to write home about) and Jungle Zone (a decent concept executed horribly). In this one, after you chase Robotnik all the way to Scrap Brain Zone, his base of operations in both this and the 16-bit version of the game, he escapes to an airship! We’ll see this type of escalation in a lot of other future games, but this is the first incidence of it!
Act 1 sees you go through what I assume is some kind of air base to get to the airship. The main challenges you face are platforms that you have to take over bottomless pits (well, ok, in this case it’s less pits and more just kinda the sky?) and (gulp) lightning generators. I guess Robuttnik thought he was fighting me instead of Sonic despite my not having appeared in the series yet.
It’s also worth noting that Act 1 is gorgeous, which is something I haven’t been able to say much about this game thus far!! It’s simple, of course. But there’s a deep blue sky behind you and everything else is kinda shaded blue as a result, even the rings you collect. And it really sets a particular kind of mood.
Act 2 sees you on the airship proper, and yeah parts of it are for sure blatant ripoffs of Mario 3 but guess who doesn’t care. And while there are parts that you could describe that way the Act as a whole still feels very much like a Sonic level. Also, it’s actually pretty difficult, but in ways that make sense and aren’t just objectively bad game design/hardware limitations!! Heck yeah. They really saved the best zone for last, guys!
Lastly, you have the final boss. He’s not the most punishingly difficult boss of the game by any stretch of the imagination, but he does get pretty difficult to beat after lulling you into a false sense of security with the first few hits and then suddenly drastically changing his pattern! Also, it’s a suitably dramatic final boss! Robotnik is standing inside of protective glass working controls while you get attacked by electricity and projectiles. It makes a heck of a lot more sense than the 16-bit version’s boss, actually! Even though I think I do slightly prefer the 16-bit boss all the same.
But, yeah! This is easily the best zone in the game, and it ranks right up there with a lot of the zones in the 16-bit version! Like, not the same tier as Green Hill or Scrap Brain, but still pretty hecking good!! So, somewhat improbably given that most of the entries about this game had me being a lot whinier than I would prefer, the game ended up finishing up on a high note! And I gotta say, it’s a bit of a relief!
ENDING
The ending of this one is similar to the 16-bit version, but a bit different and pretty satisfying in its own way! After you destroy his protective glass tube, Robotnik flees (once again outrunning you for some reason because why the heck not) and jumps into a teleporter, laughing. You jump in after him, and then we cut to Green Hill Zone! Robotnik is fleeing in the Egg-O-Matic when suddenly you fall from the sky and smash the Egg-O-Matic!
As Robotnik flees in his exploding vehicle, you run to the middle of Green Hill and release the Chaos Emeralds, healing the South Island! And it’s actually a little more clear than it is in the 16-bit version, because the game zooms out to a map of the whole island with visible pollution, which disappears after a bright flash! You did it! The credits roll. The only theme from the rest of the game that recurs in the credits is Green Hill’s theme, so that’s kind of a bummer, but oh well!
So. Clearly I didn’t like this as much as the 16-bit version, and I definitely didn’t get as many kinfeels from it except for secondhand ones that I also got (but better) in the 16-bit version, but I’m still glad I played it! Even a mediocre Sonic game is way past cool, and honestly I’m often going to get more out of them than an objectively better game from a series I care about less.
Anyway! Let’s just make this a tradition, shall we? Time for some arbitrary and highly subjective rankings that you might not care about! Woo!
Zones
Sky Base Zone (B-Tier)
Bridge Zone (C-Tier)
Green Hill Zone (C-Tier)
Scrap Brain Zone (C-Tier)
Labyrinth Zone (D-Tier)
Jungle Zone (D-Tier)
Bosses
Sky Base Zone (B-Tier)
Bridge Zone (B-Tier)
Green Hill Zone (C-Tier)
Labyrinth Zone (C-Tier)
Jungle Zone (C-Tier)
Soundtrack
Green Hill Zone (A-Tier)
Sky Base Zone (B-Tier)
Scrap Brain Zone (B-Tier)
Ending (B-Tier)
(unused) Marble Zone (B-Tier)
Labyrinth Zone (B-Tier)
Boss Theme (C-Tier)
Bridge Zone (C-Tier)
Bonus Zone (C-Tier)
Jungle Zone (C-Tier)