Sonic The Hedgehog was released in July as part of the Sega Vintage Collection on Xbox Live. Other titles in the series include Golden Axe and Streets of Rage 2. Each cost 400 Microsoft Points.

The download package is essentially a Mega Drive emulator with the game included. The content of the game is unchanged from the original. Emulation is very accurate and the controls handle well on the 360s controller with the pleasant choice of using the D-pad or analogue thumbstick.

Features include being able to save a game at any point with multiple slots available and high scores can be uploaded to leaderboards on Xbox Live.

There are a few options such as changing controller setup, viewing credits and the screen size can be adjusted with the graphics filtered for a more smooth looking game.

The option How to Play serves as a very basic introduction to the game or newbies.

A total of 200 Gamer Points can be earned via the Achievements.

For more information checkout the official websites

http://xboxlivearcade.sega-europe.com/en/index.html

• There is no opportunity to input any cheats since the controls are not available when the title screen is running.
• The version of the ROM used is the European release with the less amount of parrallax scrolling and the spike bug.
• The smoothing option simply applies a filter to make the graphics less blocky than originally rendered. Users of emulators will know the equivalent being 2kSaI or Super2kSaI plug-ins.

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