Sonic Mania is a nostalgic thrill-ride of 16 bit splender. It’s literally one gigantic reference to previous sonic titles and 1990’s culture. Here’s 40 secrets, Easter eggs, and references we noticed and think you should too. By the way… there’s a few boss encounter spoilers here so come back later if you don’t want to know them just yet.
references
Sonic Spinball
Sonic 1, 2 ,3
Sonic CD
Dr Robotiniks’ mean bean machine
puyo puyo
puyo pop
and knuckles
Lock on Technology
streets of rage
streets of rage 2
daytona USA
Dayyyyyytonaaaaaaaa
gamegear
studiopolis
Sega Sonic Pop Corn
90s sega adverts
removed content
Shinobi
Revenge of Shinobi