>>12211 I used to put countless hours into that Newgrounds Sonic OC maker. I can still remember a few of the ones I made, although I'm not particularly proud of them.

Still waiting for episode 7.

When I was little my brother, sister, and I would watch Numa Numa Sonic AMVs alot. I also had this friend that would play, "Sonic Barbie Girl" on repeat.

I used to redub episodes of Sonic X and make my own plots and give the characters awful voices, like Cosmo was British for some reason, Sonic was Pikachu, etc. I cringe when I think about all the videos I made but thankfully they've all been lost to time.

>>12319 I really want to see these now

>>12319 I'm glad I never thought to make any videos on Sonic when I was younger.

>>12342 you'll have to time travel back to early 2006 Youtube

>>12394 I've seen a lot of people say this or things like it over the years.

>>12398 For good reason, kids make a lot of cringey videos.

Ha ha Guess there’s an Eggman in all of us. Fuck it, let’s all stand up… https://youtu.be/Kl2OeBBcLBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Cg_OSoszo I loved these videos as a kid and I still enjoy them.

>>12558 I remember a series of videos that was a shitty camrip of two black guys playing Sonic 3 and voicing Sonic and Tails, reacting to whatever was on-screen. It was called "Sonic & Tails Adventures" or something. I can't find it anymore, but it was the funniest shit I'd ever seen back in 2006.

>>12561 Found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZZ22pITAi8

I used to watch a lot of sprite-based plots/fights built around Sonic characters, often fighting Mario or other universes of characters on YouTube. I have no regrets since the fighting and art was decent sprite-wise.

>>17938 That's okay anon, I used to read a lot of sprite fancomics on smackjeeves and those were even worse in quality.

Sonic fanfiction on various sites, AMVs, deviantart, flash videos/games, obscure fourms, sprite/fan comics, Newgrounds. And most importantly, Running around to Sonic songs. The holy plethora of autism. Interesting memories.

>>17976 The full package it seems.

Never did any of the sort like wrote fanfictions or made OC donut steals but I did 100% Sonic 06 and its very hard modes before doing the same to SA2:B this year. The chao gardens are serious grinds without the use of a GBA and its link cable.

>>12218 DAMN

I recently realized that I've played/watched/read almost every piece of Sonic media, so I've spent the last few months finishing it. Watched all of Underground, read all of Sonic the Comic, used Google Translate to read all the manga, etc. I then started making an autistic spreadsheet to arrange how these things could theoretically fit together into one continuity, with as few changes as possible. It began simple, with just simple timeline calculations. The first Sonic movie is the first time Sonic meets Robotnik, so it takes place before the first game, which did state Sonic and Robotnik fought many times before. Simple. Then it got more autistic. The manga is the first appearance of Amy, and it ends with a Sonic CD adaptation, so the manga goes before Sonic CD. Then it started getting more autistic as I had to figure out how things could be shifted as little as possible to still fit in the game continuity without wrecking the story too hard. Games gotta take top priority, then live action movies, then tv shows, then comics. For example, Robotnik can't have already taken over the world when Sonic was a kid. Even saying he took over the Kingdom of Acorn 10+ years ago is weird. But Sonic the Comic establishes how Robotnik took over in the present, after Sonic 2. So okay, Sonic the Comic begins after the Death Egg Saga, and then when Robotnik takes over there, he also takes over the Kingdom of Acorn, which we can say is a neighboring region. Sonic the Comic features locations from Sonic 2 heavily, so it takes place on Westside Island, which notably is the same island that Sonic Adventure takes place on. We can say Robotnik took over part of this island, say part of the Mystic Ruins. Perhaps Metropolis Zone is the big mechanized area we can see when we look off the cliff toward Robotnik's base in the Mystic Ruins. Anyway, we can say Westside Island is named such because it's to the west of The Kingdom of Acorn, across a channel or whatever. We can also say that some ancient culture that spawned both the Mystic Ruins people and the Kingdom of Acorn (the Echidnas maybe) called the planet Mobius instead of Earth. Mobius is just another name for Earth. Also we can say these people use it interchangeably to mean the whole world, their region, or their kingdom. Cultures do stuff like that sometimes. Once I got this far I realized I was just doing autistic fanfic. I'm much too old for this. But it is fun. I need an outlet for my immense knowledge of this series. So I'll go on. Notably, both Sonic the Comic and ArchieSonic have Robotnik literally change forms. Ridiculous. Can't match with the games at all. But we can still use elements to match up the timeline. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog happens after the issue of Sonic the Comic where Robotnik morphs into his Adventures design, even though we would say that him morphing like that is non-canon in this merged continuity. That issue happens relatively early in the RBR (Ruled By Robotnik) era, though, so it works. At first he just took over that part of the Mystic Ruins, but then he spread off the island to the outskirts of The Kingdom of Acorn. Adventures happens, then the first few Archie comics, then SatAM. Those early issues where Sally was pink are important. She is also pink in the pilot of SatAM and in Sonic Christmas Blast. All the Pink Sally appearances go together, but relative to each other are arranged by release date. Sonic Christmas Blast is the last story where Sally is pink. And as hardcore fans know, why Sally was pink is explained in an issue of Ken Penders' Knuckles series. Though I'd go out of my way to not explicitly reference that series, which does generally suck, I'd also try to not say that it's not canon at all, except for the really stupid bits. But the explanation for why Sally is pink can apply to the SatAM Pilot and Sonic Christmas Blast. Now a real tricky thing happens when trying to merge the first series of Princess Sally backup stories with the SatAM Season Two two-parter, Blast to the Past. In Blast to the Past, Sonic and Sally go back in time and save Sally's childhood nanny, Rosie, from Robotnik. In the first Princess Sally backup series, Rosie appears and gives Sally her vest that she wears in Season Two of SatAM. So this means that the Princess Sally backup series takes place in the post-Blast to the Past timeline, but before the events of Blast to the Past. In the pre-Blast to the Past timeline, Sally must have gotten her vest in a similar but slightly different fashion. Another notable instance of synchronicity is how ArchieSonic #30 seems obviously intended to match up with the final episode of SatAM, The Doomsday Project. In The Doomsday Project, Robotnik seemingly dies, and Snivley takes over, but then the show ended. Previous to this, Uncle Chuck got his free will back, and the show had gone on and on about how Sally's dad was trapped in another dimension called The Void. The creator of the show said he intended to reveal that Robotnik was just in The Void as well, and he'd come back early in Season 3. In ArchieSonic #30, an experiment goes wrong and accidentally gives Chuck his free will back while also sending Robotnik to The Void, which is mentioned for the first time in this issue. Snivley takes over, but by the end of the issue, Robotnik is back. Chuck still has his free will though. Ken Penders has talked about how after SatAM was cancelled, they tried to treat the comic like a continuation of the show. While there is notably an earlier instance in the comic of Robotnik dying and Snivley taking over, this one matches much more closely with the show, introducing key elements so that after this issue, you could essentially treat the comic like a continuation of the show. That helps my timeline significantly here. ArchieSonic #30 takes place immediately after The Doomsday Project. I figure the way to do it would be to say that after The Doomsday Project, the story continues as it does after Robotnik gets sent to The Void in ArchieSonic #30. If you want to say ArchieSonic #30 is still canon, you can say very similar events happen again immediately after. Robotnik gets rescued from The Void, does an experiment that gets him sent back, and then gets rescued in a similar fashion. We wouldn't dwell on this in our "Merged History of Sonic" though. Now, this gets complicated because for some reason, a few issues later, ArchieSonic introduced The Zone of Silence. They said The Void was actually not even important. It was another dimension, but not the one the king was in. It was easier to get in and out of The Void. The Zone of Silence was the real shit. Many issues later, in an offhand comment, they'd say evil wizard Ixis Naugus (who was introduced as trapped in The Void in SatAM and again later in Archie) merged The Void with The Zone of Silence. After that, Tails summoned like infinity Chaos Emeralds from across the universe (because Archie didn't realize there were only seven) then merged them into just seven and sent them into The Zone of Silence, and their energy turned it into The Special Stage. The Special Stage previously existed in Archie but this was a new one because the old one was destroyed in a fight between Super Sonic and Hyper Knuckles (who is actually Super Knuckles but they call him Hyper in Archie). Anyway, after Robotnik and Dr. Wily rewrote time a few years later, The Zone of Silence and The Void were both seemingly non-canon, and The King and Naugus were both always trapped in The Special Stage.

Now, I think this is stupid. All the shit with The Zone of Silence was stupid, but outright replacing The Void with the Special Stage makes even less sense. It's just the Phantom Zone from Superman. They can keep that. Besides, The Void appears again in Sonic Prime, in a function not too dissimilar to SatAM and Archie, a mostly blank universe, only now they establish it's also the space between universes, which makes enough sense. Now, in Archie, the space between universes is called The Cosmic Interstate, which is fucking stupid, but we could easily just say The Cosmic Interstate was an actual pathway which just happened to be within The Void, and it was probably destroyed around the time of Robotnik and Wily's Super Genesis Wave anyway. So what I'd say is The Void did still exist after the Super Genesis Wave, but Naugus's machinations which helped lead to the Super Genesis Wave were actually all intended as a big plan to make it so he was never trapped in the living hell that was The Void at all, and instead was trapped in The Special Stage, which wasn't nearly as bad. Oh yeah, Naugus remembered the old history after the Super Genesis Wave. That's important. So maybe his plan failed. Or maybe it was just to increase his magic powers. But anyway, The Void still exists, it isn't The Special Stage. When Tails put all the Chaos Emeralds in there, all he did was separate The Void from The Zone of Silence again, and only The Zone of Silence was turned into The Special Stage, and then the Super Genesis Wave made it so it was always the Special Stage, but The Void always still existed. Now on to Sonic Underground. How to match this with anything? Notably, it crosses over with Archie once, in the period when Archie Robotnik is dead. We'd just say that crossover, and the whole series, takes place shortly after Archie Robotnik is back. Yes, in Archie, Robotnik died, and fans will point out technically he never came back, he got replaced with an alt-universe doppelganger. That's true, but later stories really try to downplay that, and instead highlight that the new Robotnik is exactly the same, and has the exact same history up until the battle where he died. In his timeline, he won and beat the Freedom Fighters, then he couldn't stand that there was a universe that was so similar only Sonic won, so he went there to try to beat that Sonic. I can accept that explanation. I'd never reference this death at all explicitly, but if I were gonna place Underground anywhere, it would be right after the story where Robotnik II puts himself in his robot body that looks human, as opposed to his robot body that looks like a robot. But back to Underground. Uncle Chuck is the connecting tissue here. I'd say Uncle Chuck is really the uncle of Manic and Sonia, and Aleena's brother. I'd say Aleena was the real queen, and King Acorn was a high level noble. After the prophecy of the Oracle of Delphius, Aleena abdicated the throne to King Acorn. Her kids were just babies. In modern day, Uncle Chuck tells Sonic he's actually royalty, and he needs to find his siblings. Underground happens. At the end, though, in a new story which would be needed to make things fit, it's revealed Sonic isn't really Aleena's son, he's some random guy who the Oracle of Delphius just knew was The Chosen One, and had to be part of the goings on. Aleena and Chuck knew too. Perhaps this is why Chuck took such a shine to Sonic when they first met way back pre-RBR. Manic and Sonia believed everything though. The real fourth member of The Council of Four wasn't Sonic, it was Chuck, another blue hedgehog who happens to look a lot like Sonic, so some scenes where the prophecy is shown can look ambiguous but lead people to think it's Sonic. Anyway, Aleena doesn't take back the crown. Instead, The Council of Four becomes a body that is technically above The King, more like a religious leader. Think of Aleena as The Ayatollah of The Kingdom of Acorn. As for the Underground/Archie crossover, in it, Evil Sonic mistakes Underground Robotnik for Robo-Robotnik, who was just beginning his plan to replace Robotnik-Prime. In our version, fuck it, Evil Sonic doesn't make that mistake, and correctly delivers the pieces of The Giant Borg to the only Robotnik who is relevant to this story. The placement is shifted slightly so Robo-Robotnik would already be calling himself Robotnik at this point. Oh yeah, Underground takes place after almost every Sonic the Comic story, except for Sonic Adventure and the one that leads directly into it (which I'll explain shortly). But it's important because Dingo from Sonic Undeground is clearly inspired by Metamorphia from Sonic the Comic. I'd say Grimer made the both of them. Or maybe I wouldn't explicitly say it until some sequel fanfic that takes place in the present and isn't just a history. But I glossed over game adaptations. How would those be handled? Well many of them are so unlike the games they're adapting, they can just be separate stories. Sonic the Comic's Adventure adaptation is a perfect example. It has a villain called Chaos who is a water monster, but that's about the only similarity. I'd say this is just a totally different story that takes place after the game. Maybe "The Chaos Monster" from Sonic the Comic was called such because he reminded everyone of the real Chaos. What's important is he is the one who killed Johnny Lightfoot, not Chaos, The God of Destruction. On the other hand, there is Archie's Adventure adaptation. Most of it is new stuff, but the parts that are meant to adapt the game are clearly meant to just be the game. So what I'd say there is the game is canon, parts that contradict the game aren't, but parts that are just extra can still count. Maybe Antoine and Bunnie did help look for a Chaos Emerald or whatever. There's a whole subplot with The Chaotix going to The Mystic Ruins (which the comics call "The Mysterious Cat Country") with Knuckles's dad, Locke. Okay, maybe we never mention Locke, but we can say the Chaotix met Big the Cat's people one time. All the earlier adaptations are very unfaithful, and I'd treat them as new stories, but they do represent when the games roughly take place in each adaptation's timeline, so that helps line things up. The problem is that StC and Archie adapt Sonic 3 and Sonic CD in opposite orders. But they're each totally different stories anyway, so it's no big deal. Also, each series needs to take place after the whole Death Egg Saga (and Sonic 4) anyway. So basically, after Sonic 4, StC (pre-RBR) happens, then Adventures, then early (Pink Sally) Archie, then the SatAM pilot, then Sonic Christmas Blast, then SatAM Season 1, then SatAM Season 2 happens at the same time as a few Archie issues, and they line up at issue 30. StC stories are interspersed with all of this in roughly release order. Archie's Chaotix adaptation happens right after issue 30, and Chaotix is the first game set after Sonic 4, so that's when things line up again. Of course, the Chaotix adaptations are both so different from the game that they'd be new stories. So the game happens first, then the Archie adaptation, then the StC adaptation. The StC adaptation is actually awesome, by the way.

I'm not talking about StC much because it doesn't fuck with continuity too hard, but it's great. But oh yeah, it does fuck with Robotnik's origin. See, in StC, Robotnik was originally Kintobor. He was friends with Sonic, and was doing an experiment where Sonic powered a machine called the ROCC to use the Chaos Emeralds to absorb all the evil in the world, but then he went for a snack and when carrying a rotten egg, tripped over a cord and smashed into the ROCC, causing a reaction with the emeralds and egg which turned him into Robotnik. Now, obviously, this can't be canon to anything resembling the games. So what do we do? Well Sonic and Robotnik weren't friends when they'd first met, so I'd shift this story to be set after Sonic movie 1, at least. Another notable thing is that in StC, Super Sonic is an evil split personality. So I'd kill two birds with one stone. This story is set only shortly before RBR. We can say Sonic temporarily gave Robotnik a chance to be a good guy. Maybe he even was gonna turn over a new leaf. They were doing experiments with the Chaos Emeralds, then Robotnik went to the fridge to get a snack. When he tripped over the cord, it didn't turn him evil, it turned Super Sonic evil. But we can say that this evil Super Sonic doesn't come out every time Sonic becomes Super. It's only under extreme stress and when he doesn't have enough rings or something. So he can still become Super normally, which he can't do in StC. But Robotnik becoming evil in this event is important, because in StC's Chaotix adaptation, he creates The Brotherhood of Metallix, an army of Metal Sonics that goes rogue and takes over Little Planet, using it to rewrite time so they rule the world. Sonic notices they made it so in the new timeline, Kintobor never became Robotnik. He deduces that Robotnik is the only one who can defeat The Brotherhood, so he goes back in time to when he and Kintobor were working on the ROCC, then replaces the egg in his fridge with a rotten egg, and tugs on the power cord so Kintobor trips, becoming Robotnik. So how can we fit this all into something resembling game continuity? Robotnik was never Kintobor, but maybe once he and Sonic really did become friends, but later Sonic had to go back in time and make sure Robotnik became evil (again). But what could he put in the fridge instead of a rotten egg that would still turn Robotnik evil? Simple. Gerald Robotnik's journal, and a security cam photo of Gun Soldier Mister Smith shooting Maria on the ARK. (For reference, Mister Smith is the name Sonic X gives to the soldier who shot Maria, as they show him in deep regret in modern day. Gotta keep that canon.) Robotnik is in such shock after seeing this that he accidentally trips over the cord (which future-Sonic is pulling) into the ROCC, causing the explosion, only in this version it doesn't create Robotnik, it creates Dark Super Sonic. On the topic of Sonic X, it's simple enough to fit. Just there were never two universes. Sonic was just running along and met Chris one day. No need for alt universes. Season 1 takes place before Sonic Adventure. Sonic Heroes takes place immediately after the episode where the Chaotix first appear. But Sonic X's Sonic Battle adaptation is kind of fucked, because it's nothing like the game, but it's still important, because it builds a relationship between Cream and Emerl that the game doesn't really have, but which seems to be referenced in the ending of Sonic Advance 3. So the first few appearances of Emerl in X happen before the game, but then they meet in the way they met in the game, but then we gotta say most of the events of the anime, at least regarding Cream, happen between fights in the game. And in the end, when she basically has to kill Emerl... uh... she just knocks him out and they think he got better, until he got crazy again. As for how Shadow comes back to life, that's another thing that has three different explanations. Obviously the game is canon. In Archie, Shadow is found in space by aliens called The Bem, who are at war with aliens called The Xorda. The Bem revive Shadow but he immediately gets shot down to the ground by The Xorda, and he is found by Sonic and friends. We can say this basically happened only he was found by Robotnik instead, and then Sonic Heroes happened, and then the story that happens right after Sonic and friends find Shadow in the comics. In Sonic X Season 3, Robotnik was after finding Shadow but Heroes doesn't happen, instead Shadow just comes back when everyone goes to space. We'd just say Shadow was already alive again by this point, but he still had amnesia. Sonic X Season 3 takes place before Shadow the Hedgehog. The Archie comics don't adapt Shadow the Hedgehog, but instead have an issue where Shadow finds Gerald's journal that tells him he was made to fight The Black Arms, who are due to arrive soon, but have been slowed down by fighting The Xorda. This effectively caught up Shadow's character development to that of the games. The Black Arms never did arrive, but after The Super Genesis Wave, history was changed so they already arrived at some point in the recent past, and the game happened off-panel. We'd say the game happened shortly after the issue where Shadow found Gerald's journal. Sonic '06 never got adapted into anything, but that's fine. The only adaptation at the time was Archie. '06 just happens in roughly release order, between stories. So does Rivals. Archie Silver is just the one from Rivals, which is never referenced in Archie, but whatever. Any times characters meet for the first time in an adaptation, but they should have met before in a game, we can just gloss over that. That's a small alteration relative to everything else. Archie later does a way too long adaptation of Unleashed, years later, but I'd just say that's just a new story where Sonic became a werehog again. And that's basically the last time the continuity was fucked up. Oh yeah, there's also Green Knuckles and Mammoth Mogul's fake Tails. Those are fucking stupid. I'd just never mention them. Did you know that in Archie, Tails was never in Sonic Adventure 2? At the time, he was replaced with a magic duplicate, and it's that duplicate who is in Adventure 2. Also, during the events of that game, Knuckles had turned green (though sometimes turned back, seemingly due to coloring errors, but we could say he could change back at will, I suppose) and got super god chaos powers. Man, that era was fucking dumb. Basically, my philosophy is that I don't have to ever explicitly reference stupid things, so the reader can just never know about them or think about them, or can say they never happened. But I'd also try not to say they didn't happen. My goal is to keep as much canon as possible, but games first, then movies, then cartoons, then comics. Anyway I'm pretty sure I can reconcile all of Sonic into one continuity. I have about a hundred pages of spreadsheet and fanfic on it, and this is a highly condensed version. It's by far the most autistic thing I've ever done.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say how I'd try to incorporate the manga, the one where Sonic is a normal kid named Nicky and Sonic is his superhero alt-personality. Obviously it's one of the things furthest away from most of the franchise, but it's also the source of Amy and Charmy, and that is notable. Another thing that makes this series strange is that it was actually seven or eight different series. One each for grades 1-6, plus a seventh one published in a magazine that wasn't pretending to be educational and for grade-schoolers (but obviously was still for young boys), and a couple appearances in special issues outside any of these series. Though they were technically different series, they were published by the same company and seemed to be all based on the same outline. But there are things like Tails being introduced as if for the first time in multiple different chapters, because those chapters were technically in different magazines. But meanwhile other magazines would just have him show up and expect you to understand who he is. So they are probably best thought of as technically different continuities, but really they're very much related to each other, much more than, say, SatAM and Archie. But that's not the most confusing thing. The most confusing thing is that one of the several artists they had doing these various series just plain decided to ignore all the model sheets and draw the characters however he wanted. So in his chapters, Amy, Charmy, and secondary villain Anton Verruca all had radically different designs. Nicky's sister was named Anita instead of her usual name of Tania. Nicky himself was brown instead of blue, until a few chapters in when this was the one thing that actually changed and Nicky started being colored as blue. This author happened to be the guy who wrote and drew the first couple chapters released, so the few English-speakers who care often think that these were the original designs and they changed later, but that's not the case. Naoto Oshima provided character designs, including Classic Amy, for example, and then this one guy just ignored them. Even when he sometimes did a chapter in one of the other magazines that was usually or previously done by another mangaka, he just did his own weird designs anyway. Also, the magazines had different formats. Obviously the stories in the first-grade magazine were a bit simpler. Many of the third-grade stories are just quick gags that are only a couple pages. Most importantly, the fourth-grade magazine published illustrated prose stories, not comics, written by the guy who did the actual story bible (or whatever it would be called) that the other mangaka were supposed to be following. However, since they're actual prose, nobody has been autistic enough to do fan translations of them yet, and using Google Translate on them isn't as simple or practical as it was on the manga chapters. There are a few fan translations for the manga chapters, and I used Google Translate on many more, but there are a few I couldn't find even in Japanese. I did manage to find the first and last stories, but there are a couple of chapters that could possibly have important info, but I don't know since I couldn't find them. But I didn't actually say what the series was, did I? It takes place in Hedgehog Town. Nicky is a little nerdy hedgehog kid. He has a family which includes his father, Paulie, his sister, Tania/Anita (that one guy calls her Anita even though she has a T on her shirt in many chapters), and his mother, whose name I forget because I don't recall any chapters where she was very important. He also has a girlfriend, Amy Rose. Amy is a bitch, though, and constantly talking shit to Nicky about what a little bitch he is. She likes Sonic better. Unbeknownst to anybody, including Nicky, Nicky turns into Sonic in times of extreme stress, when he wishes he was brave enough to do important things. Frequently, this means saving Amy from getting raped by local bully, Anton Verruca. But then it's not rape all the time, because there are multiple times when Amy agrees that she will go off with Anton if he beats Nicky at something, or if Nicky just doesn't show up in time to "save" her. Amy reacts to Sonic the same way she does in the games. She's a massive fangirl, but Sonic never seems to give her any romantic attention. Eventually, Eggman shows up to Hedgehog Town, looking for Sonic, and disguises himself as local police officer, Dogman. He sometimes recruits Anton to work for him, but other times Eggman attacks Anton the same as anyone else. He doesn't show much loyalty, and I don't think Anton realizes he's working for Eggman, since people seem to not realize Dogman is Eggman. Tails shows up after a while, saying that he always follows Sonic around, and this brought him to Hedgehog Town. I'm not sure if they ever explain it in a chapter I can't find, as it isn't evident in his earliest appearances, but later on, Tails knows Nicky is Sonic. In one of the last chapters (but not the very last story) Amy also learns that Nicky is Sonic. However, I'm missing at least one chapter immediately before the last story, and I'm not sure if that one explains it, but Nicky just doesn't appear or get referenced in the last story. So I'm not sure if Nicky ever learns he is Sonic, or transforms into Sonic permanently, or if the story ever makes a point that it's important that Amy now knows Nicky is Sonic. Also, Charmy appears for the first time, but he is very strange, and I'm missing many of his appearances. He has a radically different design in chapters by that one weird artist, and comes out of a "Time Box" which he can use to turn back time before Sonic lost a battle and make it so Sonic can win. One notable story involves Paulie telling Nicky of when he first met Sonic. Before Nicky was born, Paulie was flying an experimental aircraft but lost control and almost crashed. Sonic appeared to him and guided him (spiritually) to regain control of the aircraft and make an emergency landing. He landed in front of Nicky's mom's house. That's how they met. If this is time travel, or if Sonic is some sort of eternal spirit that possesses Nicky, or what. Sonic does seem to be something like Nicky when he gains confidence, but as far as I know, no actual explanation is ever given for why he actually transforms, or for how he met Paulie before Nicky was born. At one point, they adapt Sonic 2. Actually, I think they do multiple times, in different magazines. One of these times involves going not just to Westside Island and doing a few setpieces from the game, but also travelling through time. The final story arc is Sonic CD. Notably, this one doesn't involve time travel. Amy is kidnapped by Eggman and brought to Little Planet. Sonic and Tails follow. No mention is made of Nicky. Sonic and Tails begin in the "Palmtree Zone," but another interesting location they go to is "Las Pegasus," a casino city that is the capital of Little Planet. I think Eggman makes a mention of the planet having time powers, or of the time stones, but they don't actually become relevant to the story beyond I guess being his goal. Eggman brainwashes Amy to make her work for him, and he eventually gets her to pilot Metal Sonic, which in this version is a giant mech, but otherwise does look like the game version, pretty much. Amy almost uses Metal Sonic to kill Sonic, but Sonic pulls out a seashell that he, Amy, and Tails got on a trip to the beach one time (not sure if it's in a chapter I couldn't find, but it's not in any I could find), and reminds her that they're friends. She betrays Eggman and sabotages Metal Sonic, saving the day. The end of the whole series.

So how could I possibly try to mesh this into something that could theoretically mesh with the games? It would have to be a bit convoluted, but I would do a framing story to set it up. Say that before the first chapter, Sonic got caught in an explosion or something and got amnesia. He was found by Paulie, who recognizes Sonic from being saved by him back in the day. Sonic doesn't remember who he is, and acts like a normal kid, who would be scared in this situation. Instead of shocking him, perhaps into a bad state, by telling him the truth, Paulie takes him in like a son, to protect him. Perhaps he almost calls him "Sonic" one time by mistake, but then tries to cover up by saying he called him "Nick," which then becomes "Nicky." We can say that Nicky was already a fan of Sonic, and felt herself "strangely" attracted to Nicky when he showed up to town. The rest of the series can pretty much happen as normal. This can be how Sonic first met Amy and Charmy. That doesn't really contradict anything from the games. The Sonic CD adaptation is pretty different from the actual game. I think what I'd do is say that that actually happens after the game. Right before the game, Nicky gets his memory back and becomes Sonic full time, unless one of the missing chapters actually explains why Nicky doesn't appear in the final chapters. I have to find those and confirm, if I can. But otherwise, Nicky just gets his memories back and becomes Sonic full time, then Sonic CD happens, then the Sonic CD manga adaptation happens.