{"id":99822,"date":"2016-07-26T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=99822"},"modified":"2016-07-26T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:43:56","slug":"old-school-2d-sonic-the-hedgehog-game-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/99822-old-school-2d-sonic-the-hedgehog-game-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Old-school 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone was picking their jaws up off the floor from the spectacular movie trailers revealed at this year&#8217;s San Diego Comic Con, another notable announcement slipped under the radars, and it&#8217;s one that shouldn&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n<p>Sega announced two new Sonic games &#8211; Project Sonic 2017 (a working title, obviously) which will be a new 3D Sonic title, and Sonic Mania &#8211; a 2D throwback to the golden era of everyone&#8217;s anthropomorphic hedgehog.<\/p>\n<p>Sonic Mania will try\u00a0to tap into what made the original set of Sonic games so beloved back in the 16-bit era, and features classic-style visuals, gameplay, and both original levels and remixes of classic levels.<\/p>\n<p>It pretty much sounds like the Sonic game fans have been begging for for decades, and, at least based on the trailer, it looks like it might finally deliver.<\/p>\n<p>Sonic Mania is scheduled for release on <strong>PlayStation<\/strong> <strong>4<\/strong>, <strong>Xbox One<\/strong>, and <strong>PC<\/strong> in <strong>early 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxmtYdEWVzo?rel=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article\u00a0originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/new-2d-sonic-the-hedgehog-game-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why you can\u2019t trust online user ratings\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/97612-this-is-why-you-cant-trust-online-user-ratings.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why you can\u2019t trust online user ratings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Get a premium XSplit license for free with MSI\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/98430-get-a-premium-xsplit-license-for-free-with-msi.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Get a premium XSplit license for free with MSI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Android\u2019s keyboard update is awesome\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/91149-androids-keyboard-update-is-awesome.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Android\u2019s keyboard update is awesome<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sonic The Hedgehog bombshell drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":99826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,2664,1109,1590,20748,5133],"class_list":["post-99822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-gaming","tag-sega","tag-sonic","tag-sonic-mania","tag-sonic-the-hedgehog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99836,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99822\/revisions\/99836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}