Title:
Sonic Eraser

Genre:
Puzzle

Platform:
Mega Drive/Genesis

Developer:
Unknown

Release Dates:
Japan: 1991

Memory:
None

Players:
1-2

Zones:
?

Playable:
Sonic

Re-releases:
B-Club (Sega Japan)

Other Pages:
Under Construction

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Intro:
Sonic Eraser is a very early Sonic game that was downloaded via the Japan-only Mega Modem. It's a simple puzzle game that's like a bizarre cross between Tetris and Columns. Sonic only really features in it as a minor graphical nicety, but there you go. Blocks of four fall from the sky, and you have to organise them into each type of block. If they pile up to the ceiling, you lose. When you match a certain number of blocks together, which you move about and rotate, they disappear and leave you more points and space.

Story:
Blocks are falling! Oh no! Only you, with your superior score driven organisaition skills can stop them! ...To be honest, I don't think there is a proper story.

The Game:
Sonic Eraser has 4 main modes: Round mode (where you have to clear certain special blocks from each stage), normal mode, doubt mode (a variation of normal mode - certain blocks appear differently), and block mode, where the blocks don’t move once they’ve landed.

The blue-quilled one appears only in the Vs. game, where players compete for either the most points or to be the last player standing. After a certain number of combos, the player's Sonic will attack the other player's Sonic (remember, this game was made in '91. There weren't all that many Sonic characters to choose from back then), causing them to lose control of the falling blocks for a certain amount of time. If no one has lost by the end of ten minutes, the winner is the person with the highest score.