Sega Shows Off Sonic Origins Plus Physical Edition Covers

They know how to pull my nostalgia strings with those covers.
Fairly happy with what they’ve done with, and are doing, with this origins collection!
Still heavily missing the proper Sonic 3 music in those couple levels though :/

Why is there a Sonic Mania video on this article about Sonic Origins?

They look like the old cartridges! Oh my god I need these!

I just wish that the game had launched like this instead of a year later when I already own the digital version

@RushDawg Innocent mistake most likely, accidentally grabbing Mania Plus instead of Origins Plus.

@Liam_Doolan You might want to update the video in the article.

The box art on Amazon doesn’t match the one in the article. I’d guess that’s Amazon’s mistake. That said, I want the Japanese cover but Amazon only have the PAL one. I guess this means I’ll have to preorder from Play-Asia.

Good lord those are beautiful 😍 I'm going to have to buy them, all aren't I? Yes. Yes I am.

@BulkSlash These are the reversible covers (ie you have to take out the cover and turn it around to see the retro variants printed on the back). The default front cover is the same for all versions.

You can see the American Genesis style one on US Amazon. At the time of wrting this, the British Amazon page doesn't show a picture of the reversible cover (though it confirms that it is present in the text) - this is the first time we've seen the Japanese and Euro variant art.

Now all I need is sonic advance collection..

@BulkSlash Or order it from Amazon Japan.

oh they are really nice....v (but I'm not buying sonic again...)

Am I now more interested in this collection simply because of the box art? Why yes, yes I am.

Why is a trailer from Sonic Mania there?

Love the European Mega Drive one, but the way they have pasted in the consoles, just looks lazy
I would have rather have had the Master System instead of Game Gear versions, the screens are way too small but they are exactly the same game

@ChromaticDracula
They have done this since Generation, technically already with Sonic 4. Reminding fans how good Sonic was in the past is the only way to keep the franchise alive.

The Japanese art is my favorite but all three are very nice.

Will the text on the back invite us to 'bust the video game speed barrier wide open with Sonic The Hedgehog'! Ah nostalgia, I still have my original Sonic 1 cartridges for for Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear.

It's a no-brainer for me to choose the JP one. That one will go quite nicely with my JP copy of Sonic Jam.

The lack of the original sonic 3 songs are a huge stain in that collection for me... (I have it already)

But I have to admit that these covers are pretty sweet

@BulkSlash it says these are variants. As with Sonic Mania, I imagine they’re going to be reversible covers in each region

Ah, they really missed the mark by not releasing the Master System versions of those games — is there a rights issue with those or something? I don't think they've ever showed up in any of the previous Sonic collections...

The Box Art Brawl for this one is going to be interesting! I like all three of these! Sonic and his pals are all illustrated the same, unlike the Genesis/Mega Drive covers, so it depends on what you think of the backgrounds. The UK box art looks more simplistic, the American box art has more colors going for it, and the Japanese box art is loud, in your face, very 90's, and I love it for that!

Amy is doing a thumbs up and they've just stuck a CD on top. So about as much effort as dumping GG ROMS.

@DanijoEX I have a Japanese copy of Sonic Jam too! The actual disc with Sonic's eyes printed across is also really stylish. I always liked the EU box art too though, for the Mega Drive original.

@ChromaticDracula
yeah the music issue is unfortunate, licencing can be a major thorn in the side of game preservation

12 Sonic games?! Cool collection!

Nintendo needs to release a Mario and Zelda origins compilation.

@Don you could just get nso and get to play 4 Mainline Zelda games (7 with the expansion) and 5 mainline Mario games (6 with the expansion)

Will the Japanese one include a soundtrack? The Japanese Sonic Mania Plus did.

As for the actual cover, all of them are good, but I guess I'd not choose the American one. Never been a fan of the name SEGA Genesis despite the fact I'm in Mexico and the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" has no nostalgia to me.
Either SEGA didn't market the system in Latin American TV (I don't remember seeing Genesis commercials while Nintendo at least translated the American commercials) or I was too young to realize what they were.

@OctoKing
I have the NSO including Expansion Pak but much rather have a physical compilation of classic Nintendo games. When the NSO eventually ends all the games will disappear with it like the virtual console games on the eShop. The physical compilations will give us permanent access to the classic games and they would also be good collectors items too.

@Andee Hard to say, the Sega Master System was never popular in the US or JP. But was a big hit in South America & Europe.

Hell, Sonic Blast was ported to the Master System in South America in 1996/97.

The last time the SMS ver. of Sonic 2 & Chaos were released was on the Wii Virtual Console.

I doubt there are no rights issues but I know Tec Toy has the market licence to sell the Master System to this day...I think.

I think someone else will tell you much better than I can. But playing Sonic 2 on the MS is a much better experience than on Gamegear. Sonic Chaos on GG & MS is fine. But the MS versions have a much better presentation with the effin screen crunch...

Currently got the Uk 🇬🇧 and Japan 🇯🇵 editions pre ordered.

I wasn't a big fan of Sonic Mania but this is really a timeless collection and the covers are incredibly cool.

I like the megadrive JP version first, megadrive US, and last genesis version.

Never was that much of a fan of the EU cover for Sonic 1, bit strange they couldn't have done a little more (though let's be real, most of the other MD EU covers they could've used as reference are just the US covers again)

I still say they’re out of their minds asking $40 Game Gear games added doesn’t help justify either. Now if they threw in Sonic Adventure 1&2….

huge sonic fan, def getting this. i like the detail that the cartridge knuckles is holding changes art between the illustrations. (except the PAL art, that one is ugly)