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Lego Sonic the Hedgehog Set is a Perfect Pixelated Nostalgia of the 16-bit Era
Do you want to hear something crazy? I’ve never had a Lego set of my own. Not as a kid, not later. Growing up in a tiny, poor town in the far North of Russia, I barely knew what Lego was, seeing it only in the TV ads from time to time. Some of my friends had Lego sets, but they were too protective of them, so I’d only see the final result and rarely participated in the building process (which is the most fun, right?).
Sega and Sonic the Hedgehog
Even though I didn’t have Lego, I had other cool things. For example, a Sega Mega Drive console. My dad purchased it from his friend’s son–the guy was upgrading to Nintendo 64 and needed to sell his old console.
That Sega had seen better days when I got it; the cables lived the rest of their days, and the controllers were greasy with barely visible letters on the buttons. Still, it was my first cool console after using a Russian NES clone with its 8-bit games for years, so I was on cloud nine.
The console came with a bunch of used games. Most of the games were useless and ended up being resold except for one–Sonic the Hedgehog. To say that the game blew my mind would be an understatement. By far, it was the best game I’d ever played at that time, and it would steal days of my…
