The Saturn era was a tough time to be a Sonic fan. No original games no thanks to Sonic Team developing NiGHTS into Dreams and Yuji Naka getting pissy over STI wanting to use the NiGHTS engine, having to rely on a portover of Sonic 3D Blast, despite having great music and a shout to Sonic 2, was just a dolled up version of Flicky with crappy loading times surpassed only by Sonic 2006, and Sonic versions of SMBAS and Mario Kart. Meanwhile the PS1 and N64 Juggernauts were steamrolling their way through the competition. The only silver linings were the PS1 was terrible for Capcom arcade ports and the N64 graphics aged mostly like yak milk.