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A new sprite for Sonic 3 (this game's immediate successor) meant a new art style, which changed the feel of the games. This is the original Sonic sprite's final, most evolved state - and it's awesome.

Sonic.exe is a short story submitted by user JC-the-Hyena to CreepyPasta, an online horror genre, in August 2011. The story was centered on a violent, murderous character, a reimagined version of ...

The Sonic sprite has also been modified; gone is chubby Sonic, replaced with the leaner, heavily bandaged Sonic introduced in the Sonic Boom games and animated series.

That's a 100% authentic-looking new animation frame for classic Sonic. If someone, somewhere is still able to recreate that classic 2D Sonic sprite style, maybe one day we'll get the new 2D Sonic ...