User blog:Noodlecoon/¾ Past Cool: A Fan’s Memoirs of Sonic the Hedgehog:

In my early years, I was not a Sonic fan. I wasn’t even aware of his presence in the world. I was more of a video game enthusiast, and was even more of a fan of Kirby (I still am, but that’s a different story). Despite the fact that I was alive during the Dreamcast era, I was finally was aware of the blue hedgehog when I saw the cover of a Nintendo Power magazine, advertising for “Sonic Heroes” for the GameCube. I asked one of my friends who Sonic was, and he filled me in on the characters, though I didn’t exactly get it. Sometime later, I finally played a Sonic game in a Target store (the game was Sonic Heroes), and while I didn’t know what the crap I was doing, I was fascinated. Eventually, I rented the same game from a Blockbuster (which I by the way eventually bought from a there) and got it down. As time went by, I played more games, like “Sonic Adventure DX”, “Sonic Adventure 2: Battle”, and even the classic games (thru “Sonic Mega Collection”). Since I was unable to find any Sonic action figures, I would draw Sonic characters and cut them out as substitutes (and believe me; my drawings were god-awful compared to my sister’s, which were over 9000 times better than mine). About the Sonic cartoons from the 90’s, I watched them when I was in 3rd grade, thanks to Blockbuster. Moving right along, when I turned 11, I finally bought a Sonic action figure from a K·B Toys toy store (A Toy Island Super Poser Sonic), which I particularly enjoyed. Then, in early 2009, I bought Sonic Adventure DX from a GameStop, and have played it to the point of knowing how to glitch it. Later on in the same year, I received a “Jazwares” 5 –inch Sonic and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for the GameCube (via GameStop) for my 13th birthday, which fully launched me to being a Sonic fan. Unfortunately, a month later, I plunged into a depression that made me question my religious faith in the life after death. Wracked with grief, I turned to the internet to cope. Once there, I found a figurative white knight, in the form of a Sonic wiki: Sonic News Network. I joined it under the alias of “Needlemouse”, and from there, I somehow was able to slowly reconstruct myself, and able to meet some interesting Sonic fans. By the time of my 14th birthday, I was no longer depressed, and I also began drawing Sonic again (which by the way, was improved). During the summer of 2010, I was on the Sonic News Network, where I constantly had conversations with my friends “Mighty the Hedgefox”, “Ultimatedude127”, and “Super Guy 100”. It was one of the best summers of my life. Then things fell apart. Mighty disappeared (though he reappeared on Star Wars Fanon Wiki, but has disappeared from that too) and Super Guy disappeared shortly after being banned from Sonic Fanon Wiki. Despite all of that, I still am a Sonic fan, and I look forward to all the new games starring the blue dude with ‘tude. -- Eric  the  Hedgehog  Time to kick some Ro-Butt-nik butt!