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Yuji Naka explains how Super Mario Bros. tedium inspired Sonic creation
“Back then, games didn’t allow you to save your progress. So when you wanted to play Super Mario Bros., you always had to start from World 1-1.You could use the Warp Zones to skip many of the other levels, but you always had to play through World 1-1. Doing so eventually became kind of tedious, so I always tried to get through the level as fast as I could. And that inspired the initial concept for Sonic The Hedgehog.” - Yuji Naka
Who knew that Sonic the Hedgehog might not have come to be without Miyamoto’s creation of Mario? Man, what a strange world we live in!