man101 posted...
You can argue about whether the early sonic games were actually good or if they just stood out as decent among a sea of literal garbage because the early days of video game design had almost no rules or consistent logic and most of them looked like hot garbage even considering the graphical limitations.
I'd go a step farther. Were they good because they were good? Or because if you'd bought a Genesis there was very little else worth playing (other than maybe sports games or the version of Mortal Kombat that didn't have blood censored), because the vast majority of worthwhile games were in the SNES library instead?
It's easy to convince yourself that Sonic is good when you've got nothing else to play and are mostly just constantly playing it out of desperation.