In July of last year, we posted the debut trailer for Sonic Mania, a brand new game in the Sonic franchise that was a throwback to the speedy blue mascot's glory days of the 16-bit era. While the game wasn't officially announced for mobile, there were a couple of reasons I wanted to share that trailer with our audience. First, I'm a huge Sonic fan and simply wanted to make sure other huge Sonic fans saw the news. Second was that it felt like the fitting next chapter to a saga that really began on mobile in the first place. Heading up the Sonic Mania development was Christian Whitehead, a long-time Sonic fan and prominent member of the Sonic fan community who really became known outside of those circles when he unveiled a prototype for a mobile remastering of Sonic CD way back in July of 2009.
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We interviewed Whitehead about his process and the technology behind his remastered Sonic CD prototype, and it got Sonic fans so excited it felt like there was no way Sega would not want to officially green light the project. Well, as many feared, the project went completely silent and it looked like Sega did indeed pull the plug on the whole thing. Then, more than two years later in August of 2011, we got the incredible news that the Sonic CD remaster project was back on! Not only had Sega not pulled the plug, but they struck a deal to work with Whitehead in an official capacity to create the remastered version of Sonic CD. Just a fe...