I didn't know what DBZ was, and I was 3 years old. So, I just accepted what was happening.
Like, what else would happen if you got 7 Chaos Emeralds? Of course you'd become a Super Sonic. Duh.
So unless you were a fricking frog, you didn't know what dbz was, and even then, it didn't get to that part.
So unless you're a proto weeb or were honest to God living in Japan (which I'm betting most of the posters here weren't), you had no idea.
Has Hyper Sonic even been a thing outside of one game? It's been a while since I played through a Sonic game, I seem to remember them kind of quietly retconning it out of the series.
Super emeralds have only been a thing in Sonic 3 & Knuckles (and not the individual component games).
The super emeralds are in fact an upgraded form of the chaos emeralds. Rather than being kept in the player's possession, they are enshrined in the hidden palace zone and when all seven are activated by the master emerald and the player's efforts in the special zone, grants them the hyper transformation.
As possessing the chaos emeralds and having enough rings can grant a super transformation, they can be used anywhere.
It stands to reason that hyper transformations can only be performed on Angel Island when the super emeralds are active.
The emeralds are only ever "what cool gameplay reward can be give the player", and they make up stuff whenever it's cool or fun.
In the upcoming Sonic Superstars, they're gonna introduce special abilities that can be activated using each individual emerald.
In Sonic Frontiers, it was revealed that the chaos emeralds came from outer space, but the master emerald was on Sonic's planet (it could mean the chaos emeralds aren't necessarily extra-terrestrial in origin but found their way home).
I remember when I had multiple attempts at trying to get every emerald in emerald hill zone. Felt amazing as a kid going super at every robotnik fight.
Why do you keep making this same thread? We already went over that pretty much nobody in America knew of DBZ when Sonic 2 came out. Do you think it's hilariously funny or something?
Ended up getting Sonic 2 with the Genesis Model 2 as a Christmas Present in like 1993, or so. It was the official pack-in game for the Genesis Model 2. Completed the game in like a week, unlocked everything including super Sonic. Never noticed any references at all. Because the Oceans dub didn't air here in Canada until like 1996 or so. The thing to note about this dub is that it does tease Goku going Super Sayian in the opening intro of each episode.
But the episode where he does transform didn't air until 1999. By this time, the Dreamcast was released. I actually bought a Dreamccast in later 1999.
Sonic 1 didn't have Super Sonic.
You're looking at Sonic 2, which was released on November 21, 1992.
But bascially what
So unless you were a fricking frog, you didn't know what dbz was, and even then, it didn't get to that part.
So unless you're a proto weeb or were honest to God living in Japan (which I'm betting most of the posters here weren't), you had no idea.
I see you’re not only moronic, but also autistic. If you don’t think spamming the same frickin garbage low IQ thread and the same responses is acceptable then you are beyond reasoning. Also, you are gay.
>I'd rather have impossible autism questions over anything that actually leads to vidya discussion
No one outside of Japan and (as previously stated) France knew about DBZ until the late 90s
If you were in Japan, you were either Japanese or were in a military family or some shit. If you're Japanese, you have better things to do with your life than post on Ganker, if you were in a military family, it's also up to the slim chance whether you watched Japanese cartoons and could understand what the frick was going on.
The only way you'd know outside of Japan is if you were one of those neckbeards who traded bootleg hardsubbed tapes of anime, chances are you weren't a kid doing this, and then there's the slim chance of whether you're both a "Japanimation" trading gay and also a Sega playing gay who was into sonic.
So unless you're Japanese, military family child who understands Japanese cartoons, or bootleg tape trader at the time and happened to play Sonic 2 at the time, you had literally no idea, and chances are people who did this are slim pickings on Ganker, an english imageboard, in current year, 31 years after Sonic 2 released, where most of the people sentient around that time weren't in Japan and weren't into the anime/manga trading scene outside of Just For Kids tapes.
There's your answer, now frick off with this thread forever.
Like what? Being the manga trading gay? Some kid who was on vacation in early 90s Japan for some reason and got a peak at DBZ and happened to understand it? Being an exchange student? Having the token japanese exchange student friend? Being a Japanese American and getting manga and taped episodes from family?
The more you add, the more slim it gets, Anime in America outside of occasional shit like Speedracer and Robotech (Macross), Akira and OVAs from the actually good video store was slim pickings until the mid 90s (after 92), and DBZ was culturally more of a late 90s/early 2000s CN kid thing, not an early 90s kid thing in the slightest unless
>I'd rather have impossible autism questions over anything that actually leads to vidya discussion
No one outside of Japan and (as previously stated) France knew about DBZ until the late 90s
If you were in Japan, you were either Japanese or were in a military family or some shit. If you're Japanese, you have better things to do with your life than post on Ganker, if you were in a military family, it's also up to the slim chance whether you watched Japanese cartoons and could understand what the frick was going on.
The only way you'd know outside of Japan is if you were one of those neckbeards who traded bootleg hardsubbed tapes of anime, chances are you weren't a kid doing this, and then there's the slim chance of whether you're both a "Japanimation" trading gay and also a Sega playing gay who was into sonic.
So unless you're Japanese, military family child who understands Japanese cartoons, or bootleg tape trader at the time and happened to play Sonic 2 at the time, you had literally no idea, and chances are people who did this are slim pickings on Ganker, an english imageboard, in current year, 31 years after Sonic 2 released, where most of the people sentient around that time weren't in Japan and weren't into the anime/manga trading scene outside of Just For Kids tapes.
There's your answer, now frick off with this thread forever.
and
Like what? Being the manga trading gay? Some kid who was on vacation in early 90s Japan for some reason and got a peak at DBZ and happened to understand it? Being an exchange student? Having the token japanese exchange student friend? Being a Japanese American and getting manga and taped episodes from family?
, and there's not many kids like that. I guess Happy Console gamer turned out okay, but he's not posting here. You're left with these other hypothetical "experienced DBZ Super Saiyan arch and Sonic 2 in early 90s, and happen to know english now".
If you really want an answer to this so badly, get some vpn or something, run the question through deepl and ask 2ch (or whatever replaced it) or futaba channel and relay results here. Though of course the problem is since Sonic 2 happened 31 years ago, you're hoping to catch the attention of the odd dude in his late 30s/early 40s who decided to look at a Japanese anonymous BBS.
Maybe I'll ask misskey for you.
I honestly think I knew about DBZ before Sonic 2, or at least, I knew about DBZ before knowing about Super Sonic.
In fact, I remember the very first time I rented Sonic 2 at the video club, some guys there were playing one of the SNES DBZ games.
TV anime in America didn't really take off until Pokemon was the one that basically replaced western cartoons for the generation (I know speed racer and Robotech were things, but those were shows that coexisted with the then current cartoons, not replacers). People didn't think it would sell and there was the constant problem of "muh TV violence". I guess things changed in the mid 90s when Sailor Moon proved popular in America and especially when Pokemania was in full swing.
I didn't know what DBZ was, and I was 3 years old. So, I just accepted what was happening.
Like, what else would happen if you got 7 Chaos Emeralds? Of course you'd become a Super Sonic. Duh.
Exactly this for me as well. I didn't even learn about dbz until like 1999-2000 ish
Unless you were that one guy, you didn't know what dbz was in 92 if you were outside Japan
>first airing of DBZ in France
>December 24th, 1990
Probably didn't get Super Saiyan by 92 though
So unless you were a fricking frog, you didn't know what dbz was, and even then, it didn't get to that part.
So unless you're a proto weeb or were honest to God living in Japan (which I'm betting most of the posters here weren't), you had no idea.
super sonic = super saiyan
hyper sonic = ???
They're puns. Supersonic and hypersonic are both real words.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supersonic
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hypersonic
supersonic = faster than sound
hypersonic = 5x faster than sound
Has Hyper Sonic even been a thing outside of one game? It's been a while since I played through a Sonic game, I seem to remember them kind of quietly retconning it out of the series.
No, he only shows up in S3&K iirc.
Something something about the Super Emeralds being retconned out.
They do show up in Mania though.
the super emeralds were just put there so they can give you something extra in S3&K, they are not canon. And Mania is largely western fanwank.
what about Ultrasonic?
Super emeralds have only been a thing in Sonic 3 & Knuckles (and not the individual component games).
The super emeralds are in fact an upgraded form of the chaos emeralds. Rather than being kept in the player's possession, they are enshrined in the hidden palace zone and when all seven are activated by the master emerald and the player's efforts in the special zone, grants them the hyper transformation.
As possessing the chaos emeralds and having enough rings can grant a super transformation, they can be used anywhere.
It stands to reason that hyper transformations can only be performed on Angel Island when the super emeralds are active.
The emeralds are only ever "what cool gameplay reward can be give the player", and they make up stuff whenever it's cool or fun.
In the upcoming Sonic Superstars, they're gonna introduce special abilities that can be activated using each individual emerald.
In Sonic Frontiers, it was revealed that the chaos emeralds came from outer space, but the master emerald was on Sonic's planet (it could mean the chaos emeralds aren't necessarily extra-terrestrial in origin but found their way home).
Go take a bath son.
Frontiers is adding Super Saiyan Kaioken Sonic for the big "extra boss" fight.
Close enough?
Super Saiyan 2
>supersonic = faster than sound
>hypersonic = 5x faster than sound
I remember when I had multiple attempts at trying to get every emerald in emerald hill zone. Felt amazing as a kid going super at every robotnik fight.
Why do you keep making this same thread? We already went over that pretty much nobody in America knew of DBZ when Sonic 2 came out. Do you think it's hilariously funny or something?
OP thinks he's being a clever baiter, trying to bait in larpers and liars
it never works.
Ended up getting Sonic 2 with the Genesis Model 2 as a Christmas Present in like 1993, or so. It was the official pack-in game for the Genesis Model 2. Completed the game in like a week, unlocked everything including super Sonic. Never noticed any references at all. Because the Oceans dub didn't air here in Canada until like 1996 or so. The thing to note about this dub is that it does tease Goku going Super Sayian in the opening intro of each episode.
But the episode where he does transform didn't air until 1999. By this time, the Dreamcast was released. I actually bought a Dreamccast in later 1999.
Super Sonic? You mean like Super Mario or Superman?
How did you react to Oasis making a song about this?
sonic predates the first super saiyan transformation dumbass.
Sonic 1 didn't have Super Sonic.
You're looking at Sonic 2, which was released on November 21, 1992.
But bascially what
said.
Super Saiya was introduced in chapter 318 (or 317?) which released in march.
What type of autism compels you to repost this every month?
Eh, i'll take it over emulation vs hardware or Ganker style threads (console wars, template threads, etc)
With all due respect, you are a moron.
t. Gankerirgin
what are you on about?
this garbage spam is literally Ganker-tier
>Ganker
>talking about 1992
I see you’re not only moronic, but also autistic. If you don’t think spamming the same frickin garbage low IQ thread and the same responses is acceptable then you are beyond reasoning. Also, you are gay.
Keep crying, I bet you make actual Ganker template threads and felt offended. Talking about 1992 is retro and anti-/v/
Way to out yourself as the degenerate furgay spammer you are, OP. have a nice day
Good, good. Be angry, Ganker.
>I'd rather have impossible autism questions over anything that actually leads to vidya discussion
No one outside of Japan and (as previously stated) France knew about DBZ until the late 90s
If you were in Japan, you were either Japanese or were in a military family or some shit. If you're Japanese, you have better things to do with your life than post on Ganker, if you were in a military family, it's also up to the slim chance whether you watched Japanese cartoons and could understand what the frick was going on.
The only way you'd know outside of Japan is if you were one of those neckbeards who traded bootleg hardsubbed tapes of anime, chances are you weren't a kid doing this, and then there's the slim chance of whether you're both a "Japanimation" trading gay and also a Sega playing gay who was into sonic.
So unless you're Japanese, military family child who understands Japanese cartoons, or bootleg tape trader at the time and happened to play Sonic 2 at the time, you had literally no idea, and chances are people who did this are slim pickings on Ganker, an english imageboard, in current year, 31 years after Sonic 2 released, where most of the people sentient around that time weren't in Japan and weren't into the anime/manga trading scene outside of Just For Kids tapes.
There's your answer, now frick off with this thread forever.
There's a lot of other variables
Like what? Being the manga trading gay? Some kid who was on vacation in early 90s Japan for some reason and got a peak at DBZ and happened to understand it? Being an exchange student? Having the token japanese exchange student friend? Being a Japanese American and getting manga and taped episodes from family?
Literally none. You just want to shitpost
The more you add, the more slim it gets, Anime in America outside of occasional shit like Speedracer and Robotech (Macross), Akira and OVAs from the actually good video store was slim pickings until the mid 90s (after 92), and DBZ was culturally more of a late 90s/early 2000s CN kid thing, not an early 90s kid thing in the slightest unless
and
, and there's not many kids like that. I guess Happy Console gamer turned out okay, but he's not posting here. You're left with these other hypothetical "experienced DBZ Super Saiyan arch and Sonic 2 in early 90s, and happen to know english now".
If you really want an answer to this so badly, get some vpn or something, run the question through deepl and ask 2ch (or whatever replaced it) or futaba channel and relay results here. Though of course the problem is since Sonic 2 happened 31 years ago, you're hoping to catch the attention of the odd dude in his late 30s/early 40s who decided to look at a Japanese anonymous BBS.
Maybe I'll ask misskey for you.
I always thought Happy Console Gamer was a compulsive liar. No way someone could have had such an awesome childhood/adolescence.
Hardly anyone in the USA would have known about this
I honestly think I knew about DBZ before Sonic 2, or at least, I knew about DBZ before knowing about Super Sonic.
In fact, I remember the very first time I rented Sonic 2 at the video club, some guys there were playing one of the SNES DBZ games.
didn't mean to reply to that post btw, I'm not in USA.
the idea of DBZ exploding in popularity in the US as if it was something new, long after it was dead in japan, is hilarious to me
it also never would have become popular in america with grandma goku and the generic orchestral soundtrack
>generic orchestral soundtrack
>generic
seriously though why did americans feel the need to change that? it worked in every other region.
>generic orchestral soundtrack
Opposed to what, generic techno soundtrack?
TV anime in America didn't really take off until Pokemon was the one that basically replaced western cartoons for the generation (I know speed racer and Robotech were things, but those were shows that coexisted with the then current cartoons, not replacers). People didn't think it would sell and there was the constant problem of "muh TV violence". I guess things changed in the mid 90s when Sailor Moon proved popular in America and especially when Pokemania was in full swing.