Mega Drive / Saturn / PC1996Traveller’s Tales / Sonic TeamIsometric platformer

Sonic 3D Blast (1996)

Robotnik has found a flock of magic birds and stuffed them inside his robots. Sonic’s farewell to the Mega Drive swaps the side view for an isometric island, rescue missions and pre-rendered 3D, then turns up on the Saturn in its best clothes.

ReleasedNov 1996 (Genesis, US and Europe) · Saturn Nov 1996 (US), Feb 1997 (Europe), Oct 1999 (Japan)

DeveloperTraveller’s Tales, with Sonic Team

Also known asSonic 3D: Flickies’ Island

ZonesSeven, plus a secret Final Fight

PlayableSonic

A last and a firstThe last Sonic on the Mega Drive, the first on the Saturn

Title	Sonic 3D Blast (North America) Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (Europe and Japan); Japanese: ソニック3D フリッキーアイランド Working title Sonic Spindrift
Platforms	Sega Mega Drive / Genesis; Sega Saturn; PC (Windows)
Developer	Traveller’s Tales, with Sonic Team (game, level and character design; the Saturn Special Stage)
Publisher	Sega (Sega PC for the European PC release)
Producers	Kats Sato (Sega Europe), with Mike Wallis and Manny Granillo (Sega of America); senior producer Yutaka Sugano
Lead programmer	Jon Burton (Traveller’s Tales)
Head designer	Takao Miyoshi; playfield design with Hirokazu Yasuhara
Music	Mega Drive: Jun Senoue, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Masaru Setsumaru, Seirou Okamoto. Saturn and PC: Richard Jacques
Players	1
Mega Drive / Genesis	North America 7 November 1996 (Sega Retro gives 8 November; US$59.99); Europe 14 November 1996; Brazil December 1996
Sega Saturn	North America 20 November 1996; UK 13 February 1997 (£44.99); Japan 14 October 1999 (¥3,800)
PC	September 1997 in North America and Europe (Europe: 25 September)
Peripherals	Saturn: 3D Control Pad (analogue) supported
Previously	Sonic & Knuckles (1994)
Next	Sonic Adventure (1998)

Overview

Sonic 3D Blast is the game that tried to drag Sonic into the 3D age on a 16-bit machine. Released in November 1996, as Sega was winding down the Mega Drive, it tips the camera to a 45-degree isometric angle and fills the screen with characters built in 3D and squashed into sprites. Europe and Japan know it as Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island.

It is a Sonic game with a twist borrowed from Sega’s 1984 arcade game Flicky. Each act asks you to smash Badniks, collect the little birds trapped inside and lead five at a time to a giant ring, rather than simply reach a signpost. Sonic still spins, Spin Dashes, collects rings and grabs shields, and a new Gold Shield gives him an early version of the homing attack.

Most of the work was done in Britain by Traveller’s Tales, with Sonic Team supplying the designs. When the Saturn’s own Sonic game, Sonic X-treme, fell apart, Sega had the studio port 3D Blast to the Saturn in seven weeks, with a new soundtrack by Richard Jacques and a polygon Special Stage made by Sonic Team. Reviewers loved the Mega Drive game in 1996; time has been less kind, and it remains one of the most argued-over games in the series.

Quick Answers

The short answers, with the detail further down the page.

Plot / Story

Somewhere out at sea lies Flicky Island, home of the Flickies, small birds that legend links to the Chaos Emeralds. That is more than enough to bring Dr. Robotnik sniffing around. While spying on the island he watches a flock of Flickies appear from a giant ring hanging in mid-air, perch for a moment and fly back through it. The birds, he realises, come from another dimension, and the Dimension Rings let them travel wherever they please.

Robotnik’s plan writes itself. He rounds up the Flickies and seals them inside his robots as living batteries, hoping their ring-hopping powers will lead him to the Emeralds. Sonic, who happens to be holidaying on the island, needs only one swipe at a Badnik in Green Grove to see a bird burst out of it and work out who is behind this. So begins the rescue: smash the robots, gather the birds, send them home through the rings and get to the Emeralds first.

The Flicky rescue

Every act from Green Grove to Gene Gadget is split into two or three sections. Each needs five Flickies, freed from Badniks and then touched so they fall in behind Sonic like a conga line. Take a hit without a shield and the whole line scatters, so the game becomes a careful dance of herding birds through spikes and enemy fire.

Not every bird is grateful. There are four kinds, and their colour tells you how much chasing to expect (the full line-up is in the Characters table below). Points reward patience: each Flicky in a delivery is worth double the one before, up to 1,600 for the fifth, and every section where all five went through the ring together adds 5,000 to your end-of-act bonus.

Tails, Knuckles and the Special Stages

Sonic’s friends are not playable here. Tails and Knuckles hide in every act from Green Grove to Volcano Valley, one of each, idling in a corner or a secret room. Bring them 50 rings and they send Sonic to a Special Stage, where he runs down a track collecting rings to pass each checkpoint and win a Chaos Emerald. On the Mega Drive it is a simple run along a metal walkway; on the Saturn it is a full 3D half-pipe in the spirit of Sonic 2.

Two endings

After Panic Puppet the game checks your Emeralds. Without all seven he escapes with one and the credits roll on a Try Again screen. With all seven Sonic follows him into a black void for the Final Fight, a ten-hit battle against a huge multi-weapon robot. Knock out its weapons one by one and the doctor is finished, and every Flicky can finally go home.

Zones in Sonic 3D Blast

Seven zones, each with two Flicky-rescue acts and a boss act, then a secret eighth for Emerald collectors. The pictures are from the Saturn version.

1. 
   Green Grove ZoneActs 1–3Where the rescue begins. Its Mega Drive music later turned up, rearranged, in part of Sonic Adventure’s Windy Valley.
2. 
   Rusty Ruin ZoneActs 1–3Ancient ruins; the Saturn version adds fog and rain.
3. 
   Spring Stadium ZoneActs 1–3The third zone, named for its springs.
4. 
   Diamond Dust ZoneActs 1–3The snow zone, home of the Snowman Badniks that need two hits.
5. 
   Volcano Valley ZoneActs 1–3The fire zone, where pink Flickies turn orange on the Mega Drive.
6. 
   Gene Gadget ZoneActs 1–3The sixth zone and the last full Flicky hunt.
7. 
   Panic Puppet ZoneActs 1–3The last regular zone, and the toughest. One of its acts has no Flickies to rescue at all, which no other act outside the boss fights can say.
8. 
   The Final FightSecret · one actAll seven Emeralds only. A single arena that opens up as Robotnik’s last robot falls apart.

Bosses wait in every Act 3, and Robotnik is worth 1,000 points a time, 2,000 in Panic Puppet and 3,000 in the Final Fight.

In comics, TV & other media

Flicky Island travelled well beyond the cartridge. More in Sonic in other movies and media.

Sonic Blast (Archie Comics)US comic · December 1996A 48-page special written by Mike Gallagher. The Knothole Freedom Fighters intercept Robotnik’s plan for FLiCKiE Island, and Sonic, Tails and Rotor discover that sea water turns the robot birds back to normal.

Sonic the Comic #104–106Fleetway, UK · May–July 1997A loose adaptation woven into the comic’s own story: Tails finds a frightened Flicky, the pair uncover Robotnik’s new hideout, and a stranger from the Drakon Empire arrives asking who opened the Dimensional Ring.

Tails’ 30th Anniversary SpecialIDW Publishing · 2022A one-shot that works as a spiritual sequel to 3D Blast and Tails’ Skypatrol: Witchcart has taken over Flicky Island and Tails teams up with the Flickies to save Sonic.

Flicky (1984)Sega arcade gameThe game 3D Blast is built around. Leading a trail of chicks home is exactly what Flicky asked of its little blue bird, twelve years earlier.

Sonic 3D Blast! Survival GuideUS strategy book · 1996A 1996 strategy guide for the Saturn and Genesis versions.

Characters

Only Sonic is playable, but his friends and a whole flock of Flickies make it a crowded island.

Character	Who they are	In this game	Stats & abilities
Sonic the HedgehogPlayable hero	Sega’s blue hero, five years into his career and leaving the Mega Drive for the last time.	Visits Flicky Island just as Robotnik moves in, and sets about freeing the birds and finding the Emeralds.	Spin attack, Spin Dash (B) and roll Moves in eight directions Blast Attack: jump twice with the Gold Shield to home in on a Badnik Starts with four lives; ten Sonic Medals earn a continue
Miles “Tails” ProwerSpecial Stage gatekeeper	Sonic’s two-tailed best friend.	Hides once in each act from Green Grove to Volcano Valley. Give him 50 rings and he sends Sonic to a Special Stage.	Not playable. In Sonic the Comic’s version of the story it is Tails who spots a Flicky in distress.
Knuckles the EchidnaSpecial Stage gatekeeper	Guardian of Angel Island, on friendly terms with Sonic after Sonic & Knuckles.	Does the same job as Tails, with his own hiding place in each act.	Not playable. Find both him and Tails in an act on the Mega Drive and you can win two Emeralds there.
Dr. RobotnikDr. Eggman in Japan · the villain	Sonic’s arch-enemy, still chasing the Chaos Emeralds.	Turns the Flickies into power cells for his Badniks and guards every zone with a new machine.	A boss in every Act 3 A ten-hit robot in the Final Fight Escapes with an Emerald in the bad ending
Blue FlickyThe friendly one	The classic Flicky, star of the 1984 arcade game and Sonic’s animal friend since Sonic 1.	The most common bird on the island.	Seeks Sonic out; circles in tight loops when it cannot find him.
Pink FlickyThe wanderer	A rosier relative.	Behaves like the blue Flicky, but over a wider area.	Circles in big loops when lost; appears orange in the Mega Drive’s Volcano Valley.
Red FlickyThe jumper	The most energetic of the four.	Ignores Sonic and hops between two points.	Short range but very high jumps, which makes it hard to grab.
Green FlickyThe awkward one	The bird nobody wants to chase.	Wanders at random and sometimes seems to dodge Sonic on purpose.	The slowest to round up; a shield is worth having when you finally catch it.

Badniks

Every Badnik on the island has a Flicky inside. These are the names Sonic Retro uses, zone by zone, with the points each is worth.

• ScouterGreen GroveWorth 100 points.
• HunterGreen GroveWorth 200 points.
• SnakeGreen GroveWorth 500 points.
• CrockRusty RuinWorth 100 points.
• BeeRusty RuinWorth 100 points.
• DragflySpring StadiumWorth 100 points.
• SpiderSpring StadiumWorth 100 points.
• ShellSpring StadiumWorth 100 points.
• FishSpring StadiumWorth 100 points.
• SnowmanDiamond DustFreezes on the first hit, frees its Flicky on the second.
• BunnyDiamond DustWorth 100 points.
• PengoDiamond DustWorth 100 points.
• BugVolcano ValleyWorth 100 points.
• FireflyVolcano ValleyWorth 100 points.
• BatVolcano ValleyWorth 100 points.
• ScorpyVolcano ValleyWorth 100 points.
• OctopusGene GadgetWorth 100 points.
• MouseGene GadgetWorth 100 points.
• WalkerPanic PuppetWorth 100 points.
• WhirlPanic PuppetWorth 100 points.

The people who made it

From the in-game credits, as listed by Sega Retro.

How it was made

Our original page had no history section. This one combines Sonic Retro’s development page (the request from Sega’s Western offices, the working titles, the demo tape and the dropped ideas), Wikipedia’s cited history and Sega Retro’s credits.

A Mega Drive game nobody expected

With the Saturn struggling in Western shops, Sega’s American and European offices asked for one more 16-bit Sonic for the Mega Drive. Sega of Japan gave the job to Traveller’s Tales, the British studio behind the Toy Story game and Mickey Mania. Jon Burton’s team first said no, wanting to move on to the PlayStation and Saturn, and changed its mind only when Sega told it the game was the next Sonic.

The idea itself was Sonic Team’s, dating back to its work on Sonic 3, but Sonic Team was tied up with Nights into Dreams. So the work was split: Hirokazu Yasuhara, Takashi Iizuka and Takao Miyoshi supplied the game design and level maps from Japan, Burton wrote most of the code and James Cunliffe led the art. Work started from scratch in 1995, in July by Wikipedia’s account (which gives it eight months) and late in the year by Sonic Retro’s; the game was called Sonic Spindrift at first and Sonic Blast by the time it was shown at E3 in 1996. Burton has said he suspected Sega was hedging its bets while Sonic X-treme struggled.

Squeezing 3D into a cartridge

The isometric viewpoint borrowed from Sonic Labyrinth and Super Mario RPG, and the rendered look from Donkey Kong Country. Characters and scenery were modelled in SoftImage on Silicon Graphics workstations and converted into sprites, and Burton crammed a full-motion video intro into the four-megabyte cartridge with his own compression, keeping it secret from Sega until two weeks before the game was due to be finished.

Not everything made it. A split-screen two-player mode got as far as a prototype that Burton has shown, but the angled view made it too hard to see what was coming. Burton also built in a safety net that players still trip over: a fatal error sends the game to a hidden level select instead of crashing, which helped it through Sega’s testing.

The demo tape

Around May 1996 Jun Senoue posted Burton a cassette labelled Sonic 3D Demo Takes #1, synthesiser demos to be converted for the Mega Drive if approved. Green Grove was still Green Alley on the tape and Spring Stadium was Casino Night. Some tracks never made it in: a boss theme Burton did not like turned up years later in Sonic 4: Episode I, and a bonus-stage tune cut for space became the Pleasure Castle music in Sonic Adventure’s Twinkle Park. Burton later shared the recordings on his GameHut channel.

The Saturn stand-in

Sega also wanted a Saturn version, as insurance in case X-treme failed, and when X-treme was cancelled 3D Blast filled the Christmas 1996 slot. The port took seven weeks and runs the Mega Drive game’s own code, converted to C, with the extra effects layered on top: richer graphics, fog and rain in Rusty Ruin, a better video intro and support for the 3D Control Pad.

The polygon Special Stage, a half-pipe in the style of Sonic 2, came from Sonic Team; developer Neil Harding has said it was lifted from an early version of Sonic Jam. A mini-game called Sonic Pool was considered and dropped, an attempt to reuse X-treme’s leftovers as bonus stages failed because Sonic’s model would not carry over, and Richard Jacques replaced the music with CD audio, ending with You’re My Hero, sung by Debbie Morris.

The PC version

A Windows version of the Saturn game followed in September 1997. It lost the fog and some Special Stage detail, but it is the only version that saves your progress, and it hides an undocumented settings menu and a typed cheat code.

Firsts: what this game introduced

Last and first: what 3D Blast added to the series.

Cheats & secrets

Our original page had no cheats section, so this one is new, checked against Sonic Retro’s hidden-content notes.

Level select and level skip (Mega Drive)

On the title screen press B, A, Right, A, C, Up, Down, A, the letters of BARACUDA, then choose Start. A level select appears, and you can also skip levels during play; skipping a Special Stage still gives you its Emerald. Beating the game once opens the level select too.

Saturn cheat mode

The Saturn version has a pause-menu cheat mode that can skip acts, zones or straight to a boss, add lives and Sonic Medals, and hand over every Emerald. The Japanese release also has its own level select.

PC cheat menu

In the Windows version, type bobandkate during play to add a hidden cheat menu (lives, Emeralds and level skips) to the undocumented settings menu, which opens with M and then Esc.

Codes checked against Sonic Retro, November 2026.

Glitches, exploits and oddities

Some of 3D Blast’s strangest secrets come from the way it handles mistakes.

The secret level select

Every error handler in the Mega Drive game points to a hidden screen that announces you have found the secret level select. Knock a running console hard enough, or load another game’s save state in an emulator, and up it pops, playing the Continue music.

The snowman trap

Diamond Dust’s Snowmen take two hits: one to freeze them, one to free the Flicky. Roll into a snowball between the two and Sonic can lose his rings and then a life before he has a chance to recover. It was never fixed.

Endless invincibility music

Enter a Special Stage while invincible and you can come back with the power gone but the invincibility music still playing to the end of the act.

The shortened jingle

The invincibility track stored on the cartridge is longer than the 18 seconds the game actually plays.

Videos & media

A full run of the Mega Drive original, and a look at the Director’s Cut from the man who programmed it.

A complete Mega Drive playthrough from the World of Longplays archive.

Trailer for Sonic 3D Blast DX, the fan update later renamed the Director’s Cut, from GameHut, the channel of lead programmer Jon Burton.

Trivia & facts

• One cartridge, two names: the Mega Drive game reads the console’s region and calls itself Flickies’ Island on PAL machines and 3D Blast everywhere else. The Japanese Saturn release uses the European title.

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  It reached Japan only at the very end of the Saturn’s life, in October 1999, as Sega’s last first-party Saturn release there; Sonic Adventure International came out that very day.
• Jun Senoue rearranged two of his Mega Drive tracks for Sonic Adventure because the Mega Drive game had never been sold in Japan, and an unused boss tune from the cartridge became the boss theme of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I.
• Sega’s launch press release promised seven zones of three acts. The Final Fight, the eighth, was kept quiet.
• The Genesis game launched alongside the Game Gear’s Sonic Blast, which also used pre-rendered graphics.
• Electronic Gaming Monthly’s Genesis Game of the Year went to Vectorman 2, with 3D Blast in second place.

Media & artwork

Box art, artwork and screenshots from Sonic Scene’s own galleries and Sonic Retro. Select any image to view it larger.

• Box art from Sonic 3D Blast
• Screenshots from Sonic 3D Blast
• Official artwork from Sonic 3D Blast

Legacy

Sonic 3D Blast closed the Mega Drive era, opened Sonic’s Saturn career and kept Traveller’s Tales working with Sonic Team, who reunited for Sonic R in 1997. The studio went on to the Lego games, which brought Sonic back into its world in Lego Dimensions.

Releases and re-releases

• Genesis (North America) 7 November 1996 – US$59.99. Europe followed on 14 November.
• Saturn (North America) 20 November 1996 – The X-treme stand-in, in time for Christmas.
• Saturn (Europe) February 1997 – UK release 13 February at £44.99.
• PC September 1997 – The only version with saving; later reissued many times on budget labels.
• Saturn (Japan) 14 October 1999 – As Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island, ¥3,800.
• Sonic Mega Collection 2002–2004 – GameCube, then Mega Collection Plus on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC; the first time the Mega Drive version reached Japan.
• Wii Virtual Console 2007 – Japan 16 October, Europe 2 November, North America 19 November.
• Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection 2009 – PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
• Steam 1 June 2010 – The Mega Drive version, like every re-release.
• Sega Genesis Classics 2018 – Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
• Sega Genesis Mini 2 October 2022 – Built into the console in North America and Europe.

The Director’s Cut

Twenty-one years on, in 2017, Jon Burton put out his own unofficial Director’s Cut as a patch for the Mega Drive game. It tightens the controls and adds a level editor, password saves, time attack and a Super Sonic transformation.

How it is remembered

Opinion has turned against it. Later critics found the isometric view awkward, the controls slippery and the Flicky hunts slow, and some lists rank it among the weakest Sonic games, though most still praise its graphics and music. Supporters, including 1UP’s Jeremy Parish, have argued it is better than its reputation.

Sales & reviews

Sales

Sega did not publish figures, but Mike Wallis, who produced the game at Sega of America, has said the Genesis version sold more than 700,000 copies, later putting it above a million. He also counted the Saturn version among that console’s better sellers. We have not found audited figures.

• 700,000+Genesis copies, by Mike Wallis’ account
• 86%Sega Retro average, Mega Drive (25 reviews)
• 75%Sega Retro average, Saturn (26 reviews)
• 71%Sega Retro average, PC (10 reviews)

Reception and review scores

Period scores from Sega Retro’s review index, which links each one to a scan of the original page.

On the Mega Drive it was a hit with critics. Mean Machines Sega welcomed it as a proper Sonic game in its own right, Computer and Video Games called it the first must-have Mega Drive release in years, and almost everyone marvelled at what the old console was doing with colour and rendered graphics. The doubts were about the controls, which GamePro and EGM felt took time to master, and a shortage of secrets compared with earlier Sonics.

The Saturn version split opinion. Sega Saturn Magazine found it more challenging than any Sonic before it, and EGM’s Dan Hsu thought its similarity to the Genesis game was a compliment to the older machine. Others were blunter: Entertainment Weekly felt a game that impressed on 16 bits fell flat next to true 32-bit 3D, and Computer and Video Games and Edge marked it down.

Honours

Further reading

More from Sonic Scene on Sonic 3D Blast and the games around it:

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against the sources below. Sonic Retro and Sega Retro pages were read through Wayback Machine copies from late 2023 to 2025, because both live sites show a bot check; each Sonic Retro link opens the nearest archived copy. Magazine scores come from Sega Retro’s review index, which links each score to a scan of the original page.

• Overview: Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sega Retro, Press release 1996-11-12: Sonic the Hedgehog returns to Sega Genesis with the need for speed in “Sonic 3D Blast”; Sonic Scene, “Sonic 3D Blast” (original infobox article, Joomla 456)
• Quick Answers: Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Hidden content (level select, Saturn and PC cheats); Sega Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (release dates, prices, review index with scans)
• Plot / Story: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sonic Retro zone pages: Green Grove Zone, Rusty Ruin Zone, Spring Stadium Zone, Diamond Dust Zone, Volcano Valley Zone, Gene Gadget Zone, Panic Puppet Zone, The Final Fight; Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy)
• In comics, TV & other media: Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sega Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (release dates, prices, review index with scans)
• Characters: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sega Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Production credits (Mega Drive, Saturn and PC); Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Development (Western request, working titles, E3 1996, split-screen, demo tape, Saturn port, Sonic Pool)
• How it was made: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Development (Western request, working titles, E3 1996, split-screen, demo tape, Saturn port, Sonic Pool); Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sega Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Production credits (Mega Drive, Saturn and PC); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Hidden content (level select, Saturn and PC cheats)
• Firsts: what this game introduced: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy)
• Cheats & secrets: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Hidden content (level select, Saturn and PC cheats)
• Glitches, exploits and oddities: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Bugs; Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island/Hidden content (level select, Saturn and PC cheats)
• Videos & media: YouTube, World of Longplays, video VPqPt_R7nuo (checked with oEmbed); YouTube, GameHut, video TO-N2WHbnqU (checked with oEmbed)
• Trivia & facts: Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sega Retro, Press release 1996-11-12: Sonic the Hedgehog returns to Sega Genesis with the need for speed in “Sonic 3D Blast”
• Legacy: Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy); Sonic Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (story, gameplay, Flickies, scoring, music, Saturn and PC versions, adaptations, re-releases); Sega Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (release dates, prices, review index with scans)
• Sales & reviews: Sega Retro, Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island (release dates, prices, review index with scans); Wikipedia, Sonic 3D Blast (development, release, sales, contemporary and retrospective reviews, legacy)