Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
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Franchise	Sonic the Hedgehog
Developed by	Sega
Published by	Sega
Platform(s)	Sega Genesis
Release date(s)	October 18, 1994 (1994-10-18)
Genre	Platform
Let's Play
Played by	John Selig C/J Haley
Featuring	Rick Desilets
Intro theme	"Back 2 Back" by Hideki Naganuma
Outro theme	"STH1 Continue" by Masato Nakamura
Original run	dpadup.com June 23-24, 2011 YouTube September 16 - October 12, 2011
No. of episodes	dpadup.com 2 YouTube 18
Episode length	YouTube 6-15 minutes
Playlist	link
Playlist length	3:12:14
Megaseries
Part of	Sonic Week
Preceded by	Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Followed by	Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
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Franchise	Sonic the Hedgehog
Developed by	Sega
Published by	Sega
Platform(s)	Sega Genesis
Release date(s)	October 18, 1994 (1994-10-18)
Genre	Platform
Let's Play
Intro theme	"Green Hill Zone" by TOY
Outro theme	"Sonic 3" by Rare Candy
Original run	November 15-30, 2016
No. of episodes	14
Episode length	10-20 minutes
Playlist	link
Playlist length	3:40:25
Megaseries
Part of	The Super Sonic Let's Play
Preceded by	Sonic & Knuckles
Followed by	Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2

This page is about the combined game using "lock-on technology". For the individual games when not locked-on, see Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles is a 1994 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It is the third main game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Originally developed as Sonic the Hedgehog 3, it was unable to be finished on time in its complete form, and was split into two smaller games - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, both released during 1994. However, the developers included "lock-on technology" with Sonic & Knuckles, allowing the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 cartridge to be physically attached to the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge. This combined the two games and allowed Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles to be played as originally intended. The game was played by The D-Pad in 2011, as the fourth game in Sonic Week. The LP was recorded in two sessions, and released on The D-Pad's then-website, dpadup.com, as two long episodes (the first covering the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 half of the game, the second covering the Sonic & Knuckles half) on June 23 and June 24, 2011. Later, these videos were edited into 18 shorter episodes, and released on The D-Pad's YouTube channel between September 16 and October 12, 2011.

In 2016, the game was revisited on the channel, as the eighteenth game in The Super Sonic Let's Play, which by then had already covered both Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles separately. The LP consisted of 14 episodes; 13 covering the main single player game, and a bonus episode covering the two-player VS mode. It began on November 15, 2016, and concluded on November 30, 2016.

Episodes

Sonic Week

SW#	Episode	Title	Length	Players	Commentators	Original release date	YouTube release date
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
22	1	"Echidnas Are Fucked Up"	9:31	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 16, 2011
Angel Island Zone Act 1; Special Stage 1; Special Stage 2
23	2	"I Take Your Silence as Agreement"	9:37	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 19, 2011
Angel Island Zone Act 2; Special Stage 3; Special Stage 4
24	3	"Strong Colon"	6:31	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 20, 2011
Hydrocity Zone Act 1; Special Stage 5
25	4	"Oh Buoy"	10:38	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 21, 2011
Hydrocity Zone Act 2; Special Stage 6
26	5	"My Dick Hasn't Been Sucked in Quite Some Time Today"	7:26	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 22, 2011
Marble Garden Zone Act 1; Special Stage 7
27	6	"Clumsily"	9:53	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 23, 2011
Marble Garden Zone Act 2; Special Stage 7
28	7	"Selig the Ceiling, Also Selig the Floor"	9:31	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 26, 2011
Carnival Night Zone Act 1; Special Stage 7
29	8	"Billy Is a Malicious Little Prick"	13:38	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 28, 2011
Carnival Night Zone Act 2; Icecap Zone Act 1
30	9	"Just Trying to Get Tails to Kill Himself"	15:30	John	Rick, C/J	June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23)	September 28, 2011
Icecap Zone Act 2; Launch Base Zone Act 1; Launch Base Zone Act 2
Sonic & Knuckles
31	1	"DROWNED"	9:59	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	September 30, 2011
32	2	"Why Can't Sonic Just Fucking Run?"	12:20	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 3, 2011
33	3	"You Failed the Trial of Turns"	7:17	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 4, 2011
34	4	"Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Wall"	14:38	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 5, 2011
35	5	"There Go One Third of Our Threes"	9:50	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 6, 2011
36	6	"Clever, and Awful"	14:39	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 7, 2011
37	7	"That's It, We're Fucking Him Up"	7:38	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 11, 2011
38	8	"The Ballad of HoFos Girl"	10:02	John, C/J	Rick	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 11, 2011
39	9	"No Island Should Ever Blink"	13:36	C/J	Rick, John	June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)	October 12, 2011

The Super Sonic Let's Play

TSSLP#	Episode	Title	Length	Players	Commentators	Release date
121	1	"Fly Me, Bro"	14:43	TBA	TBA	November 15, 2016 (2016-11-15)
122	2	"Suck Cylinders"	17:41	TBA	TBA	November 15, 2016 (2016-11-15)
123	3	"A Manual Kant"	11:41	TBA	TBA	November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16)
124	4	"Cosmological Imperative"	14:28	TBA	TBA	November 18, 2016 (2016-11-18)
125	5	"Push It Real Good"	18:06	TBA	TBA	November 18, 2016 (2016-11-18)
126	6	"Secret Sucking"	10:29	TBA	TBA	November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)
127	7	"Cloaca Face"	13:53	TBA	TBA	November 20, 2016 (2016-11-20)
128	8	"The Incredible Sulk"	17:24	TBA	TBA	November 21, 2016 (2016-11-21)
129	9	"Oral: For Ladies"	16:43	TBA	TBA	November 22, 2016 (2016-11-22)
130	10	"Just Sounds with Our Faces"	14:34	TBA	TBA	November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23)
131	11	"Crazy Chaos Emerald Powers"	13:05	TBA	TBA	November 24, 2016 (2016-11-24)
132	12	"Just Put Eggs Everywhere"	19:23	TBA	TBA	November 25, 2016 (2016-11-25)
133	13	"A Confusing Choice of Sprite"	20:01	TBA	TBA	November 28, 2016 (2016-11-28)
Competition Mode
134	*	"The Grandest Pricks on the Internet"	18:14	TBA	TBA	November 30, 2016 (2016-11-30)

Trivia

• The Sonic Week LP of the game labels the two halves of the series as Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, and numbers them as if they were two separate games. Despite this, the LP is of the combined version, and not the two individual games.