Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Let's celebrate 15 years of Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis on the GBA... by completely ripping it apart.
Watch to find out everything that makes this handheld port of the beloved classic so horrifyingly bad.

There are lots of reviews of this awful game out there already but I felt that none of them covered absolutely all of the awfulness. So I took a lot of time and effort to make sure I cram about everything into this one review here.

0:00 Introduction
1:43 Title Screen, Menus, Features
3:56 Graphics
4:31 Screen crunch
5:30 Camera issues
6:22 Late GBA release
7:28 Slowdown
9:19 Speed discrepancy
10:07 Slowdown II - Music VS No Music
11:49 Music
13:32 Sound effects
14:57 Jukebox
16:50 Gameplay
21:52 Graphical flaws
25:32 Summary
27:03 Sonic GBA by Stealth
28:30 Outro

Background music in order of appearance:
Sonic Advance 3 - Main Menu
Sonic Advance 2 - Hot Crater Act 1
Sonic Advance - Egg Rocket Zone
Sonic Battle - Emerald Town
Sonic Pinball Party - Casinopolis
Sonic Advance - Special Stage
Sonic Advance 2 - True Area 53
Sonic Advance 3 - Special Stage
Sonic Advance 3 - Route 99 Act 1
Sonic Advance 2 - Egg Utopia Act 1
Sonic Advance 3 - Ocean Base Act 2
Sonic Advance 3 - Staff roll (custom edit)