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I grew up calling it Sparkles. My wife called it Stars. Anyone have any others?

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[–] HexagonSun@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Invincibility!

I just found a scan of the manual for Sonic 1 on the Master System, the first Sonic version I ever played, which refers to that monitor as “Invincible”

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Confirmation from the Sega Genesis Sonic 2 manual:

Two images, one of the front cover of the instruction manual for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (giant shadowed Doctor Robotnik head and arm in the background, reaching for and clutching a giant checkered numeral 2 in the middle ground, with Sonic and Tails in the foreground, with game title and the text INSTRUCTION MANUAL below them, with the console logo at the top with stylized text reading SEGA GENESIS / 16 BIT CARTRIDGE.
Second photo: the manual opened to page 10 (greyscale), title text Super Items, description text: Spin, bash or bounce to break open monitors any way you can -- to get the Super Items inside.
Five square pixelated images are arrayed in a row beneath the text: a shoe, a ring, Sonic's face, three four-pointed stars, and a circle with a horizontal gradient.
Beneath these is a bulleted list of names and descriptions:

  • Power Sneakers make you run like the wind!
  • Super Rings give you ten rings at once!
  • One-ups give you 1 more Life. (You also earn an extra Life when you collect 100 Rings and 200 Rings.)
  • An Invincible protects you from attacking enemies, but only for a short time.
  • Each Shield protects you from damage 1 time only.

Under this list is a cropped screenshot of Sonic in a shield sphere, with Tails behind him and a mechanical preying mantis in front, the latter of which has launched small curved blades at Sonic's shield.
The following page is visible in the photo but is outside of the scope of this post. It's about Star Posts.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Power Slippers? Red Shoes for sure.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

Bro, the alliteration was right there!

Speed shoes!

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I always thought of it as the "go super fast straight into a spike" power up since that's how it usually worked out.