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"NO WAY! NO WAY! NO WAY! NO WAY?" Blue Sphere is a hidden mini-game included on the Sonic and Knuckles cartridge, based on the Special Stages of Sonic 3 And Knuckles. It is playable when you place (almost) any Genesis cartridge other than Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Sonic 3 And Knuckles into S&K lock-on slot and press the A, B, and C buttons at the same time. If you do this with any cartridge other than Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic Classics 3-In-1, you'll only get to play a single stage.Upon completion of the stage, you'll be given a twelve-digit password for use when you play the game with the original Sonic the Hedgehog or the aforementioned Compilation Rerelease locked into the top slot of S3&K. It also appears as its own game option in Sonic Mega Collection and Sonic Mega Collection Plus (called Blue Sphere, despite not having an official title).—Blue Sphere Opening Screen. Each stage consists of four procedurally-generated blocks, in any combination, giving the game over 100,000,000 different levels.The goal is to navigate a pseudo-3D environment and collect all of the blue spheres in the level, either by running through them and turning them into Red Spheres, or by encircling groups of Blue Spheres in loops of Red Spheres. For the entire level, you're stuck running on the grid between the tiles and can only turn in 90-degree angles on the intersecting lines. You have no control over your running speed, you can't stop running, and you'll automatically speed up at regular intervals, decreasing your chances of survival the longer you take.The most common obstacle is the Red Sphere, and running into one means instant failure. (In case you're wondering, the Blue Spheres you transform don't become hazardous until you've passed through them.) Other obstacles include Star Bumper Spheres and Yellow Spring Spheres. Running into a Star Sphere makes you run backwards until you run into another one or push up to run forward again. Touching a Yellow Sphere bounces you up and lands you five grid units ahead (or backward, if you're running in reverse at the time).Rings can also be found in Blue Sphere, but here they're individually worthless, providing no protection from Red Spheres. Collecting all the rings in a stage and then winning the stage gives you a "perfect" ranking, which skips you forward by 10 levels instead of the usual 1. However, most rings in each stage are hidden, and the only way to reveal them is to enclose groups of Blue Spheres within a loop of Red Spheres, at which point the grouped spheres turn into rings. In order to get every ring, you must transform every sphere that can become a ring. Messing up and hitting even one wrong sphere loses you the "perfect" ranking. And even if you manage to hit all the right spheres, if you hit the last Blue Sphere before collecting all the rings, the stage immediately ends and you progress a measly one stage instead.Why yes, Blue Sphere is Sega Hard.Not to be confused with Star Ocean: Blue Sphere. This game provides examples of:
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