>>109915
>I played Genesis games only cuz I had no access to a more advanced hardware. As soon as I got a PC, the Genesis was over for me. Never looked back to a single Genesis game, even when I got a GBA SP around '05. They all seem hella boring when I look at them from the today's perspective.

oh, that's just a you problem then ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌
maybe you just like PC games more -- I generally found them to be less polished and clunkier than console experiences as a rule, even if they were definitely more advanced, either visually or in terms of gameplay complexity (the latter of which is often not a good thing to me)
less is more, if what is more is considered extraneous

most of the Genesis games I'll play in modernity are fairly tight in scope and have satisfying controls

there are a ton of Genesis games I wouldn't bother with in the modern age that were super popular way back then, but Sonic absolutely is not one of the them, to the point where Sonic Mania was one of the best regarded Sonic games in the last 30 years (to be fair, a lot of this is because Sega is retarded, but Mania is still great regardless)

also if your frame of reference for Sonic is Sonic 1 alone, the vast majority of people prefer Sonic 2 or 3&K since Sonic 1 does have some odd level design choices