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It's Sonic the Hedgehog's 27th birthday. Like most gamers the first few Sega Genesis games are among my most treasured memories. His transition into the third dimension was unfortunately as smooth as his hair. I know it's been beaten to death that the franchise has been a series of nightmares for the past decade (with some notable exceptions) but nothing really hurt me more than the huge re-branding effort in 2015 to re-launch Sonic as a cartoon series and video game at the same time.

That being said I do love Sonic Mania and will be making a full review in an upcoming video!

I'd like to give a personal shout out to @ddrfr33k @techmojo @crypticat @triverse @volderhein for being awesome initial supporters of my work and helped a minnow feel welcome in the Steem community. Also a big thanks to @jimmylin @tidylive and the entire @Dlive team for working so hard on such an awesome platform for an open source community!

If you haven't already start throwing out the hashtag #Streamondlive in all your future social media posts to help the platform grow.

My video is at [DLive](https://dlive.io/video/negativespace/bc610910-78c0-11e8-827c-49f76fdbeab3)