A legendary hero appears out of the cosmos to fight back, but Greedy manages to best the hero. Greedy uses mind control to face the leaders of each planet into submission. What It Was All About The 16-bit platformer Ristar follows the hero on a journey through the Valdi System, a collection of planets that have fallen under the control of the wicked Kaiser Greedy. SEGA was concentrating on the impending release of the Saturn and Sonic was still a monster success. The game was released in early 1995, just as the videogame world was moving on to the next generation of hardware. The result was Ristar, a black ball of a hero with stretchy arms and a star face. When Sonic Team returned to the concept of a grabby hero, the rabbit was ditched in favor of something flashy. But the concept did not remain in storage for that long. But as the element of speed took over the game, the grabbing idea was shelved in favor of the concept of a hedgehog rolling into a ball. In an interview with SEGA Visions in 1992, then Sonic Team lead Yuji Naka said that Sonic had come out of an idea for a rabbit character that grabbed enemies and objects with its ears. This star-shaped hero contains some serious DNA strands with SEGA's speedster mascot. Ristar has more in common with Sonic the Hedgehog than just sharing the same developer. Finding all of the hidden gems in a stage. Game: Ristar Platform(s): Genesis, Virtual Console Release Date: February 1995 Favorite Moments: Perfecting Ristar's release off a spinning bar.

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