GameSpy, Naka interview

Cite as: GameSpy, Naka interview
Original: http://xbox.gamespy.com/articles/654/654750p4.html
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20141011015111id_/http://xbox.gamespy.com/articles/654/654750p4.html
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: © GameSpy/IGN; Wayback capture
Credit: Yuji Naka interviewed by GameSpy; Wayback capture of 11 October 2014.
Notes: Page 4 of the interview: Naka on the Sonic 2 Hidden Palace cut and on Sonic 3 as "literally half a game". The page prints no date; the capture's sidebar lists interviews up to February 2007, and 2005 is unconfirmed.

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Yuji Naka said a McDonald's promotion planned for February 1994, on which Sega had spent 2 billion yen, fixed Sonic 3's release date, so after the restart the team had time for only about half the stages it had planned; the idea of joining two cartridges came only at the end of development. He later told GameSpy that Sonic 3 was "literally half a game", the rest going into Sonic & Knuckles.	`p. 4`	Interview