VGC, Sonic 2 lost stages

Cite as: VGC, Sonic 2 lost stages
Original: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sonic-2-lost-stages-discovered-via-old-design-docs-and-a-vhs-portfolio/
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Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: © Video Games Chronicle
Credit: Video Games Chronicle, 13 December 2023, reporting the Video Game History Foundation's cut-content release.
Notes: Reports that the VGHF reconstructed Cyber City (Genocide City) Zone from Sonic 2 designer Hirokazu Yasuhara's map and artist Tom Payne's design documents, and that artist Brenda Cook had worked on three cut zones (Wood Zone, Sand Shower Zone, and a winter stage). Secondary report of developer materials.

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Video Games Chronicle reported in December 2023 that the Video Game History Foundation had partly reconstructed a cut stage, Cyber City Zone (at one point Genocide City Zone), from artist Tom Payne's design documents and designer Hirokazu Yasuhara's map of it, and had shown artist Brenda Cook's VHS portfolio, with a cut desert stage, Sand Shower Zone, and a winter stage; VGC says Cook had said in earlier interviews that she worked on three cut zones.	`articlearticlearticlearticle`	Web