Longtime Sonic the Hedgehog boss Takashi Iizuka has shot down the notion that a “Sonic Maker” game, which would essentially allow players to create their own 2D Sonic levels, would ever come about.

Craig Stitt, a game artist who worked on some of the original Spyro and Sonic the Hedgehog titles back in the ‘90s, says that Mario and Sonic are now "embedded in our subconscious". You don’t have to ...