Re: Sonic X-Treme 4 Saturn Review

From: Jessica Ross <toneross_at_i-link.net>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:34:27 -0600

At 03:06 PM 5/6/96, Chris Forsyth wrote:
>On Sat, 4 May 1996, THADDEUS BOYD wrote:
>
>> >Keepers of the six magical Rings of Order, and the castle wherein they
>> >practice the anchient art of ring smithing,
>> >
>> >(Another note from me: THEY do ring smithing? But I thought Chuck
>> >was the only one... hmmmmm....)
>>
>> Well, as I've explained in at least two of my stories (The Hunt Begins and
>> Jaded Views come to mind), there are several types of rings, including
>> Magic Rings, Power Rings, Teleportation Rings, and Kabuki's Jaded Ring (the
>> significance of which, for those who haven't figured it out, will be
>> revealed in my next story, Ground Zero).
>> ><
>>
>
> This brings to mind something I've been pondering a while. In the
>games, we have all these rings all over the place just hanging there to
>be grabbed. In the cartoon, and many fanfics (not *quite* sure what
>Archie is planning to use as the ring origon) we have the rings made by
>Uncle Chuck (who, for a guy who's best known for his chili dogs, is
>apparently a super-genius physicist and engineer).
> The difference, and the solution, though, is fairly simple--the
>rings that occur in the zones are *Magic* rings, likely a by-product of
>the same source that produces the chaos emeralds (which are another whole
>ball of wax, considering that the games and such have only 12 emeralds (6
>regular and 6 'super'), but the fanfics and the comic have them by the
>truckloads. ;-) )--however, the ones made by Uncle Chuck are always
>called *Power* Rings...possibly an attempt to duplicate or harness magic
>rings? Anyway, that's my two Mobians on the subject...
> Chris Forsyth

You have a point there, Meester. According to Sonic #35, magic rings are
like a side path off the chaos emeralds.......and power rings are
made......somebody help me here, this is so
confusing.......................




Received on Tue May 07 1996 - 18:37:49 PDT