I remember it well it was December 1991 and I was patiently waiting for Christmas. I remember all the hype about the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. After renting the Super Nintendo and Super Mario World I decided that I actually wanted a Sega Genesis because the Sonic The Hedgehog cartridge came with it and I already owned the original 8 bit Nintendo(while the Super NES proved to be great it seemed just like more of the same compared to the original NES just with 16 bit graphics). I asked for the Genesis  and when Christmas time came I got an original Sega Genesis system with a built in headphone jack and it came with this awesome new(at the time) game called Sonic The Hedgehog. It reminded me of 1985 when the classic NES system came with Super Mario Bros. Much like that title it set a new standard for platform video games with it's fast paced action,catchy yet quirky music and great controls (A,B and C buttons all made Sonic jump the D pad moved him around and that was about it).