Having only a little experience with Sonic in the past, I had fun playing this collection. The Sonic games are alot faster-paced and more difficult than the Mario games, and that difference makes them worth playing. But wish the graphics have been updated though. Sonic 3 looks great but 1 & 2 look really dated. I mean, Mario All-Stars came out almost a decade before this and it had updated graphics. Plus these games are older now than the Mario games were back when All-Stars was released. But graphics aren't THAT important. The real problem here is that, besides Bean Machine, all of the non-platforming Sonic games are crap. Only the traditional Sonic games are any good... so that makes the lack of Sonic CD very disapointing. Sonic CD is supposed to be a really good game (some even say the best Sonic game), so it is too bad we don't get to experience it.