Sonic the Hedgehog - from a December 1996 review of Sonic 3D Blast

Just imagine a new sonic game gets released a return to core gameplay mechanics etc etc and after getting to the final zone you approach eggman the final boss he just steps out of the robot he arrived in and just shoots sonic right in the head and the game ends just like that credits roll and at the end it says sega listens! With a screenshot of this here image.

Come Sonic Riders nearly a decade later…