Countering these skills was Knuckle’s weaker jump, which forced Sega to remove some obstacles and rework others. Knuckles’ ability to glide and climb walls opened the levels up a bit, occasionally exposing new areas, some of which now held some little bonus for the Red One.
By slotting the Sonic 2 cartridge in the top, you could play through that game as Knuckles. Sonic & Knuckles allowed you to mess with history to your heart’s content when it released in 1994. So, clearly, it would make absolutely no sense whatsoever if Knuckles had been the one who crashed the Death Egg. This was a pivotal event in the history of Mobius, bringing as it did Knuckles to the attention of the world, and the Island’s powerful Master Emerald to the attention of Robotnik. The massive structure plummeted towards the planet surface, only to land instead on the floating Angel Island, home of Knuckles the Echidna. Sonic, having stowed away on the Doctor’s escape craft, proceeded to run havoc through the station, his efforts culminating in an explosion that knocked the Death Egg out of its orbit. Robotnik, his plans for domination of the planet Mobius coming unravelled at the hands of his nude blue nemesis Sonic the Hedgehog, had retreated to his orbital fortress, the Death Egg. In the year 1992, there was an incident in the skies above Angel Island.