Terra
Member
The one thing that I loved doing in the old games that you can't do in the modern ones, is spin the analog control like crazy and see you character spin in circles. In generation/unleashed/colors sonic just goes a bit forward, stops, turns, forward, stops, repeat.
I always did that when I was bored too. I would just waste loads of time running in circles instead of beating the stages. No wonder it took me so long to beat the sonic adventure games...