That's a personal question that I've always wanted to ask. What was the first time you heard of Sonic? What made you become a fan? I personally know Sonic since I was a baby, my older sister used to play Sonic a lot, so I was introduced to the franchise right after I was born. I became a fan right away, probably because I was a child and just wanted to be closer to my sister, all the early friends I made in my childhood were Sonic fans. So basically I was born a Sonic fan.
its a pretty long story, so sit down and get your popcorn. (even though nobody would probably even read this)
so one day my dad got me and my brother some presents: I got a RC LED car (since I was pretty little, I almost instantly broke it) and my brother got a PSP with some random gem matching game and sonic rivals. (I can't remember whether it was SR1 or SR2)
Sometimes I'd ask my brother if I could play sonic rivals and he'd let me, and I'd always use tails, espio or metal sonic (also resulting in metal being my favourite sonic character).
I forgot about the PSP over the years and got into other franchises like mario and crash bandicoot, then back to sonic, which I forgot about again.
Until this year when I was searching through the recycle bin folder on my mom's laptop and found Sonic World R9, another sonic fangame
I restored it and began liking sonic once again, and my love for metal sonic still prevailed after all these years
and yeah that's just about it
the only official sonic games I've played are ones available on mobile, like the GBA, game gear and a few OG games, sadly