Wide spring

Wide Springis a gimmick that first appeared in Sonic Adventure 2. It is simply a varition of the regular Spring, but with three spring in one plate.

Description
The Wide Spring appearance is a red oblong with three circles on it each one with a star on the center of the each circle. The Wide Spring main object is to help the Player jump higher, but from game to game there are some differences like appearances and some new abilites. The Player can also uses his Homing Attack to use the Wide Spring from a short distance and using the Homing Attack after using any of these springs.

Sonic Adventure 2
Wide Spring first appeared in this game where the player has to use it to jump higher. When using it the player will launches in his spin form and jumps higher. The Wide Spring can only be used by Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles and Rouge and cannot be used by Tails and Eggman, but instead they use the regular Spring to jump.

Sonic Heroes
Wide Spring also appeared in Sonic Heroes. The Wide Spring appearance is modified a little as instead of being completely oblong The Wide Spring is bend from sides and will lights up when the player jumping on one of his circles. When touching all his Stars the Player will get a special items like invincibility and Power Up cores. The Wide Spring can be used by all the player and like in Sonic Adventure 2 it will turns the player into a ball when touching it.

Shadow the Hedgehog
Wide Spring appeared in Shadow the Hedgehog. But Unlike Sonic Heroes and Sonic Adventure 2, the Wide Spring is scratched in the game and instead of being a panel with three circles with Star on it, The Wide Spring has just three dark green circles without Star on each one and will make Shadow just spins without an aura.

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
Wide Spring appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog .Returning its regular appearance like Sonic Heroes, but more cooler. The only difference between the Wide Spring in this game and the Wide Springs in other games is that the Item in this game will only launches the Player higher to the air and will not makes him spin, but the player can still uses the Homing Attack after launching by one these Springs.

Sonic Unleashed
Wide Spring appeared in Sonic Unleashed. Like Sonic the Hedgehog, it will not turns the player into a ball and its appearance is the same and the player can use Homing Attack after launching by it. It appeared in both of Xbox 360/PS3 version and the Wii/PS2 version.

Sonic Colors
Like Sonic Unleashed. It will not turns the player into a ball and its appearance is the same and the player can use Homing Attack after launching by it. The only difference in this game is that there are also yellow types of the regular Wide Springs, but less higher than red ones. After touching it, it starts to auto-scrolling to the right and usually the player has to balance on it.

Sonic Generations
Like Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors. It will not turns the player into a ball and its appearance is the same and the player can use Homing Attack after launching by it.