Robotnik Winter Zone


 * See also: Sonic Triple Trouble



Robotnik Winter Zone is the fourth level of Sonic Triple Trouble for the Sega Game Gear. As with other stages in this game, Robotnik Winter consists of two standard Acts followed by a shorter, third Act which contains the Zone's boss. The level comes after Meta Junglira Zone and preceeds Tidal Plant Zone.

Robotnik Winter is, predictably, cold. Snow blankets the ground, to such an extent in fact that snowboarding becomes an extremly quick way of blasting through the level. Drifts occasionally conceal dark pits into the network of caves that course through the permafrosted ground. Breakable ice walls and powerful updrafts enable Sonic or Tails to proceed back above ground.

From the name of the Zone, we can presume that Eggman's mad science is in some way responsible for the chilly climate.

Boss


As in Triple Trouble's predecessor, Sonic Chaos, our old friend Doctor Robotnik apparently thinks he's too important to face Sonic or Tails personally this game. Instead the Doctor deploys larger, tougher, nastier badniks as boss robots.

The early part of Act 3 requires you to climb up the slopes of an icy hill, all the while being forced to dodge skating bomb-penguin badniks descending from the summit. At the top, we finally find the source of this stream of robots: Giga Pen, a giant, flying penguin head that spits the smaller badniks at you from the depths of its cavernous maw. Landing 8 hits will cause the boss' thrusters to fail, and he spirals away into the depths of a huge pit.

After the boss, Knuckles shows up again to spring a similar trap as in Great Turquoise Zone.