User blog comment:Sonamyfan666/Give it a break with all the rereleasees and complations of all the Gensis and Game Gear games SEGA rerelease these instead./@comment-3000576-20120824170251/@comment-4702105-20120824170852

Hm now that I think about it it could be cause at Some point it became noncanon by word of god to use a trope. It's really one of the only games in the series to be noncanon aside from the cross-overs and even then Pinball Party gets a past cause it used nothing but Sonic Characters in the story.