--- By Sonicboom! --- Old Knuckles --- When on the main part of this site, look to the left. Under "Secrets" there should be something saying "Sonic 1" Click on that, and you shall see many crazy things that were in the earlier Beta versions of Sonic that weren't in the final games. Scroll to the bottom, and you shall see a picture of Knuckles in Green Hill Zone, the first level of Sonic 1. Of course.... you can't play Knuckles in Sonic 1, even if you hook it up to Sonic and Knuckles. So why the freaky picture? When Sonic 1 was being created, suppose the programmers decided that there should be another character besides Sonic.... they came up with a cool, red character with dreadlocks, and Knuckles was the end result. After deciding that Green Hill Zone should be a level, they tried out both Sonic and Knuckles in the Green Hill Zone, and this screenshot was taken. In the end, they decided to get rid of Knuckles and just use Sonic. Later, when Sonic 2 came out, they made up a new sidekick, Tails. A couple of years later, they might have found Knuckles in some old files, and decided to add him to Sonic 3, and later to Sonic and Knuckles. When they first decided to make Sonic and Knuckles Lock-On, suppose they decided that when you hook Sonic 1 up to Sonic and Knuckles, you are able to play Knuckles in Sonic 1 and they used that screenshot that they took before for a magazine review. Later, they changed their minds, and that's why the picture seems so weird. I know this is a pretty freaky theory, and keep in mind this is theory, not fact, so don't think I've lost it if you don't agree. There's a big chance that this may have happened, but Knuckles WASN'T invented before Tails. And there's always the fact the picture just might be a fake. --- Taken from 'Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog - The Original' http://secretsonic.cjb.net ---