Sonic: After the Sequel is a 2013 platform video game created by Brazilian student Felipe Daneluz (LakeFeperd). It is an unofficial work based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series' canon and set between the official games Sonic 2 and Sonic 3. Daneluz's second Sonic game, it follows Sonic: Before the Sequel, which was set after the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Like its predecessor, After the Sequel stars Sonic the Hedgehog and his sidekick Tails in a quest to retrieve Chaos Emeralds from Doctor Eggman. After the Sequel was inspired by Sonic Heroes and other games both inside and outside the Sonic series, and it was developed with Sonic Worlds, an engine that does not require expertise in computer programming. It was released as a free download for Windows personal computers. The game was very well received by video game journalists, who lauded its preservation of retro Sonic gameplay and its eclectic, 1990s-style soundtrack. The trilogy of Before the Sequel, After the Sequel, and their successor Sonic Chrono Adventure performed unusually well for fangames, having been downloaded 120,000 times by March 2014. Sega has not sent Daneluz a cease and desist order for the game.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic:_After_the_Sequel

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

539 BC:

Cyrus the Great captured Babylon, incorporating the Neo- Babylonian Empire and making the Achaemenid Empire the largest in the history of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great

1792:

Lt. William Broughton, a member of Captain George Vancouver's discovery expedition, observed a peak in what is now Oregon, US, and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood

1929:

About 16 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday", a record that stood for almost 40 years, making a total of $30 billion that had been lost over two days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

1986:

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opened the last segment of the M25 motorway, an orbital road encircling London that is one of the world's longest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M25_motorway

2004:

Representatives of the member states of the European Union signed the European Constitution in Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitution_for_Europe

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

peri-urban: Immediately adjoining an urban area; between the suburbs and the countryside. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peri-urban

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.          --Alfred Jules Ayer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Jules_Ayer