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Sonic and Knuckles was a game where you could play as either Sonic or STH3's Knuckles to stop Robotnik and his brand-new Robo-Robotnik in their attempt to yet again try to dominate the world. Knuckles was fighting against Robo-Robotnik, while Sonic fought against the real Robotnik as usual.
Unlike most Genesis games, S&K had a different kind of cartridge. You could insert other cartridges into it. Howevrer, for most games it just showed a "TRY AGAIN" screen for them (but if you used a certain code there, you could play a secret game called Blue Sphere, which was similar to the S&K's sphere minigame). If you latched on Sonic 2, however, you would create a brand new game; Sonic 2 and Knuckles, which was a game where you would play as Knuckles in the Sonic 2 setting. You could also latch on Sonic 3 to create Sonic 3 and Knuckles, which was an expansion pack to Sonic 3, but you would go through all the STH3 stages, and when you were done with that, a different ending came up that then transported you to the S&K atmosphere. Many gamers preferred this over the standalonne versions of the two, because you could play as Knuckles in Sonic 3 or Tails in Sonic and Knuckles.
Overall, S&K was a breakthrough title for the Genesis and surprised Sonic gamers with it's excellence.
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