All of these pictures lost in time
Oh look it's another Sonic pointless trivia Back in the '90s, there were plans to release the combined Sonic 3 & Knuckles as a single cartridge, internally referred to as Sonic 3C (normal Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was Sonic 3A , and Sonic & Knuckles was Sonic 3B ). Judging from articles in magazines at the time, it was going to be called Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Limited Edition or Sonic the Hedgehog 3+ . It was meant to be the only version released in Japan, but due to the delay, Japanese gamers just reverse-imported the American version of the games, and the combined version ended up never seeing the light of day. Knuckles originally had a harsher, more reptilian/dinosaur-like appearance, which his long tail is a holdover from. Another early design had him as another hedgehog, whom Tails would have been fond of due to his resemblance to Sonic. Yet another early design had him as a mole who wore goggles in bright sunlight and used a shovel as a weapon. Originally, Knuckle...