Frequently Asked Questions

What is Blue Spheres?

Blue Spheres started as the special stage of Sonic 3 for the Sega Genesis, and later Sonic & Knuckles. The object was to hit all of the blue spheres, avoid red spheres, and try to collect rings. Here's the trick: When you touch a blue sphere, it turns red, and when you get all blue spheres on the perimeter of a cluster of blue spheres in a 3x3 arrangement or bigger, they all turn into rings. In these first games, if you got all blue spheres, you would be awarded with a Chaos Emerald or Super Emerald. Now, keep in mind that the game Sonic & Knuckles was made with lock-on technology so that it could work with other Sonic (and, in turn, Sega) games. With the original Sonic, they intended to make it so that you could play the game as Knuckles. However, his colors didn't get along with the colors of the game, so they gave that effort up. Instead, they produced the Get Blue Spheres game. In it were stages similar to the ones in other games, but they were harder. Oh, and there were 134,217,728 of them.

What is GBS, then?

"GBS" Stands for Get Blue Spheres, the name of our effort. As you may have noticed, the Blue Spheres game was produced halfheartedly, and since then it has been remade, but even more unenthusiastically. The first mission we have is to get the game remade in some way, preferably with some sorts of level select that are a little better than the original's code system. People have always been on the Internet declaring this game as awesome, but we're the first to try to get heard in such a mass. Hopefully we can get it remade, and then who really knows what we can do from there?

Where did that idea come from?

Let me just tell you that it started in an already fateful summer, when a certain someone made a list of the greatest game of all time. Blue Spheres was on that list. He then set out to beat every game on that list. He got to level 12 of Get Blue Spheres before looking up how many levels were in the game. He was shocked to find out how many levels there were, though he used a code to get to the final level (Known as the Double-Star Level) and owned it. He ultimately failed to beat all of the greatest games, due to the persistence of the final moments of Super Mario Brothers and Tetris Blast, but that's not the point of the story. The point is that this individual became quietly obsessed with the Get Blue Spheres game. In the January of the next year, this individual squirmed bored in his Spanish class. Suddenly he found himself drawing the blueprints of a particular forum. Under the guidance of the leader at another site, he designed the beginnings of what is now known as GBS.

What insanity. So how are you getting Get Blue Spheres remade?

The project was originally named the Mass Email, named lovingly after the initiative at WMB, but it has turned into us trying to get a conversation with a particular Sega executive by the name of Brian Schorr. And his email is broken, which really has complicated things.