History VideoGame / SonicTheHedgehogTripleTrouble

Somehow finally collecting the six Chaos Emeralds without catching the attention of Sonic, [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] ([[IHaveManyNames a.k.a. Dr. Robotnik]]) was testing his latest ultimate weapon when suddenly an accident scattered them once more. Eggman was able to find one of them, but of course, Sonic and Tails learned about what happened, and now they're off to find the other five before Eggman can. Expecting this would happen, Eggman deceives Knuckles the Echidna into believing that Sonic and Tails are trying to steal the Emeralds. Thus, Knuckles becomes a nuisance that tries to inhibit the duo's progress. As all of this is happening, Fang the Sniper, a treasure-hunting weasel (or half-wolf, half-jerboa in Japan), has successfully located the other five during the commotion and plans to nab them to sell to the highest bidder. Are you up to the challenge of thwarting this [[TitleDrop Triple Trouble]]?

* AllInTheManual: The Japanese manual reveals various lore pertaining the game's zones, such as Sunset Park being an abandoned amusement park, Meta Junglira being an ancient jungle dating back 1 billion years, and the icy conditions in Robotnik Winter being a result of Eggman testing his atomic weapon.

** Fang the Sniper is known as Nack the Weasel in the North American and European instruction manual. This was also a case of a dub ''species'' change, as he's a wolf/jerboa hybrid in Japan, explaining why his design doesn't display any weasel features.

** After taking four hits, the boss of Green Turquoise Zone flies up and turtle spring Badniks will start rolling down both the initial arena and the higher arena. Sonic/Tails needs to use the Badniks to destroy the boss.
** The boss of Robotnik Winter Zone fires exploding penguin robots while it's being fought until the boss is down to the last hit.
* GreenHillZone: The first stage is Great Turquoise Zone, which is a southern, tropical island filled with waterfalls, turtle badniks with springs on their shells, and palm trees that have springs on their tops.

* KaizoTrap: The Goal Sign for Tidal Plant Zone Act 2 is underwater. You'll most likely reach the sign just as the drowning countdown timer begins, and if you don't spin the sign fast enough, you can actually drown and lose a life just before the victory jingle can finish, as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfyHa1x9bbY this video]].
* KingMook: The Tart Turtle and Giga Thomas "Pen", the respective bosses of Great Turquoise and Robotnik Winter, are this to the Turtle Badniks and Penguin Bombers. Both are giant badniks who serve as their leader. In Great Turquoise Zone, Sonic or Tails need to use the Turtle Badniks to propel themselves up to the Tart Turtle, while Pen tries to attack Sonic or Tails by launching Penguin Bombers at them.

* LoadBearingBoss: Once the player character destroys the caterpillar boss in Meta Junglira, they must then dodge the robot's falling body parts for the rest of the fight.
* LocomotiveLevel: Act 3 of Sunset Park Zone takes place on a train, and the boss is the engine itself.

* MosquitoMiscreants: The Mosqui badnik is a robotic mosquito that plunges down at Sonic or Tails if they get near him.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The fourth stage, Robotnik Winter Zone, takes place in icy mountains, with penguin badniks, spikes, and ice blocks that can be destroyed by spin dashing. As Sonic, you can use the snowboard to shred across the icy terrain.

** After delivering four hits to the turtle robot, it summons turtle spring robots, which Sonic and Tails then need to use to reach him for the second four hits to finish him off.

* TraintopBattle: Since Sunset Park Zone Act 3 takes place on a train, the boss is the engine itself, which fires spiked cannonballs at the player.

** In Great Turquoise Zone, there are turtle badniks who have springs on their shells. They can be destroyed with roll attacks, but jumping on their springs will send you to higher places.
** The first boss of the game is the Tart Turtle, a metallic flying turtle. In the first phase, you have to hit its underside four times. When it flies away, you must bounce on the springs of the turtle badniks to propel yourself up to it and hit it four more times in the second phase.

** The first part of the first boss has Sonic underwater, jumping out to hit a turtle robot.

* WarmUpBoss: The first boss, a flying turtle, is actually incapable of directly harming the player--the only way it can is for you to get knocked into it by a spring moto-bug while being out of your ball form.

[[caption-width-right:320:Prepare for trouble! And make it ''triple''!]]

* EndlessWinter: Robotnik Winter is this. It was formerly an island of everlasting summer, but a test of the Atomic Destroyer led to it becoming consumed in snow and ice.

* JungleJapes: The third stage, Meta Junglira Zone, takes place in a jungle. This stage has hollow logs, bouncy fruits, mud that acts as quicksand, and baskets that act as cannons.

* GreenHillZone: The first stage is Great Turquoise Zone, which is a grassy plain filled with waterfalls, turtle badniks with springs on their shells, and palm trees that have springs on their tops.

JustForFun/TheOneWith Sonic fighting a bounty hunting weasel.

* MarketBasedTitle: Just like ''VideoGame/SonicChaos'' prior, (which was originally titled ''Sonic & Tails'' in Japan), this game was originally titled as ''Sonic & Tails 2'' in Japan, before it was renamed to ''Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble'' when it arrived in the west.

* OffModel: As for the time, the overseas box art uses a ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''-like design for Eggman, even though that design is not used in the game.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: The [[ContemptibleCover Western box art]] has Robotnik in his design from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. His in-game sprite, however, uses his game design.

* ZeroEffortBoss: Some of the boss encounters with Fang in the Special Stages are just cutscenes of him trying and failing to fight Sonic. In the first Special Stage, for instance, he hits a switch and fries himself.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: The [[ContemptibleCover western box art]] has Robotnik in his design from WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog, by contrast with his in-game sprite which uses his game design.

%%* AutoScrollingLevel:
%%** Sunset Park Zone Act 3 takes place on a train.
%%** Tidal Plant Zone Act 3 when the boss fight with Knuckles in his submersible begins.

* AWinnerIsYou: Your reward for getting the five Chaos Emeralds (the sixth one is automatically given after defeating Eggman) is to see the ending credits with Sonic and Tails flying over the ocean, and the game thanking you for playing. The end.

TheOneWhere Sonic fought a bounty hunting weasel.

%%* AmusementParkOfDoom: Certain sections of Sunset Park Zone Acts 1 and 2 have bombs as tracks.

Released exclusively for the Creator/{{Sega}} UsefulNotes/GameGear in 1994, ''Sonic Triple Trouble'' – or ''Sonic & Tails 2'' as it is known in Japan – is the sequel to ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogChaos Sonic Chaos]]'', and is widely considered one of the best ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' games to appear on the handheld, mostly due to it being the closest in feel to its 16-bit brothers on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. It features the debut of Fang the Sniper (or Nack the Weasel, as he was initially known in the English version).

* AesopAmnesia: Assuming the game isn't in an AlternateContinuity due to the lack of the seventh Chaos Emerald, Eggman tricks Knuckles into believing that Sonic and Tails are the bad guys again, despite the game presumably taking place after ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', where Knuckles was first tricked and later found out Eggman was leading him on.

%%* CoolPlane: The Tornado appears in the even-numbered, non-platformer segments of the Special Stages.
* DimensionalTraveler: Fang is actually from the same dimension that the game's [[BonusStage Special Stages]] are set in, leaving the place to find the Emeralds.

%%* EvilOverlooker: Eggman appears as one in the North American and European box art.

%%* TempleOfDoom: Special Stages 1, 3 and 5, and all Fang battle zones takes place in a temple.

%%* PipeMaze: Tidal Plant Zone and Atomic Destroyer Zone have these types of mazes which you have to navigate in order to proceed.

** Instead of killing them, the pits in the final Special Stage will simply kick the player character out of the level if falls into them.

%%* HoppingMachine:
%%** The first Fang contraption that the player actually does have to dismantle.
%%** The first phase of the final boss involves Eggman in a spring pod of his own.

* ComicBookAdaptation: The game had a loose adaptation in a 48-page special by Franchise/ArchieComics.

* EternalEngine: Tidal Plant Zone and Atomic Destroyer Zone have industrial elements in their levels.

%%* LocomotiveLevel: Sunset Park Zone Act 3 is this due to the boss being a train.

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Released exclusively for the Creator/{{Sega}} UsefulNotes/GameGear in 1994, ''Sonic Triple Trouble'' – or ''Sonic & Tails 2'' as it is known in Japan – is the sequel to ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogChaos Sonic Chaos]]'', and is widely considered one of the best ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' games to appear on the handheld, mostly due to it being the closest in feel to its 16-Bit brothers on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. It features the debut of Fang the Sniper (or Nack the Weasel, as he was initially known in English versions).

%%* GreenHillZone: Great Turquoise Zone has palm trees and grassy plains.

%%* JungleJapes: Meta Junglira Zone takes place in a jungle.

%%* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Robotnik Winter Zone is an ice level.

%%* TurtlePower: The first boss of the game is a metallic flying turtle.

* AesopAmnesia: Eggman tricks Knuckles into believing that Sonic and Tails are the bad guys again, despite the game presumably taking place after ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', where Knuckles was first tricked and later found out Eggman was leading him on.[[note]]However, it has been implied that the Game Gear games are their own separate continuity altogether from the Mega Drive games.[[/note]]

* AmusementParkOfDoom: Certain sections of Sunset Park Zone Acts 1 and 2 have bombs as tracks.
* AutoScrollingLevel:
** Sunset Park Zone Act 3 takes place on a train.
** Tidal Plant Zone Act 3 when the boss fight with Knuckles in his submersible begins.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: After the player character defeats Metal Sonic in Atomic Destroyer Zone Act 3, a sleeping Fang awakens and seems like he's going to fight the player character one last time, but then Fang panics and runs away from the true final boss, Eggman.
* BonusStage: The Special Stages, which can be accessed when you hit a Chaos Emerald monitor with 50 rings.

* CoolPlane: The Tornado appears in the even-numbered, non-platformer segments of the Special Stages.

** Fang the Sniper is known as Nack the Weasel in the North American and European instruction manual. This was also a case of a dub ''species'' change, as he's a wolf[=/=]jerboa hybrid in Japan, explaining why his design doesn't display any weasel features.

* EvilOverlooker: Eggman appears as one in the North American and European box art.
* FinalBoss: As usual, Eggman is the last boss of the game, and like ''Sonic Chaos'', he is not fought at all until the end of Atomic Destroyer Zone Act 3, the last stage of the game.

* GreenHillZone: Great Turquoise Zone has palm trees and grassy plains.

* HoppingMachine:
** The first Fang contraption that the player actually does have to dismantle.
** The first phase of the final boss involves Eggman in a spring pod of his own.

* JungleJapes: Meta Junglira Zone takes place in a jungle.

* LocomotiveLevel: Sunset Park Zone Act 3 is this due to the boss being a train.

* OffModel: As for the time, the overseas box art uses the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' design for Eggman, even though that design is not used in the game.

* PipeMaze: Tidal Plant Zone and Atomic Destroyer Zone have these types of mazes which you have to navigate in order to proceed.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Robotnik Winter Zone is an ice level.

* TempleOfDoom: Special Stages 1, 3 and 5, and all Fang battle zones takes place in a temple.

* TurtlePower: The first boss of the game is a metallic flying turtle.