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When Tails Gets Bored

When Tails gets Bored is a fangame that was created in the website Sonic Vegemite. The player controls just as Sonic plays in the Mega Drive titles. Sonic must find the Special Stages to gain knowledge about…

10 January 2001

When Tails Gets Bored is a video game developed by Matt the Yak, released 10 January 2001 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What When Tails Gets Bored is

When Tails Gets Bored was developed by Matt the Yak and released in 2001. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When Tails gets Bored is a fangame that was created in the website Sonic Vegemite. The player controls just as Sonic plays in the Mega Drive titles. Sonic must find the Special Stages to gain knowledge about why tails is bored. Beat 4 special stages to get the true ending. Besides that, the player must traverse through 9 zones (2 secret) and complete whatever hoax Estel has in store for him.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

When Tails Gets Bored launched on 10 January 2001, within three weeks of Phantasy Star Online, Oni, Onimusha: Warlords and Screamer 4x4.

Released around the same time: Phantasy Star Online, Oni, Onimusha: Warlords, Screamer 4x4.

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did When Tails Gets Bored come out?
When Tails Gets Bored was released on 10 January 2001 for PC (Microsoft Windows).