Week-Ending Game Endings – 12.24.09 – Christmas NiGHTS

As befits the season, here is a Week-Ending Game Ending with a bit of a holiday twist, and more.

Behold Christmas NiGHTS, a demo of the popular SEGA Saturn game which contained a special seasonal mode which made everything Christmas-y, from the backgrounds to the music to the characters. Since it features but two of the stages, I’m just going to post Blaze Hedgehog’s entire run of the game here. First up, Claris:

Next, Elliot, and the ending:

And finally, one of the unlockables on the disc featured something that the Saturn never really had: a 3-D Sonic the Hedgehog title, called “Sonic the Hedgehog into Dreams.” It basically ran off the NiGHTS engine, but was customized more toward Sonic’s abilities of the day:

If only more games had stuff like this– I’d love to run through a good Christmas-themed New Super Mario Bros. Wii level.

You can find out more about Christmas NiGHTS in the 1UP Retro Gaming Blog here.

But for now, Merry Christmas, everyone! See you Monday!