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Aaron Webber invited Christian Whitehead to pitch the prototype that would become Sonic Mania to Takashi Iizuka. #SonicNews They initially thought Iizuka hated it, as he left the room for 10 minutes, before returning to write "Sonic Mania" on the white board. Mania was one of the first projects...

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