Thought this might make for an interesting thread. If you had to recommend a sonic game to someone who has never played one before, which one would you choose? Could be for a friend who's into games but never played a Sonic game, could be a young kid who's new to gaming altogether, could even be your grandmother who's never touched a video game in her entire life.

The first Sonic game I played was Advance 1 and the entire Advance trilogy pretty much shaped the things I like about the…

Which Sonic game would you recommend to a newcomer?