>>714832260>salesNot as much as the Genesis games but it sold over 1.5 million copies and was the 25th best selling GBA game which is fairly good. I don't think sales should be that much of a barrier.
>accessibility It's not any less easy to emulate than the Genesis trilogy. Most people who would talk about the classic games today probably aren't 40 year olds who had a Genesis as a kid.
I don't think sales and accessibility alone would necessarily push Advance to the side. I think the real problem is that it doesn't have the reputation to overcome these things as well as its unique position with 1). being on a handheld, so less people care about it, 2). the small size of the GBA screen, which turns a lot of people off from a sidescrolling Sonic game, 3). being part of the Advance trilogy, so people associate it with the other Advance games rather than the Genesis games, 4). the Advance trilogy being less prestigious and talked about than the Genesis games 5). having the modern Sonic art style, which again makes people disassociate it from the Genesis trilogy and group it with other modern sonic games, 5). it's chronologically removed from the Genesis trilogy, releasing after SA2 and not being an extremely on the nose return to classic Sonic like Mania was, 6). the Advance trilogy as a whole has a reputation for doing things differently from the classic games, which is mostly down to Advance 2 and 3 but Advance 1 getting associated with them makes people see 1 as not in the same category as the Genesis games as well, 7). Dimps was involved, grouping it with the other Dimps games.
I think on its own merits though it makes more sense to talk about Advance 1 as basically another classic Sonic game. Adv2 and 3 deviated more but there's really no reason not to bring up Advance 1 alongside Sonic 1, 2, 3&K, CD, and Mania.
