The coolness is almost overwhelming.
- Cinematronics.. super cool. On the back of that genius dude who invented that crazy Vector monitor and the boardset.
- Vectorbeam - the company he launched when he quit Cinematronics because they were stupid enough to sign a stupid contract with him (they paid him for all the cinematronics games, while he was at Vectorbeam)
- Sonic - Sonic was actually owned by Sega, believe it or not... so you've got a game from the late 70's long before Sonic burned up the Sega Genesis home system. I don't know why Sega loved that name so much.
So It doesn't get much cooler than that. I think in 77 or whenever it came out, that was the #2 selling game of the year.