Except that it wasn’t. It was the second half of Sonic 3. You had to buy both Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles to get the full Sonic 3 experience as the developers originally intended.
BTW, everyone probably already knows this by now, but Michael Jackson produced a good chunk of the soundtrack. However, he left partially through production when the child abuse allegations started and thus went uncredited.



My dad said the same thing, except he was always the biggest asshole in the room.
Narcissism is the strongest drug I know of. But everyone was a narcissist except him, according to him.
I’m glad he’s dead now.