Sonic was one of the few things I liked when I was little, the other thing I can think of which comes close is, believe it or not, Countdown.
I tend to go through phases, and I was a Sonic nut from 1996 to, well, I'd say around 1999/2000 when I started to get into wrestling. Recently I've got back into Sonic again (can't say the same for wrestling), and I suddenly have the urge to get a MegaDrive again, because it's just not the same on Mega Collection is it?
Oh, and as for AoSTH:
"Booby Traps? HA! Who do they think we are? Boobs!?" - Grounder The Genius
"We almost had Sonic but thanks to Grounder we..." - Scratch
"You don't HAVE to tell me... I can see what happened! - Robotnik
"Hey, you really are getting smarter!" - Grounder
Hilarity in itself.
Oh and the bit in Grounder the Genius where Robotnik is turned into a basketball, tennis ball and rugby ball still makes me laugh.
Scratch waffles Robotnik with the racquet "Whoa, Nasty Slice!"
I feel it was truly the badniks in AoSTH that made it anything decent - Sonic and Tails were just plain annoying.