I dunno... I did it in about thirty minutes, and it would take at very least a day for some reviews to come out... so I think I was a bit faster. Though, did they say the very first one flopped? Because it is a successful game from what I can tell.
He hasn't been doing the best recently. 06, Lost World, and the two Boom games. BTW I recreated Sonic 1's box art. It's not exact though.