Therefore, we have to draw more complicated shapes (polygons). For many of California’s volcanoes, it isn’t so simple. There can also be nearby fault zones and geothermal areas that produce a lot of seismicity, but are not good indicators of unrest. In some places, it’s easy to just draw a simple box or circle around a volcano and be pretty sure that whatever earthquake is happening there might be because of the volcano. Obviously, we don’t want to be woken up for earthquakes that are happening far away from our volcanoes, so we create alert boxes around the areas we’re confident have a chance of causing earthquakes that might be a sign of unrest. We set up computer scripts that count up the number of earthquakes and send us alerts that wake us up in the middle of the night. Trying to hit this boss vehicle from any other spot will simply bounce the player back without dealing any damage.Īfter being defeated, the Red Volcano Zone boss will blow up before disappearing in a flash of white, clearing the Act.Scientists who monitor volcanoes often rely heavily on automatic detections of earthquakes as one of the first warning signs that a volcano is acting up. However, these hits must be dealt precisely into the protective glass cover of the Red Volcano Zone boss. This boss needs to be hit eight times to be defeated. Robotnik will then reappear from the left side of the arena, restarting the whole process over again (albeit from the opposite position each time) until he is defeated.
Once he is at the maximum height for his bounce, he will throw his wrecking ball in a diagonal pattern (toward the lower-left part of the screen) and keep it outstretched that way until he falls off-screen again. Upon arriving in the arena, Robotnik will bounce into view from the right side of the screen. In this arena, the platform will cover the moves the player makes to prevent Sonic or Knuckles from falling off-screen. This platform will then take the player upward until it reaches the battle arena. When the player arrives on the top of the mountains in Red Volcano Zone Act 3, the player has to jump onto a flying red and blue platform. The player fights it at the end of Red Volcano Zone Act 3. The Red Volcano Zone boss is the third boss of Sonic Blast. In spite of Robotnik's efforts though, his vehicle got destroyed by the two heroes in the end.Ī Robotnik capsule bouncing off an off-screen ground while attacking the player, riding a flying platform, with its wrecking ball. Robotnik used this vehicle to attack Sonic and Knuckles when the duo was passing through Red Volcano Zone. It also has a large mace equipped as its main weapon. Thanks to the spring equipped to Robotnik's vehicle, the machine is capable of making very high jumps. It also has the usual Egg Mobile-styled yellow and black hazard stripes on the sides of its capsule, as well as on the upper part of the spring's broad side.
In terms of color scheme, it is mostly gray. The capsule itself is also attached to a giant bolted red spring on the bottom and has a wrecking ball equipped. It has a protective glass cover, five piece of gray armor (three on the bottom of the capsule and two spherical pieces on the sides) and a piece of bust armor consisting of two yellow circles with a horizontal line across each of them.
The Red Volcano Zone boss consists of a capsule similar to that of the Egg Mobile (albeit in a vertical position instead of the usual horizontal one).