Hill Top Zone

Located on West Side Island

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) - Hill Top Zone
"'Lava boils from volcanoes and earthquakes shake the ground! Spring for the Rings on teeter-totters and blast through underground tunnels and caverns.' — Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) instruction manual"

This stage features lava pits and underground caverns, which have similar features of the Marble Zone in the preceding game. However, Hill Top features no sturdy ruins of long-gone civilizations; they would have been ground to dust by the frequent earthquakes which ravage the Zone and fill the caverns with scorching magma. Outside, pine trees rise over a landscape of blue-tinted rocks, with rickety vine chairlifts connecting one peak to another. See-saws and shuttle loops are scattered throughout the Zone; while the former springs our heroes up the mountainsides, the latter invariably sends Sonic and Tails plummeting into the volcanic caves. The see-saws function identically to the ones in the Star Light Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog, except a glowing red sphere sits on one end instead of a spiked ball. In Act 2, Lava will come from the bottom of the cavern and you have to reach the top before getting touched by the lava.

Geographically, the Zone is located amidst the high peaks of West Side Island. It may be visible from Emerald Hill Zone; the vertiginous ridges of what might be Hill Top's background can be glimpsed on the horizon at the far right of the first stage.

Nearby

 * Casino Night Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit)
 * Mystic Cave Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit)
 * Emerald Hill Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) (can be seen from EHZ)