Well, the problem with that is that the games were made as documentation of Sonic's... urgh, glorious victories over my attempts at conquest. Essentially they were all after the fact, and Sonic had fairly little involvement in the development of the games. While they provided some information (I had no idea how Sonic got through some of my fortresses, but those games clarified matters. I wasn't even AWARE of that blasted waterlogged labyrinth beneath Scrap Brain at the time, for example), overall they're not that useful as research material.