An irreverent exercise in alternate history, Sonic Dreams Collection claims to comprise leaked prototypes of four cancelled Sonic the Hedgehog games. The minigames that make up the collection mimic the look of titles like Sonic Adventure (Sonic Team, Sega, 1998) to portray gaming culture as fundamentally melancholic—a culture apparently incapable of accepting that the past has passed and moving on. Tracing some of the histories the collection alludes to, this chapter argues that gaming culture’s melancholy streak helps to explain the violent passions that surfaced during Gamergate, while showing how it has inspired more critical engagements with gaming’s past—engagements like Dreams Collection itself.