"kits for Nintendo's less powerful Wii console. Sega believed porting the game to Wii would take too long, and so conceived a ""Sonic"" game that would use the motion detection function of its controller. Therefore, the team was split in two: Nakamura led one team to finish ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 while producer Yojiro Ogawa led the other to begin work on ""Sonic and the Secret Rings"" for the Wii. The split left an unusually small team to work on ""Sonic the Hedgehog"". Sega pressured the team to finish the game in time for the"
"Sonic transforms into ""Super Sonic"", a faster and invulnerable version of himself that can fly. In Super Sonic form, Sonic's irises turn red and his body becomes golden. As Sega's mascot and one of the key reasons for the company's success during the 16-bit era of video game consoles, Sonic is one of the most famous video game characters in the world. In 1993, Sonic became the first video game character to have a balloon in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1996, Sonic was also the first video game character to be seen in a Rose Parade. Sonic was one"
"Chao (Sonic) Chao (; ) are fictional life forms in the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" video game series published by Sega. They are small, childlike creatures that go through a complex life cycle and exist in several visual forms depending on how they are raised. Developer Sonic Team incorporated Chao into the games to encourage players to explore levels and support the good–evil dichotomy of ""Sonic Adventure 2"". Chao have appeared in many games in the series, beginning with ""Sonic Adventure"" in 1998. They usually take the form of digital pets, but have also played parts in the story and figured"
"and ""Modern""), and the ""Avatar"" (the player's custom character). Each has unique abilities and attributes: Classic Sonic is restricted to side-scrolling gameplay reminiscent of the Sega Genesis ""Sonic"" games and can perform spin dash on the ground and a drop dash in mid-air to gain speed. Modern Sonic's gameplay follows a similar style to ""Sonic Unleashed"" and ""Sonic Colors"": he can double jump, perform a homing attack on enemies, springs, and grappling hooks, and a speed boost by collecting White Wisps. The Avatar is created from a base of seven animal types, which each possess a unique ability; they also"
"different media including animation, comic books, and a Hollywood film. The first ""Sonic"" game, ""Sonic the Hedgehog"", is a platform game released in 1991. Players control the anthropomorphic blue hedgehog Sonic, who can run and jump at high speeds using springs, ramps, and loops. Sonic must stop Dr. Robotnik from taking over the world using the Chaos Emeralds. ""Sonic the Hedgehog 2"" (1992) increased the overall size and speed of the series' gameplay and was the second best-selling Genesis game. It introduced Sonic's sidekick and best friend, Miles ""Tails"" Prower, who followed Sonic throughout the game, and allowed a second"
"Sonic being fused with Dark Gaia's power. He gains strength and flexibility in exchange for his speed, and new friends including a strange creature named Chip who helps him along the way. In ""Sonic Colors"" (2010), Eggman tries to harness the energy of alien beings known as ""Wisps"" for a mind-control beam. The anniversary title ""Sonic Generations"" (2011) features two playable incarnations of Sonic: the younger ""classic"" Sonic, whose gameplay is presented in a style reminiscent of the Mega Drive/Genesis titles, and present-day ""modern"" Sonic, who uses the gameplay style present in ""Unleashed"" and ""Colors"", going through stages from past"
"Sega. However, Sega wished to have a mascot to rival Nintendo's flagship character Mario, a task which Alex Kidd was not considered up to. In 1991, Sega introduced Sonic the Hedgehog, who became more popular and recognizable than Alex Kidd, and Sonic subsequently replaced Alex Kidd as Sega's mascot. After this, the popularity of the character waned somewhat, although the character has made numerous cameo appearances in later video games, most recently in ""Sega Superstars Tennis"", ""Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing"" and ""Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed"". Alex Kidd appears as a short boy with large ears and slightly monkey-like"
"player to control him in a limited fashion. This game also introduced Sonic's ""spin dash"" maneuver, an ability which allows Sonic to burst forwards quickly from a complete standstill, unlike the previous game, where Sonic could only gain speed with momentum. ""Sonic 2"" was followed in 1993 by an arcade game, ""SegaSonic the Hedgehog"", featuring new characters Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel. The next console game, ""Sonic the Hedgehog 3"", was released in 1994. The game introduced a temporary shield maneuver, often called the ""insta-shield"", added new shield types to the series, and allowed Tails to be"
"fast-paced video games. Sonic X The series follows a group of anthropomorphic animals who accidentally teleport from their home planet to Earth after attempting to save one of their friends from their enemy Doctor Eggman. Separated, Sonic the Hedgehog is saved from a human boy named Chris Thorndyke who helps him find his friends while repeatedly scuffling with Doctor Eggman and his robots over control of the powerful Chaos Emeralds, and becoming celebrities. The final story arc sees the friends return with Chris to their world, where they enter outer space with a newfound plant-like creature named Cosmo and fight"
"for Shadow the Hedgehog. ""Sonic Heroes"" (2003) featured Sonic teaming up with Tails and Knuckles, along with other character teams like Team Rose and Chaotix, against the newly rebuilt Metal Sonic, who had betrayed his master with intentions of world domination. ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" (2006) features Sonic in the city of water, ""Soleanna,"" where he must rescue Princess Elise from Dr. Eggman while trying to avoid a new threat to his own life, Silver the Hedgehog. He is the only playable character in ""Sonic Unleashed"" (2008), in which he unwillingly gains a new personality, ""Sonic the Werehog,"" the result of"
"in which players control two variants of Sonic the Hedgehog: ""Classic"" or ""Modern"". Classic Sonic's gameplay is restricted side-scrolling gameplay similar to the original ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" games released in the 1990s, and requires him to use moves such as the Spin Dash and the Spin Attack. Modern Sonic's gameplay follows the gameplay style of ""Sonic Rush"" (2005), ""Sonic Unleashed"" (2008), and ""Sonic Colors"" (2010), featuring an amalgamation of third-person and side-scrolling perspectives and techniques such as boosting and homing attacks. Both Sonics collect rings as a form of health, and power-ups such as elemental shields, invincibility, speed shoes, skateboards,"
"Yuji Naka and artist Naoto Ohshima are generally credited with the creation of the character. The first game was released to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo's flagship character Mario in June 1991. Since then, Sonic has become one of the world's best-known video game characters, with his series selling more than 80 million copies. In 2005, Sonic was one of the first game character inductees into the Walk of Game alongside Mario and Link. While Sega was seeking a flagship series to compete with Nintendo's Mario series with a character to replace Alex Kidd as the company's"
"response from critics, although some have found her cute and powerful, others have criticized her voice acting and personality. She has frequently appeared in ""Sonic"" merchandise. Amy is a pink anthropomorphic hedgehog created by Kenji Terada for the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" manga, which had debuted in 1992. The character was redesigned the next year for the Sega CD game, ""Sonic CD"". An early grayscale concept sketch shows her very similar to her appearance in the game except for her shoes, which were made larger. Her fur color was red at first, and her skirt orange. The character had two other"
"that involved a fast-moving character rolling in a ball through a long winding tube, and this concept was subsequently fleshed out with Ohshima's character design and levels conceived by designer Hirokazu Yasuhara. Sonic's blue pigmentation was chosen to match Sega's cobalt blue logo, and his shoes were a concept evolved from a design inspired by Michael Jackson's boots with the addition of the color red, which was inspired by both Santa Claus and the contrast of those colors on Jackson's 1987 album ""Bad""; his personality was based on Bill Clinton's ""can do"" attitude. In mid-1990, Nakayama hired Tom Kalinske to"
"Somari Somari is a side-scrolling platform video game, originally released in 1994 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). An unlicensed port of Sega's 1991 Sega Genesis game ""Sonic the Hedgehog"", the game was sold primarily around Asia, Russia, and other regions where pirate NES cartridges were distributed. Like the original, players venture to defeat the mad scientist Doctor Robotnik, who plots to turn the animal population of the fictional South Island into evil robots. Unlike the original, the game features Nintendo's mascot Mario as the main character rather than Sonic. The title is a portmanteau of ""Sonic"" and ""Mario"". ""Somari"""
"Sega began by releasing ""Sonic the Hedgehog"", a 2D platform game, in 1991. The game featured Sonic's ability to run and to jump at high speeds like its Mega Drive/Genesis counterpart but with notably different level design and music. Sega later released ""Sonic the Hedgehog 2"" another 2D platform game, in 1992. The game differed from its Genesis counterpart with different levels and music and by not including a ""spin dash"" maneuver. It also featured a different storyline in which Doctor Robotnik kidnaps Tails, who is non-playable in the Master System/Game Gear version. ""Sonic Chaos""/""Sonic and Tails"" (Japan), released in"
"island while going solo and decides to spend a holiday there for a while, dubbing the island ""Tails Island"". He is resting peacefully when he is awoken by a large explosion. A Flicky reports to Tails that an army of birds has invaded the island. , is a character in the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" series of video games, comics, and animated series released by Sega. He is an 8 year-old, anthropomorphic orange fox with two tails, hence the name. He is known to be Sonic the Hedgehog's sidekick and a mechanic. He is able to use his two tails to"
"stronger mascot to move Genesis units. In 1990, Hudson Soft released ""Bonk's Adventure"" featuring a character that would be positioned as NEC's mascot. 1990 marked the release of the Super NES, along with the much awaited ""Super Mario World"". In order to fend off the new competition, Sega released ""Sonic the Hedgehog"". Whereas Nintendo's offering featured a conservative design, true to the ""Mario"" tradition, ""Sonic"" showcased a new style of design made possible by a new generation of hardware. ""Sonic"" featured large fields that scrolled effortlessly in all directions, as well as all manner of uneven terrain, curved hills, and"
"Sonic Generations Sonic Generations is a 2011 platform video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, and Microsoft Windows. An installment in the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" series, the game—which was produced in commemoration of its twentieth anniversary—follows Sonic and his sidekick Tails as they form an alliance with their past selves to stop an evil entity from erasing all time. It features two gameplay styles: ""Classic"", which plays from a side-scrolling perspective like that of the original Sega Genesis ""Sonic"" games, and ""Modern"", 3D levels similar to those in ""Sonic"
"Sonic Labyrinth Sonic Labyrinth is an action and puzzle game developed by Minato Giken and published by Sega for the Game Gear in 1995. The game features Sonic the Hedgehog exploring maze-like stages from an isometric perspective. Dr. Robotnik has robbed Sonic of his trademark speed, so Sonic walks slowly but can roll into a ball and dash across the stages. Critics thought the game was a unique addition to the ""Sonic"" library, but flawed by convoluted controls and repetitive gameplay. It has received harsher criticism in retrospect and is considered one of the worst ""Sonic"" games ever. ""Sonic Labyrinth"""
"had been revealed to the public. 'Cosmic Kitten' (alternatively 'Claws') as he was then known was to be the Amiga's answers to Sonic the Hedgehog. However, before publication the character was re-designed as a caveboy known simply as 'Kid' to avoid any legal conflict with SEGA who have always been very protective of their intellectual property. Kid Chaos (video game) Kid Chaos (previously known as Kid Vicious) is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by Magnetic Fields, and published by Ocean Software, for the Amiga and Amiga CD32 in 1994. On 5th May 2018 a retrospective video documentary/review produced by"
"360 degrees in all directions. In 1991, Sega released ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" as a competitor mascot to represent Sega against Nintendo’s Mario, and with 15 million copies sold, Sonic the Hedgehog spawned multiple sequels over the years and became Sega’s flagship franchise. In 1992, Sega released ""Virtua Racing"" in order to utilise polygonal 3D-graphics engines, and in 1993, Sega released ""Virtua Fighter"", the world's first polygonal 3D fighting game. The ""Virtua Fighter"" series resulted in various world records including ""First Polygon Based Fighting Game"", ""First 3D Fighting Game"", and ""First Fighting Game for a 32-bit Console"". In 1994, Sega launched"
"little brother, and is uninterested in marital proposals from Amy Rose. In times of crisis, he focuses intensely on the challenge as if his personality had undergone an astonishing change. Sonic's greatest strength is his running speed, being known in the game's universe as the world's fastest hedgehog. Many of his abilities are variations on the tendency for hedgehogs to roll into tight balls for protection with the addition of spinning his body. Since his introduction in 1991's ""Sonic the Hedgehog"", Sonic's primary offensive maneuver is the basic ""Spin Attack"" (or ""Sonic Spin Attack""). Later games in the series expanded"
"the developers of ""animal with attitude"" games ""Crash Bandicoot"" and ""Gex"" for the PlayStation cited ""Sonic"" as a major inspiration. ""Sonic""'s success led to an extensive media franchise, with the first of many sequels, ""Sonic the Hedgehog 2,"" released the following year. It has generated dozens of additional games and a large cast of recurring characters, keeping Sonic and Robotnik (later renamed as Eggman) mainstays, and continued beyond Sega's exit from the console industry after the Dreamcast. The series has ventured from platformers to fighting, racing, role-playing, and sports games, and also expanded into anime, manga, cartoons comic books, novels,"
"protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog, a blue hedgehog able to run at supersonic speeds, and recurring villain Dr. Eggman, an evil scientist whose ambition is to conquer the world. Among Sonic's many allies, the most well-known include: Miles ""Tails"" Prower, a twin-tailed, highly intelligent yellow fox who is Sonic's sidekick and best friend; Amy Rose, a pink hedgehog who is Sonic's self-proclaimed girlfriend and a hero in her own right; Knuckles the Echidna, a coolheaded red echidna who is the guardian of the Master Emerald; Shadow the Hedgehog, an anti-heroic doppelgänger of Sonic with a dark past; and Metal Sonic, a"
"same year, Capcom released the platformer ""Strider"", which scrolled in multiple directions and allowed the player to summon artificial intelligence (AI) partners, such as a droid, tiger, and hawk, to help fight enemies. Sega's ""Shadow Dancer"", released the same year, also featured an AI partner, a dog who would follow the player around and aid in battle. In 1990, Hudson Soft released ""Bonk's Adventure"", featuring a character that was positioned as NEC's mascot. The following year, Takeru's ""Cocoron"", a late platformer for the Famicom, introduced true character customization, allowing players to build a character from a toy box filled with"
"""Mega Man"" franchise, Knuckles became virtually indistinguishable from his video game counterpart: he is the last known Echidna and the last Guardian of the Master Emerald, and the Chaotix no longer serve as his full-time support team. Knuckles' animation debut came with the 1996 Japanese ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" OVA. Sonic and Tails meet him in an alternate dimension, and over the course of the film he helps them defeat Black Eggman (Metal Robotnik) and Hyper Metal Sonic, two robots created by Doctor Eggman (Doctor Robotnik). As Metal Sonic is about to descend into a lava pit, Sonic attempts to save"
"Sonic 3D Blast Sonic 3D Blast, known in Japan and Europe as is a 1996 isometric platform game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn. The story follows Sonic the Hedgehog as he embarks on a journey to save the Flickies, a species of bird that are being enslaved by Doctor Robotnik. The player must guide Sonic through a series of themed levels to collect Flickies, in order to defeat Robotnik. Though it shares similar gameplay elements with prior ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" games, ""Sonic 3D Blast"" is differentiated by its isometric viewpoint, making occasional use of pre-rendered 3D models converted"
"and expanding on them broadly enough to form a concept around which an entire game could be based. Morawiec drew inspiration from ""Pinball Dreams"", a game released for the Amiga in 1992, to combine pinball mechanics with the gameplay of ""Sonic the Hedgehog"". Collaborating with three colleagues, Morawiec designed basic animations depicting Sonic as a pinball. The animations were demonstrated to Sega's senior management, who approved the project. The development team knew that the game would have to be completed in under a year to be ready in time for the 1993 holiday season; a schedule Morawiec considered ""tight"" for"
"action."" ""Sonic 2""s success was a major factor in Sega catching up to Nintendo in the early-1990s console wars. It brought their market share up to 40% within six months of its release. Tails, whom ""Sonic the Hedgehog 2"" introduced, went on to become one of the most prominent characters in the series, appearing as Sonic's sidekick in most ""Sonic"" media, including in recent games such as ""Sonic Colors"", ""Sonic Generations"", and ""Sonic Lost World"". ""Sonic the Hedgehog 2""s popularity extended to various merchandise such as comic books such as ""Sonic the Comic"", a television series, and a sequel, ""Sonic"
"of Sonic Team and a vice president of product development for Sega. In 2016, Iizuka relocated to Los Angeles to oversee development with the goal of making Sega's studios in Los Angeles ""a centralized hub for the global brand"". Sonic Team has developed a number of video games, with many of them becoming bestsellers. The studio is best known for its ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" series of platform games, which account for the majority of Sonic Team's work; the 1991 release of ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" is considered one of the most important moments in video game history, as it propelled Genesis"
"Amy Rose , is a fictional character in Sega's ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" series. She is a pink anthropomorphic hedgehog with a driven, competitive personality, who is infatuated with the series' main character, Sonic. She serves as the first playable female character in the series. Amy debuted in the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" manga created by Kenji Terada in 1992. Her first video game appearance was in 1993's ""Sonic CD"" and she was first playable in 1994's ""Sonic Drift"". Amy has appeared in most ""Sonic"" games since her debut, as well as comic books, and television shows. Amy has garnered a mixed"
"Sonic Mania Sonic Mania is a 2017 platform game published by Sega for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows. Produced in commemoration of the ""Sonic the Hedgehog"" series' 25th anniversary, ""Sonic Mania"" homages the original Sega Genesis ""Sonic"" games, featuring speedy side-scrolling gameplay. It takes place over twelve levels, including eight redesigned stages from past games. The story follows Sonic the Hedgehog and his companions Tails and Knuckles as they venture to defeat their nemesis Doctor Eggman and his robotic henchmen, the Hard-Boiled Heavies. The development team was composed of members known for their work in the ""Sonic"""