This is the first of many games starring Sega's premier rodent, Sonic. It's a side scrolling platform game with a difference: speed. Sonic rushes through levels with incredible speed, allowing him to traverse loops and jumps with ease.

The plot of the game is simple. The evil Dr. Robotnik has captured many of Sonic's animal friends, and trapped them inside robots. Fortunately, Sonic can free his friends by destroying the robots with his spin attack. Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik is trying to control the all-powerful chaos emeralds. Sonic must grab them before he does in the 3-d rotating bonus levels.

Sonic the Hedgehog is a significant game because it gave Sega it's first real mascot, and established the Genesis as the video game system with "attitude."

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Alternate Titles

"STH" -- Informal title
"Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis" -- GBA title
"Sonic 1" -- Informal name
"ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ" -- Japanese spelling

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Sonic the Hedgehog	Genesis	$1.58
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The Press Says

Entertainment Weekly	Aug 23, 1991	A+	100
Sega-16.com	Aug 20, 2004	10 out of 10	100
Game Freaks 365	Jul 04, 2007	10 out of 10	100
The Video Game Critic	Sep 09, 2001	A	100
Consolemania	Oct, 1991	95 out of 100	95
Mean Machines	Jul, 1991	92 out of 100	92
All Game Guide	2007		90
Netjak	Aug 23, 2005	8.8 out of 10	88
SegaFan.com	May 20, 2006	8.6 out of 10	86
Kingdom of Desire	May 12, 2006	8.5 out of 10	85

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Trivia

While designing the game, the animal that Sega was thinking of using before the Hedgehog was a Rabbit!!!! Because of how dumb the idea was, Sega cut it out and added the Hedgehog instead.

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