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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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Sonic the Hedgehog
	Sonic the Hedgehog	Xbox 360	$19.99
	Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis	Game Boy Advance	$19.99
	Sonic the Hedgehog 3	Genesis	$4.40
	Sonic Advance/Sonic Pinball Party for Nintendo Game Boy Advance	Game Boy Advance	$9.99
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist - TMNT - Sega Genesis	Genesis	$9.89
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User Reviews

KICK ASS!	Genesis	Tomer Gabel (4491)
Blue, blue sky...	Genesis	Satoshi Kunsai (1862)
The beginning of one of the most influential platformers	Genesis	Classic Nigel (128)
The need for speed	Genesis	Liam Dowds (51)
The game that started it all....	Genesis	MrBee (29)
You have only a SNES? So sorry...	Genesis	The Imperial Darkhorse (131)
And so it begins...	Genesis	Kain Ceverus (33)
great!	Genesis	marielle goaway (3)
Don't play it and you are SO SAD!	Genesis	Joel Chappell (3)
this game will make you as dizzy as hell!!	Genesis	paul cairey (347)

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The Press Says

Objectif-SEGA	Genesis	Jun 05, 2005	10 out of 10	100
Mean Machines	Genesis	Jul, 1991	92 out of 100	92
All Game Guide	Genesis	2007		90
Eurogamer	Xbox 360	Jul 16, 2007	9 out of 10	90
SegaFan.com	Genesis	May 20, 2006	8.6 out of 10	86
Power Play	Genesis	Sep, 1991	82 out of 100	82
IGN	Wii	Jan 26, 2007	8 out of 10	80
HonestGamers	Genesis	Dec 20, 2003	7 out of 10	70
Jeuxvideo.com	Xbox 360	Nov 21, 2006	9 out of 20	45
Defunct Games	Xbox 360	Nov 14, 2006	40 out of 100	40

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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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