Description

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."

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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Sonic the Hedgehog    
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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 Bronze Star Contributing Member (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)

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 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 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.


This entry was contributed by Guy Chapman (1673), Sciere Bronze Star Contributing Member (97304), Kabushi (39989), Ben K (16950) and quizzley7 (21223)
 

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