Sonic the Hedgehog

Trivia

It was #4 in FLUX Magazine's (Issue #4) Top 100 Video Games of All-Time.

With sponsorship from SEGA, Sonic appeared on the Williams Formula 1 team in 1993. The hedgehog could be seen on the drivers' cars, and their helmets. Their rival team McLaren would often paint a squashed Sonic on their drivers' helmets after winning a race against Williams. Williams, however, would have the last laugh, when their team leader Alain Prost, secured the drivers' championship, and with the help of Damon Hill, the constructors' championship for 1993.

Sonic the Hedgehog was voted #13 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll in Retro Gamer Magazine (Issue 37).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jul 18, 2007.

Sonic the Hedgehog was included on compilations for many platforms, including Sega Smash Pack: Volume 1 for Dreamcast, Sonic Mega Collection for Gamecube and Sonic Mega Collection Plus for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Windows.

The 2006 GBA release is a port of the Genesis version. It includes a new save system and the Anniversary Mode, where the spin dash (a feature that enables Sonic to roll into a ball and rev up a spin attack from a dead stop, not available in the original game) has been added.

Contributed by Sciere (118016) on Nov 18, 2006.

The mobile edition is ported from the Genesis version. In Europe, the game was not released as a whole, but in two individual parts: Sonic the Hedgehog Part 1 and Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2.

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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.

The Scrap Brain Zone was originally called the Clock Work Zone.

In many early screenshots of the Marble Zone, there are UFO-like objects floating in the sky. Footage of a prototype Marble Zone (complete with UFOs) is shown during a commercial in the movie Wayne's World. No one knows what the objects were for, or why they were removed.

Sonic the Hedgehog came about as the result of an internal contest held by Sega to design a company mascot. Among the entries came the first designs for Eggman (Robotnik) as well.

Dr. Eggman's name was changed to Dr. Ivo Robotnik for all English language versions. He would retain this name for all his English language appearances right up until Sonic Adventure , when it was intentionally phased out and restored to Dr. Eggman, presumably because that game heralded Sonic's return to glory and there was a desire for him to return to his roots. However, the Robotnik name was officially acknowledged in Sonic Adventure 2 , even in the Japanese continuum.

At the time when Sega was trying to design a character that was fast, one illustration drawn by one of the people working on the project depicted Sonic singing in a rock band with (you ready for this?) his girlfriend Madonna!!! They took the concept and dropped Madonna out of it! Wonder if she ever knew about this?!

Sonic the Hedgehog was voted #24 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).

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Of all the Sonic games, Sonic 1 is the only game to have only 6 Chaos Emeralds. Every other game in the series features 7 Emeralds.

The original Sonic The Hedgehog game for Sega Genesis sold 4 million units worldwide. The whole Sonic series (for all consoles) sold over 27 million units since its first release in 1991.

The Japanese rock group Dreams Come True, who also composed all of the music for Sonic the Hedgehog (as well as Sonic 2 and Sonic CD), also helped promote Sonic in Japan! During one major tour they took across Japan in the summer of 1991, they had murals of Sonic painted onto the trucks that carried their equipment to get the people's attention.

And then to make it even better, their song "Sweet Sweet Dream" was chosen to be the ending theme for Sonic 2! Don't believe me? Search for the song with your favorite music search engine (AudioGalaxy works best for finding DCT music), and listen to the song's melody.