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Sonic the Hedgehog was the best-selling home video game of 1991, [108] with 2 million copies sold worldwide by the end of the year, [109] becoming Sega's best-selling home video game up until then. [110] In 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog helped Sega generate a gross revenue of $1 billion in console sales and capture a 65% share of the European ...
Gameplay screenshot taken during the stage "Kingdom Valley", where Sonic is running at full speed. Sonic the Hedgehog is a 3D platformer with action-adventure and role-playing elements. [1] Like Sonic Adventure, the player navigates through open-ended hub worlds where they can converse with townspeople and perform missions to advance the story. [2]
An add-on by the name of Sonic Origins Plus was released in 2023, which added all twelve Game Gear Sonic games: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic Spinball, Sonic Blast, Sonic Labyrinth, Tails' Skypatrol, Tails Adventure, and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
Sonic Runners was a free-to-play side-scrolling video game in which the player-character was constantly running forward. [2] To avoid obstacles and defeat enemies, the character jumped when the player tapped the touchscreen. [3]
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the bestselling video game franchises. Its cumulative sales reached 89 million copies by March 2011 [481] [482] and over 140 million by 2016. [483] The Mario & Sonic series alone sold over 19 million copies as of 2011. [482] The Sonic the Hedgehog games had grossed over $5 billion in sales by 2014. [484]
In 1996, a two-part OVA, Sonic the Hedgehog, was released in Japan. For the American release, the two episodes combined and released as Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie by ADV Films. [49] A new series, Sonic X, began airing in 2003. The 78-episode anime series detailed Sonic's struggle to protect the Chaos Emeralds from Eggman and new villains.
Sonic Speed Simulator [a] is a massively multiplayer online incremental platform game developed and published by Gamefam, under license and in association with Sega of America, [1] and serves as an official entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise on the gaming and game development platform Roblox. The gameplay involves moving around and ...
Developed as a replacement for their existing Alex Kidd mascot, as well as Sega's response to Mario, his first appearance was in the arcade game Rad Mobile as a cameo, before making his official debut in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). Sonic's greatest ability is his running speed, and he is known as the world's fastest hedgehog. [2]