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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 ...
Thomley would later assist with development on Sonic Mania and the Retro Engine ports of the Genesis Sonic trilogy. Sonic 1 Boomed is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog that implements Sonic's redesign from the Sonic Boom animated series, and adds numerous voice clips for Sonic and Dr. Eggman that play throughout the game, such as when the player ...
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Gameplay screenshot showing the 32-bit sprite graphics of the game. Sonic the Hedgehog makes his first appearance, hanging above the rear view mirror. Similar to Turbo OutRun, the concept behind Rad Mobile is a race against opponents across the United States. Players must race across the country while also avoiding police cars.
Sonic the Hedgehog [a] [1] is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog and the main protagonist of the series. 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 the Hedgehog is one of the bestselling video game franchises. Its cumulative sales reached 89 million copies by March 2011 [485] [486] and over 140 million by 2016. [487] The Mario & Sonic series alone sold over 19 million copies as of 2011. [486] The Sonic the Hedgehog games had grossed over $5 billion in sales by 2014. [488]
Sonic the Hedgehog was created by the newly formed Sonic Team, a 15-member Sega subsidiary formed to create a character that could compete with Nintendo's Mario.The game's level design was handled by Hirokazu Yasuhara, [4] and the musical theme was composed by Masato Nakamura from the Japanese band Dreams Come True. [5]
The 1998 webcomic Neglected Mario Characters was the first sprite comic to appear on the internet, [1] though Bob and George was the first sprite comic to gain widespread popularity. Starting its run in 2000, Bob and George utilizes sprites from the Mega Man series of games, with most of the characters being taken directly from the games.