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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 3 on the Game.com version of Sonic Jam. A version of Sonic Jam was released for the Game.com handheld console in 1998, with scaled-down versions of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. Unlike it's Saturn counterpart, this version did not include Sonic the Hedgehog.
Sonic Mega Collection compiles 14 emulated games originally released for the Sega Genesis, limited to only 12 in releases outside of Japan.In addition to the seven default games, three unlockable games are included that recreate the Sonic & Knuckles "lock-on technology" to allow for new modes and/or playable characters in the first three Sonic games.
Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure [a] (also known as Sonic Pocket Adventure) is a platform game developed and published by SNK for the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 1999. The game is based on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) for the Sega Genesis, borrowing much of the stage themes and gameplay elements, but featuring unique stage layouts, elements from other Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog games, and extra ...
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 ...
It is often considered the worst Sonic game and led to the series' direction being rethought; subsequent games ignored its tone and most characters. In 2010, Sega delisted Sonic the Hedgehog from retailers, following its decision to remove all Sonic games with below-average Metacritic scores to increase the value of the franchise.
The Sonic the Hedgehog games had grossed over $5 billion in sales by 2014. [484] Series sales and free-to-play mobile game downloads totaled 920 million by 2019, [485] more than 1.14 billion by 2020, [486] over 1.6 billion by 2023, [487] and over 1.77 billion by 2024. [488]
The game was free-to-play, featured a wide variety of playable characters from the Sonic series, and received periodic updates. Development began in late 2013 and lasted a year and a half. Sonic Team sought to take advantage of the uses of smartphones and built the game using the Unity game engine .