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Name: Sonic the Hedgehog
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Birthday: June 23
Race: Hedgehog
Height: 3'3"
Weight: 46lbs
Hometown: South Island
Title: World's Fastest Hedgehog
Occupation: Hedgehog
Alignment: Good
Weapons: Chaos Emeralds
Powers/Abilities: Super speed, Chaos Control, and transformations including Super Sonic, Hyper Sonic, Darkspine Sonic, and at times able to transform into a powerful werewolf creature.
Bio: The original four main Sonic titles for the Mega Drive/Genesis, released between 1991 and 1994, were Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. These two dimensional Sonic titles are platform games viewed from a side-on perspective. Their controls are fairly basic and do not deviate much from the genre standard; the selling point of the series is the high-speed gameplay. The series' game engines allow characters to run up walls and ceilings, and roller coaster-like loops and corkscrews are common, as are giant pinball machines with flippers and bumpers which knock Sonic around like a ball. The games also feature numerous sections involving more precise jumping to traverse platforms and avoid hazards. In the first three games, it is possible to manually edit levels through use of a code.
In 1993, Sonic CD was released on the Mega Drive/Genesis add-on device, the Sega Mega-CD. In 1996 the game was ported to PC CD-ROM.
Another Sonic game from the 16-bit era was the spin-off Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, a pinball simulation with a story based in the Sonic universe. It was the first Sonic game to be developed entirely within the United States.
The Sega Technical Institute tried to develop a Sonic game for the Saturn called Sonic X-treme. This game was intended to compete with Nintendo's Super Mario 64 and Sony's Crash Bandicoot. However, due to time constraints and issues between STI and the Japanese division of Sega and Sonic Team, the project was canceled in the last months of 1996.
Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (also known as Sonic 3D Blast), an isometric, pseudo-3D ("2.5D"😉 game, was released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1996. Sega Saturn and Windows PC conversions followed to cover the hole of the cancellation of Sonic X-treme. They had enhanced graphics and a different sound track, composed by Richard Jacques. Sonic 3D was developed by Traveller's Tales, although Sonic Team worked on the Special Stages in the Saturn/PC version.
In 1997, a compilation entitled Sonic Jam was released for the Saturn. In addition to containing Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, it also included a "Sonic World" mode. This allowed the player to control Sonic in a small 3D world similar to the Green Hill Zone from the original game; it contained no enemies and was mainly a means of accessing the disc's multimedia features. During the same year the Sonic series' first full 3D game, a racing spin-off title called Sonic R, was released for the Saturn and later ported to PC.
The most known leap into 3D platforming was made with Sonic Adventure, a launch title for the Sega Dreamcast console. This was also the first game in the series to feature voice-acting. On 19 June 2001 in North America (23 June in Japan and Europe; the 10th anniversary of the US release of Sonic the Hedgehog), Sonic Adventure 2 was launched. In late 2001, first being released in Japan, then in Europe and America in early 2002, Sonic Adventure 2 was ported to the Nintendo GameCube under the title of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.
In late 2002, another compilation entitled Sonic Mega Collection was released on the Nintendo GameCube. Similar to Sonic Jam, the game featured classic Sonic titles and unlockable games and extra bonus material. In late 2004 it was ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox under the name of Sonic Mega Collection Plus which included additional games, a PC version was also released in 2006.
In 2003 Sonic Adventure was ported to the Nintendo GameCube and Windows PC under the title of Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, featuring some enhancements to the Dreamcast version. The first multiplatform game in the Sonic series, Sonic Heroes, was released on the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox on December 30, 2003 in Japan, with American and European releases following soon after, and a PC version the following November. The platforming was largely similar to that of the Adventure titles, although the player now controlled the lead character of a team of three themed characters, with the other two following closely behind. The player could switch to a new leader at any time, in order to make use of that character's special skills.
In 2005, the Sonic series was given a star on the Walk of Game. That same year, Sega released Shadow the Hedgehog. It is the first game in the series that utilizes weapons as a part of the core gameplay.
In November 2006, Sonic the Hedgehog, the first Sonic game for the seventh home console generation, was released for the Xbox 360, with a PlayStation 3 version in January 2007. Soon after, in spring of 2007, Sonic and the Secret Rings was released for the Wii. Just recently, a new game known as Sonic Unleashed was announced, and it is to be released on all 3 next-generation consoles and the Playstation 2. A little later, Sega confirmed a Wii-exclusive game, Sonic and the Black Knight, as a sequel to Sonic and the Secret Rings.
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