Sonic the Hedgehog

I found some facts about Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonikku za Hejjihoggu):

1. Sonic is blue, (sorry, couldn’t resist!)
2. Sonics birthday is the 23rd of June.
3. Sonics favourite food is chilli dogs
4. Sonics motto is, “I don’t look back, i’ve got no regrets, cause time don’t wait for me I choose to go my own way.
5. Sonic grew up in the emerald hill zone.
6. Sonic can’t swim.
7. Sonics sneakers were designed by professer Kintobor, (Dr robotnik before he went evil!)
8. The chaos emeralds were once twelve instead of six, (excluding the grey “control” emerald.
9. Sonic can travel faster than the speed of sound.
10. Sonics favourite drink is cola
11. Sonic was once an ordinary brown hedgehog.
12. Sonic is better than Mario. Period.
13. Sonics theme song is called “It doesn’t matter”
14. Sonic two was one of the biggest selling games of all time.
15. Sonic has NO brothers and sisters, apart from in the blasphemous series Sonic Underground, which was shit and gay and a million other negative things.
16. Sonic has had four TV series based on him, and one anime movie.

More facts:

The original game was converted into a Famicom game called Somari by a group of software pirates in Hong Kong. The game, which is mostly playable, replaces Sonic with Mario wearing Tails’ shoes.

A Java ME conversion for mobile phones running Java was released by I-Phone in 2006. This version, Sonic the Hedgehog Part 1, includes only the first three zones, with the remainder released as Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2 by Glu Mobile in 2007. This version mostly follows the Mega Drive version, but some features have been removed, most notably the Special Stage. There has also been a second, not as widely known version the game for Verizon phones, that has everything the original version did, although strangely removing all sound effects from the game. The mobile phone version also came bundled with some Panasonic cell phones in Europe and Japan.

In 2006, Sonic the Hedgehog became available for Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console service from launch, and in 2007 entered Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Arcade, under the title Sonic the Hedgehog Arcade. The 360 version does not allow the use of cheats to prevent undue earning of Achievements. It also has options for graphic smoothing, saving and loading current progress in-game and to resize the gameplay window.

The game was also present on the Danger Hiptop’s Sidekick 3, Real Arcade and GameTap (along with most classic Sonic games).

In response to the negative reception of Sega’s port on the Gameboy Advance, a programmer named Stealth released a proof-of-concept version of Sonic 1 to the Gameboy Advance by using the original Genesis version’s data from disassembly. In 2004, Sega released Sonic The Hedgehog for PlayStation and the PlayStation Store for $3.95c for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3. In 2007 the game was made available on the iTunes store as a game for the iPod nano with video, the iPod classic, and iPod with video.

Sonic the Hedgehog appeared next in Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, along with many of the series subsequent games. A few talented programmers successfully reversed engineered Sonic the Hedgehog and ported it to the Sega CD (revised and under the name Sonic Megamix), Sega 32X, and successfully ported it to the Gameboy Advance as a tech demo to show that Sonic the Hedgehog and really any Genesis classic is doable on such a platform.

In early 2009, Sega announced that the game would be available for Apple’s iPhone OS in the Spring.

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