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== Features ==
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== Reader letters ==
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== Advertising ==
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== Reviews ==
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Revision as of 05:56, 16 May 2022

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 1991 platform game released by Sega in June 1991. The first installment in the series of the same name, it would prove to be a massive success in the West, bolstering sales of the Mega Drive (Genesis in North America) and establishing it as a serious rival to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Previews

Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 August 1990

Part of the magazine's coverage of the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show

  Download File
Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 August 1990

Part of the magazine's coverage of the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show

  Download File
Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 August 1990

Blurb

  Download File
Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 September 1990

Part of the magazine's coverage of the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show

  Download File
Génération 4
🇫🇷 February 1991
  Download File
Mean Machines
🇬🇧 February 1991

Blurb regarding the game's appearance at the 1991 Winter Consumer Electronic Show

  Download File
Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 March 1991

Part of the magazine's coverage of the 1991 Winter Consumer Electronic Show

  Download File
ACE
🇬🇧 April 1991

Part of the magazine's coverage of the 1991 Winter Consumer Electronic Show

  Download File
Beep! MegaDrive
🇯🇵 April 1991
  Download File
Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 April 1991
  Download File
Sega Visions
🇺🇸 April/May 1991
  Download PDF
Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 April 1991

Blurb

  Download File
Game Players
🇺🇸 April 1991
  Download File
GamePro
🇺🇸 April 1991

Originally printed on non-consecutive pages

  Download PDF
Sega Power
🇬🇧 May 1991

Coverage of Sega's presence at the 1991 Consumer Electronic Show, including various other games

  Download File
Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 May 1991
  Download File
Raze
🇬🇧 June 1991

Edited together from two consecutive pages for readability

  Download File
Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 May 1991
  Download PDF
Mean Machines
🇬🇧 May 1991
  Download PDF
Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 June 1991
  Download PDF
Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 June 1991
  Download PDF
Game Players Sega Guide!
🇺🇸 June/July 1991
  Download PDF
Sega Power
🇬🇧 July 1991

Also features part of an interview with people from Virgin (which is mostly, but not entirely, unrelated to Sonic)

  Download PDF
Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 July 1991
  Download PDF
Mega Force
🇫🇷 July/August 1991
  Download PDF
Raze
🇬🇧 August 1991
  Download PDF
Supergame
🇧🇷 July 1991
  Download PDF

Magazine covers

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 May 1991
  Download File
Mean Machines
🇬🇧 May 1991
  Download File
Sega Visions
🇺🇸 Summer 1991
  Download File
GamePro
🇺🇸 June 1991
  Download File
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
🇺🇸 June 1991
  Download File
Sega Power
🇬🇧 July 1991
  Download File
Beep! MegaDrive
🇯🇵 July 1991
  Download PDF
Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 July 1991
  Download File
Games-X
🇬🇧 June 27 - July 3, 1991

Also features Super Mario World

  Download File
Supergame
🇧🇷 July 1991
  Download File
VideoGame
🇧🇷 July 1991
  Download File

Features

Sega Visions
🇺🇸 Summer 1991
  Download PDF
Beep! MegaDrive
🇯🇵 July 1991

Also includes an interview

  Download PDF
Mega Play
🇺🇸 July/August 1991

Cheat codes and an infinite lives trick

  Download PDF

Reader letters

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 November 1990

Pre-release letter featuring another early screenshot

  Download File

Advertising

Print ad
🇬🇧 1991

Taken from issue 9 of Mean Machines (dated June 1991)

  Download PDF
Print ad
🇯🇵 1991

Taken from Beep! MegaDrive's July 1991 issue

  Download PDF

Reviews

GamePro
🇺🇸 June 1991
  Download PDF
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
🇺🇸 June 1991
  Download File
Video Games
🇩🇪 June 7, 1991
  Download PDF
Games-X
🇬🇧 June 27 - July 3, 1991

Frequently compares the game to Super Mario World, down to printing scores for both titles at the end

  Download PDF
New Computer Express
🇬🇧 June 29, 1991
  Download PDF
Mean Machines
🇬🇧 July 1991
  Download PDF
Mega Play
🇺🇸 July/August 1991

Panel review

  Download File
Player One
🇫🇷 July/August
  Download PDF
Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 July 1991

Panel review

  Download File
VideoGame
🇧🇷 July 1991
  Download PDF

Miscellaneous

Sega Players Enjoy Club
🇯🇵 November 1990

Feature about Dreams Come True & their involvement with the game's soundtrack

  Download PDF
Sega Players Enjoy Club
🇯🇵 November 1990

Feature about Sonic as a character (featuring Dreams Come True)

  Download PDF
GamePro
🇺🇸 June 1991

Announcement of a Sonic-related contest to win various Sonic/Sega prizes

  Download File
Mean Machines
🇬🇧 July 1991

News item about Sega of America's efforts to block British wholesalers from importing and reselling American copies early

  Download File

Forum posts

Usenet

References

  1. ↑ This Usenet thread, dated June 12, 1991, mentions that some people in the USA had managed to obtain and play a copy of the game as early as the previous day.
  2. ↑ Sega of Japan mentions this date on two separate web pages: their game history and their page for the game's Wii Virtual Console release.
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