Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)

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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[edit]

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Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 August 1990

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

Sonic 1 MD preview in EGM issue 13.jpg

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 August 1990

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

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 August 1990

Blurb

Sonic 1 MD preview in EGM issue 14.png

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 September 1990

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

Sonic 1 MD early screenshot in EGM issue 16 reader mail.jpg

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 November 1990

Reader mail about the game, featuring another early screenshot

Sonic 1 MD preview in Generation 4 issue 30.png

Génération 4
🇫🇷 February 1991

Mean Machines
🇬🇧 February 1991

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

Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 March 1991

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

Sonic 1 MD preview in ACE issue 43.png

ACE
🇬🇧 April 1991

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

Sonic 1 MD Japanese preview in Beep MegaDrive April 1991.png

Beep! MegaDrive
🇯🇵 April 1991

Sonic 1 MD Japanese preview in Mega Drive Fan April 1991.png

Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 April 1991

Sonic 1 MD preview in Sega Visions issue 4.pdf

Sega Visions
🇺🇸 April/May 1991

Sonic 1 MD preview blurb in EGM issue 21.jpg

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 April 1991

Blurb

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Game Players
🇺🇸 April 1991

Sonic 1 MD preview in GamePro issue 21.pdf

GamePro
🇺🇸 April 1991

Originally printed on non-consecutive pages

Sega CES 1991 coverage from Sega Power issue 18.jpg

Sega Power
🇬🇧 May 1991

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

Sonic 1 MD preview in Mega Drive Fan May 1991.jpg

Mega Drive Fan
🇯🇵 May 1991

Sonic 1 MD preview in Raze issue 8 edited.jpg

Raze
🇬🇧 June 1991

Edited together from two consecutive pages for readability

Sonic 1 MD preview in EGM issue 22.pdf

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 May 1991

Sonic 1 MD preview in Mean Machines issue 8.pdf

Mean Machines
🇬🇧 May 1991

Magazine covers[edit]

EGM issue 22 cover.jpg

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 May 1991

Mean Machines issue 8 cover.jpg

Mean Machines
🇬🇧 May 1991

Miscellaneous[edit]

Sonic 1 MD Japanese feature about the soundtrack and Dreams Come True in SPEC issue 7.pdf

Sega Players Enjoy Club
🇯🇵 November 1990

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

Sonic 1 MD Japanese feature including Dreams Come True from SPEC issue 7.pdf

Sega Players Enjoy Club
🇯🇵 November 1990

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

Forum posts[edit]

Usenet[edit]

"Sonic 'Hog News Wanted" (a user solicits opinions on the game, with details indicating some people had received it prior to the official American release date; June 12, 1991)

References[edit]

↑ 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.
↑ 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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