Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game franchise produced by Sega centering on a series of high-speed platform games. Sonic, the protagonist, is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog with supersonic speed. Typically, Sonic must stop antagonist Doctor Eggman's plans for world domination, often helped by his friends, such as Tails, Amy, and Knuckles. The first "Sonic the Hedgehog" game, released in 1991, was conceived by Sega's Sonic Team division after Sega requested a mascot character to compete with Nintendo's mascot Mario. Its success spawned many sequels and helped Sega become one of the leading video game companies during
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game) appearances since. Silver is a playable character in "Sonic Rivals" (2006) and its sequel, in "" (2007), and in "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games" and its sequels, and is a minor character in the Nintendo DS version of "Sonic Colors" (2010) and "Sonic Forces" (2017). He also appeared in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" comic book series published by Archie Comics. The main theme of "Sonic the Hedgehog", "His World", was sampled in Drake's 2017 song "KMT". To celebrate the "Sonic" franchise's 20th anniversary in 2011, Sega released "Sonic Generations", which remade aspects of past "Sonic" games. The