Sonic the Hedgehog platforming of the main levels. The 16-bit "Sonic the Hedgehog " consisted of a giant rotating maze, which many considered a major technical achievement. The most common special stages, however, were segments with the character running through a long tunnel to collect certain items. 3D "collect item" levels, as in "Sonic 3" and "Sonic & Knuckles", used the same perspective but had Sonic collecting all the blue-colored orbs on the surface of a giant sphere. Finally, "Sonic Advance 2" employed a 3D ring-collecting stage, and "Sonic Chaos" ("Sonic and Tails" in Japan) used a variety of gimmicks for its levels.
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