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 October 2012 it was ported to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network with a version released on Steam in November the same year. The only other Dreamcast "Sonic" game was "Sonic Shuffle", which was released in 2000 and featured cel-shaded graphics and a board game concept similar to that of the "Mario Party" series. Dreamcast sales began to decline after the launch of the PlayStation 2, and therefore few "Sonic" games were released for the system. "Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure" was also released on SNK's Neo Geo Pocket Color portable console, made in the same style of the Genesis/Mega