Sonic 1

AD 1991 was perhaps the most influential and enjoyable year of my life, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that I was six years old. I remember the summer holiday from school, my first of these annual events, being hot and very long while it was also the first time I went on a holiday that I could actually remember. But this isn’t a review of 1991 in general, that would be insane – this was also the year that Sega introduced the first game in the continuing Sonic the Hedgehog franchise to the MegaDrive public. For some reason, Sonic 1 (as it unofficially became known among those who owned at least one of the sequels, but that Dooyoo seem content to ...  Read the complete review

Sonic The Hedgehog (or Sonic 1) released in 1991 on the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis if you're living in America) set the foundation for one of the most endearing gaming franchises of all time that now 18 years on is still around. As one of the early games on the Mega Drive to really earn the console some kudos in it's battle with the Nintendo system of the time and as Sega's answer to Mario the blue hedgehog was one of the most important gaming characters of the 1990's. Though Sega had been looking for a mascot for a while they settled on Sonic (though the title character from the late Mega Drive game "Ristar" had almost been picked as the character for this ...  Read the complete review

Time for another game review! This time I have decided to review an old classic game known as Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive. *** In The Beginning *** The Sonic phenomenon started way back in the early '90's when Sega first released the Mega Drive and not long after that the hand-held Game Gear. To this day Sonic games are still being released and Sonic is now Sega's best known mascot. Since the first release many Sonic games have been made and released, some a bigger success than others, but all (in my opinion) great! The review I am writing for you today is about the first ever Sonic game: Sonic the ...  Read the complete review

Back in the early 90s SEGA were releasing their new flagship console the 16-bit Mega Drive, and they needed a new mascot to increase their commercial profile. Enter Sonic the Hedgehog. Released in 1991, (and ported to the amiga not long after) the original Sonic the Hedgehog looked nothing short of breathtaking, and it still looks nice today. The game is a side-scrolling platformer, but with a difference- unlike Mario Bros and its associated clones, Sonic relies heavily on speed, with the eponymous blue hedgehog racing through the levels at Speedy-Gonzalez speeds, traversing ramps, jumps and even loop-the-loops, whilst collecting as many rings as possible in ...  Read the complete review

Sonic The Hedghog is the first Sonic game ever made. It came out in 1991 - 1992, It struck the world, now everyone knows the character Sonic The Hedghog. Sonic first became the sponser for Sega (the creaters of sonic and his gang), in this game, it is just Sonic the hedghog. No friends involved what so ever. Dr Robotnic, Sonic's Arch enemy, is trying to get the 7 chaos emeralds, before Sonic got them, there was no such thing as Super Sonic in this game, it was known that who ever had the 7 chaos emeralds together, they can have absolute power. Sonic is a blue hedghog, who can talk, a run as fast as the speed of light, if you wanted to race this ...  Read the complete review