Sonic the Hedgehog for SEGA Genesis

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Online version of Sonic the Hedgehog for SEGA Genesis. Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for Genesis/Mega Drive home consoles in 1991. The game features an anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic in a quest to defeat Dr. Robotnik, a scientist who has imprisoned animals in robots and stolen the powerful Chaos Emeralds. The gameplay centers around Sonic's ability to run at high speed through levels that include springs, slopes, bottomless pits, and vertical loops, involves collecting rings as a form of health, and a simple control scheme, with jumping and attacking controlled by a single button...

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Released in

1991

Publisher

SEGA Enterprises Ltd.

Developer

Sonic Team

Platforms

Genesis, Game Gear, Maaster System (1991), Arcade (1993), Palm OS (2003), BREW, DoJa, J2ME (2005), Game Boy Advance, Wii (2006), iPod Classic, Xbox 360 (2007), BlackBerry, iPhone (2009)

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SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive

Online emulated version of Sonic the Hedgehog was originally developed for the Sega Genesis known as the Mega Drive outside North America. It was a 16-bit fourth-generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. The Genesis is Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. Sega released it as the Mega Drive in Japan in 1988, and later as the Genesis in North America in 1989. In 1990, it was distributed as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic in Europe.
Designed by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's System 16 arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling. It plays a library of more than 900 games created by Sega and a wide array of third-party publishers delivered on ROM-based cartridges. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It was released in several different versions, some created by third parties.

Contributing to its success were its library of arcade game ports, the popularity of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, several popular sports franchises, and aggressive youth marketing that positioned it as the cool console for adolescents. 30.75 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide.