Finally, Sonic the Hedgehog is old enough to vote and join the Navy. That's right: Sega's iconic video game rodent is 18 years old today, so if you fondly remember playing the first Sonic The Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis, you're officially old.
In his long career Sonic has competed in the Summer Olympics with bitter rival Mario, defeated Dr. Robotnick many times, and collected like a million, billion rings. Sonic's game oeuvre includes classics like the original Sonic the Hedgehog, the Advance series, and Sonic Adventures as well as unfortunate missteps (Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 3D Blast, etc.). In fact, if you really look at Sonic's "career" you'll see just about every kind of game represented: Fighting games, RPGs, mini-game collections, racers, and just about everything except a first-person shooter.
To celebrate, Sega is running a contest to give away years worth of Sonic swag. Check out the site for more details.
All due respect to Sonic on his birthday, but do you think it's time to put the little blue guy out to pasture? He's worked pretty hard for a long time and must be having joint problems from all that running, so maybe he should retire. It seems to me all Sonic ever really brought to the table as a character was some generic "attitude" and the ability to move really, really fast. That was pretty innovative 18 years ago, but is it really enough to hang an entire franchise on for nearly two decades? There's something so rooted in the time about Sonic; know what I mean? If you do still dig Sonic, where do you see the character/franchise going in the future?
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Halo53
I used to love sonic. I also used to collect baseball cards and watch legends of the hidden temple
djrezzie
they need to make a new 2d sonic game kinda like mega man 9
that way they can make the levels longer and just put sonic
in it then everybodys happy. Yay!
kajun989
sonic was my childhood, I had access to him and mario, and i choose sonic homes! All they have to do is create a game that holds the sonic feeling we felt when we were young. Just like capcom did with street fighter 4, you get that sf2 feeling because they didnt mess with WHAT WORKS. All sega has to do is LISTEN TO THE BL*EPING FANS!!!!!!! That's all! It's us who buy your games..dont you care sega?? Sonic unleashed was the hope..and when you slowed him down when u turn him into a wherehog..come on sega..there's a reason why mario and nintendo is kicking your a$$ today..even if miyamoto messed with the formula a lil, he ensures that the gameplay and elements that gives one the mario feeling isnt lost! God Damn it..and when are we getting a next shinobi game?
6axiskilla25x
For some reason I am still a huge Sonic fan, even though I have disliked most of the newer Sonic games that have come out. Must be the nostalgia.
h4x121
I think the problem with sonic is they try to push the story to much instead of focusing on the platforming/speed. Mario is successful over and over again...why? notice how its the same story just about every time. bowser steals princess, mario saves her. Ok, story done now on to the important part, the game. Taking risks is good, but it just happens that the ones sega takes don't work out.
crocodilius
He needs a game with RPG elements and leveling up. The kind of game where each of the other characters, be it from other games or the tv shows, has a special ability that you need to progress the game. That would be quite awesome indeed.
weejifiend
I think they need to get the Wii Punchout or Bionic Commando Rearmed guys on Sonic. I think Sonic Team doesn't understand anymore what made Sonic good.
The reason I still play Sonic games isn't because they're all that good, its because its one of the last of a dying breed of game that I enjoy.
K_BIT
If I may quote Yahtzee for a bit, "Sonic Team are to be congratulated for their epic story-telling, their orchestral soundtracks, and their sheer doggone determination to overlook the fact that their main character is a (censored) CARTOON RAT!"
NodokaHyuuga
Sonic the Hedgehog Galaxy, anyone? Or maybe he could get a gun and assault Robotnik once again.
Yeah, I think he needs to call it quits.
raffATTACK
I still like sonic, since the last game I played with the hedgehog was on the dreamcast and Sonic Adventures rocks lol
I can only see a future sonic game with sonic only if they make a totally awesome and new Sonic Adventures game, like new look and feel, new cool things with the choas emeralds or something. give him like new powers or something, like make sonic get dumped with a tub of nuclear radiation or w/e lol idk...
klyonawesome
Nice it's my birthday too. They need to pull a Street Fighter II HD Remix with Sonic. Make it XBL and PSN download only. Have 2D graphics with 1080p res. Maybe through some new environments w/ new enemies to mix things up.
big13lak
His next game should be at the Playboy Mansion sponsored by Philip Morris and it should be fun lol.
Bashura
Sonic can still be an icon. He's just been in a lot of bad games lately. That's not his fault. If developers would just take the time to make things right, a new sonic game would be great. Take Sonic the Hedgehog on xbox and ps3. If somebody would just go back and fix the buggy controls, it'd be awesome. Or take Sonic Unleashed. Just add a little more polish, and remove all that stupid werehog crap. Developers just need to get back to the sense of speed that the original titles had without trying to add too much flare.
quinzee
sonic should not hang up the boots. he can have the same successes like mario, he just needs to adapt to the changing gaming world
cgolfer25
you could say that mario is generic too, i mean all he ever did was run around and hit blocks with his head. oh yeah he's a plumber too...forgot about that interesting tidbit
cmdluke
a sonic FPS would be totally win.
chubs5182
He could retire to becoming a secondary character in Mario Sports/Party games. Or see if Nintendo would turn the Mario vs. Sonic thing into the major conflict for those games- personally, a Knuckles vs. Luigi soccer game would settle a lot of arguments from my childhood.
Juicelee
sonic is great and hes an icon but the problem with sonic games now is they have never really been anything more than just mediocre (nowadays ) platformers the last great sonic game was sonic adventure 1 remember playing that demo stage and the whale was destroying the bridge behind you? sega lost that feel and the idea of doing things like that long ago and until the actually listen to the sonic fans for once I think sonic needs to sit out for a few years...
360_Mafia_Godfather
I bet his birthday wish is for his next game to actually be good
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