

This sparked a heated issue with Sonic Team. However, a team from Sega of America, led by Madeline Schroeder, "softened" the character up for an American audience by removing these elements. The original concepts gave Sonic fangs and put him in a band with a human girlfriend named Madonna. Sega sponsored the group's "Wonder 3" tour, painting Sonic on the tour bus, distributing pamphlets advertising the game, and having footage of the game broadcast above stage prior to its release. The game's soundtrack was composed by Masato Nakamura of the band Dreams Come True. Ī group of fifteen started working on Sonic the Hedgehog and renamed themselves Sonic Team. Sonic was created without the ability to swim because of a mistaken assumption by Yuji Naka that all hedgehogs could not do so.

World 1-1, with Sonic creator Yuji Naka stating in issue 260 of Nintendo Power that "I always tried to get through the level as fast as I could," which inspired the initial concept for Sonic the Hedgehog. His trademark speed is based on Super Mario Bros. According to Yuji Naka, Sonic's color also serves to symbolize peace, trust, and coolness, the attributes of Sonic's character.

Sonic's color was based on the Sega logo, his shoe design based on Michael Jackson, his shoe color based on Santa Claus, and his personality inspired by future-President Bill Clinton's "get it done" attitude, whom Ohshima felt embodied a modern sensibility of wanting to get things done right away, righting wrongs as they presented themselves instead of letting them linger. Needlemouse" until it was corrected by Yuji Naka on 24 January 2021. However, due to a mistranslation of Ohshima's notes by English-speaking fans, it was believed that Sonic's original development name was "Mr. Initial ideas for names for Sonic included "Raisupi" and "LS", and truncation and plays on the word "light speed". Eventually, the mascot they selected was Naoto Ohshima's submission, a spiky teal hedgehog codenamed "Mr. Eggman) and a rabbit (who would use its extendable ears to collect objects, an idea that was later used for a separate Sega character named Ristar). These included an armadillo (who was later developed into Mighty the Armadillo), a dog, a short mustached man in pajamas (who was later used as the basis of the design of the main antagonist Dr. Several character designs were submitted by its AM8 research and development department. In April 1990, Sega requested a game capable of selling more than 1,000,000 copies a character who could compete against Nintendo's Super Mario, and a character to replace Alex Kidd as the company's mascot. While several people have been involved in the creation of Sonic, the artist Naoto Ohshima, programmer Yuji Naka, and designer Hirokazu Yasuhara are generally credited with the creation of the character. Sonic's original appearance, from Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit). Well-known for his legendary cocky attitude, easy-going demeanor, and somewhat short temper, yet strong sense of justice, compassion, and love for freedom and adventure, Sonic uses his abilities to protect the innocent from his world and those beyond from the forces of evil, especially his arch-nemesis, Dr.

During his many adventures, Sonic has traveled from the ends of the world to the far reaches of space and time, facing countless trials that have tested him to the fullest, earning him many titles, allies, and the scorns of several foes. As his species implies, Sonic can also roll up into a concussive ball, primarily to attack enemies.Įver since stepping into the battle against iniquity, Sonic has been the champion of peace and is renowned all over the world for saving it countless times. He is an anthropomorphic hedgehog born with the ability to run faster than the speed of sound, hence his name, and possesses lightning-fast reflexes to match his speed.
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Sonic the Hedgehog ( ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ, Sonikku za Hejjihoggu ?, born 23 June ) is the titular main protagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and Sega's mascot. Triple Tornado (requires Tails and Knuckles).Triple Boost (requires Avatar and Classic Sonic).Sonic Overdrive (requires Tails and Knuckles).Rocket Accel (requires Tails and Knuckles).Hail Storm (requires Tails, Knuckles and Amy).Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.Sonic Lost World (Nintendo 3DS version).Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.Sonic Generations (Nintendo 3DS version).Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
