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Sonic the Hedgehog
Speed, rings and attitude
Sega's blue hedgehog ran onto the Mega Drive in 1991, built by Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima and Hirokazu Yasuhara, and has been chasing rings through 2D, 3D and plenty of other genres since.
- 1991
- First game
- 5
- Series
- Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Mega Drive years. The first game paired a physics-led run with loop-heavy level design. Sequels added Tails and Knuckles, and Sonic CD on Mega-CD brought time travel.
Start with Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & KnucklesYour next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (5)
Sonic AdventureSonic Team's Sonic Adventure games, which started on Dreamcast in 1998. They are 3D platformers with several playable characters, followed by Sonic Adventure 2.Sonic RacingSonic's team-based racing spin-offs: Team Sonic Racing (2019) from Sumo Digital and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (2025) from Sonic Team.
A legacy worth revisiting
Built around momentum.
Sonic's best levels reward you for keeping your pace and reading the route ahead. From the Mega Drive originals to Sonic Mania and Frontiers, that pull between speed and control runs through it all. Around it sit racers, fighters, an RPG from BioWare and plenty of oddities.
- 1991 to 1997
- Mega Drive years
- 1998 to 2009
- Into 3D
- 2010 to 2023
- Classic and modern
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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