News Tagged: Sonic

Thursday 16th April, 2009 - 09:10 BST

Feature: Sonic: The Nintendo Years - Part Two

Sonic: The Nintendo Years - Part Two

The second instalment of our look back at gaming's favourite blue dude with attitude.

So far we've witnessed Sonic's rise from cute blue upstart to Sega's main mascot, but by 2006 it was clear that Sonic games had changed very drastically, and nowhere was that more evident than in the year's first two 'hog-related outings.First came the debacle that was Shadow the Hedgehog, another notorious low..

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Wednesday 25th March, 2009 - 15:05 GMT

Feature: Sonic: The Nintendo Years - Part One

Sonic: The Nintendo Years - Part One

As Sonic and Black Knight gets released to almost universal apathy, we take a look at the spiky one's past.

Sonic’s career is as chequered as those famous green hills; since his runaway success in the first half of the 1990s he’s struggled to reclaim those glory days. Luckily if you’re a Nintendo console owner you can play all the best Sonic games extremely easily, thanks to Virtual Console..

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