Sonic Turns Fifteen!

[Marik]

Happy Birthday! Damn, has it been that long since the Genesis got it's true hit? Well it's been a hell of a trip, with its few shares of trips(I'm looking at you Shadow, R and Shuffle!) Where tons of characters have (and have yet) to be introduced.

Well to celebrate, Dreadknux, founder of the Sonic Stadium, and several Sonic sites and fans have contributed to make the Summer of Sonic, a nice fansite to centralize the anniversary. Where fans can submit stuff and sign the birthday guestbook. Here's the link:

www.summerofsonic.com/

Yes, it is Sonic's 15th today, but haven't we forgotten the others? Eggman debuted on the same day in the same game and to celebrate Sonic's 10th, Sonic Team released Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast, with two more staple characters, Shadow and Rouge. So today is their 5th Birthday.


UPDATE: Today Sega has announced in honor of its beloved mascot's 16-bit roots, they will release the game that started it all with the first Sonic the Hedgehog, exclusively for the Game Boy Advance this November. The game will feature two new additions to the classic 1991 debut: Sonic's famous Spin-Dash move and a new save ability. The remake will retail for $19.95.

[ShadowFan24]

Ay, I already wrote a memo today in a journal on DA, but it basicially was :ahoy: and Congrats to sum it up!

15 years. =P I am almost a year older than Sonic

[Lil Ninja]

wow, y'know, that's the only thing i remember fifteen years ago. yep, i was a little kid learning how to play a game with a blue hedgehog. ....omg, was i actually like four or five and playing it? ^_^ that's so cool!

[Marik]

A few fun facts about Sonic:

· The Sonic franchise has sold over 44 million games since then.
· Sonic has starred in more than 30 games.
· Over 8,000 Sonic games are sold worldwide every day.
· Gamers have spent over 500 million hours and collected over 66 billion gold rings playing Sonic The Hedgehog games.
· Sonic has had four animated TV shows(AoStH, SatAM Underground and Sonic X), an anime movie, several comic book series(Archie, Sonic X, Knuckles, Sonic the Comic), a theme park, and was the first of two video game characters ever featured in the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade(Pikachu was the second).