Some say that is was the start of it all....others say that this game started the great gaming wars.
Now i bet your sitting there and saying to yourself when is he going to get the the review and indeed which Sonic the Hedgehog game is he reviewing. As lets be honest the tittle does not realy give it away as there are a few who have this name for there games...But this Sonic the Hedgehog game review is for the very first one on a console called the Sega Master System and it is that game i am looking at in this review.
Sonic the Hedgehog is a an 8-bit 1991 platform handheld video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. In addition to its original release as a cartridge, the game was later built into some versions of the Sega Master System II in Europe. If i remember rightly one of my other games reviews had a game that was like this as well. The gameplay and the story are so cloes that to tell you one is like telling you the other so i am going to hit you with both at the same time.
Sonic the Hedgehog sees players playing as none other than Sonic the Hedgehog himself as he travels across South Island to liberate it from the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Sonic is able to attack enemies by performing a Spin Attack, either by jumping into the air or rolling on the ground, the latter of which can also send Sonic off ramps. By collecting rings, Sonic can protect himself from damage from enemies and obstacles. Sonic will lose a life if he is hit without carrying any rings, or if he drowns or falls into a bottomless pit. Items found throughout the game include extra lives, speed shoes, invincibility, shields and checkpoints. Throughout the game, Sonic travels through six zones, each consisting of two main acts and a boss battle stage, where Sonic must fight Robotnik without any rings to protect him. At the end of each main act, the player hits a Goalpost which can award bonuses depending on how many rings Sonic is carrying. If the player has over 50 rings, they can access a bonus stage where more rings and continues can be collected. In each zone, there is a Chaos Emerald hidden somewhere in one of the acts, with a good ending awarded if the player finds all of them and completes the game.
Sonic the Hedgehog came out on the Master System in europe and north america on October 25, 1991. Then it came out on the Game Gear in japan, north america and in europe on December 1991. It has also come out on the Virtual Console in north america, japan and europe in 2008.
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of those games that if you old enough to have played it the first time around you will enjoy even more as lot of the stuff in it you might not remember but then alot of the stuff like the music for alot of the zones or a boss fight...Even if you have never played this game before you realy should give it a go at some point in time.