Classic Sonic, the beginning era of Sonic, 1991 was the year Sonic the Hedgehog was first created to the world to see and how different that he is compared to Mario at the early times of video games by using the 16-Bit console, the Mega Drive in Japans name or we call it in America, the Sega Genesis. To many of us, Classic Sonic has been through a lot of people who have started out in the year that he was first released all those years ago and to his major comeback in the years later with games such as Sonic Generations, Sonic Mania, Sonic Forces, and much more to give the blue blur from his early days a revival to old and a introduction to new fans.

Classic Sonic to me is like with every character that has been created, it gives us the idea of what it is that makes a character great back in the early days when it first got created, just like Mario, Pac-Man, Kirby, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and much more than just video games, even TV shows like Micky Mouse in his classic self to what we got in the modern days of today and make then. I remember encountering Classic Sonic when I was kid, my parents got me an old Sega Genesis controller that you could just plug in to your TV, the RCA connecter, and that was the beginning for me when I first played Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic Spinball, and Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine. I started to familiarized myself with Classic Sonic when I was younger but never it brought too much attention when people I know would have the Sonic Mega Collections and I would play on it to see the classic games of the past, even with Sonic Adventure DX with extra content adding the old games that you could play and I have played a few of those games in the past, I can kind of remember which ones but I won’t get into full details about from what I know.

Thanks to Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima, the design of Sonic and the marketing audience made a big hit to make Sonic different to Mario being a cute plumber in overalls. The target of Sonic’s design was suppose to hit in America because Mario is among popular in that timeframe still in now but it was all about competition. He had designs like to be a wolf, human, rabbit, chicken, porcupine, and even a panda. But we got our favorite blue hedgehog. Thanks to Ohshima heading to New York City and asking people around about Sonic about his design choice since the game has already being developed, the hedgehog made much more since because he’s aerodynamic, edgy, and sleek. But lets not forget that he had to run fast and curl up into a ball to attack enemies. Who knows what would of happen if he was in those other design choices, I would say it probably wouldn’t end well, I can’t say for sure, we would have to be in a alternate universe to see that.

Classic Sonic will and always will mark the beginning of Sonic’s era in 1991 and how much he had made a huge impact in our lives and that also means for his return in many ways possible like him putting him in modern hardware games, comics, merch, and much more. Old fans and new fans will view Classic Sonic as the beginning of his era.

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