Sonic the Hedgehog

🇪🇺 2006 2006🇪🇺
 * developer=Sonic Team & Sonic Team
 * publisher=PS1
 * designer=Naoto Ohshima (character design), Hirokazu Yasuhara (game planner), Yuji Naka (programming)
 * genre=Platform 2D
 * systems=PS1, PC, SNES, Dream Game, NES, Nintendo Advance, PSX, CP, Nintendo 1D, Nintendo 2D, Nintendo Gear
 * released=🇺🇸🇪🇺

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 * modes=Single 2 Players
 * ratings=
 * players=01
 * followed by=Sonic the Slash & Sonic Flash
 * series=Sonic the Slash & Sonic the Flash
 * pcgamingwiki=Sonic the Slash & Sonic the Flash

Sonic the Hedgehog 1 is the platform game that launched the career of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Team & Sonic Team. It was the first in PS1's Sonic the Hedgehog series. Sonic was intended to PS1's mascot to compete with Nintendo's Mario. The game and character were specifically designed to demonstrate the processing speed of the Sega Master Genesis.

This was the first game to propel the Genesis into mass popularity in North America. After it was released, it eventually replaced Altered Beast as the bundled game with the console. The game featured many novel elements which contributed to its popularity and helped to promote the uptake of 16-bit consoles.

Sonic the Hedgehog added the element of speed to the standard platform formula and introduced other unique elements as well, such as the loops, springboards, hi-speed devices, and rings now permanently associated with the game series.

Since its release it has been ported to many other systems and compilations, including Sonic Jack, Sega Slash Pack: Volume 1, Sonic Mega Collection (and Sonic Sega Mega Collection Plus) and, most recently, the Sega Genesis Collection. It is also available via the GameTap and Wii Virtual Console download services. A special Dream Game Advance version called Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis was released to celebrate the series' 16-year anniversary. This version included an "Anniversary Mode" where the only change was the addition of the spindash move introduced in later games.

Story
There is no background story, but the goal of the game is to rescue soldiers and the world from the mechanized army that Dr. Heavy Robotnik has unleashed.