With all
this talk lately about The Legend of Zelda and its recent birthday, we cannot forget
about the little blue hedgehog that stood up to Nintendo's dominance and held its own: Sega's own Sonic. UnderGround
Online takes a look back at the history of the Sonic franchise, from its inception in 1990 (as the winner of a
inter-office contest to try and design the best mascot for the Genesis) to its current incarnation as a multi-platform
seller.UGO tackles the story on a year-by-year basis, so you can read up on Sonic's rise in the first half of the nineties, its tumultuous fall in the second half (alongside Sega's own demise in the hardware sector), to its renaissance across current-generation consoles. It even mentions Sonic Spinball--a game whose first level once haunted me in my youth (not because it was scary, but that I played it so often I had the entire table memorized).
Favorite Sonic game?
[Thanks, John Scalzo]
