Happy belated 17th birthday Sonic

I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but the average lifespan of a hedgehog is only 4-7 years. And the longest recorded hedgehog only lived to be 16. Sooo...yeah.

Learning is power!

Please Lord let Unleashed be good.

If Bioware can't make a good game with Sonic no one can.

I would have expected Ludwig to make this post, but I guess it took longer for South Africa to get the first Sonic game. What with the lions guarding the airdropped supply boxes containing the game. Must have taken a while before they left and you could get at them.

We had so many good times together back in the day, and then you turned your back on me, it hurt so much.

And then you teased me with Sonic and the Secret Rings on Wii, but you didn't mean it, you didn't want to be pals after all, how dare you!!!

hey happy birthday little guy

*goes to pet*

ouch! you BASTARD

Sonic wasn't always bad... He was a happy hedgehog full of life and love, until one eventful day.
Heading home (in 2 dimensions) he stumbled on a glowing 3 dimensional circle (a sphere as the top-siders call it). Upon touching this object, his body became distorted. The cute little hedgehog's arms and legs extended to disgusting proportions and his head ballooned to the size of a watermelon. He was forever changed...
That was not the worst of it, Sonic could now speak. He opened his mouth, only to project the most awful, 15 year old, pubescent sound he had ever heard. He had become a monster.
Years passed, and sonic remained in hiding, fearing the public's reaction to his deformity. Until one day, when Sega (his masters) summoned him to the Dreamcast...
Much to his surprise he had a wonderful outing, the public adored him. He continued his life on the Dreamcast, having two grand adventures. However, trouble was brewing. It seemed that Sega decided to force friendships upon the young hedgehog. He was given more friends than he could wish for, and for a short while he loved the attention. Until, of course, Sega went overboard by introducing Big the Cat.
From there Sonic has been plagued by "friends". His fans have come to ridicule his choices, and his games have been sub-par. He has attempted to redeem himself with some secret rings and dual screened adventures, but it was all in vain. Sometime in the year 2006, he was caught kissing a human girl. The public was just not ready for such awkwardness, and Sonic, once again, lost all respect.

Wow, my daughter and Sonic share the exact same birthday! When I tell her, she'll be so....unimpressed.

If your wondering about sonic team making Sonic Unleashed, do keep in mind that a different team within Sonic Team is making this game. That should be enough to give us old school long suffering Sonic fans some hope.

On an anime related know, Tsukino Usagi..AKA Sailor Moon also has a birthday this month. Don't ask how I know this or why I know this.

It doesn't seem that long ago that I brought home Sonic and Thunderforce III for my Genesis, and blew away all my NES-loving friends with it's speed, colorful graphics, large sprites, and lack of flickering and slowdown when more than 3 enemies appeared onscreen.

Thanks for making me feel old again, Joystiq, seriously.

The only things that make me worry about Sonic Chronicles/Unleashed are the soundtracks. The original Rush game had great music. Rush Adventure had good music too, but it was not done my Hideki Naganuma... they just copied his style. I really want him to do more video game music, I have the official Jet Set Radio and JSRF soundtracks and they are incredible.

Happy birthday to my favorite video game character of all time!!! :D :D :D

on Phantasy Star Universe Sega is doing a sonic birthday event thing, theres giant sonic statues all over! and GM's came on as Sonic and Tails and like 200 ppl shouting Happy Birthday Sonic for hours around them o.O

Happy Birthday Sonic!
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excuse me, Sonic's birthday is November 27, 1976

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I'd probably pass out if Hideki Naganuma and Yuzo Koshiro did the soundtrack together.

And if you don't know who Yuzo Koshiro is, then maybe you should play ActRaiser, Shinobi, and Streets of Rage. Or if you want something more recent, Wangan Midnight.

They ought to pull a Mega Man 9 and make a new Genesis Sonic.

That photoshop is so bad, it's good.

I like Sonic Heroes.