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This is such a great game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the oldies but goodies..hehe. I remember playing it on my Sega Genesis when I was about six years old. I loved this game. I found the first two levels easy to beat but it became extremely harder as I went on. Sadly to say, I had to get rid of it two years ago along with the Sega. But I totally reccomend this game to anyone up to a challenge! :-) Happy Gaming!

Sonic the Hedgehog RULES ALL

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the Sonic game that started it all. It's one of the best games ever! While several platform games of that time simply mimicked the Mario formula, Sonic is totally unique. You run and roll through beautifully designed levels at high speeds, collecting rings to sustain your health and trying to reach the signpost at the end of the level, all within ten minutes! There are seven zones, with three acts in each one (except for Final Zone). At the end of each third act you battle with Dr. Robotnik. The music is nice too. All these things combined make a fast, fun game. Whether you're a Sonic fan or you're new to the 'hog, you should buy this game.

AWESOME GAME!! NEEDS TO BE RE-RELEASED!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If there are video games taht have truly stood up to the tests of time, it's the Sonic The Hedgehog video game series.

Back in the days when video games for the most part were just plain clean fun and not the gorefests they are now, Sonic The Hedgehog was and still is the defining video game series of my lifetime.

The controls are very good.

While many would argue that the graphics are dated and while they may be very dated by 2004 standards, this game was many years ahead of it's time and I still love every moment of this game.

One of the greatest things about this classic video game that I have enjoyed was the MUSIC! WOW! Looking back on it now, I have to say that the music was just amazing for video game music. I could very well say that I remember the music almost by heart. My favorite level music was on the "Scrap Brain Zone" levels 1 through 3 and let me tell you, I haven't loved video game music like I did on this level.

Overall, the video game music was incredible! If only my Sega Genesis system were still working, I would still be playing this but since age finally took it's toll on both the cartrige and the system, I feel sad at seeing a great era in my life in video games come to a close. I still find myself humming to the music on the "Scrap Brain Zone" level even to this day, years after last playing this game.

Sonic The Hedgehog is in my opinion the greatest video game series of all time. Mario and Crash Bandicoot may offer competition in this field but Sonic The Hedgehog came first for me.

I find it to be one of the greatest entertainment tragedies seeing one of my childhood favorite activies, video games, decline from good clean fun and degerate into nightmare-inducing blood baths of gore, and violence.

Whatever the case between Mario, Sonic, and Crash Bandicoot, let me just say that it is the sillier games like these three game series that have truly lasted as opposed to the countless gorefests that video games that are forced down our throats.

I say, they should re-released the Sonic games that were on Sega Genesis onto an archives video game set for the computer or for the newest video game systems in the near future because I'm suffereing from "Sonic withdrawal" symptoms.

If this game is put back in print, I will be first in line to regain this game so that my children can enjoy the fun I had iwth Sonic The Hedgehog.

Classic Sonic game....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sonic the Hedghog is easily one of the most original games to ever come out on a console system besides GTA3...

The games plot it acctually good for a 8bit-16 bit game!
OH MY GOD AND GAMEPLAY! IT RULES! The level desighns are great and the graphics for that time are SUPERB!

The gameplay is fast pace and not boring nd' slow. It's easily one of the best games I've ever played.

Sonic the Hedghog for the Sega Genisis is A MUST OWN for your genisis collection. I have Sonic 1 and 2 for Genisis in my collection...NOWS YOUR TURN...Course that may be something stupid to say since it came out like when...1992...So forget what I just said and Order it off amazon...But if your looking for per say...mmm "the Greates Sonic Game Ever"...Then get Sonic Adventure one for the Dreamcast....

If you have a genisis then you should be lucky if you own this game...It's a classic ..

I give it a 5 out of 5....

Later...

The classic game that started it all!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ah, sonic the Hedgehog. The game that established the Genesis as a figure in gaming, the character that became a pop culture icon (at least in the gaming world, but it went a little further), was able to stand right beside Mario, and lest I forget, gave Nintendo the first taste of competition. I had a Genesis, but I sold it, but after playing it on the great Sega Genesis collection on my PSP, the old days returned. This game was a classic in so many ways.

This game was fast, and gave out the message that fast games are fun games. Sonic was a great looking game, with wonderful themed areas, which would beat Mario's plain blocky world. The game was also great because it eliminated many cheap deaths. The games during the time were great, but alot of the games (even Mario) had the annoying death thing. If you hit something, you die. It gets really really annoying, and it's no help either that you usually have to start over again (the usual way to continue would be to memorize annoying passwords). Sure, Sonic had many start over deaths, but the fact that there were shields and rings Rings are much easier to get back if you lose them, and since it's quite easy to get them after they fall out of Sonic, made the game a lot less annoying. And it was easier to kill enemies. SOnic may not be as revolutionary as Mario (or the fact that new Sonic games get 3,4,5 scores, while Mario still goes strong), but I could see a discussion on which game had a better design. I can't really decide either, so I will just be neutral in this discussion. However, you have my approval to bring up MY topic in a schoolyard conversation.

Aside from the great design, Sonic was just plain fun. It's faster, more action, easier to kill enemies, and there was a lot of slick puzzles and a great plot. The stages are filled with many booby traps, from the raging lava river from the Marble Zone, to bumpers that luanch you into enemies, this game is just brimming with exciting obstacles that sometimes make you don't mind that you just died and have to start over again. I do reccomend learning how to do level skip, so you don't have to start over. Of course, you don't keep your score, but getting a record score is already done, so don't shed any tears if you lose your points. And the music is jammin' to, it's not as good as the music from Sonic Adventure, but it's very good.

This is a classic game, and even though it's not as good as the masterpiece sequal, it's amazing how this game has stood the test of time. Like other classics like Castlevania (the very first one released for NES) and Final Fantasy 5, these games are just classic. Expect to see them around for quite a while longer.

a great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is one of the many favorites of mine on sega games. this is the game that started the sonic craxe which lasted for about six years. (sonic is still cool but not on the genesis :( it came out a year before i was born but i played it at an early age (4 or 5) and loved it. its not as good as sonic 2 3 or sonic and knuckles but i love them all and especially suggest it to either a sonic megafan(like myself) or a collector or just someone into retro gaming, so get this cool game!

First and Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the greatest games of all time for me, next to OoT (Ocarina of Time.). Sorry Sonic, had to side with Nintendo. This is a classic that every Genesis owner should own, and if you don't own it, I'LL STRING YA UP!!! Anyway, this game deserves a 10 star rating and will be remembered by all of us who have experienced it first hand.
-Sonic

The orignal and the best!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Do you remember in 1991, it's your birthday and your parents bought you a Sega Genesis that came with Sonic the Hedgehog? So you set it up and put the game in and amazed by the graphecs and speed. Yes my friends this game is better than that fat man Mario and his stupid brother Luigi. This game is fast, fun and has great music. So buy this game and you won't be sorry!!!

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have the game gear emulation on SADX, so i don't know what the genesis version is like. But this game is AMAZING! I'll just get straight to the point:

PROS
-fast-paced
-Good special stages
-Beats the fatass plumber mario
CONS
Hmm... I can't think of any

THIS IS A GREAT GAME. GET IT!

Old School Entertainment, Sonic Style

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My family recently unearthed our Sega Genesis and once again we can not get enough of Sonic The Hedgehog. We have a pretty diverse collection of Sega games, but this one always seems to rise to the top. As far as the 'fun factor' goes, I'd easily stack it up against a fair percentage of my PS2 library. I don't know much about the ports, except to say that Sonic has been made available on the Playstation, the Xbox, and even made portable for the Game Boy Advance. I haven't played any of these, but the reviews I have seen are fair, at best. So, proceed with caution.

Maybe its true that you can't improve upon perfection. The cartoony goodness of the frenetic hedgehog brings a smile to my face without fail. The way he zips along his path, snatching up rings is something straight out of a roadrunner cartoon. And on those occasions where he gets zapped by an enemy or a set of spikes, he flails his limbs, but gets right back into the fray again.
I have never completed Sonic, but that doesn't make the game any less addictive. There's the constant quest to collect 100 rings in an attempt to extend game time. There's the challenge to find all of the secret short cuts and bonuses. And the boss battles with the evil Doctor Robotnik is just tons of fun. Maddening at times. But fun, none the less. If you have this game tucked away somewhere, you owe it to yourself, to dust off the Genesis and have another go. I promise you, its just as much fun the second, third, and fourth time around.

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