Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)/Trivia


 * Bad Export for You: Like most early Mega Drive and Master System titles, the European version lacks refinement to work on 50 FPS PAL televisions. Even the music plays slower for both versions, an issue that was at least fixed for all later Sonic titles, and some re-releases of this title such as Sonic Jam and the Sega Ages package.
 * Breakthrough Hit: This was the game that put Sega on the map as a gaming company and Sonic Team as a premier development team.
 * Fan Nickname: The "Checker Wrecker" for the very first boss fight in the series, which was the name given for it in the Archie comics, but nowhere else. Plus, it sounds much catchier than the boss's canon name of Egg Mobile-H, which was only given in the Japanese guide of Sonic Advance.
 * Killer App: This was the game to own on the Sega Genesis, and the one that would turn Sega into a force of nature in the video game industry. The ultimately superfluous "Blast Processing" phrase was used to advertise the Genesis to hype up this game's status as such.