1. Sonic the
hedgehog
Codes and
conventions

2. The Character himself
 The Premises of Sonic is that he is 1) a
Hedgehog and 2) very fast and
maneuverable.
 In reality hedgehogs are slow
and only show at night but
sonic is a one of a kind and
puts reality aside to be a
character for all ages.

3. game play
Game play in the Sonic series tend
to have a very fast pace and some
levels can be done in under a
minute is very fast. However there
are also the usual planning where to
go and puzzle aspects which helps
slow the pace down a little so the
games would not be all speed since
if not careful you will lose all lives
very easily.
The tradition continued in the 3D
realm though other game play
aspects came around like collecting
items, setting records and collect
choas emeralds. Storylines are in
the games though they arn’t really
watchmen based since everything
feels childish at times.

4. Beginning games
The first game in the series
came out June 23rd 1991
on the SEGA mega drive
and used as SEGA’s
mascot to battle with
Nintendo’s mascot, Mario.
As time went on more
games in the series came
out for the mega drive and
became one of the most
popular series of the early
90’s. The first game also
became packaged with
mega drive at the time.

5. Later games an 3D
future.
As time and technology in
video games and consoles,
Sonic moved on with the
times to go with the times.
These included adding
stories, voice acting, game
play changes, more content
than the old games and ways
of grabbing players attention.
Some games in the 3D days
where good...

6. Others not so good.

7. Comics
In 1993, 2 comics under the Sonic
name was released, one in the
USA by Archie comics which is the
longest running video game based
comic and one in the UK by
fleetway which ended in 2002
lasting 223 issues.
The comics were made of course
for fans of the series as well as a
way to get newer fans of Sonic or
get more kids into reading comics.
The comics tend to get mixed
reviews from critics and fans but
sales are pretty decent. Since the
fleetway comics are no longer
around the Archie comics are
drawn by artist Patrick Spaziante
or SPAZ for short who also worked
on teenage mutant ninja turtles of
dreamwave comics.

8. Cartoon and Anime
formatAs well as
comics, Sonic’s
popularity came in
cartoons and anime.
1993 there was
Adventures of Sonic the
hedgehog, 1994
Saturday morining
version, 1999 Sonic
underground, all 3 were
american made
cartoons,1996 and 1999
saw the Sonic Movie
which was an anime
OVA and in 2003 Sonic
X came out being anime
and the longest of the
Sonic TV shows.

9. creators
Sonics creator goes
by the name Yuji
Naka, a Japanese
creator who was given
the programing and
designing of Sonic
back in 1990 and
1991.
What he created
would make an impact
to gaming fans and
himself.
He was a part of the
Sonic creating team
Sonic team until
leaving Sonic Team to
make Probe for indy
games.

10. Merchandising
As well as games and
comics, Sonic has good lot of
merchandise which can range
from
plushies, shirts, wallets, cards
and Toys which gets confusion
on who creates them though
TOMY seems to be doing
majority of them.

11. Character design
Sonic has had 2 designs in his time.
His short, black eyed, 1991 look and
then in 1998-1999 Sonic had a
redesign looking taller, slimmer and
having Green eyes.
The new look came in Sonic
Adventure which seemed to be a
reboot of the series since the
Dreamcast came out and Sega
needed a game to give them a head
start. In 2011, to mark the 20th
anniversary, Sonic Genarations
came out with BOTH versions of
Sonic for both old and new sonic
players.
It should be noted though that
people on the internet have many
negativity on Sonic’s green eyed
look meaning flame wars tend to

12. Allies and friends
To keep ideas for the Sonic Series, in
time more characters were
introduced as time went on.
Tails, Sonic’s best freind started on
Sonic 2 who can fly using his Tails as
a chopper, Knuckles, who was on
Sonic 3, who can float for a while and
a guard of an island, Amy who was
on Sonic CD who acts like Sonic’s
lover and Cream who started out on
Sonic Advence 2 who was the youth
and fan of him. Later games in the
series including early times, could
have you play as Sonic friends, each
being teamed with Sonic or having
their own gameplay for example in
Sonic adventure 2, Tails used a
transformed plane and used it as a
walking tank to make through the

13. Enemies and Rivals
Like a lot of superhero based kids products, very
hero needs a Villain and that goes by Dr
Robotnic or Eggman just for laughs who’s main
goal like many villians is taking over the world.
(OF COURSE!) In Terms of Rivals, Sonic’s main
one is a Black Hedgehog named Shadow, A
created hedgehog who uses the Chaos
Emeralds to harness the power of chaos control
which gives him time stopping or speed abilities.

14. sega
Sonic’s Publishers are the
japanese comany called SEGA
which used to create Video
games consoles up until 2001
where games went
multiplatform. Sega are also
responsible for games such as
Total war, Yakuza, Crazy
taxi, Virtua fighter, Virtua
Tennis, Daytona USA, House of
the Dead, Phantasy star, out-
run, Shenmue, Shinobi, super
money ball, streets of
rage, Valkira chronicals and
many more.

15. Competition from others.
As I did state Sonic was made to be
SEGA’s mascot because of the
rising popularity of Mario, the
Mascot of Nintendo. However there
were also many other video game
mascots Sonic had to deal with
including Pac-man, Rayman, Mickey
Mouse, Megaman, Klonoa and just
about many other mascot that
people could catch on.
Pretty much as you would think the
battles between Mickey
mouse, Bugs Bunny and Felix the
cat. Some may say a mascot is
copycat idea but it helps to try and
get younger audiences to play
games for having likeable
characters.

16. Anniversari
es
To mark the series many
anniversaries, Sonic
team and SEGA tend to
show it to fans and make
games marking those
accessions.
Sonic Adventure 2 for the
10th anniversary, Sonic
the hedgehog 2006 for
the 15th anniversary and
Sonic Generations for
the 20th anniversary.
Right now the series has
reached its 22’nd year up
to this presentation and
has lasted 2 decades
straight.

17. Crossovers
Sonic has also been
involved in crossovers
including being with Mario
for official video games of
the Olympic games and
Megaman in a brand new
Comic book
storyline, either as fandom
or creative ideas from
creators and writers.

18. Future of Sonic
Already a batch new Sonic games have
been announced for Nintendo’s WiiU, the
first being Sonic Lost worlds and the
second being Mario and Sonic at the
Olympic Winter games in Sochi, Russia
next year with a good chance of Mario
and Sonic at the Brazil 2016 Olympic
games in the next 2 years, a third has
been announced but That is still being
planned. Also Sonic games are on Apple
products and Sonic the Hedgehog 1 has
been played on by multiple devices and
consoles ever since 1991.

19. That was my presentation
That was my
presentation, Tha
nk you for
watching and I'm
open for
feedback on the
subject matter.
My next codes and
conventions will
be about how far
Marvel has gone
since the 1940’s.