Who is Sonic the Hedgehog?
Sonic was and still is Segas mascot character. After witnessing the success of Nintendo’s character Mario and the success of his games Sega realized that they needed a strong character and game to help push Megadrive sales. Development started in April 1990 they looked at their previous mascot character for the Master System Alex Kidd, but he did not have a real mass market appeal, and was too similar to Mario. They decided to make a new Character by holding an internal design competition at Sega Japan. There were 100 competition entries out of which 4 finalists were chosen. The 4 designs were a wolf, a bulldog, a fat man (who was developed into Dr. Robotnic) and a blue hedgehog created by artist Maoto Oshima. He came up with the character by crossing Felix the cat with Mickey Mouse and the developing the character further. The Sonic game was finally released in July 1991 and was a staggering success. Several more Sonic games were made across all the Sega machines including 2 arcade ga
