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Happy 24th Birthday, Sonic

Tristan Oliver
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It is June 23rd, the day Sonic began his speed run into tens of millions of homes and hearts around the world.

In 24 years, the blue hedgehog has beaten badniks, traveled through time, collected chaos emeralds, fought against chaos control, found a wide array of new friends, spawned countless stories and continuities, and found that, if he tries, he can truly do anything.

“Anything” has seemed like everything. The very first Sonic game in 1991 has delineated into Classic, Modern, and Boom Sonic, with a vast array of merchandising for each. Sonic is not just a cherished character of gaming history; he is a brand, still one of Sega’s strongest, and still worth billions of dollars despite shortcomings of recent games, and the rather impressive disaster in his 23rd year that was Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

Now, Sonic begins full speed ahead into mobile. With Sonic Jump and Sonic Dash solid successes for Sega, the hedgehog’s largest mobile offering to date, Sonic Runners, goes worldwide on Thursday. It will be the most significant test to date on whether Sonic can survive the rapidly changing landscape of media consumption.

But that’s Thursday. Today is a day for celebration, and in Japan, Sega is doing it with

With Runners, the next Boom series title, another Mario and Sonic team-up for the 2016 Olympics, and a much anticipated 25th birthday to come, Sonic’s road ahead seems wilder than ever–and he wouldn’t want it any other way.

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  3. Happy birthday blue blur. Hope to see many more of ’em. You’ll never die, no, but you need some good games to be the Sonic that we praise and love. Best of luck, best wishes.

  5. Happy 24th Birthday Sonic! I wish that your 25th next year will be even bigger and better than the last 23 years combined! Live long and run longer! 😀

  8. Happy Birthday, Sonic! Keep Rolling around at the Speed of Sound! 🙂
    24 is a good number, but now begins the countdown to the big 25!
    The rest of 2015 and the entirety of 2016 will be quite an interesting time for Sonic and us Sonic Fans as well! I hope we’re all ready for what’s to come!

  10. Happy birthday blue blur, hopefully the years to come are better than the previous and we can all proudly call ourselves Sonic fans again. 😛

  13. “If I had to choose between the world and Sonic, I would choose Sonic!”
    -Amy Rose
    Happy 24th Birthday Sonic! Keep running down your speed highways, your green hills, lost worlds, station squares, central cities, spring yards, labyrinths, emerald hills, roof tops, tropical resorts, seaside hills, stardust speedways, and leaf forests! We’ll be supporting you the whole way through. Take care, Sonic, and enjoy this day wherever you may be. 🙂

    2. This is Sonic’s Disney Song XD
      Oh wow. . seriously, he even has a cool kinda Disney Prince voice in this

  17. Happy Birthday Blue Blur!! You’re getting to the point where you’ll have to settle down and get your life straight, thinking about careers, children, relationships, etc.
    Hopefully a birthday present would be a game this year or next year. A game that doesn’t have Boom as a tagline.

  18. Holy hell – the colors feel so right. That print has never looked so good. I need it!

  19. June 23rd, 1991 was a Sunday. I am puzzled. How is it possible to release a game on Sunday?

  20. False hope is false.
    Either they fix Sonic next year and abandon the child focus or else its mobiles and free/cheap games forever.

      1. At least I didn’t say it would kill him. it would just devolve the franchise into a permanent cheap/free experience on mobiles.
        Child focused games do NOT sell for $60.

  21. I just really want something fun. I don’t even care what style of game it is. It doesn’t need to be like the original games. Just please… please.. something that’s FUN!

  23. “What you see is what you get! Just a guy that loves adventure! I’m Sonic the Hedgehog!” — Sonic.
    Happy 24th Birthday, Sonic! 🙂

  24. Happy birthday Sonic… thanks for being such a big part of my growing up. I know things have been great lately, but I’ll always be a big fan, ol’ pal :3

    1. Edit: HAVEN’T. Sorry to be the pessimist, but things definitely have not been great.

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