Where do baby hedgehogs come from? Not from company mascot contests, despite what you’ve probably heard (tho that was a thing that happened, too). How did Sonic 1 REALLY come to be? Plotting the milestones on a timeline is hard because we have so few concrete dates, but let's connect some dots 🧵

If this game is about Sonic and Eggman playing with toys, this just means Eggman has been into the Care Bears for years. Which begs the question, which Care Bear is his favorite? youtu.be/NB5tYFhxhY8

Spring forward, roll back. That's the saying right

But do they have those little poems

David Rosen, who helped create Sega and changed the coin-op industry forever, has passed away. www.replaymag.com/segas-dave-r... An absolute titan in video game history. May he rest in peace.

One of the best, and gone too soon. His work, and his memory, will live on. Rest In Peace, Nick.

Cel-shading was instantly hip with the release of Jet Set Radio. Sonic using it? Made perfect sense. Then we saw that intro. Woah, cool! This was destined to be even better than Mario Party. Did it succeed on that front? Well, that is up to you.

Tangle & Whisper are the stars here, but what I want to know is this: can we play NiGHTS driving the car version of NiGHTS

I thought it was Shadow who likes coffee

Brunch

A peak into what could have been…

34 years ago today, in the hallowed halls of Electronics Boutique, the first known copies of Sonic the Hedgehog were sold in Palo Alto and Cupertino, California. Over the coming days, it would pop up in cities coast to coast. He wasn’t the most famous hedgehog in the world yet, but oh boy, would he…

Introducing our newest collection: The Craig Stitt art and design papers! Craig Stitt was an artist and designer for Sega and Insomniac, working on games like Sonic 2, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet & Clank. Read more:

I wonder just how fresh those cookies were...

Maybe Sonic is having trouble learning to rumble

The folks over at Obscure Gamers released a plethora of Sega-related development material recovered from a Macintosh workstation. Included in that material? Some early builds of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II. Which has an ending cutscene we've never seen before... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnSs...

Sonic Channel, the official Sega of Japan Sonic site, is now 20 years old. To celebrate, they've completely revamped the design, added some new character profiles, and... ...there's a timeline... sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannel/

A release 17 years in the making.

You ever just lay awake in the middle of the night wishing you were grinding on a rail in your best set of SOAP shoes

Oh hey, Sega showed off Sonic Racing CrossWorlds during Sony's State of Play. Sure you've already seen it. But we talk about Sonic here from time to time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_U...

We were so close to having two Sonic games on the Mega-CD. Well. Not really. But it makes you wonder what could have been…

So! It's Christmas Day. Who is seeing Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the first/second/third time? I heard it did pretty well opening weekend...

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Spider-Man? She-Hulk? Mere footnotes, I'm afraid. It's all about Zonic the Zone Cop.

I wrote a grand total of 2 Sonic the Hedgehog stories. It's so weird to me one of the characters I co-created in them continues to live on. We find out in a multiverse with PARALLEL realities, the cop who polices them lives sideways in the one PERPENDICULAR reality that runs through all of them.

A public service announcement

We are ready to double down on Shadow this year

Before October 18th ends, we gotta mention it. 30 years ago today, the Death Egg Saga's grand finale played out in Sonic & Knuckles. The second half of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the two games could be combined using a piece of tech that had to be from the future - Lock-On Technology.

This is how the pitch meeting to Sonic Adventure started

Heard some Sonic things are coming up

For those not on the other site: Monday, Feb 12 at 7:45PM central join @segabits.bsky.social, @sonicretro.bsky.social & @cybershell.bsky.social at twitch.tv/thegameshowg... to read through a never before seen 32 page November 1994 Sonic the Hedgehog movie treatment from Trilogy Entertainment!

If 1993 was the original year of Sonic, the hype was certainly continuing into the early days of 1994. Sonic Mania Day had been less than three months prior, but suddenly it felt like just an appetizer. Groundhog Day was coming, but the groundhog was being upstaged this year.

Something happened 25 years ago on French airwaves... Oh, that's right, Sonic Underground first aired! The triplets were born, and the throne awaited. But a seer warned of a fate, which I believe was deadly.

So should I repost every tweet we've ever made on Twitter? I'm sure there's some great ones from 2014 that wouldn't have aged badly at all.

Here we go!