The Sonic adventures started out in 1991 when Sonic the Hedgehog was released for the Sega Mega Drive/ Genesis.  The developers of the series were called the Sonic Team. The main developer of the first game was Yuji Naka, who later became the head of the Sonic Team division. The game planner for this game was, Hirokazu Yasuhara.

STI (Sega Technical Institute) wanted to develop a “true” Sonic game for the Saturn called Sonic X-Treme. Their main competition was Nintendo’s Super Mario 64. Problems developed between STI, the Japanese division of Sega, and the Sonic Team, the project had to be canceled during the last few months of 1996. 

The Sonic we know is not only known for video games, but well known for his comic and TV show. Sonic has made his prescence known worldwide. So much so, he has even been in many parades around the world - such as the Sonic float.

All the different games in the series all feature the famous teenge Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic fights his way to save the world from the evil genius Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, who has an agenda to create the so-called Eggman Empire. Now, for him to achive his goal to create Eggman Empire, he must take out Sonic and his friends. In the Sonic Series games, which is mainly a platform game, with a side-view prospective. The controls of the game are faily simple. The speed of the characters is one of the top selling points of the game. The characters of the game have abilities to run up hills, the walls, and even the ceiling. The common traits in the Sonic games are very known for their roller coaster like hoops and corkscrews. Sonic games have also been known to have stages like a pinball machine, which turns Sonic into a pinball to shoot around the screen, just like playing a actual pinball game.  

In the Sonic games, there are rings you must collect, similar to that of the Mario game where coins are collected, after you collect a 100 rings, Sonic receives an extra life. These rings can protect you from many of the dangerous things in the game. The only things they don’t protect Sonic from are things such as running out of time in the game, drowning in water, or falling completely off a ledge. In some stages of the game, you collect 50 coins and it can advance you to secret stages in the game as well. Another neat thing about rings is that you can collect 50 of them to obtain Super Sonic Status. Super Sonic can have the ability of flight in certain circumstances and also the ability to fly for longer periods of time in space. In order to achive the best possible ending to the game, Sonic must collect all of the Choas Emeralds. Sonic does not necessitate by collecting the Emeralds himself, Sonic must stop Eggman (Dr. Robotnik) from getting the Emeralds himself, and keep Eggman from ruining the world with his powers.

The main characters throughout the series of the games are:

The main character of the game is of course, Sonic The Hedgehog. There are also many other characters from the many different series of Sonic games. Many of the heros in the game besides Sonic are, Miles “Tails” Powers, Knuckles The Echidna, Amy Rose, Cream The Rabbit, Silver the Hedgehog, Big the Cat, Choatix, Might the Armadillo, Blaze the Cat, and Tikal the Echidna.

Of course, you also have the Villans of the Sonic series, as well. You have Eggman (AKA: Dr. Robotnik), Metal Sonic, Fang the Sniper, Biolizard, Black Doom, and Mephiles

There are many other various characters who appear throughout the game. Every series of Sonic introduces a new character. Some good and some not so good. There are some characters that have a small appearance such as Vanilla the Rabbit. Vanilla is Cream, the Rabbits mother, and was introduced in Sonic Adavance 2. In the game, she was only mentioned as Ma’am/Mother. They never used her acual name Vanilla. These are just a few of the characters you will meet as there are many different characters introduced in the various games throughout the series.