Happy Birthday Sonic! In order to celebrate our favorite hedgehog's birthday, we've listed 25 things you may (or may not) know about Sonic.
- Sonic's speed and color are a lab accident, according to the Sonic Comic
- Sonic cannot swim due to Sega's beliefs about real hedgehogs
- If you wait around long enough in Sonic CD, Sonic jumps off the ledge and kills himself
- Sonic CD would display an eerie image, message and music if it failed, in order to combat piracy
- Sonic's Skid noise comes from Outrun
- Vector the Crocodile was originally a sound test
- Sonic loves to breakdance
- Robotnik was originally known as Eggman
- Sonic was originally supposed to have a girlfriend named Madonna who later appeared in Sonic 360
- Over 70 million Sonic games have been sold worldwide
- Sonic's original name was Mr. Needlemouse
- And Sonic was almost called Feel the Rabbit
- Sonic runs faster than the speed of light and is officially the
fastest videogame character of all time (Guinness Book of Records)
- Sonic's shoes were inspired by a combination of Santa Claus
and the color red for speed and fire
- Sonic's first ever appearance was as a toy
hanging from the rear-view mirror in the arcade
racing game Rad Mobile (see pic below)
- Sonic fans have collected over 70 billion rings between them
- Sonic was the first video game character to have
a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Sonic has made cameos in The Simpsons game and he's also been featured in The Simpsons show
- In fact, Sonic has appeared in over 65 games
- Sonic's favorite food is chill dogs
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