It is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis system. It was first released on June 23, 1991 in North America, and the same day in Europe.

Short describe:

Sonic The Hedgehog is a platformer including six different "zones" and three levels, or "acts", in each zone. The player becomes Sonic and as him they can run at high speeds across the rather long levels with many twists and turns. Enemies lie rather stationary and the threat involved with them comes more from the players ability to react than the enemies attacking Sonic. At the speeds that Sonic travels, it becomes harder to evaluate a safe course away from danger, especially since most enemies in the games have a certain path that they follow which should be known before the player jumps in front of their path. Once Sonic is hit he looses all the coins he has collected throughout the level.

Characters:

Sonic the hedgehog is the main character of Sonic The Hedgehog. He can: Standing, Running, Walking and Crouching. In the game there are many different robots but all contain a baby animal inside of them, which is released once the shell is destroyed. Some robot types include fish, monkeys, one-wheeled cycles, and bees.

Scheme control for PC:

Space: Jumping
Right Arrow: Running
Down Arrow: Crouching
Left Arrow: Running.

Game is available for:

iPod, PC, Xbox, Virtual Console, Mobile Phone and Game Boy Advance.

Graphic:

Sonic the Hedgehog boasted impressive 16-bit graphics, with richly animated sprites and varied colours. It is very easy type of graphic but friendly for children because is colourful.

Sounds:

Sonic the Hedgehog is especially known for its dynamic music. Using 8-bit stereo sound, the music is rich and varied throughout each level. Sonic the Hedgehog's soundtrack is still highly popular in remixing communities on the Internet.

System requirements:

Windows 95, 75 MHz Pentium CPU, SVGA, 2X CD-ROM, 15 MB hard disk space.


Visual Effect:

The game isn’t delightful but children like playing in this game because are colourful and interesting in my opinion.





Additional information:

The first version, released in North America and Europe, lacked some graphical enhancements that were added to the later Japanese release. The Japanese version included clouds that moved independently of the scrolling background in the Green Hill Zone and two water graphical effects in the Labyrinth Zone, which consisted of a rippling effect on the foreground and a swirling effect on the background.

Sonic The Hedgehog for PC or Sonic The Hedgehog for Xbox 360, which is better?

Advantages of Sonic available for PC:
This game available is for PC and it cause that can be more popular because more people have a PC at home than Xbox. In my opinion this game is cheaper that version for Xbox and easier to play.

Disadvantages:
Game available for PC has worse graphic in my opinion because have less colours and has a format of 2D Game.

Advantages of Sonic available for Xbox 360:
Game has a format of 3D Game and better graphic than version for PC.

Disadvantages:
This game is more expensive than game for PC, is less popular that version for PC and is more difficult to play.

1. Sonic The Hedgehog for PC
2. Sonic The Hedgehog for Xbox 360

What do you think which version is better??