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Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

0.1916Canon Score · ranked #129 all time

Aggregated from 4 of 17 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →

About the game

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog with supersonic speed, who battles the mad scientist Doctor Eggman and his robot army. The main Sonic the Hedgehog games are platformers mostly developed by Sonic Team; other games, developed by various

Why it ranks #129

Every list on which Sonic the Hedgehog appears, with its position as published.

ListAuthorityPosition
gamesTM 200 Greatest (2018)Editorial list#46 / 200
Polygon 500 Best (2017)Critics' canon#191 / 500
Game Informer Top 300 (2018)Critics' canon#217 / 300
1001 Video Games (2013 ed.)Critics' canonSelected