Sonic the Hedgehog

Other apprearances

Television series

• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (AoStH, US) - Sonic voiced by Jaleel White, Robotnik voiced by Long John Baldry
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM, US) - Sonic voiced by Jaleel White), Robotnik voiced by Jim Cummings
• Sonic Underground (US, France) - Sonic voiced by Jaleel White, Robotnik voiced by Gary Chalk
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Anime, Japan) - Sonic voiced by Masami Kikuchi and Martin Burke
• Sonic X (Anime, Japan) - Sonic voiced by Jun'ichi Kanemaru and Jason Griffith

Others

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• A short cameo appearance in Marge Be Not Proud, a Christmas episode of The Simpsons. Voiced by Dan Castallaneta

Books

Comic books

• Sonic the Hedgehog (Shogakukan, Japan)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics, US)
• Sonic the Comic (Fleetway, UK)

Sonic fan-made dōjinshi have also been released in Japan.

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Game books

A series of six Sonic Adventures gamebooks were published in the UK between 1993 and 1996 by Puffin under the Fantail label:

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• Book 1 - Metal City Mayhem, James Wallis (ISBN 0140903917)
• Book 2 - Zone Rangers, James Wallis (ISBN 0140903925)
• Book 3 - Sonic v Zonik, Nigel Gross and Jon Sutherland (ISBN 0140904069)
• Book 4 - The Zone Zapper, Nigel Gross and Jon Sutherland (ISBN 0140904077)
• Book 5 - Theme Park Panic, Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green (ISBN 0140378472)
• Book 6 - Stormin' Sonic, Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green (ISBN 0140378480)

Novels

• Stay Sonic, Mike Pattenden. Developed the "Kintobor origin" (first introduced in the Disney Adventures comic) in more detail. This background was used as the basis of most subsequent UK Sonic stories.

James Wallis, Marc Gascoigne and Carl Sargent (under the pseudonym of Martin Adams) wrote four Sonic the Hedgehog novels based on the origin established in Stay Sonic. They were published in the UK by Virgin Publishing.

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Pseudonym - Virgin Publishing

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• Book 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory
• Book 2 - Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension
• Book 3 - Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors
• Book 4 - Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik

Michael Teitelbaum also wrote a series of Sonic novels:

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• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Robotnik's Revenge
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Fortress of Fear
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Friend or Foe?
• Sonic & Knuckles
• Sonic X-Treme

Two novels have been written based on the Second/Third season of Sonic X:

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• Meteor Shower Messanger
• Spaceship Blue Typhoon

Others

• Where's Sonic? Using a similar idea to the Where's Wally? / Where's Waldo? books, each page presented the reader with a different puzzle, each one inspired by a different level from Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis / Sega Megadrive. Published by Ladybird Books Ltd.
• Where's Sonic Now?

Outside of games and media

• One of a class of genes involved in fruit fly embryonic development, called hedgehog genes, has been named "sonic hedgehog" after the character.
• Sonic was the first video game character to be seen in a Rose Parade in 1996.
• When Sonic was just two years old, he had already surpassed Nintendo's Mario in popularity according to a June 1993 Q-Survey in Gameplayer's magazine.