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Sonic the Hedgehog was first released on the SEGA Genesis in 1991 selling 15 million copies. The game got ported onto the Master System and Game Gear shortly after. I'm going to review the Game Gear version for this review. Let's see how it is shall we?

The story is the same as the genesis version. Which is pretty simple, in south island a demented scientist named Dr. Ivo, Robotnik, aka Dr Eggman. Invades South Island and captures tiny innocent animals and steals the chaos emeralds. Only one cool dude can stop this evil man and that is Sonic the Hedgehog. A super fast, blue hedgehog. His goal is to save the animals, get the chaos emeralds, defeat Robotnik, and return peace to the Island. Robotnik knows your coming to destroy him. So he placed traps and evil "badniks".

The graphics for this game are okay but there's not much detail. Mostly bright pastel colors and some low detailed backgrounds. Plus sonic doesn't have a nose. The good side of the graphics is the themes look great and green hill, labyrinth zone, and scrap brain zone, look quite similar to the Genesis version. Just not as good of backgrounds that's all.

The sound isn't too bad. The music is quite nice and memorable. The sound effects however are a lot more high pitched, which tends to get annoying over time.

This game is not very addicting I beat it once to try it out, and played it again to get all the chaos emeralds and see the slightly different ending. I never really played it after that.

There's not very much to offer for this game. 6 zones with 3 acts, so 18 levels (which aren't very long), a map which just shows the Island and zone your on,and a special stage which gives you points, lives, and continues. What's really disappointing is that there's no special stage for getting the chaos emeralds. So you got to look for them, which I found easy in the beginning and a and a lot harder in the later levels when you encounter alternate paths.

The game is harder than the Genesis version because.

The hunt for chaos emeralds.

There's no rings on the boss stage.

The traps are faster with more enemies in them.

Overall I recommend you play the Genesis version and not this one. If you want to check it out. Fine, but I'll tell you right now that it's nowhere near as good as the Genesis version.

Final rating 7.5

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Great game really loved the way it played and the graphics weren't too bad at all, not a bad play at all, everyone should give it one try at some point, it least once, great game overall, just not a 5 out of 5 though.

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