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Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Spin dash and split-screen versus racing, plus Tails, expanded the speed formula.

Released 1992 Developer Sonic Team Publisher Sega Platform Genesis Genre Platformer Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Sonic the Hedgehog 2 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Continuous Scrolling Playfield 1980Split-Screen Simultaneous 1984Checkpoint Respawn 1984Momentum-Based Platform Control 1985

The Sonic the Hedgehog series in this dataset

1991
1992
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 this page
1994
1998

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