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Sonic the Hedgehog

Momentum-first level design built around speed and slopes rather than careful jump placement.

Released 1991 Developer Sonic Team Publisher Sega Platform Genesis Genre Platformer Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

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

Continuous Scrolling Playfield 1980Parallax Depth Layers 1982Checkpoint Respawn 1984Momentum-Based Platform Control 1985

The Sonic the Hedgehog series in this dataset

1991
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