Sonic The Hedgehog was originally from Nebraska, ate trash
Even by video game standards, the basic story beats of Sonic The Hedgehog that can be inferred from his original 1991…
It’s
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weirdest console
debut
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It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera…
It's 3 p.m., so let's celebrate the world's most gleefully violent video game mascot, Segata Sanshiro
It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera…
Android panic in Detroit: 8 new games to play in May, plus a bunch of old ones
With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep…
Gaze upon Dunston Fucks Good and a bunch of other Sega CD games we wish existed
During the heyday of their 16-bit console the Genesis, Sega famously ran advertisements that claimed “the Genesis does…
Sega will start releasing its classic games as free mobile apps
Sega is launching a new mobile gaming initiative called Sega Forever, the long-lived publisher announced today. Under…
Sega wants to revive some of its classic games
As part of its most recent investor report, Sega shared that it is looking to revive some of its “major” inactive game…
A Sega cult classic finds new life with a gorgeous, loving remake
Hello, Gameologerinos, and welcome to our weekly thread for the discussion of weekend gaming plans and recent gaming…
Sega’s Altered Beast and Streets Of Rage to rise from their graves on TV and film
Sega has been trying to get some of its games not named Sonic The Hedgehog adapted to TV and film for several years now
After a deadly serious quest, Altered Beast’s ending let us in on the joke
Altered Beast asks the impossible from the second it starts when a pixelated Zeus commands players to “Wise from your…
The best, worst, and weirdest games from 25 years of Sonic The Hedgehog
The broadly accepted critical narrative about the Sonic The Hedgehog games is that they used to be good but are now…
Hey, remember Shinobi? You will when it’s a movie
In what could easily be the second-most exciting Shinobi-adjacent story to hit the internet today—after news that Sega…
Now there’s an official place to play hacked Sega Genesis games
The Sega Genesis Classics Collection has been available on Steam for several years now, offering a way to buy and play…
Read This: 25 years in, Sonic The Hedgehog keeps on rolling along
As the 1990s dawned and Nintendo soared, Sega desperately needed a new mascot. The video game company’s previous icon,…
Read This: Michael Jackson probably wrote the score for Sonic The Hedgehog 3
One of the message board quotes in Todd Van Luling’s excellent new Huffington Post article, “The Michael Jackson Video…
Appreciate the genius of Sonic The Hedgehog music with this 56-minute mix
Sonic The Hedgehog may have been the most enjoyable game of the 16-bit era. It was fast and fun and remarkably…
A hedgehog for all seasons: Our guide to 20 manic years of Sonic cartoons
Sonic The Hedgehog’s greatest asset isn’t his speed but his personality. When Sega first introduced audiences to its…
What is your most fondly remembered video game moment of 1995?
Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers.…
Sega wants to adapt some of its old video games into movies and TV shows
From Mortal Kombat to Doom to Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, movies adapted from video games have a reputation…
Sonic Boom trades the series’ hallucinatory art for a shabby bootleg
Pity the poor bootleg! Old Spider-hero and SpongeBob Rhombus Pants aren’t inherently bad toys compared to their…