Happy 20th Anniversary, Sonic!

Sonic The Hedgehog turns 20 years old today. His first game, creatively titled Sonic The Hedgehog was released on the 23rd of June 1991, and since then he's become a gaming legend, with several more side-scrolling sequels on the Mega Drive and SEGA Genesis, and a host of 3D action-adventure games including Sonic Heroes, Sonic Advemture, Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors. There's even been time for a few racers like Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing and (shudder) Sonic Free Riders along the way, and we've got more exciting entries like Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode Two and Sonic Generations to come this year! You can get a poster featuring the 'classic' and 'modern' Sonics to celebrate their anniversary at various GAME stores across the country from today, and a demo of Generations Green Hill Zone will hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace this morning too! Expect my exclusive impressions on that later...but until then, happy birthday Sonic! (Never has his name been used so much in one article!)