Sonic the Hedgehog

Codes and conventions

Story and Narrative

It the world of Sonic, an evil scientist named Dr IvoRobotnik has taken the animals of the world and turning them into robots in his never-ending bid of taking over the world.

The only thing in his way is one blue, superfast hedgehog named Sonic who must stop Robotniksplans and collect all the chaos emeralds to ensure peace is in the world.

There are 6 stages with 3 acts to each of them and 6 emeralds to collect. Collect them all and peace is restored to the world.

gameplayIn terms of play control there are only 2 major aspects,

Running and Jump. You run at very high speeds and you jump to attack enemies and reach high places.

To stay alive in the stages you collect rings, collect 100 you get an extra life, reach 50,000 points or more and you get a continue but if you get hit by an enemy or stage hazard you lose all your rings and if you have no rings a whole life.

There are 6 stages with 3 acts, each stage changing theme and what goes on in the stage.

At the end of act 3 you take on Robotnik in a boss battle and when you win you release the animal capsule and move on to the next stage,

To get a Chaos Emerald you at least 50 rings at the end of stages 1 and 2, navigate yourself through a trippy puzzle without hitting the end stage button and collect the emerald.

characters

There are only 2 characters to Sonic the hedgehog and that’s just Sonic and Robotnik with Sonic being the hero and Robotnik as the bad guy.

However as time goes on

more characters

were introduced.

Promoting

The game itself was a use to try and get more people to buy the Sega megadrive as Nintendo was at the dominate

video game publisher with Super Mario, so to make the

Megadrive become commercial with the tag line Genesis

does what nintendon’t, Genesis being the American name

for the megadrive. That was 16 bit processing or as the

Sonic games said, blast processing allowing for more high

game speed and brighter graphics. The game also became

packaged with the megadrive for any new buyers so

megadrive owners would have 1 game already when they

have a megadrive.

Target audienceThe intended age for Sonic was in a sence made

for young audiences or new gamers since the megadrive was a console of the early 90’s though was more advanced that the early consoles at the time like the Nintendo entertainment system.

Sonic’s appearance would appeal more to younger game audiences since in the 80’s and 90’s there many characters for young kids to look up to whether they were superheroes or characters with audience messages so naturally Sonic would be involved in that line of characters.

sequels'

Much to the scucess of the first game,

More games of the name was made to

Please fans and hope people will still be

Part of the sonic fanbase, 2 intoduced

Sonic’s sidekick, Tails and a new way

Of using Chaos Emerarlds and Sonic 3

Introuced Knuckles and a new upgrade

In game styles. The games were also to

Keep players playing since sales were

Starting to decline for games and consoles.

Promoting

With success of Sonic many distributors will want to use his success to make many merchandise.

These items of merch include toys, comic books, promotions on magazines with in game cheats, advertisement uses, cameo uses in film and TV, video game strategy guides, posters and cartoon shows and movies and anime.

If Sonic is successful with fans then any person of certain ages will want to buy anything with Sonic on it.