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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a fast-paced cartoon with a lot of slapstick humor, akin to such shows as Ren and Stimpy or Tiny Toons. The show features very few characters, usually just Sonic, Tails, Robotnik and his two hench-bots Scratch and Grounder. The plots often loosely followed the storyline of the video game, although at the time the Sonic games were still quite new, and lacking much plot or character development, which was in turn filled in by the show's writers.
When the show ended, the new Sonic cartoon that replaced it ( Sonic the Hedgehog, see below) took the characters in a far more serious direction. Most of the characters and settings established in Adventures never re-appeared in this new series. A vast array of comic books were in turn released based on the new Sonic show, making Adventures little more than a footnote to many die-hard Sonic fans today.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was created by DiC Entertainment, who produced a total of 65 episodes for its first season. The first episode was "Best Hedgehog" (shown Sept 6) and the last was "Hero of the Year" (shown Dec 3). DiC ceased production on this comical interpretation to spend more time on its darker interpretation, dubbed just "Sonic the Hedgehog" (commonly known as 'SatAm"), a series launched on ABC's Saturday morning line-up. A second season of "Sonic the Hedgehog" (commonly referred as the "Lost Season") had begin preliminary development, but it never got aired. Two other episodes in that season were in the works prior to the cancellations.
This wasn't to be the end of AoStH, however, for DiC created one more episode in the winter of 1996, " Sonic's Christmas Blast " - which ended up being a strange mix of AOSTH and SatAM.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was most recently shown weekdays at 8:00am Central Time on Toon Disney (a digital cable/satellite channel). AoStH villains also appeared one weekend on "Chillin' with the Villains" program hour - Robotnik was even on their commercial for it.
AOSTH characters are seen in the 16-bitRobotnik's Mean Bean Machine is a modified version of a Japanese video game Puyo Puyo and set within the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. It was released in November 1993 by Capcom in the United States for the Sega Genesis, and in Europe for the Sega Megadriv (for Sega GenesisThe Sega Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by SEGA in North America in 1989. Outside of the U. the console was known as the Sega Megadrive. It succeeded the 8-bit Sega Master System and was one of the main contenders in the console wars of and Sega Megadrive) and 8-bit (for Sega Game GearThe Sega Game Gear was a handheld game console and was Sega's response to Nintendo's Game Boy. Work began on the console in 1989 under the codename "Project Mercury", and the system was released in Japan on October 6, 1990. It was released in North Americ and Sega Master SystemThe Sega Master System SMS for short) ( Japanese: ), was an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console manufactured by Sega. For information on the earlier Japanese version of the console, see SG-1000 Mark III. History The SG-1000 Mark III came after the SG-100) versions of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.