References to Sonic in video games
From Sonic Retro
References guide
The following is a list of commonly-encountered References issues.
- Multi-character games: Games which feature multiple Sega characters in direct starring roles, such as Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and Sonic Pinball Party, are not included, as are the songs in rhythm games like Samba de Amigo.
- Unlicensed: Unlicensed games which pretend to be part of the Sonic franchise are not included (as they have existing pages), but games like Sonic Dragon and World Heroes 2 are.
- Inspiration and clones: Games which take direct inspiration from Sonic products (like Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine), and games which outright clone the gameplay of a Sonic game (like Sonic Dragon), are included. Games which only take a loose inspiration from classic Sonic gameplay, like Bubsy, are not included in a proper entry, but are listed alongside other examples in the introductory paragraph.
- References in the same series: Games which contain music from previous entries in the franchise, like the inclusion of arranged Sonic the Hedgehog tracks in Sonic Generations, are not included.
Images
You're probably best uploading Sonic reference screenshots that come from other Sega games to the CDN. Chances are they could be useful for Sega Retro too. --BSonirachi (talk) 14:37, 16 April 2022 (EDT)
- You're absolutely right, thank you for the reminder! Cartridgeculture (talk) 21:42, 16 April 2022 (EDT)
Mega Turrican
Sonic isn't actually in the game, so I'm not sure it belongs on this list. I left out Streets of Rage 3 for the same reason. - Hivebrain 19:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- I think that if there is Sonic then we should have it. I have no idea of the extent of Sonic's presence in SoR3, but if Sonic is there we might as well include it Nineko 20:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Such things would be better placed on a separate page, e.g. "Deleted references to Sonic in video games". - Hivebrain 20:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- That would make sense. If no one else has different opinions I agree with that. Though the one in Mega Turrican isn't deleted, it's just "hidden", so we should think about a good page title. Nineko 20:31, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Rather than make a whole separate page, could we just make a separate section on this page? - Scarred Sun 21:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Such things would be better placed on a separate page, e.g. "Deleted references to Sonic in video games". - Hivebrain 20:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Sega Pinball
Now, I very well could be misremembering, but I'm 99% sure Sonic appears in all his glory on the Dot Matrix display of at least one if not many of Sega's pinball games. If I can find a good example I assume this would be the page for it...but pinball is skirting the line between videogame and irl game, but since it's not just a painting of Sonic on the side of the machine but a dot matrix VIDEO display, I think it would belong here...again, assuming it's even real in the first place and I'm not just misremembering.
- Good question. These are the kinda questions we run into a lot here tbh. Kinda struggling. For now, they probably belong on this page. But I think I want to say... let's create a dedicated subpage. Pinball's in an entirely different category in medium and form, and for me it makes sense to differentiate them. But then you're getting into what you touched on: does dot matrix categorize pinball as a video game? Technically, probably? But in a real working sense, not really, and for the purposes of presenting information on Sonic Retro, it would likely befit us to separate them regardless.
- For the moment, go ahead and just add them into the list wherever, and just throw a (pinball) after their name in the title field. I'm going to give this some more thought. But I think a subpage on pinball has been coming for a long time coming.
- P.S. Don't forget to type four tildes (~~~~) after your message so it adds your signature, letting us know who's talking :)
- Cartridgeculture (talk) 21:37, 12 November 2022 (EST)