The Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition is a record book made by Guinness World Records. The book contains video game-related records, trivia, and countdowns.

Sonic-related TextEdit

2008 editionEdit

• The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise was awarded seven records. The records include "Best Selling Game on Sega Systems", "Longest Running Comic Based on a Video Game" and "Best Selling Retro Game Compilation" (for Sonic Mega Collection).
• Sonic Heroes has the record for most playable characters in a platform game.
• Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog has the record for the longest running video game comic series ever.^[1] The cover of Sonic the Hedgehog #97 accompanied this section.
• Sega considered an armadillo as its mascot, and Sonic the Hedgehog was originally called "Mr. Needlemouse."^[2]
• The original Sonic the Hedgehog game has a limit of 9,999,990 points, and 23 people have scored this on the Xbox Live scoreboards.^[2]

2009 editionEdit

• The world record for fastest completion time of Sonic the Hedgehog 2's Emerald Hill Zone Act 1 is Louis Tsiattalou with a time of 0:20. He did this at the Summer of Sonic convention using a Sega Mega Drive.^[3]
• The fastest completion of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 using Sonic as the player character is 49 minutes 17 seconds, achieved by James Richards (UK) in Maidstone, Kent, UK on 9 August 2008.^[4]
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is number 15 on the list of Top 50 console games of all time.^[5][6]

2010 editionEdit

• Page 96: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is placed 2nd on the list of "ten 2D platformers you should play".
• Page 97: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is the best-selling game on any SEGA platform; 50 million unit sales have been made by "SEGA's long-running and ever-popular Sonic the Hedgehog series."
• Page 191: the Sonic the Hedgehog series is placed 15th in the Top 50 Video Game Series.
• Page 206: the Summer of Sonic convention is mentioned; according to "a number of polls", Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most recognizable of all video game characters; records for Sonic Rush and Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
• Page 207: records for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

2011 editionEdit

• Sonic features on the cover of the edition, coinciding with his 20th anniversary.^[7]
• Sonic placed tenth in the list of the Top 50 Video Game Characters, based on a poll of over 13,000 readers.^[8]

2012 editionEdit

• Page 63: There are 4 games that feature both Mario and Sonic, three of which are part of the Mario & Sonic series.
• Page 109: Sonic and the Secret Rings is the Best-Selling Third-Party 3D Wii Platformer.
• Page 117: Sonic is a guest in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
• Page 185: Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog are listed at #33 and #28 respectively in "top 50 game endings".
• Pages 196-197: records for Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic the Hedgehog 3; information on the "lock-on technology" in Sonic & Knuckles.

TriviaEdit

• The summary of the Sonic Adventure 2 ending in the 2012 edition does not include the death of Shadow the Hedgehog.

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

• Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gamers/index.html