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Sega: Sonic was the Call of Duty of its day

Posted Jun 25, 2011 at 2:00PM EST by Carl B

Listed in: News Tags: call of duty, Mike Hayes, Sega, Sonic
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Sonic-Generations

Sega explains the similarities between Sonic the Hedgehog and Call of Duty.

 

"[Sonic] was the Call of Duty of its day," said Sega West COO Mike Hayes. "[It was a game that every] cool gamer was playing."

 

"It was fast, it was anarchic, it was irreverent, it was different."

 

"There's no doubt the modern core gamer is looking for a great deal of realism in terms of the graphics, the performance and the theme," he continued, "which is why war games in particular have done very, very well."

 

"But Mario and Sonic are just as big and relative to Call of Duty. They're just spread over more games or, in the case of Mario, restricted to just one or two formats," he finished.

 

Back during the 16-bit era, Mario and Sonic were fierce competitors. I woudn't exactly call Sonic the Call of Duty of its day -- Sega didn't milk it to death like Activision is doing with CoD -- but it was certainly one of the better classic franchises.

 

Sonic games are 50% off on XBLA and PSN.

 

via GamerZines



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+2 # RE: Sega: Sonic was the Call of Duty of its dayPS360 Owner1 2011-06-25 15:46
Sonic Generations demo was surprisingly awesome, I hope the full game is even better.

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# RE: RE: Sega: Sonic was the Call of Duty of its daylordrand11 2011-06-25 23:07
Quoting PS360 Owner1:
Sonic Generations demo was surprisingly awesome, I hope the full game is even better.


I love you man!!!! i thought it was too.

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# They didn't?Zhipp 2011-06-25 17:41
There were what, 6-8 Sonic platformers on the Sega Genesis? If that isn't milking then I don't know what is.

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+1 # ...TheRockness 2011-06-27 16:47
Two reasons they weren't milking it.

A. They weren't yearly releases.

B. They were good.

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# RE: Sega: Sonic was the Call of Duty of its daytruk 2011-06-25 21:49
comparing the 2 is such a far stretch

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# so batelfilde is todays mario?omer 2011-06-26 01:50
:P :lol: :D

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# RE: Sega: Sonic was the Call of Duty of its dayjessman 2011-06-26 03:47
There were four classic sonic games on the genesis including sonic and knuckles which was the other half of sonic three. sonic spinball and 3d blast don't count, loser.

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+3 # RE: Sega: Sonic was the Call of Duty of its dayBut Fukir 2011-06-26 10:10
Why does sega keep releasing these introspective statements ruminating over past failures and former glories instead of...
I dont know,
releasing some decent games?

Get a therapist man and get over it.

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# Yeah....hush404 2011-06-27 15:54
No... Mario kicked his butt.

Sonic was still kewl... but Mario has always been bigger.

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+2 # RE: Yeah....truk 2011-06-27 17:38
sonic was badass. LOOK AT HIS HAIR! LOOK AT IT!!!

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