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Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld
System(s): Sega Pico
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Educational
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code Rating
Sega Pico
JP
1994-08 ¥3,980 HPC-6010
Sega Pico
US
1996-11 $39.99[1] 49049
ESRB: Early Childhood
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Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ・ゲームワールド) is an early childhood educational "storyware" cartridge for the Sega Pico system. The cart is one of two Sonic-related games for the system, the other being Tails and the Music Maker. Gameworld was released in August 1994 in Japan and November 1996 in North America.

Gameplay

Children interact with the game by the use of the Magic Pen, the stylus used with the Pico system. After choosing to have either one or two players and an easy or hard difficulty, the game opens up with a simple story—Dr. Eggman has hidden a Chaos Emerald on each floor of the Gameworld, an amusement park-like tower. Sonic, Tails and Amy must beat all the mini-games on each level and find the Emeralds.

To start a game, the child would move the Magic Pen over to an area marking an activity, where an icon would appear showing whether the Magic Pen, direction pad or red button would be used in the mini-game. The scoring of each game is determined by the performance in each task.

Floors

The first floor/area has a sports focus, with games on the floor being Car Race, Sonic-Ball, Hoops and Tree Climb.

Manuals

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Production credits

QA
Aspect Credits
Programming
Art
Music
Other Credits
  • Product Manager: Mike Fischer
  • Educational Consultant: P.J. Robinson
  • Manual Copy & Design: Martin Productions
  • Special Thanks (Sega): Susan Reeves, Andrea Scarnecchia
Source: In-game credits

Physical scans

Sega Pico, JP
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Cover
Sega Pico, US
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Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 e472a795
MD5 825674b726b2545019c4b7bdee05d6b7
SHA-1 839d8be99eabf371bb992166471c877db6f6e265
512kB 1996-08 Cartridge (US)
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 df7a9599
MD5 fc9f9e294f09072956227c2d0dad903e
SHA-1 6af6bf20056ccac6ecdc0ebad323eaf4bffb5963
512kB 1994-08 Cartridge (JP)
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 b8f507fa
MD5 abee1c260e051ee1b52b651fbb6d6355
SHA-1 a2f920ea5737eb24591274f84b28da97db72a151
512kB 1994-08 Cartridge (JP) Rev 1
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 ddcdf94b
MD5 944e36ac397c6e2d096dc320c925820f
SHA-1 7ebab6cd9fc42a598082f2ab442700b414e41d9b
512kB 1996-07-01 CD-R disc[2] Page
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 ef774132
MD5 e2280dd5d3762c3b9758102f59c35711
SHA-1 3a6dc10517df2d037f716e59c13675bebf0e4246
512kB 1996-07-19 CD-R disc[3] Page
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 c2cbfe99
MD5 b525474e3b715c41a4de07a1985f4d82
SHA-1 c0d0eb5db0d34aa75f9be68d75f3b99d0aa2e193
512kB 1996-08-02 CD-R disc[4] Page
Sega Pico
 ?
CRC32 4363a1e2
MD5 648fb1b125d5d09949778caa8dce2410
SHA-1 935b925c7a6ed36519b756f33aa2ce2240610471
512kB 1996-08-08 CD-R disc[5] Page

References


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Prereleases: Prototype 1996-07-01 | 1996-07-19 | 1996-08-02 | 1996-08-08

Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems
Sega Pico
 1994  Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld     1995  Tails and the Music Maker