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Sonic the Hedgehog
Pocket Adventure
System(s): Neo Geo Pocket Color
Publisher: SNK
Sega (co-publisher)
Developer:
Genre: Platform
Release Date RRP Code Rating
Neo Geo Pocket Color
US
1999-11-30  ? ?
Neo Geo Pocket Color
EU
1999-12-03  ? ?
Neo Geo Pocket Color
JP
2000-01-11  ? ?

Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure is a Sonic the Hedgehog game for the short-lived Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld console. It was released in late 1999 and stands as Sega's only contribution to an SNK platform.

Sonic Pocket Adventure can be seen as a "hybrid" Sonic game, rather than a brand new release. Its levels are mostly inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive, though some share elements from the first game and the majority of the music is recycled from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Some tunes are also recycled from the Sega Saturn compilation Sonic Jam. It is not a straight port of any of these games, however, as it introduces brand new bosses, a "puzzle" mode and a few original soundtracks of its own.

Sonic Pocket Adventure is the only game in the series to successfully mix the modern post-Sonic Adventure design of Sonic with his classic Mega Drive-style counterpart. The in-game graphics look similar to the classic style, while on the title screen and other up-close artwork Sonic resembles his modern design that debuted in Sonic Adventure. This mix of styles also applies to Dr. Eggman - in the early levels he has his original design, but he switches to his Sonic Adventure design on Sonic reaching his base.

Sonic is the only playable character in Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, however if two Neo Geo Pocket Colors are linked together, one can initiate versus mode, in which the second player controls Tails. Tails is not available in normal play without hacking. Sonic Pocket Adventure would be the last Sonic game to just feature Sonic as a playable character until 2007's Sonic and the Secret Rings.

Each of the six "act 1"s has a special stage containing a chaos emerald, and are triggered by jumping into a giant ring at the end of the stage (assuming Sonic has at least 50 rings). Unlike earlier games, the special stages are linked directly to the level (e.g. the first special stage can only be accessed from Neo South Island Zone, the second only from Secret Plant Zone, etc.). As Sky Chase Zone and Aerobase Zone count as a pair, this only leaves six special stages - the final chaos emerald is obtained in Last Utopia Zone, in which Sonic has to aim for the emerald powering Eggman's machine rather than Eggman himself.

Collecting all seven chaos emeralds will open Chaotic Space Zone, a Super Sonic-only stage. Like the Sonic Advance games, it is impossible to play as Super Sonic in normal stages.

A one-level demo of Sonic Pocket Adventure was released, and features cutscenes not present in the final game; see Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure: Trial.

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Production Credits

Sega Staff

Superviser: Yuji Naka (as Y.Naka), Sonic Team (as SonicTeam)

SNK Staff

Main Planner: Yukihiro Higashi (as Y.Higashi)
Co-Planner: Y.Arita
Planner: AP.
Main Graphic: J.Yoshii
Graphic: Kinte, Rikabe, BonBon, Nobuhiko Honda (as Honda 56), Mikima-2, Yuko Yamanoue (as Yuko), Ponta, Masami Tokusue (as Tokusue)
Main Programer: Yumiko Nakatsuka (as Y.Nakatsuka)
Co-Programer: MSX-MNB
Programer: Naoki Kurihara (as Naoki.K'), Uechan-Dayo, Takeshi Niimura (as Takeshi.N)
Sound Chief: Hiya!
Sound: Maitaro
Development: M.I, Toshiyuki Hata (as T.Hata), Eg-King
Debug: Masahiko Sawa (as M.Sawa), Ebi, Toku, DebugTeam
Manual Making: Hide.K, Aya.M
Director: Landsat
Special Thanks to: SNK Product Development Dept. Division 1
Produce: Masato Kawai (as M.Kawai), K.Kohno, Hiroshi Matsumoto (as H.Matsumoto), Yuji Naka (as Y.Naka)
Executive Producer: Takeshi Nishiyama (as T.Nishiyama)

Physical Scans




Neo Geo Pocket Color
100 Sonic Retro Average
Based on 1 review
Publication Score Source
arcade 100 №16, p102
Neo Geo Pocket Color, US
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Cart
Neo Geo Pocket Color, EU
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Cover
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Cart
Neo Geo Pocket Color, JP
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Cover
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Cart


Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure
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Sonic the Hedgehog games for other systems
Tiger Game.com
Sonic Jam (1998) |
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure (1999) |
N-Gage
Sonic N (2003) |
Leapster
Sonic X (2007) |
LeapFrog Didj
Sonic the Hedgehog (2008) |
Sony PlayStation Vita
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (2012)
Prerelease Sonic the Hedgehog games for other systems
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure (prototype; 1999-10-22) |
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure Taikenban |
N-Gage
Sonic N (prototype; 2003-09-16)