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'''The Sonic Center''', or '''TSC''', is a site that does explorative research into [[Games featuring Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic games]], but not as much so by hacking.  Instead, TSC members look into games through ordinary play (though to observers, the things they do are hardly "ordinary").  The site's stated goal is to get players to complete each of the various games and levels as fast as possible; a collection of over 150 videos demonstrating some of the more appealing runs is available.
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'''The Sonic Center''', or '''TSC''', is a site that does explorative research into [[Games featuring Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic games]], but not as much so by hacking.  Instead, TSC members look into games through ordinary play (though to observers, the things they do are hardly "ordinary").  The site's main goal is to get players to complete each of the various games and levels as fast as possible; offering several videos and strategy guides to aid them.
  
Founded by [[Rolken]] on October 23, 2003, TSC has 587 competitors (as of June 10, 2008). It has over 3,800 competition charts and over 97,000 submissions. In June 2009, Rolken announced that he would be stepping down from running TSC and ownership was later transferred to [[SonicAD]].
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As of 21 August 2010, TSC has more than 700 players with roughly 125,000 submissions on 4,229 competition charts.
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==History==
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The Sonic Center grew out of the GameFAQs Sonic Adventure 2: Battle forums. Jolt135 had created an "SA Elite" in which players compared their best times for the Sonic Adventure games. On September 2003, [[Rolken]], one of these eager players, went a step further and created a site named ParaShift to serve as a home portal for several subsites, including two that he had in mind: The Sonic Center (for time attack competition in Sonic games) and ParaShift Pokémon (for Pokémon research and strategies). A month later, on 23 October 2003, Rolken founded TSC. After some time, he closed the Pokémon subsite and TSC became the main site.
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On June 2009, Rolken announced that he would be stepping down from running TSC and ownership was later transferred to [[SonicAD]].
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==External links==
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*[http://www.soniccenter.org/ The Sonic Center's home page]
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20031228172133/http://www.parashift.org/ Archived version of ParaShift as of 28 December 2003]
  
 
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Revision as of 19:49, 20 August 2010

Template:Infobox Website The Sonic Center, or TSC, is a site that does explorative research into Sonic games, but not as much so by hacking. Instead, TSC members look into games through ordinary play (though to observers, the things they do are hardly "ordinary"). The site's main goal is to get players to complete each of the various games and levels as fast as possible; offering several videos and strategy guides to aid them.

As of 21 August 2010, TSC has more than 700 players with roughly 125,000 submissions on 4,229 competition charts.

History

The Sonic Center grew out of the GameFAQs Sonic Adventure 2: Battle forums. Jolt135 had created an "SA Elite" in which players compared their best times for the Sonic Adventure games. On September 2003, Rolken, one of these eager players, went a step further and created a site named ParaShift to serve as a home portal for several subsites, including two that he had in mind: The Sonic Center (for time attack competition in Sonic games) and ParaShift Pokémon (for Pokémon research and strategies). A month later, on 23 October 2003, Rolken founded TSC. After some time, he closed the Pokémon subsite and TSC became the main site.

On June 2009, Rolken announced that he would be stepping down from running TSC and ownership was later transferred to SonicAD.

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