Sonic 3D Blast, known in PAL regions as Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island, is a 1996 platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series for the Sega Genesis and Sega...

After a hiatus during the unsuccessful Saturn era, the first major 3D Sonic game, Sonic Adventure, was released in 1998 for the Dreamcast. Sega exited the...

2013. "3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Nintendo 3DS". Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2015. "SEGA AGES Sonic the Hedgehog...

Sonic games, and "Modern", 3D levels similar to those in Sonic Unleashed (2008) and Sonic Colors (2010). Development of Sonic Generations began following...

Dreamcast. It was the first main Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature 3D gameplay. It follows Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy...

Knuckles (1994). It also features a 3D environment, "Sonic World", which doubles as an interactive museum of Sonic the Hedgehog content. Development began...

in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the first to feature 3D computer graphics. The player races one of ten Sonic characters in various Sonic-themed...

planned as the first fully 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game, taking Sonic into the 3D era of video games, and the first original Sonic game for the Sega Saturn...

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 1991 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Genesis/Mega Drive. It was released in North America...

the development of the last Genesis Sonic game, Sonic 3D Blast (1996), to the British studio Traveller's Tales. Sonic Team developed bonus levels for a...

the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It was initially developed as an isometric game similar to what would eventually become Sonic 3D Blast (1996), but...

multi-character aspect of the game marks a return to similar 3D gameplay first in Sonic Adventure (1998) and Sonic Heroes (2003). Dream Team's dream world was created...

a multiplayer mode, and special stages featuring pre-rendered 3D graphics. After Sonic the Hedgehog greatly increased the popularity of the Genesis in...

are rendered in 3D, creating a 2.5D effect. The game's storyline follows the intertwining adventures of the series' main character, Sonic the Hedgehog and...

with the 3D Sonic Games Development Kit. This game gained notability for receiving a positive response from Sega. Sonic Utopia is 3D Sonic game demo...

Sonic Mega Collection is a video game compilation developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in 2002 for the GameCube. It is a compilation of several...

aired Sonic Christmas Blast, a Christmas special which was produced to promote Sonic 3D Blast (originally meant for the ultimately cancelled Sonic X-treme)...

coinciding releases, Sonic Blast and Sonic 3D Blast have little in common. Retrospective reviewers generally had little praise for Sonic Blast and have deemed...

X-tremely Sonic Christmas; however, its cancellation resulted in the special being rebranded as a tie-in to Sonic 3D Blast. The second of DiC's Sonic cartoons...

Sonic Unleashed is a 2008 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. An installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, it follows Sonic...

this was affected by the cancellation of Sonic X-treme, planned as the first 3D entry in Sega's popular Sonic the Hedgehog series. The Saturn was succeeded...

[citation needed] Sonic Unleashed featured stages with both 2D and 3D platformer gameplay, a formula used later in Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. Moreover...

multiplayer. Sonic Team's head, Takashi Iizuka, wanted to modernize Sonic's traditional side-scrolling formula so it could continue independently from the 3D games...

side-scrolling and 3D gameplay. Being included in Sonic X Shadow Generations, players can switch between Shadow Generations and the 2011 game Sonic Generations...

series. Richard Jacques, lead composer for Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic R, returned to compose the soundtrack. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric was released in North...

a set of 11 harder missions, and tracks from Sonic Spinball (1993), Knuckles' Chaotix (1995) and Sonic 3D Blast (1996) for the museum music player are...

maintaining control over the Sonic Team technology and the Sonic franchise. Sonic Team was developing its own 3D Sonic game using the Nights engine,...

swim like in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. The elemental shield power-ups from Sonic 3 & Knuckles are present, as is the gold shield from Sonic 3D Blast. The shields...

3D game in the Sonic series; the idea for a Sonic fighting game was conceived when a Sega AM2 programmer experimented with a 3D Sonic the Hedgehog model...

and roll into a ball to attack enemy robots. Sonic can also perform the "homing attack" from the 3D Sonic games; when in midair, he can lock on to robots...