A world famous video game character is sonic the hedgehog characters. This renowned character was developed by Sega for their Genesis, and gaming technologies to compete the increasing popularity of Mario, one of the most famous figure featured by Nintendo. On 23rd June, 1991, the first game released to the world with sonic the hedgehog character. Since then the Sonic became one of the most popular character in the world of video game. Now the sonic is known as ‘Blue-Bur' affectionately in front of the world. Not only has this, over 70 million copies of Sonic been sold worldwide. Sonic was the first video game character who introduced Walk in the Game concept in video game in 2005.

The peoples behind this famous character are the main designer Hiokazu Yasuhara, the great artist Naoto Oshima, and Yuji Naka, the chief programmer. Sonic is a blue skinned and its hair is like hedgehog. It can run in the supersonic speed, having the ability to morph it into a ball generally kills the devils. These are the main features of sonic character that make it most interesting in the world of video game. There are a lot of series and every series contains a lot of episodes of the sonic the hedgehog character. According to the themes and episodes, the presentation of the sonic character changes to be accepted by the viewers more affectionately. Sonic was very small when it was first released but as the time passed, during the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 his height changed from 1:2 proportion, and the width changed in the proportion of 1:2.25. Yuji Uekawa developed a new look of the sonic character in the new game of Sonic Adventure in the year 1998. Sonic was presented as a long and thin legged character with a spherical shaped figure in that game. Since then that was the main presentation of the Sonic character and became much more popular than it was. After that there were some very minor changes occurred in the Sonic character in the next series released by the Sega.
Various famous actors had given their voices over this famous character all through the year and among them Takeshi Kusao was the first one who did this.”Sonic Adventure” in 1998, "Sonic Adventure 2" in 2001, “Sonic Heroes” in 2004, “Sonic the Hedgehog” in 2006, "Sonic Unleashed" in 2008 are the most famous series released by Sega which were all based on this Sonic character. Sonic was used as many animation films also and running very successfully in present days as well.