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>>7250081
>Sonic the Hedgehog came to television
What was he watching?

>>7250084
The Mario Bros. movie.

>>7250142
tails inflation porn

>>7250084
That one comic.
No not the one with the babies, but the one where Tails grows into a giant.

What came first, the ABC show, or the second one by DiC (the one in the image)?This is the first Sonic cartoon that I remember watching on TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87sQXvP-TsE

I have never read the Archie Sonic comics, but the ABC cartoon looks like an adaption of it. I was never a fan of the artstyle used in this show, but the background art is alright, the animation is alright. I thought it was pretty good, all things considering.

Then there was this one, which is Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and was aimed at a younger demographic than the ABC show clearly. I have seen a few episodes, but not many. I think I know it more through the memes.

Sonic Underground after that. A continuation of the ABC series, but takes a strange and different direction. Sonic and his brother and sister start a rockband while on a quest to look for their mother. This was such an odd concept.

Sonic: OVA (Sonic: The Movie) . This one was clearly inspired by Sonic CD's cutscenes, as if SOJ decided to make their own Sonic Anime series. These episodes were made as some sort of pilot. I liked them for what they are, animation can be choppy, but great art.

Sonic X: Never watched it. Based on post Dreamcast Sonic. Like Sonic Adventure DX and DX 2. Turning a product into a cartoon directly was banned from US TV, so cartoons had to be loose adaptions of the products they were meant to advertise. Only really know the "gotta go faster" intro meme.

>>7250081
Sonic Sez saved all us Segabros from getting buttraped as children while the retarded Nintendies remained easy prey for pedophiles.

>>7250142
>The Mario Bros. movie.

I saw this in theaters when I was like 12 (in 1993), for real. And, no joke, I hated everything about it. Not because it wasn't some great adaption of Super Mario Bros. But because of the cliched cyberpunk land, and the cheesy writing and I was bored by it. There was only like four other people in the cinema too. One week after that in the same Cineplex, Jurassic Park premiered and it was a full theater. Over time, I do find myself liking this movie more than I did back then. But I never thought it was good.

>>7250081
>a (very) popular videogame gets a tv cartoon series 2 years later after its release in the middle of wave of tv cartoon series about literally anything

OH MY F GOD i cant BELIEVE IT!? i-it's IMPOSSIBLE o.O

>>7250179
At first DiC tried to pitch AoStH to television networks, only to get turned down by everyone. They sent AoStH into production as a cheap cartoon aimed at syndication, while also working on a new Sonic cartoon. That cartoon got picked up by ABC and became SatAM.
The comic book was initially an amalgamation of all Sonic media, early issues featured Freedom Fighters from SatAM and SSSSSS squad from AoStH. Eventually the comic evolved into SatAM continuation.

Mortal Kombat , DKC and Double Dragon had a cartoon as well.

>>7250081
No doubt. I would watch The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog everyday after school.

>>7250223

That makes sense.

>>7250213
>cliched cyberpunk land
fun fact: set design was done by the guy who did Blade Runner

>>7250179
>Turning a product into a cartoon directly was banned from US TV
What?

>>7250223
>At first DiC tried to pitch AoStH to television networks, only to get turned down by everyone. They sent AoStH into production as a cheap cartoon aimed at syndication, while also working on a new Sonic cartoon. That cartoon got picked up by ABC and became SatAM.
>The comic book was initially an amalgamation of all Sonic media, early issues featured Freedom Fighters from SatAM and SSSSSS squad from AoStH. Eventually the comic evolved into SatAM continuation.

>>7252106
>What?

What I mean is, in the early 90's there was some law that passed in the US that prevented kids cartoons from being promotional items to sell toys/ products. cartoons being literal toy advertisements was a popular thing in the 1980's it actually started with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe at Mattel (Tom Kalinske actually takes credit for this, since it was his idea to turn He-Man into a cartoon series produced by Filmation). This lead to some laws being passed to prevent this. So cartoons based on products in the 90's became much looser adaptions to skirt around these laws. Like Sonic X not being based on any one Sonic game, but the Adventure/ post Dreamcast games as a whole. Or Pokemon not being based on any one game. But it still has all the recognizable characters.

>>7252173
>This lead to some laws being passed to prevent this.

Maybe this wasn't a law that was passed. More like, enforced. As this law existed for live-action TV. But it fell through the cracks for children's cartoons of the 80's and lead to red flags. Cartoons in the 90's being more ambiguous about their product tie-ins. Basically, this was real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HErRwSpla0

>>7251509
>Mortal Kombat , DKC and Double Dragon had a cartoon as well.

Earthworm Jim had a cartoon series, with Jim being voiced by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtw3f43gsYI

Electronic Arts also produced a Mutant League cartoon back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEmSMvdMH4M

And they ever produced a Wing Commander Academy animated series.

>>7250081
I never got why Tails had darker fur in the cartoons compared to the games.
And why did Robotnik have a completely different design?

>>7250081

>>7250081
>>7250152
>the one with the babies

>>7250081
ruff ruff
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im a dog

>>7250223
And then the archie comics went into.........................insanity and cringe, and sega tried to kill it during the 2000s but couldnt do it until the mid 2010s and erase its memory with the IDW one.

>>7254158
This was his original AOSTH design