SonicJPNews archive blog: Happy Birthday Sonic! Birthday wishes from Sonic officials

2019/06/23

Happy Birthday Sonic! Birthday wishes from Sonic officials

News from 2019.06.23
Archived on 2019.06.24

Sonic officials' birthday wishes!


28 years ago from today, Sonic the Hedgehog was released in the US and sped through the gaming world like a fresh wind.

Today, not only the fans all around the world celebrated the birthday of our beloved Blue Blur, but messages from the people on the official side of Sonic development were seen on Twitter. Here is the summary!


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Junichi Kanemaru-san, the Japanese voice of Sonic and his buddy since the Dreamcast era, wished Sonic happy birthday by singing Birthday Song to him. So sweet!

"Always together from the Dreamcast era...
Many things happened since then.

Like in the past,
And onwards,
Please keep on running.

I will follow you as long as I can!

Happy birthday.

In Love & Light."

- Junichi Kanemaru


Kanemaru-san also thanks people who suggested him with ideas for Sonic stickers he wants to stick on his new iPad.

"It's Sonic's birthday and I bought an iPad just now, so I'm thinking of putting a special Sonic sticker on its back. Do you have any suggestions?"
- Junichi Kanemaru

"Thank you everyone. There are so many variants of Sonic stickers and I have a hard time choosing one. I will consider very well about which one to pick.
Sonic is starting to run onwards this year again with birthday wishes from numerous Sonic fans. I wish you the best, Sonic!"
- Junichi Kanemaru

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In response to Kanemaru-san's birthday wishes, Yuji Naka-san, one of the original creators of Sonic (programmer), thanking Kanemaru-san for his longtime work as Sonic's VA...
"Happy birthday Sonic. The time we were discussing whether to let Sonic speak as we developed Sonic Adventure is nostalgic. Thank you Kanemaru-san as always."
- Yuji Naka

...to which Kanemaru-san replied, thanking him.
"Naka-san! I'm grateful.
Thank you very much."
- Junichi Kanemaru

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Naka-san also tweeted some screenshots from a video footage from the time of Sonic the Hedgehog's development in 1990, alongside with their explanations!


"FCOL3.ASM is short for field collision, and it is a program for recognizing shape of the field.
The numbers like 4 and 8 after downdotmax or jumpdotmax shows the limit of Sonic's movement. These programs are the 'life' of Sonic, so to say.
GAME.ASM is the main game sequence of Sonic. The main body of the game."
- Yuji Naka


"What Sonic actually sees as he is running - the field collision shape - is shown on the right TV screen. If you look closely, you notice that the gound is rounding up gradually. When this makes one circle, it becomes the famouns loop in Sonic games. Unlike the images in-game, Sonic is seeing such data as he runs."
- Yuji Naka

Very interesting insights into the programming of Sonic games!


Later, Naka-san was reminded that it is Dr. Eggman's birthday too by this artwork and wished him a happy birthday too!

"Right, it's Eggman's 28th birthday too. I feel a bot sorry for him, but this art gradually creeps up on me and I like it. Happy birthday Eggman!"
- Yuji Naka

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SEGA Official, the official account of SEGA of Japan, wished Sonic happy birthday and reminds you of the Sonic Birthday 2019 event taking place today at Tokyo Joypolis!
"Today, June 23rd is Sonic's birthday!

Happy birthday, Sonic!
We are having his birthday party at Joypolis this year again."
- SEGA Official

They also posted various #SoncTravels photos, celebrating the first anniversary of its official website!
"Happy Birthday, Sonic!
It is the first anniversary of the #SonicTravels page on which scenery of various places can be enjoyed with Sonic taken to trips of SEGA employees. We would like to continue to go out with Sonic!

Which photo do you like?"
- SEGA Official

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Tokyo Joypolis and its mascot character LOPIT also said happy birthday!
Such a cool decoration for the day's protagonist!
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONIC!

The party is starting soon!!
Let's celebrate together at Tokyo Joypolis!"
- Tokyo Joypolis

"Everybody loves Sonic!
Thanks for everything. Let's keep going on!"
- Tokyo Joypolis

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Masato Nishimura-san (Mazin-san) is actually not yet ready to celebrate Sonic's birthday because of the difference of Sonic's release dates in Japan and the US...
"So today is set as Sonic's birthday, but since the game was first released on July 26th in Japan, it doesn't feel like that to me at all even after all these years. Sonic and Thunder Fox were released on the same day. Oh, Wikipedia is wrong."
- Masato Nishimura (Mazin)

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 Taeko Kawata-san, the Japanese voice of Amy Rose, wished Sonic happy birthday!
Sounds just like what Amy would say! :D
"Sonic〜
Happy Birthday!"
- Taeko Kawata

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 Hirokazu Yasuhara-san, one of the original creators of Sonic (stage designer, father of simplified hand-drawn 'Sonic the Sketchhog'-style) celebrated Sonic's birthday with one of his stage deisgns too!
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Jun Senoue-san, one of the Sound Composers of Sonic series, was at the Tokyo Joypolis too to join the party!


Senoue-san also posted a lookback on his live concert of Sonic music performed on the day before.
The FACE to FACE vol.2 was a spin-off event from JAPAN Game Music Fes, to which the trio band SONIC ADVENTURE MUSIC EXPERIENCE (short. S.A.M.E.) consisting of Jun Senoue (Gt.), Act. (Dr.) and Takeshi Taneda (Ba.) joined to play various Sonic music. And it was a huge success!
They also sang Sonic happy birthday at the beginning of the live with a special movie to it. How cool!
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 Act.-san posted a special video with birthday wishes to Sonic!
"To the 28 years he sped through!"
- Act.
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SEGA Base, a SEGA shop with Sonic merchandise congratulated Sonic on his 28th anniversary!

"Congratulation on 28th anniversary of 'Sonic the Hedgehog'! And Sonic-san, happy birthday to you! We have Sonic-san's merchandise at SEGA Base, so plase come by! It's never the time to let our eyes off of Sonic-san!" - SEGA Base


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Christian Whitehead, lead programmer of Sonic Mania,  posted his art to celebrate Sonic's birthday!
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Sonic the Hedgehog, the official Sonic account of SEGA of America, also celebrated Blue Blur's anniversary with a new art!
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 Roger Craig Smith, the English voice of Sonic, wished Sonic the best birthday ever!
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 Here is a message from Aaron Webber, the social media manager of Sonic Team of the US!
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 Somebody remembered about this important character... Tyson Hesse, an artist for Sonic series wished happy birthday to Motobug! Has anyone else thought about it?
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 SEGA HARDlight is celebrating Sonic's birthday with various events with their mobile app games!
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SEGA Forever on Sonic's birthday!

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Wow, that was many messages Sonic received! It shows how much is is being loved by its creators and developers.

How did you spend Sonic's birthday this year? There are many cool messages and artworks posted on Twitter by fans too - don't forget to check them out too!

Frequently used tags on Twitter:
Sonic28th    ソニックバースデー2019


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