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50-443: A spin-off video game, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine , was developed, featuring several original characters from the series. Furthermore, other elements, such as Sonic's fondness for chili dogs , would be featured in later video games and media of the franchise. Additionally, on November 24, 1996, USA Network aired Sonic Christmas Blast , a Christmas special which was produced to promote Sonic 3D Blast (originally meant for

100-451: A lost baby gorilla who thinks he is his father. Coconuts attempts to use the gorilla to stop Sonic. The baby gorilla's father is under the control of Robotnik and Sonic has to save him. Robotnik threatens to demolish an airport, a lighthouse, and a train station. Sonic is forced to travel to all three places in order to remove the bombs. Sonic, Tails and a group of mole miners are hit by Robotnik's shrink ray and must work together to reverse

150-560: A match adjacent to them. A player loses when beans spill over the top of the board, leaving them unable to add more beans into the grid. All 13 characters have a different strategy of gameplay. For example, Coconuts puts beans towards the sides of the grid. All these characters cameo in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad". Coconuts, Grounder, Scratch, and Dr. Robotnik himself are

200-499: A new international package consisting of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog , Sonic the Hedgehog and the Sonic Christmas Blast special, titled "Totally Sonic!". The package would also feature digitally re-mastered, color-enhanced versions of the shows with new contemporary music, as well as bonus director's cut "Secret Sonic" episodes. The series also aired on KidsCo , as with many other DIC-produced cartoons. In

250-565: A prime-time special scheduled for March 1993 (which would become the episode "Heads or Tails") before ultimately delaying it and including it as part of the show which ABC picked up again for a full season, this time airing in the Fall of 1993, alongside Adventures airing in syndication at the same time. During that time, the Saturday morning Sonic cartoon received a makeover and was made darker and more serious in order to differentiate itself from

300-409: A short PSA segment titled "Sonic Says" at the end of each episode excluding "Sonic Christmas Blast"; these segments were written by Phil Harnage. This is the pilot that was used to sell the show. When Sonic decides to find Tails a suitable foster home to ensure his safety, Robotnik finds out and has two of his Badniks pose as Tails' long-lost parents. After being exiled by Robotnik, Coconuts finds

350-729: A similar vein, a reviewer from Joypad  [ fr ] opined that the game's graphics were not "a joy" to look at, but understood that it was "normal" for a game of that genre. Neal Ronaghan of Nintendo World Report lauded the game's addictive and "fun" puzzle gameplay but admitted it contained flaws due to the limitations of the Game Gear. In 1995, Mega Zone included the game in their "Top 50 Games in History". Citations Bibliography Notes Studio B Productions Studio B Productions, Inc. (sometimes known as just Studio B and later known as DHX Media Vancouver )

400-709: Is a falling block puzzle game developed by Compile and published by Sega . It was released for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive in North America and Europe in November 1993, and ported to the Game Gear in 1993 and Master System in 1994. The game is a Westernised version of Puyo Puyo (1991), and replaces its characters with those from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, primarily the Adventures of Sonic

450-690: The Sonic Mega Collection for the GameCube in 2002, Sonic Mega Collection Plus for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2004; which also contains the Game Gear version, and Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (known as Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection in Europe) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2009. In 2006, Sega released the game on the Wii 's Virtual Console . In 2010, it

500-464: The Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series by Archie Comics , remarked that Adventures was the closest to "[getting] Sonic right" despite "fail[ing] on the details", although he observed that the show's gags were "polarizing" and that the guest characters "ranged from tired tropes (Breezie) to Saturday Night Live knockoffs (Da Bears)". Pierre DeCelles, who worked on the show as a Senior Animation Director at Hong Ying animation studio, has described

550-596: The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, particularly those from the 1993 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog animated series. The game was ultimately released in November 1993 in North America and Europe. An 8-bit version was also released for the Game Gear in the same year and the Master System in the following year, adapted from the Japanese Nazo Puyo game. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine has also appeared in retrospective compilations, such as

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600-755: The 1991 video game as well as In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg and Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov . The series was shown through syndication in the United States in the fall of 1993 on either weekday afternoons or mornings, depending on the TV station. In the United Kingdom, the series was screened on Channel 4 in 1993 on Sunday mornings at 9:00, but with

650-489: The Saturday-morning Sonic TV show , such as Robotropolis and SWATbots (neither of which appear as they did in that series) and Sally Acorn. Said series had aired concurrently with the original run of "Adventures", but in a different time slot, and had stopped producing new episodes by the time "Christmas Blast" premiered. Despite this, the special maintains the humorous tone of "Adventures" rather than

700-550: The "Bohbot Entertainment Presents" logo), and the Italian Reteitalia S.p.A., part of Fininvest . The show's animation was outsourced to four animation studios: Additionally, some of the storyboards were done by the Spanish animation studio Milimetros Dibujos Animados, which also worked on the animation for the Saturday morning Sonic cartoon and the main title animation for Sonic Underground . Pre-production stages of

750-602: The "Sonic Says" segments edited out. They were also edited out on The Children's Channel and the UK VHS releases of the series. The weekday morning airings in Australia on Seven Network as part of Agro's Cartoon Connection retained the segments. The cartoon was broadcast in the Republic of Ireland on RTÉ Two from 12 September to December 1994 on weekday afternoons with the segments retained also. USA Network re-aired

800-530: The Hedgehog and Sonic Underground after Shout!'s deal with Cookie Jar Entertainment expired. Between 2008 and 2010, NCircle Entertainment released a number of single disc releases of the series, each containing 4 episodes (in random order), as well as two volumes of 4-disc collections in 2012, with each volume containing 16 episodes. Invincible Pictures re-released the complete series set on August 13, 2019 (originally scheduled for April 9, 2019 and July 16, 2019). The series along with its successors Sonic

850-750: The Hedgehog and Sonic Underground is available on the streaming services Paramount+ and Tubi , as well as the official WildBrain YouTube Channel. Under license from 41 Entertainment and Invincible Entertainment Partners, Discotek Media released the complete series on standard definition Blu-ray on February 22, 2022. The unaired pilot and the Christmas special Sonic Christmas Blast were included as bonus features, as well as commercial bumpers and commentary by storyboard artist Milton Knight. Throughout 1993–1994, Abbey Home Entertainment through their Tempo Video label released 8 VHS volumes of

900-492: The Hedgehog animated series. The Puyo Puyo character Carbuncle appears under the name "Has Bean" and makes different animations depending on how the player plays the game. The gameplay is similar to puzzle games such as Tetris , in which the player organises coloured shapes as they descend a board. The plot sees Sonic antagonist Doctor Robotnik kidnapping residents from Beanville and turning them into robots. The game received generally positive reviews, with critics praising

950-478: The Hedgehog received a mixed reception. Randy Miller III of DVDTalk said, "While it's obvious that The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog [ sic ] won't ever be mentioned in the same sentence with Disney , Pixar or Studio Ghibli (except for this one), there's enough goofy fun here to entertain any resident of the 16-bit gaming era." Michael Rubino of DVD Verdict criticized the series for being dated, contrived, and bloated with chili dog jokes. GamesRadar listed

1000-407: The Hedgehog was created by DIC Animation City (in association with Sega of America whose CEO Tom Kalinske and newly appointed consumer products director Michealene Risley licensed the characters to DIC), which produced a total of 65 episodes for its one-season, and was syndicated by Bohbot Entertainment, later known as BKN International (in the original run, every episode began and ended with

1050-523: The Hedgehog". The second volume was released on December 9, 2008, and features episodes 23–44 with the featurette "How to Draw Dr. Robotnik". The third volume was available on March 16, 2010 exclusively via Shout! Factory's website as a Shout! Select title and contains the final 21 episodes of the series, plus the "Sonic Christmas Blast" special and the featurette "How to Draw Tails". These episodes were compiled in production order instead of airdate order. All three sets were discontinued in 2012 along with Sonic

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1100-595: The Philippines, it aired on Yey! in 2020 everyday at 2:00 pm. In 1994, Buena Vista Home Video through their DIC Toon-Time Video label, released 6 VHS tapes of the series each containing 2 episodes. Shout! Factory has released all 65 episodes of the series on DVD in Region 1 in three-volume sets. The first volume, released on July 17, 2007, features the first 22 episodes along with two featurettes: "A Conversation With Artist Milton Knight " and "How to Draw Sonic

1150-590: The WildBrain name. The company was founded in 1988 by Blair Peters and Chris Bartleman. On December 4, 2007, DHX Media acquired Studio B. On September 8, 2010, the renaming of the studio after its parent company, along with DHX Media's other subsidiaries, was announced: officially, on December 22, 2010, Studio B Productions Inc. and Studio B (Animation Service) Productions Inc. were renamed DHX Media (Vancouver) Ltd. and DHX Media Studio (Vancouver) Ltd., respectively, and on January 11, 2011, Studio B Holdings Inc.

1200-501: The availability of free Puyo Puyo clones on the PC, but commended its basic mechanics , a wide range of game modes, and gradually increasing difficulty. Eurogamer 's Kristan Reed labelled the game as a "fairly unapologetic reskin" of Puyo Puyo and thought that Sega decided to "shoehorn" it into the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise in order to enhance their sales, although Reed admitted

1250-484: The bean-like creatures into robots. Putting his plan into motion, Robotnik sends out his Henchbots to gather all the bean-like creatures and group them together in dark dungeons so they can be sent to the Mean Bean-Steaming Machine. The rest of the game's story revolves around the player character , "Has Bean", and their journey to stop Robotnik's henchmen by breaking into the dungeons and freeing

1300-694: The bean-like creatures. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is based on Puyo Puyo , a Asian falling-block puzzle game . In the story, players must rescue Beanville from Dr. Robotnik and his army of Badniks. In Scenario Mode, the player plays against 13 increasingly challenging computer opponents. In the multiplayer 1P vs 2P Mode, two players battle against each other, and in Exercise Mode, players can simply practice. The Game Gear and Master System versions feature an additional mode, Puzzle Mode, in which players must attempt to clear predetermined sets of beans. On each player's grid, groups of beans fall from

1350-399: The darker one of the Saturday morning series. Note : The letters page of issue #41 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book promotes the special as "An X-Tremely Sonic Christmas" as this episode was originally going to be a tie in for Sonic X-treme on Sega Saturn . However, the game was cancelled, and the title was changed to tie in with Sonic 3D Blast instead. Adventures of Sonic

1400-463: The effects. Robotnik disguises himself as Santa Claus in order to force him into retirement and con the children out of presents during Christmas. During a visit to Robotropolis, Sonic and Tails rescue the real Santa Claus, who presents Sonic with a speed run test due to a ring Sally Acorn gave him as a gift serving as a key. After passing the test, Santa chooses Sonic to be his successor. Sonic now becomes Sonic Claus. This special includes aspects of

1450-640: The episode "Heads or Tails", early promotional material found in Fleetway's Sonic the Comic and the early issues of Sonic the Hedgehog comics by Archie, which were based on the Saturday morning Sonic cartoon. However, DIC also wanted to expand the show and produce additional episodes for weekday syndication as well, similar to what DIC has previously done with The Real Ghostbusters , but Mark Pedowitz , ABC's senior vice president of business affairs and contracts, expected Sonic to air exclusively on ABC and rejected

1500-411: The game most enjoyable when using an offensive strategy. The Game Gear version was well received. In a retrospective review, Ron DelVillano from Nintendo Life praised the game's wide variety of game modes but noted the soundtrack's lack of diversity. DelVillano also thought that the graphics had not aged well as of 2013, but accepted that games in the puzzle genre did not require prominent visuals. In

1550-413: The game's intention to encourage two-player competition, and also noted that it provided a "decent" challenge despite viewing that a single player could get bored easily. In contrast, Andrew Webster of Gamezebo criticised the high level of difficulty and the game's general accessibility due to its "ancient" password save system. Aaron Thomas of GameSpot found the game difficult to recommend due to

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1600-432: The gameplay but criticising the difficulty. The game is set on the planet Mobius, which is inhabited by bean-like creatures. Doctor Robotnik conceives a plan to bring terror to the world by kidnapping the citizens of Beanville and turning them into robot slaves, and eventually creating an army that will help him rid the planet of fun and joy. To achieve this, he creates the "Mean Bean-Steaming Machine" in order to transform

1650-514: The gameplay was solid and addictive. A reviewer from Jeuxvideo.com questioned the game's originality, saying that "stacking beans to make them disappear is not a new concept" but would still satisfy fans of the genre. Amanda Tipping from Computer and Video Games thought that the game was as addictive and as puzzling as the Tetris series, and also preferred the game's colourful visuals as opposed to Tetris . GamePro reviewer Andromeda found

1700-423: The idea, telling London "If you guys want to do syndication, be our guest, go with God, but you won't be on our network." ABC would not agree to the deal until London came up with a proposition that DIC would produce a separate, vastly different Sonic show for syndication instead, the result of which became Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog . Afterward, ABC was at first willing to air only a single half-hour episode as

1750-527: The main antagonists of the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog . All the characters come in this order: Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is a Westernised version of Puyo Puyo (1991), a Japanese falling-block puzzle game developed by Compile and released for the MSX2 in 1991. Fearing that the game would not be popular with Western audiences, Sega replaced the characters of Puyo Puyo with those from

1800-462: The original episodes of the show in the United States from 1994 to 1996 (with an additional Christmas special ordered by Sega to be produced for the Christmas season of 1996 to ride on the coattails with the release of Sonic 3D Blast ). The series later returned to syndication as part of the BKN block from 1997 to 1998, and later BKN Kids II from 1999 until 2000. Toon Disney would start broadcasting

1850-539: The series as one of "the worst things to happen to Sonic." It commented that it "made Ren & Stimpy look like a rigid, strictly story-driven opus of animation", and criticized the supporting cast as "wholly uninteresting, unfunny and just all around annoying." Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the series an overall rating of 3/5 and noted that while the show's pace is "frantic", "the series emphasizes positive themes for kids about personal safety and interpersonal relationships." Bob Mackey of USgamer wrote that

1900-560: The series each containing an assortment of episodes. PolyGram Video through their 4Front Video label would also release a VHS tape of the series in 1997. In Region 2, Delta Home Entertainment released Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Complete Series on DVD in the UK on June 11, 2007, as well as a number of single disc releases of the series, each containing 4 episodes (in production order). Adventures of Sonic

1950-457: The series in September 1998, and aired on the channel until 2002. This TV subsequently aired the first 13 episodes of the show from 2010 to 2011 on their Cookie Jar Toons block. The series was also available on Netflix , and contains 20 episodes. From December 2018-November 2020, reruns of the series began airing on Starz . Later starting on September 3, 2019, the show aired its reruns on

2000-468: The show (as well as the first season of the Saturday morning cartoon) were handled by Canadian Studio B (later known as DHX Media Vancouver). According to Robby London, DIC originally made a deal to produce only the Saturday morning Sonic series for the ABC network , which was originally planned to air in the Fall of 1992. The cartoon was to be more light-hearted compared to the final product, as reflected by

2050-813: The show aired in January 1996, on Rede Globo on the block TV Colosso . Only the first 22 of 65 episodes aired in Brazilian Portuguese, as well as the Christmas special. The show also aired in Sweden on TV3 , in Portugal on SIC , in The Netherlands on RTL4 , in Germany on Kabel 1 and RTL II and in 2000 in Arab countries on Spacetoon and Qatar Television . In September 2003, DIC revealed

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2100-475: The show as "fun and humorous". Robotnik's remark "Snooping as usual, I see" from the episode "Boogey-Mania" gave rise to the internet meme "Pingas," first featured in a 2007 YouTube poop . The quote has been widely referenced on YouTube since the late 2000s, both in videos and in music remixes. [REDACTED] Quotations related to Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog at Wikiquote Dr. Robotnik%27s Mean Bean Machine Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

2150-409: The show's attempts to emulate Looney Tunes and The Ren & Stimpy Show "were done in by the lack of quality control that typically plagued 65-episode syndicated series", and that "the zippy, timing-reliant slapstick Adventures relied on never stood a chance against the animation sweatshops DIC regularly used to pump out their nearly endless supply of televised content." Ian Flynn , writer for

2200-564: The streaming service Pluto TV for the first time. In 2024, MeTV Toons aired the Christmas special as part of the network's "Tis' the Season for Toons" event. In the UK, Pop re-aired the show with the "Sonic Says" segments restored. In Italy, the show aired on Italia 1 . In Spain, the show aired on Telecinco . The show was re-aired on in Australia on Saturday mornings on Network Ten as part of Cheez TV from 1993 to 1999, and also aired on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel . In Brazil,

2250-409: The syndicated Sonic cartoon. The two shows would be connected through Family Matters star Jaleel White portraying Sonic in both series; ABC itself was airing Family Matters during both shows' run, keeping White busy playing Sonic on two different series alongside his Family Matters role as Steve Urkel . The theme song is composed by Clark Gassman and it is a combination of the main theme from

2300-440: The top of the screen and can be moved and rotated until they reach the bottom. When four beans of the same colour are matched together, they disappear from the grid, causing any beans above to drop. These beans can trigger other matches, resulting in chain combos . By performing chain combos, players can send grey "refugee beans" to hinder their opponent. These beans cannot be matched normally and can only be removed by completing

2350-549: The ultimately cancelled Sonic X-treme ). Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a comical, light-hearted and gag-driven adventure series based on the titular character Sonic the Hedgehog , an arrogant and mischievous yet kind-hearted teenage hedgehog with the power to move at supersonic speeds . Sonic, along with his idolizing young friend Tails , regularly oppose the main antagonist Dr. Robotnik , his robot henchmen Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts, and thwart their plans to conquer their home planet of Mobius. The series features

2400-550: The various aspects of gameplay, although the puzzle genre's difficulty and overuse were negative factors. Andy Dyer from Mega acknowledged that the game had a simple concept and also observed that it did not provide enough of a challenge. Lucas Thomas of IGN enjoyed the game's array of puzzles and recognised that its design was intended to encourage two-player competition. Reviewing the Mega Drive version, Damien McFerran of Nintendo Life similarly echoed Thomas' opinion of

2450-529: Was a Canadian animation studio and production company founded by Blair Peters and Chris Bartleman in Vancouver , British Columbia in 1988. The studio was acquired by DHX Media on December 4, 2007, and became a subsidiary there since then. The Studio B brand is permanently discontinued, and from 2010 to 2019, all shows were branded using the DHX Media name. Since 2019, all shows are now branded under

2500-555: Was released on Microsoft Windows via Steam . In June 2013, the Game Gear version was released for the Nintendo 3DS via its Virtual Console emulation service. In 2021, it was released on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack . Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine received generally positive reviews. It holds an average score of 7.8/10 at Metacritic , based on an aggregate of 13 reviews. Critics praised

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