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The direct date the Soviet union collapsed was December 26, 1991. Sonic the hedgehog came out on June 23, 1991.
This is five months apart. Now, if you know most sonic power ups, there is the five-ring bonus. Although the five ring bonus wasn't in the original game, this might have been a hint no one saw. The first time the five ring bonus was in Sonic R, that came out in 1997. Sonic R came out on November 18, 1997. Six years after the original Sonic game and five years after the Soviet union collapsed.
Why does the number five keep coming up? well, in 1928, the Soviet government began the "five year plans." This plan was made to make all Soviet countries industrialized. This plan ended with the soviet union, in 1991.
We all know that Eggman, Sonic's main enemy, wants to make Mobius more industrialized. As seen in Sonic underground particularly. I believe that the reason why Sega, especially the Genesis, the first ever Sega console, and the first console a Sonic game was released on, got so popular in post-soviet countries, is because of Sonic. (Also, due to the economical state of those countries.)
We also know that Sonic hates oppression of any group of people. (No matter race, disability, sexuality, etc...)
The Soviet union was supposed to make a "perfect" society. So, naturally, they hid and abused people of color, and people with disabilities.
(I WANNA BE CLEAR I MADE THIS AS A JOKE...)
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Zigzag Buster πΊπ¦
Haha! Good one.
Dandy Leon (ε½εΈη )
Speaking of Sega and the Soviets, in 1991, they made a Game Gear game where you play as Mikhail Gorbachev and go into the factories to fix them and end the shortages. When they brought it over to the USA, they changed him into a blond teenage boy and removed all the political stuff. "Ganbare, Gorby!" Check it out.
Itβs interesting how the video game industry as we know it is a post-Soviet media industry.
by Zigzag Buster πΊπ¦; ; Report
Also an interactive history log too. There are at least four Daisenryaku games from circa 1990, give or take a few years, that depict the arsenals of both sides of the Cold War. That's how I learned about all the Soviet bloc weapons, lol.
by Dandy Leon (ε½εΈη ); ; Report
β¦ Trixie β¦
wuh huh