Sonic Drift

Sonic Drift
The cover for Sonic Drift
Developer(s)	Sega
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Katsuhiro Hasegawa
Producer(s)	Hiroshi Aso
Composer(s)	Masayuki Nagao
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog
Platform(s)	Sega Game Gear
Genre(s)	Kart racing
Mode(s)	Single-player

The Sonic Drift games were a series of two racing games that featured characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. They were released for the Sega Game Gear in 1994 and 1995 respectively, and later re-released many years later in several other compilations.

Sonic Drift

Sonic Drift (セガ ソニックドリフト) is a kart racing video game released in Japan only for the Sega Game Gear on March 18, 1994. It features Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Amy Rose, and Doctor Eggman. Players race around a track collecting rings and power-ups. The invincible theme of Sonic Drift is based on "Sonic - You Can Do Anything", the Japanese opening song from Sonic CD; in Sonic Drift 2, the invincible theme is from Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Sonic Drift establishes a few characteristics for Amy Rose, who had her first appearance as a playable character in this game. The car she races in returns with her in future racing games Sonic R and Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing. The instruction manual also features a picture of Amy holding an umbrella that she will later have use of in gameplay in Sonic the Fighters.

Sonic Drift 2

Main article: Sonic Drift 2

Reception

Reception for Sonic Drift 2 have been mixed to negative. On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 19 out of 40. GameSpot described the game as "basically unplayable because of poor handling and a really short horizon". Many critics label the games as Mario Kart clones.

Re-releases

The games have been re-released on a number of different compilations. Sonic Mega Collection Plus, and Sonic Gems Collection, both released on the Xbox and PlayStation 2, and then later released on the GameCube as well. They were also both included as an unlockable extra in the GameCube port of Sonic Adventure.

Sonic Drift 2 was re-released as a downloadable game for the Nintendo 3DS eShop service on November 14, 2012 in Japan.

See also

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• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

External links

• Sonic Drift series at MobyGames