Sonic Team specifically designed Nights as an androgynous character ; Takashi Iizuka commented, " Impressions of the character with regards to gender are totally up to the player.

In 2011, Sega announced the development of Sonic Generations, a 2D / 3D platformer that would blend classic levels from the original series up to the modern generation.

" Aceinet of GameZone, while praising the compilation overall as " a nearly complete package of classic Sonic games ," was critical of the emulation of the Game Gear games, saying that " while the emulation is spot-on for the games, having to put up with a black bar around the screen could be upsetting to some.

" Game Informer suggested that " if you grew up with these games, they're still a joy to play ," and that " new converts to the Sonic fold will get a great introduction to the ' hog's history.

The band commenced their eight-date tour in late July in Jisan, South Korea and finished up at the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo, Japan on 14 August 2011.

Adventure Fields split up the action, where players can explore the surroundings to advance the plot, discover new levels or search for items which enhance a character's ability ( for example, the Light Speed Shoes allow Sonic to run across a path of rings ).

Sonic joins up with his friends Tails and Knuckles, who give him a message from Dr. Eggman stating that he has developed his ultimate weapon of destruction and will take over the world in three days, and Team Sonic is formed and the classic trio heads off to stop Eggman's latest plan.

Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, and Big the Cat team up to find Cream's Chao Chocola, Big's Froggy, and Sonic after seeing a newspaper article of Sonic holding both Froggy and Chocola.

Shadow and Omega pick up the body of Metal Sonic, and in the end, Team Sonic goes off on their next adventure.

The group first attempted to record in Sonic Youth's lower Manhattan studio, which Godrich took a dislike to as it was within ear-shot of several practice spaces, and also set up more like a home studio.

Though the band had various indy influences, with bands like Sonic Youth and Big Black, the album ended up having a Metallica influenced proto-grunge sound.

He catches up with Sonic and Knuckles after they make their way to the core.

In the process they would ruin a dairy farmer's milk supply, wreak havoc at a local Sonic Drive-In and take advantage of an employer's credit card, ultimately getting fired from every job they took up.

The Sega Saturn port of the game was used as a last resort and back up plan to release a Sonic game for Christmas 1996 after the cancellation of Sonic X-treme.

In addition to the original Sega Mega Drive / Genesis version, Sonic 3D was also available for the Sega Saturn to make up for the cancellation of Sonic X-treme, which was intended to be Saturn's big game for the 1996 holiday season.

Had this game been more action oriented, with more enemies and much faster gameplay, it would have truly lived up to the Sonic name " Entertainment Weekly was harder on the Saturn version of the game than the Genesis version, claiming that " while 3D Blast is super by 16-bit standards, it falls flat on Saturn, where 32-bit games with far more sophisticated 3-D graphics and gameplay are the norm.

Meanwhile, Knuckles has the ability to glide downward through the air, climb up most walls, and break through certain barriers, occasionally allowing him to access areas Sonic cannot ; Knuckles ' limited jumping ability renders him unable to access certain areas that Sonic can.

In Sonic the Hedgehog's side of the story picks up immediately after the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

( who regularly covered " Academy Fight Song " on their Green tour ), Sonic Youth, Drive Like Jehu, Throwing Muses, Yo La Tengo, Fugazi, Pixies, Sugar, Guided by Voices, Catherine Wheel, Graham Coxon, Pegboy and Moby-the last four of which have covered Conley's " That's When I Reach for My Revolver ".

Lance Bangs ( born September 8, 1972 ) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R. E. M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Odd Future, and Pavement.

After collecting all 180 Emblems the player unlocks the 3D Green Hill level, a remake of Green Hill Zone from the original Sonic the Hedgehog game.

He was replaced by Ryan Drummond in Sonic Shuffle, and later on by Scott Dreier, until he got replaced by Dan Green ( who did the voice of Knuckles in the English dub of Sonic X ), and then Travis Willingham.

In April 2004, Sonic Youth played a show at John Green Hall on the Smith College campus in Northampton MA with J Mascis and Sebadoh as the opening acts and the anticipation was that the two would reunite for a few Dinosaur Jr. songs.

* 2000-The Cure, Green Day, Lou Reed, The Living End, Millencollin, No Doubt, 28 Days, Boss Hogg, The Dandy Warhols, Regurgitator, Grinspoon, Royal Crown Revue, Muse, Not From There, Yo La Tengo, Magic Dirt, Mark Jenagan, Feeder, Rocket Science, George, The Anyones, Motor Ace, Bart Willoughby, Testeagles, Unwritten Law, Bodyjar, Guttermouth, No Fun at All, Sunk Loto, The Hippos, Rollerball, David Bridie, Salmonella Dub, Merrick & Rosso, Augie March, Speedstar, Four Horse Town, Jungle Brothers, Sonic Animation

The line-up included The Chemical Brothers, 2 Many DJ's, Basement Jaxx, The Dandy Warhols, Badly Drawn Boy, Green Day, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Mercury Rev, No Doubt, Damien Rice, Mogwai, The Redneck Manifesto, The Frames, Lemon Jelly, Massive Attack, The Polyphonic Spree, The Coral, Primal Scream, Nina Hynes, Jimmy Eat World, The Hives, The Devlins, Turn, The Libertines, Hoobastank, Spiritualized, The Jimmy Cake, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Gemma Hayes, Idlewild, Ian Brown, Rival Schools, Cooper Temple Clause, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Beta Band, Leaves, Starsailor and David Kitt.

# REDIRECT Sonic the Hedgehog ( 1991 video game )# Green Hill Zone

*" Green Light ," a song by Sonic Youth, off their 1986 album Evol

* Sonic Labyrinth at Green Hill Zone

* Ep 525 ( 2006-05-21 ) 30 Years of Punk, Part 5 ( 1987 – 1995 )-featuring: Green Day & Hüsker Dü & Sonic Youth & Pixies & Nirvana & Pearl Jam & The Offspring & Rancid

NonLoc, Pat Orchard, ST37, Stone Breath, The Iditarod, Hopewell, The Essex Green, Charalambides, Major Stars, Windy and Carl, Ghost, Ethereal Counterbalance, Greg Weeks, The Lucky Bishops, Paik, Six Organs of Admittance, Dipsomaniacs, Landing, Motorpsycho, Surface of Eceon, Damon and Naomi, Tom Rapp, The Hushdrops, The Alchemysts, Lilys, Barbara Manning & the Go-Luckys !, The Sunshine Fix, The Lothars, Sonic Youth, Delicate AWOL, The Bevis Frond, Lockgroove, Bardo Pond, Kinski, The Spacious Mind, Subarachnoid Space, Acid Mothers Temple

* Green Hill Zone, a level in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game

Notable acts that have performed at previous editions include Sonic Youth, The Mission, Ramones, Nirvana, The Sisters of Mercy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Metallica, Green Day, Blink 182, Guns N ' Roses, Anti-Flag, Pixies, Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails and Iron Maiden.

Significant grunge bands signed to the label were Green River ( half of the members from this band would later become founding members of Pearl Jam ), Sonic Youth ( although not a grunge band they were influential on grunge bands and in fact it was upon the insistence of Kim Gordon that the David Geffen Company signed Nirvana ) and Nirvana.

The music for Green Hills Zone was later used as the theme song for the Japanese and European versions of Sonic the Hedgehog CD, where it is called " Sonic: You Can Do Anything ".

A remix of the tune is also used for Mecha Green Hill Zone in Sonic Chaos.

Some sympatico bands The Coachmen were billed with were: The Green Scene, Paul McMahon's A Band, Phoebe Legere's Monad, Harry Toledo, as well as the Fluks, a band that included guitarist Lee Ranaldo who would wind up in Sonic Youth with Moore.

* Sega's Sonic Team transforms King Arthur into " The Black Knight " as a result of corruption from his immortality inducing scabbard of Excalibur given by the Lady of the Lake in the Arthurian influenced Sonic and the Black Knight.

( found on the vintage and Japanese reissue models ) Finish colours include: Fiesta Red, Sonic Blue, and Dark Lake Placid Blue with Competition Stripe.

The 2012 Fender Mustang ( Kurt Cobain Artist Edition ) comes in Fiesta Red, Sonic Blue and Dark Lake Placid Blue with competition stripes.

The newly established Sonic Team USA was so influenced by their new San Francisco location, that the level designers of the game, Takashi Iizuka and Eitaro Toyoda, designed some of the levels, such as the City Escape, Mission Street, Radical Highway, Route 101, and Route 280 levels as references to major San Francisco locations.

International brands dominant in North America include Wendy's, the number three burger chain in the USA ; Dunkin ' Donuts, a New England based chain ; automobile oriented Sonic Drive-In's from Oklahoma City ; Starbucks, Seattle-born coffee-based fast food beverage corporation ; KFC, a part of the largest restaurant conglomerate in the world, Yum!

Early on in the film, Sonic and Tails are seen traveling through what appears to be the ruins of New York City.

Sonic Drive-In is an American drive-in fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

An old Sonic Drive-In menu at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.

The next year, Sonic moved its offices to leased space at 120 Robert S. Kerr Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City and began to assume a higher profile in the community.

The concert, which took place on March 27 at Columbia University in New York City, also included Yoko Ono, John Zorn, Sonic Youth and Mike Patton.

When Sonic returns to New Mobotropolis, he is given a new mission: to rendeveous with the Freedom Fighter group in Sand Blast City.

Site of Omiya Sonic City College

* Omiya Sonic City College ( accessed from Ōmiya Station )

Sonic and Tails navigate through woodland area and reach the post-apocalyptic ruins of what appears to be New York City ( Though It Maybe San Francisico due to one scene where there appeared to be the Golden-Gate Bridge ).

In 2009, McDonald directed three short films for the cross-platform project City Sonic.

The Rocket Summer has toured the US, Canada, the UK, France and Japan, and has played at festivals such as Glastonbury Festival, Summer Sonic Festival, Austin City Limits, SXSW, The Bamboozle, and the 2007 and 2010 Vans Warped Tour.

Knoxville Girls was a short-lived New York City alternative rock supergroup that contained: Bob Bert ( of Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore ), on drums, Jerry Teel ( of Boss Hog and Little Porkchop ) on vocals, guitars ; Kid Congo Powers ( of The Gun Club and The Cramps ) on guitar and vocals ; Jack Martin ( of Little Porkchop and Blackstrap Molasses Family ) on guitar ; and Barry London ( of Stab City ) on organ.

Following the self released 7 " Feel Good About Your Body, they added guitarist Neil Hagerty, and replaced Hammill with former Sonic Youth drummer Bob Bert after the band moved to New York City.

In April 2010 they curated the Belgian music festival Sonic City, inviting a wide variety of European musicians including The Go!

* Central City ( Sonic the Hedgehog ), a capital in the Sonic the Hedgehog videogame series

Sonic Youth performed the song together with Bowie at his 50th Birthday Bash in New York City in January 1997.

* Sonic Youth ( from New York City, New York )

Highly influential Australian guitarist Rowland S. Howard's near continuous use of his Fender Jaguar's Floating Tremolo system coupled with volume and overdrive / fuzz effects to create sustained shrieks, expressive bursts of noise, extreme sound effects, and washes of warped pitch bending, feedback and distortion in bands including The Birthday Party, Crime and the City Solution, and These Immortal Souls proved to influence bands from Sonic Youth to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Nights has appeared in numerous other games besides the series, including Sonic Adventure ( in the Casinopolis level ), Sonic Adventure 2 ( in the City Escape and Radical Highway levels ), Shadow the Hedgehog ( in Lethal highway, the title screen appears in a billboard without any text ), and also in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, the player can raise a Chao that resembles Nights.