Following a successful fan campaign by nightsintodreams. com, Nights was integrated into Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as the flagman, and Nights and Reala appear as playable characters in Sega Superstars Tennis.

In 2002, Sonic Team USA ported Sonic Adventure 2 to the Nintendo GameCube, the first home console Sonic title to appear on a major non-SEGA system following the cancellation of the Dreamcast.

In the summer of 2004, it was announced that The Flaming Lips would appear among the headliners on the 2004 Lollapalooza tour, alongside such artists as Sonic Youth and Morrissey ; however, the tour was canceled because of lack of revenue.

It is, however, missing six Sonic Game Gear games that were included ( along with the six included in this collection ) in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, but they would later appear in Sonic Gems Collection.

Marking the introduction of the character Sonic the Hedgehog to the 2008 Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Chao and other characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series appear as collectible trophies and stickers.

Whenever he does appear, he usually attempts to go after Sonic on his own and make sure that Scratch and Grounder do not beat him to the punch, though he will occasionally join forces with them.

The rest of the Chaotix members, with the exception of Mighty, would later appear in Sonic Heroes, Shadow The Hedgehog, and in Sonic Rivals, its sequel, and Sonic Generations.

A course named " OutRun Bay " will appear in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, which is based on this series.

Amigo is set to appear in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, where his vehicle bears resemblance to a train.

This is also one of the very few Sonic the Hedgehog series games in which Sonic does not appear at all.

* The machines also appear in the Dreamcast game Shenmue, in which the main character Ryo Hazuki could spend yen to collect various figurines, including series of characters from the Virtua Fighter and Sonic the Hedgehog series of games as well as those of other known and lesser known Sega franchises ( i. e. Fantasy Zone, Space Harrier, Hang-On etc.

Beat and Gum are set to appear in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, but will retain his design from the original game ; a stage based on Jet Set Radio is included as well.

Some characters from other games appear in certain eggs, such as Sonic the Hedgehog or Nights.

Both characters went on to appear in other games in the Sonic series.

Bark and Bean appear in the game roughly the same size as the human characters, when Sonic characters are usually depicted as much shorter than Humans, just over half their size

Robo and Mobo later appear as playable characters in Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing.

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.

In the 1980s and 1990s, The Urinals, Manic Street Preachers, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and R. E. M., expressed a fondness for the group.

Footage was restored in the 1980s by local judge Eric Sonic and copies made for area residents.

As many of the bands on the label sought to expand beyond the limitations of the hardcore genre, SST released many key albums that were instrumental in the development of American alternative rock, including releases by the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, the Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. After a peak release schedule in the late 1980s, SST began venturing into jazz releases.

His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians ( many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era ), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees.

In addition, Pettibon has designed the cover of the 1991 Sonic Youth album, " Goo "; bassist Kim Gordon had been a longtime admirer of Pettibon's art and written about him for Artforum in the 1980s.

While Link Wray was the pioneer of guitar distortion, Allan pushed it to a new level, distorting his signal so much as to give his guitar tone a buzzing, grinding quality: “ fuzzy .” Guitar sounds along similar lines would become a staple of 1970s rock and Allan's penchant for extreme, heavy, noisy guitar work displayed on tracks like “ Devil's Rumble ,” “ Cycle-Delic ” and “ King Fuzz ” presaged 1980s acts like Sonic Youth.

The Sacrilege remix album features remixes of Can tracks by artists who were influenced by Can, including Sonic Youth and U. N. K. L. E .. Their ethnomusicological tendencies pre-date the craze for world music in the 1980s.

Sonic joined BSY after the disintegration of seminal Orangeburg, South Carolina punk band Red Menace, which had blazed trails of its own in the early 1980s.

By the late 1980s, the American alternative scene was dominated by styles ranging from quirky alternative pop ( They Might Be Giants and Camper Van Beethoven ), to noise rock ( Sonic Youth, Big Black ) to industrial rock ( Ministry, Nine Inch Nails ).

The top mainstream American Alternative Rock bands of 1980s included Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, R. E. M., The Pixies, and Sonic Youth which were popular long before the Grunge movement of the early 1990s.

For a time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, after-school cartoons were hosted by the costumed Sonic Man space alien character, played by Larry Sprinkle, who has been a staple in Charlotte radio and television, including a weatherman for WRET / WPCQ / WCNC since the 1980s.

Pan Sonic cite their main influences from the early 1980s, with industrial acts like Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten and Suicide to reggae, hip-hop and dub.

In the 1980s Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth and other experimental art rockers also utilized prepared guitars.

Important bands of the 1980s alternative movement in the US included R. E. M., Hüsker Dü, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth and the Pixies.

Screaming Fields of Sonic Love is a compilation album of songs culled from Sonic Youth's various releases from the 1980s.

The release of this compilation coincided with the release of a music video collection of the same name, featuring all of Sonic Youth's music videos from the 1980s.

Lineup: John Butler Trio, Grinspoon, Stereo MC's, Xavier Rudd, Scribe, The Datsuns, Cog, Butterfingers, DJ Format, The Butterfly Effect, The Herd, Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set, Sonic Animation, The Panics, Epicure, Airbourne, The Flairz, MO Black, The Morning Birds, Willow, Seven, The Restless, Custom Kings, Muph & Plutonic, British India, Ben Quin, Love Outside Andromeda, Trial Kennedy, Bodyjar, Art of Fighting, Gyroscope, Finkel has Fallen, Irix, Daytime, CWQ, N ' FA ( 1200 Techniques ) MC Trey & Maya Jupiter, Kid Confucius, Treva Whateva, Andy Smith, Tom Middleton, Bent DJ's, DJ Charlie Love, Lui, Daybreak Giants, MO Black, Cannon, Emdee, Gersey, Matt McLean vs Soren, Hermitude, Evil Nine, Spikey Tee, DJ Hype & MC Daddy Earl, Deep Child

( the sound is actually taken from Sonic the Fighters ; the noise is heard after the end credits as Eggman is seen hovering in his ship, Metal Sonic by his side-it's SE No. 30 on the game's sound test in Sonic Gems Collection ) He plays like a Fighting Vipers character and is unlocked by defeating the ' Dirty Fighters ' section.

Fighting Vipers has a direct link with Sega's famous blue mascot Sonic the Hedgehog via the less known Sonic title Sonic the Fighters ( a. k. a. Sonic Championship ).

The story behind Sonic the Fighters is that a bored Sega-AM2 programmer working on Fighting Vipers decided to put in Sonic the Hedgehog in the game for amusement ( through hacking both Sonic and Tails are playable ).

Sonic the Fighters plays very similar to Fighting Vipers, minus the armor feature and with the addition of the depleting Barrier System ( limiting how much you may block an opponent's attacks ).

An early screenshot even shows the game using the character select screen of Fighting Vipers ( or possibly Tails and Sonic in Fighting Vipers ).

* In 1998, a mini-comic given away for Halloween entitled Archie & Friends: A Halloween Tale was released and featured a short story called A Festival of Fantasy that included appearances by Sonic, Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik.

Two examples of this include the Chocobo World minigame inside Final Fantasy VIII ( which is also playable on PC ), and ' Chao Adventure ', a minigame in Sonic Adventure.

* One of the downloadable contents for Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast using its own Internet homepage was a new Kart Racing track named Fantasy Zone, a nod to the series.

* In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity 80's Blvd course a Fantasy Zone character appears on the first jump and gives out rings.

As a result, NEC's ads dominated the pages of TurboPlay, although one could also find ads for mail-order companies and a small roster of third-party publishers: Tengen ( KLAX ), Radiance Software ( Sidearms ), IGS ( Sonic Spike, CyberCore, Sinistron, Tricky Kick ), and Working Designs ( Cadash, Parasol Stars, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Exile, Exile 2, Vasteel ).

* 1980: Sonic Text Contemporary, Original Jazz Classics, Fantasy 1993 ( with Freddie Hubbard, George Cables, Tony Dumas, Peter Erskine )