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Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is an LCD game created by Tiger Electronics in 1994. It was available in the Tiger's second generation casing and also as a Pocket Arcade version. The game features a standard direction…

31 December 1994

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is an arcade developed by Tiger Electronics, released 31 December 1994 on Handheld Electronic LCD.

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What Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is an arcade game developed by Tiger Electronics and released in 1994. It was published by Hasbro. It is available on Handheld Electronic LCD only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is an LCD game created by Tiger Electronics in 1994. It was available in the Tiger's second generation casing and also as a Pocket Arcade version. The game features a standard direction pad and 3 buttons, "Tails", "pick", and "spin". Both consoles also contain four function buttons to turn off the system, toggle sound effects, pause the game, and turn on the console and start the game. The standard version requires two AA batteries to operate. The background of the game is a rendering of the Blue Sphere, with the floor of Hydrocity Zone. When the game starts, the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 title screen theme is heard. The level theme is the Angel Island Zone theme.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the 35th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball in 1994.

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What it launched against

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Battle Arena Toshinden.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Battle Arena Toshinden.

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When did Sonic the Hedgehog 3 come out?
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released on 31 December 1994 for Handheld Electronic LCD.

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