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What makes Sonic The Hedgehog truly beautiful? The answer is simpler than you think.

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Sources:
https://www.mark-rothko.org/blue-green-and-brown.jsp
The Mega Drive Book (Retro Gamer Magazine) 2013
Sonic: Birth Of An Icon (Documentary) 2011
Console Wars by Blake J. Harris
The Sega Arcade Revolution by Ken Horowitz
The History Of Sonic The Hedgehog by Marc Pétronille and William Audureau
Game Informer Magazine (Issue 124 / August 2003)
https://www.giantbomb.com/blast-processing/3015-963/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-blast-processing-retro-analysis
https://connect.unity.com/p/momentum-in-sonic-games
http://www.soniczone0.com/
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog
https://thesonicsecond.tumblr.com/post/106284103155/sonic-the-hedgehog-storyboards-by-naoto-ohshima
https://www.sonicstadium.org/2014/11/sonic-the-hedgehog-1%E2%80%B2s-original-intro-ending-revealed-3/
http://xbox.gamespy.com/articles/654/654750p5.html
https://tcrf.net/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(Genesis)
https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/sonic-the-hedgehog-the-incredible-secrets-left-on-the-cutting-room-floor/
https://info.sonicretro.org/

Videos:
GDC: Classic Game Postmortem: Sonic the Hedgehog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYO1ZmRuZ_U
Game Masters: Yuji Naka & The Sonic Team Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHkosWFNRko
SGDQ 2013 Speed Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnQBfvmf0E
DF Retro Extra: Sega's Blast Processing Was Real - But What Did It Actually Do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvvL6S5Buiw
Hirokazu Yasuhara - How to make a game "fun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-3avMBqJ9s
Sonic the Hedgehog - GameTap Retrospective (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ij_RcEzcI
Dot Dot Dot by Ricepirate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2Z23SAFVA

Music used:
Luigi Boccherini - Minuet String Quintet
Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing - Alex Kidd [All-Star Theme]
Knuckles Chaotix - Tachy Touch
Ristar - Planet Flora
SegaSonic the Hedgehog - Trap Tower
Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Stage 1 Music
Sega Pirate TV - Cyber Razor Cut
Mii Channel Theme
Chill2Chill - Saxual Eargasm
Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone Act 2
Sonic Boom Theme
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Metropolis Zone
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 - End Credits
Sonic The Hedgehog - End Theme
Madboss - Freedom Is A Step Away
ELPHNT - A Great Darkness Approaches Can You Feel It