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The Essential 50 Part 28 -- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom)

Sam, Kennedy,. 2011. “The Essential 50 Part 28 -- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom).” 1UP.com, The Essential 50. 1UP.com (archived).

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Undated feature; the date is the Wayback capture. Says Sonic shipped on 23 June 1991, names Sega's AM8 division (later Sonic Team), and says "Blast Processing" was a Sonic 2-era buzzword. Its "15-man group" conflicts with other team-size accounts and is not used here.

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