is a game developed by Aspect Co., Ltd for the Sega Pico

Sega Pico

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. It was released in Japan

Japan

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 in August 1994. The game was not released in North America

North America

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 until November 1996 and was never released in Europe.

It is a party game

Party game

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 featuring Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog (character)

, trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, is a video game character and the main protagonist of the Sonic video game series released by Sega, as well as in numerous spin-off comics, cartoons, and a feature film. The first game was released on June 23, 1991, to provide Sega with a mascot to rival Nintendo's...

, Miles Tails Prower, Amy Rose

Amy Rose

, known earlier as Rosy the Rascal, is a video game character who appears in most of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games developed by Sega's Sonic Team, debuting in Sonic CD as the third recurring protagonist. Amy Rose was created by Kazuyuki Hoshino and based on one of Kenji Terada's...

, and Dr. Robotnik/Dr. Eggman, and features many different mini-games. Compared to the Japanese version, games featuring gambling

Gambling

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, fortune-telling

Fortune-telling

Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination...

, fantasy violence

Violence

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, rock-paper-scissors

Rock-paper-scissors

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, and other uneducational elements were omitted from the North American version. This means that the entire third floor (page) from the Japanese version is eliminated and the remaining games are in different locations than in the Japanese version. The North American version replaces the pilfered non-educational content with a drawing page for young players to create their own designs. The game's plot is about when Dr. Robotnik has hidden a Chaos Emerald on each floor of the Gameworld, an amusement park-like tower. Sonic, Tails and Amy must beat all the minigames on each level and find the Emeralds.

First page

This page has a sports setting. The mini games are Car Race, Sonic-Ball, Hoops

Basketball

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, and Tree Climb

Tree climbing

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.

Second page

This page has a carnival setting. The mini games are Flag

Flag

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, Toy Drop, and Robotnik Bop. The Japanese version has an extra mini game called Uranai

Fortune-telling

Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination...

 (うらない).

Third page

This page has a machinery setting. The mini games are Egg Switch, Concentration

Concentration (game)

Concentration, also known as Memory, Pelmanism, Shinkei-suijaku, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards...

, and Sonic VS Robotnik. In the Japanese version, this page is the fourth page and replaces "Concentration" with the mini game called Jaken Game (ジャンケンゲーム). Also in the Japanese version, this page is a casino setting. The mini games are Slot Machine

Slot machine

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, Roulette Game, Shinkei-suijaku, Poker Game

Poker

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, and Bakudan Nuki a variation of the Victorian card game Old Maid.

Fourth page

This page takes place on the roof of the Gameworld. The only mini game is Diamond Maze. In the Japanese version, this page is the fifth page.

Fifth page

This page is for coloring Sonic and his friends or drawing pictures using the magic pen. The Japanese version doesn't have this page.