Here is how to play the Sonic games in release date order: Most of the games above can be found on modern platforms, too, ...

The Master System and Game Gear versions of Sonic 1 had hewn fairly close to the Genesis standard, but Sonic 2 on Sega's 8-bit systems bore little comparison to the 16-bit title of the same name.

It featured a library of games developed for the Game Gear and direct ports of Sega Master System games, such as Sonic the ...