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Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic 3D Blast, aka Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island, is a 1996 isometric platform game by Traveller's Tales for Sega Genesis and Saturn, with Flicky-collecting gameplay and a 2017 director's cut.
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure (ソニックアドベンチャー) is Sonic Team's 1998–99 Dreamcast 3D platformer, the series' first full 3D entry and best-selling Dreamcast game at 2.5 million copies, with six interlocking character campaigns and the Chao Garden.
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast, June 23, 2001), also known as Sonic Adventure 2: Battle on GameCube, is Sonic Team's hero-versus-dark 3D action game with Shadow, Rouge, three gameplay styles, and the VMU-linked Chao Garden.
Sonic anemometer
A sonic anemometer measures wind speed and direction from the travel-time difference of ultrasonic pulses between transducers, with no moving parts, and is the standard sensor for turbulence and eddy-covariance measurements.
Sonic black hole
A sonic black hole, also called a dumb hole, is a laboratory system where fluid flows faster than sound, trapping sound like a black hole traps light.
Sonic boom
A sonic boom, also called a sonic crack, is the thunder-like sound produced when an aircraft flying faster than sound sends shock waves to the ground.
Sonic Boom (TV series)
Sonic Boom (Sonic Toon, ソニックトゥーン, in Japan) is a 2014-2017 CGI comedy series co-produced by Sega of America and OuiDO! Productions, aired on Cartoon Network, Canal J and Gulli; two 52-episode seasons showrun by Evan Baily and Bill Freiberger.
Sonic Boom of the South
The Sonic Boom of the South is the 300-member show-style marching band of Jackson State University in Mississippi, which has performed at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show and the Rose Parade.
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is a 2014 Wii U action-adventure game developed by Big Red Button and published by Sega, part of the Sonic Boom spin-off series tied to the animated show.
Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal is a 2014 Nintendo 3DS 2.5D platformer by Sanzaru Games and Sega, part of the Sonic Boom franchise alongside Rise of Lyric. It features the Enerbeam gadget, playable Sticks, exploration-focused levels, and Metacritic "generally unfavorable" reviews.
Sonic CD
Sonic CD (ソニックCD) is a 1993 Sega CD platform game with time travel between past, present, and future stages, debuting Amy Rose and Metal Sonic; remastered in 2011 by Christian Whitehead and now in Sonic Origins.
Sonic Colors
Sonic Colors (ソニックカラーズ) is a 2010 Sonic the Hedgehog platformer for Wii and DS set in Dr. Eggman's interstellar amusement park, where Wisps grant Color Powers; remastered as Sonic Colors: Ultimate in 2021.
Sonic Death
Sonic Death (Соник Дэт) is a Russian garage rock band founded in Saint Petersburg in 2011 by Arseniy Morozov, known for its 2013 album Home Punk.
Sonic Dream Team
Sonic Dream Team (ソニックドリームチーム) is a 3D Sonic platformer by Sega Hardlight, released December 5, 2023 as an Apple Arcade exclusive, with six playable characters, four zones, and a dream-world story against Eggman.
Sonic Dreams Collection
Sonic Dreams Collection: 2015 free compilation of four parodic Sonic minigames (Make My Sonic, Eggman Origin, Sonic Movie Maker, My Roommate Sonic) by Arcane Kids, framed as leaked Dreamcast prototypes from MJSTUDIO.
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In is an American fast-food chain founded by Troy Smith in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1953, operating the largest chain of drive-in restaurants in the United States.
Sonic Forces
Sonic Forces is a 2017 Sonic Team/SEGA platformer for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, with Modern Sonic, Classic Sonic, and a customizable Avatar using Wispons against Eggman and Infinite; critics gave mixed reviews.
Sonic Frontiers
Sonic Frontiers (ソニックフロンティア) is Sonic Team's 2022 Sega action-adventure, the first open-zone Sonic game, set on the five Starfall Islands with Cyberspace stages, Sage, 3.2M+ sales, and Metacritic 70.
Sonic Generations
Sonic Generations (ソニック ジェネレーションズ) is Sega's 2011 20th-anniversary Sonic platformer for PS3, Xbox 360, PC, and 3DS, starring Classic and Modern Sonic; remastered in 2024's Sonic X Shadow Generations.
Sonic hedgehog protein
Sonic hedgehog protein (SHH, Shh) is a secreted vertebrate morphogen, homolog of Drosophila Hedgehog, named in 1993 after the Sega game; it patterns neural tube and limbs via PTCH1-SMO-GLI signaling and is implicated in holoprosencephaly and medulloblastoma.
Sonic Heroes
Sonic Heroes (ソニックヒーローズ) is a 2003 Sega 3D platformer by Sonic Team USA, directed by Takashi Iizuka, with 12 characters in four three-member teams and speed/fly/power formations; Metacritic 72 (GameCube).
Sonic Highways
Sonic Highways is Foo Fighters' eighth studio album (RCA, November 10, 2014) and an eight-part HBO documentary series; eight songs were recorded in eight US cities with guests like Zac Brown and Joe Walsh, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200.
Sonic logging
Sonic logging is a borehole geophysical method that measures the interval transit time of acoustic waves through the rock around a well, used to estimate porosity and elastic moduli.
Sonic Lost World
Sonic Lost World is a 2013 3D platformer by Sonic Team, exclusive to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (later PC), featuring parkour moves, Color Powers, and the Deadly Six villains; Metascore 63 on Wii U.
Sonic Mania
Sonic Mania (ソニックマニア) is a 2017 2D Sonic the Hedgehog platformer by Christian Whitehead, Headcannon, and PagodaWest Games with Sonic Team, published by Sega; expanded as Sonic Mania Plus in 2018.
Sonic Prime
Sonic Prime is a 3D computer-animated television series based on Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, produced by Sega, WildBrain, and Marza Animation Planet for Netflix from 2022 to 2024.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is a 2025 kart racer by Sonic Team and Sega, released September 25, 2025. Its Travel Ring portals shift races into 15 CrossWorld courses, and a six-slot Gadget Plate customizes vehicles; it sold over 1 million units by October 2025.
Sonic Robo Blast 2
Sonic Robo Blast 2 (SRB2) is a free 3D Sonic the Hedgehog fangame by Sonic Team Junior, built on a modified Doom Legacy Doom engine, in development since 1998, open source under GPL-2.0, with co-op and deathmatch multiplayer and a large modding scene.
Sonic Rumble Party
Sonic Rumble Party (ソニックランブル), formerly Sonic Rumble, is SEGA and Rovio's free-to-play 32-player party royale in Dr. Eggman's toy world, launched November 5, 2025 on iOS, Android, and Steam, rebranded March 16, 2026, and later cited by Sega for weak performance.
Sonic screwdriver
The sonic screwdriver is the Doctor's multipurpose tool in Doctor Who, first seen in Fury from the Deep (1968). Powered by ultrasonic waves, it picks locks, scans, and repairs, but fails on wood and deadlock seals; at least ten Doctor-owned versions have appeared on screen.