Game Theory: How Fast is Sonic the Hedgehog?

Great video, really :)

I loved it. I would never have thought of doing the actual research myself. I find it hard to discredit anything you said because you showed your work and put it all simply.

The conclusion I draw from this is; The character is meant to be able to run at the speed of sound. Him not running at that speed does in fact not discredit that for simple reasons. The original build of Sonic the Hedgehog 1991 actually moved at double, if not triple the speed of the final product. It was simply slowed down to make the game playable. In fact, the Japanese release stayed at that speed while the EU and US releases were slowed down. But I think eventually they slowed the JP one down to appeal to a bigger crowd. Although the light speed shoes give you an ability called the "Light speed dash", I don't remember any in-game-description claiming they allow Sonic to move at the speed of light.

Like you said. Don't believe everything you are told. And I believe that just because Sonic doesn't move at the speed of sound in the games, doesn't mean he is unable to. HE simply doesn't do it. For all we know what he is preforming in the games is a leisurely stroll :P

really, sonic top speed is 10X the speed of light, that was in his normal state, super sonic increases his speed by 500000X and then he has hyper which increases his speed 10000000000000000000X then he has ultra form which make his speed 50000000000000000000000000000000000X faster, mario is so slow compared to sonic in there first game's it was embarrassing

Comparing Mario running in a short straight line to Sonic running an entire level with loops and drops is biased. Using modern Sonic's height in a classic Sonic's game is fail. I noticed it also took 6 seconds for Mario to reach the first warp pipe, not 5. This guy is just a Nintendrone.

jajaja really-.- how can Dr. robotnik run more faster than a Bugati Beirone , and in new super mario bros, Bowser jr. travel the entire worlds before you -.-, iqual in Sonic . It make the game more longer -.-, =p

Over and Underthinking.

Dr robotnik is faster than sonic. In sonic 2 I put debug mode for super sonic then I chased him at full speed and he still out ran me

you know why it appears that sonic isnt moving at his top speed? Well you try and keep up with the movement of sonic if he was moving at his speeds.

So yeah theres your theory busted! Humans can't play games that there eyes can't keep up with.

I think you might be over thinking this one.

Do one for upcoming Goku vs Superman DEATHBATTLE! That would be so sick.