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All Games » Master System » Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System)

Developer:Ancient
Publisher:Sega
Genre:Platformer
First released:October 25, 1991
Title ScreenhotIn-game Screenshot

Achievements

There are 23 achievements worth 345 (2373) points.
Authors: AlanRoxdale (23).

 
Sort: Normal ^ - Won By - Points - Title 
Welcome to South Island
 
won by 1954 (1042) of 2527 (77.32%)
Welcome to South Island (5)
(5)
Complete Green Hill Zone
Best BGM
 
won by 1133 (668) of 2527 (44.84%)
Best BGM (5)
(6)
Complete Bridge Zone
Angel Falls
 
won by 730 (398) of 2527 (28.89%)
Angel Falls (5)
(8)
Complete Jungle Zone
The Danker Deeps
 
won by 605 (341) of 2527 (23.94%)
The Danker Deeps (5)
(9)
Complete Labyrinth Zone
Scrap Maze Zone
 
won by 579 (333) of 2527 (22.91%)
Scrap Maze Zone (5)
(9)
Complete Scrap Brain Zone
Thundar, Rain, 'n' Lightnin'
 
won by 560 (325) of 2527 (22.16%)
Thundar, Rain, 'n' Lightnin' (5)
(9)
Complete Sky Base Zone Act 1
South Island Hero
 
won by 529 (291) of 2527 (20.93%)
South Island Hero (25)
(51)
Complete the Game
Gem Shopping
 
won by 1649 (903) of 2527 (65.26%)
Gem Shopping (5)
(5)
Find your first Chaos Emerald
To Infinity
 
won by 362 (219) of 2527 (14.33%)
To Infinity (10)
(27)
Find all 6 Chaos Emeralds
South Island Saviour
 
won by 352 (209) of 2527 (13.93%)
South Island Saviour (10)
(28)
Complete the Game with all 6 Chaos Emeralds
One Credit Finish
 
won by 163 (50) of 2527 (6.45%)
One Credit Finish (50)
(272)
Complete the Game without dying.
Hedgehogs are Master Foragers
 
won by 130 (97) of 2527 (5.14%)
Hedgehogs are Master Foragers (25)
(165)
Find all 18 1up monitors, one in each level.
Careful Hedgehogs
 
won by 320 (163) of 2527 (12.66%)
Careful Hedgehogs (5)
(15)
Get 20 lives
Tastes like Neon
 
won by 1931 (1026) of 2527 (76.41%)
Tastes like Neon (5)
(5)
Complete 1 Special Stage
Electric Boogaloo
 
won by 350 (220) of 2527 (13.85%)
Electric Boogaloo (5)
(14)
Reach the 5th Special Stage
8 bit Spinball
 
won by 454 (267) of 2527 (17.97%)
8 bit Spinball (5)
(11)
Complete 4 Special Stages
Nights into Dreams
 
won by 130 (79) of 2527 (5.14%)
Nights into Dreams (10)
(66)
Complete all 8 Special Stages
Star Spangled Hog
 
won by 121 (73) of 2527 (4.79%)
Star Spangled Hog (25)
(175)
Get 8 Continues
Sonic and the Secret Rings
 
won by 1276 (653) of 2527 (50.49%)
Sonic and the Secret Rings (5)
(6)
Get a 10 Ring bonus from a signpost.
Say Cheese!
 
won by 985 (580) of 2527 (38.98%)
Say Cheese! (5)
(6)
Get a 1up bonus from a signpost.
South Island Superstar
 
won by 70 (39) of 2527 (2.77%)
South Island Superstar (50)
(580)
Win a 500,000 point Special Bonus (18 1ups, 6 emeralds, 0 deaths, 8 sp. stages)
South Island Ninja
 
won by 57 (39) of 2527 (2.26%)
South Island Ninja (50)
(716)
Complete the game with LESS than 20,000 points
Boost Mode
 
won by 115 (82) of 2527 (4.55%)
Boost Mode (25)
(185)
Get a 30,000 point time bonus on any stage except Green Hill Act 1
💬Official forum topic

Recent comment(s):
15 Apr 2017
20:02		"Any color you like..." doesn't achieve
17 Apr 2017
14:22		I want mickey mouse land of illusion cheevos and donald duck.
19 Apr 2017
18:52		It's working really fine in RetroArch with the picodrive core! ;-)
19 Apr 2017
19:01		I thought I checked PicoDrive before but it looks like I did not. Thanks for the heads up, meleu!
19 Apr 2017
19:03		Looks like someone just added achievements for Wonder Boy III as well. Guess I need to shift my focus to getting some Master System cheevos. :)
19 Apr 2017
19:06		First 2 achievements popped without me playing the game, however. "Hedgehogs are careful" and "Tastes Like Neon". The latter popped once the demo mode started past the initial title screen.
19 Apr 2017
20:45		Sorry. I forgot to mention that you need to update your picodrive. It received a small fix to make MasterSystem cheevos work just yesterday (18-april-2017).Please, update and try again.
21 Apr 2017
2:37		I just loaded the game and got "Hedgehogs are Careful" and "Tastes Like Neon" from the start..
21 Apr 2017
2:39		PicoDrive / RetroArch on a Pi3
21 Apr 2017
2:49		After that, nothing
21 Apr 2017
3:02		Nevermind, needed to update PicoDrive! :)
16 May 2017
10:08		Also works with genesis plus gx it seems
20 May 2017
8:06		How to open Master Systems in the RAGENS emulator?
6 Jun 2017
22:37		Master System has a totally separate emulator: http://retroachievements.org/viewtopic.php?t=4436&o=0
16 May 2019
18:45		I really enjoyed this 8-bit version of Sonic. Would love to see the other master system Sonic games get achievements!
10 Jun 2019
21:13		Liked playing this again and yes Best BMG ever hahaha
7 Aug 2019
8:46		Beat the game without DYING?!
16 Dec 2019
10:10		Try to not fall into pits
9 Dec 2020
2:26		Yeesh, the boss acts in this can be hellish. It's like a proper arcade game.
24 Jan 2021
23:10		must have an 1 million points achievement... not so impossible

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PosUserMastery Date
1TheJediSonic2021-06-19 08:14:47
2Ernesto2021-06-08 15:06:28
3BrunoKiko2021-06-01 17:58:52
4zumbertinho2021-05-21 12:00:16
5Rapid2021-05-09 15:37:58
6BahamutVoid2021-05-08 23:40:39
7Xymjak2021-05-04 12:24:05
8MindfulAxis2021-01-21 00:59:54
9Mavincenzi2020-11-03 21:42:41
10StarRoda2020-10-22 04:58:45

Leaderboards

High Score
Clear the game with the highest score!
PKRadash1958400
Low Score
Clear the game with the lowest score!
HeisenHower5500
Green Hill Act 1
Compete for fastest time!
ColonD0:00:18.49