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Sonic Adventure

TitleSonic Adventure
First release1998
DevelopersNow Production, Sonic Team
PublisherSega
PlatformsDreamcast, PC (Windows)
Genreplatformer
Players1–2 players
Co-opYes
ESRB ratingE Everyone
Releases
Dreamcast: 1998-12-23 (NTSC-J), 1998-12-23 (PAL), 1999-07-01 (NTSC-U), 2000-08-22 (NTSC)
Wikidata IDQ1069059

Sonic Adventure is a 1999 Dreamcast video game developed by Sonic Team and released by Sega of America in the USA on September 9, 1999. Centuries ago, the planet was bestowed the seven Chaos Emeralds. These emeralds were a source of unlimited power, and consequently it did not take long before wars broke out over who would control the Chaos Emeralds. There was also a Master Emerald, which was the controller of the Chaos Emeralds and could either negate or amplify the Chaos Emerald's power. One of the chao living near the shrine of the Emeralds accidentally made contact with the holy water in the shrine and mutated to become a peaceful creature that could use the power of water called Chaos and became the guardian of the rest of the chaos there. Later on, a tribe of echidnas, led by Pachamac, angered Chaos by attempting to steal the Chaos Emeralds, ruining the sanctuary it was protecting and attempted a mass massacre on the chao living there. They were all but completely destroyed within a single night and Chaos, in his fury, used the negative power of the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Perfect Chaos and slaughtered all the echidnas. Pachamac's daughter, Tikal, had pleaded with Pachamac but he refused to listen to her. Tikal then prayed to the Master Emerald after Perfect Chaos had left to destroy the entire world to seal herself with Chaos inside the Master Emerald.

Description: TheGamesDB (community-contributed, no licence stated; internal use only) Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.
Sources
Wikidata (Q1069059) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0
TheGamesDB (2416,74354,84592,93292,123380,124810,129661) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Sega · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (6): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Sega · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Logo: Sega, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Sonic Adventure monochromatic logo (alt).svg”)
Logo: Sega, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Sonic Adventure monochromatic logo.svg”)
Sprites
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Videos
Dreamcast Longplay [001] Sonic Adventure (EU)
World-of-Longplays · Dreamcast version · longplay · 7:46:14auto-matched
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