Sonic the Hedgehog (Play-a-Sound)

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Sonic the Hedgehog (Play-a-Sound Book) is a special book with plastic battery powered edge of buttons. The story inside is sprinkled with pictures instead of words in some of the sentances. When you see a picture show up in the sentance you're reading, you're supposed to push the corresponding button to enhance the story with noises. The story combines characters and elements from the video video games along with the TV shows Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series).

Main Cast

 * Sonic
 * Tails
 * Knuckles
 * Princess Sally
 * Dr. Robotnik

Minor Cast/ Cameos

 * Grounder
 * Clucker
 * Coconuts
 * Crawlton
 * Rexon
 * Chopper
 * Snively
 * Rotor
 * Bunnie Rabbot
 * Antoine D'Coolette

Plot
The story is about Sonic, Tails[, Knuckles and Sally on a scavenger hunt/race against Dr. Robotnik. Robotnik of course has all kinds of tricks up his sleeves. They go through many zones to find clues (Emerald Hill, Marble Zone, Chemical Plant, Mystic Cave, Sandopolis, Death Egg, and finally Metropolis). The prize is an ancient coin called The Cool Blue Baloo worth 6,000,000 Mobiums. at the end Sonic wins and buys 1 million chili dogs, and one for everyone else... and the Mobius Hospital gets to keep the change.

Sounds
The Sounds were designed by Kristan Nordine
 * Sonic Running - Makes a zooming sound
 * Knuckles - Pounding sound
 * Sonic stopping - Cartoony halting screech
 * Tails - Propeller sound
 * Spring - Spring sound similar to the games
 * Dr. Robotnik - Evil Laughter
 * Rings - Chimes, much different from the games
 * Sally - Girlish giggle
 * Machine - Buzzing sound
 * Sonic - A five note theme song that repeats itself 4 times. Sounds similar to the first five notes of the main them in Sonic 1 and 2.

Trivia

 * This book uses a lot of stock art for all the characters. Most notable is Knuckles who almost looks exactly the same in every picture.
 * Clucker seems to take the place of Scratch, next to Grounder as Robotnik's henchman. This is most likely because there was no stock art of Scratch available.  Grounder sports his Sonic 2 design rather than his Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog appearance.