Emerald Coast


 * If you are looking for the stage remake in Sonic Generations, look here.

Emerald Coast (エメラルドコースト) is the first Zone in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut. It is playable by E-102 Gamma, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Big the Cat. It is also a board in Sonic Shuffle.

Emerald Coast reappears in Sonic Generations for the Nintendo 3DS.

Sonic
In his first stage of the game, Sonic races across the picturesque beaches of Emerald Coast, searching for Tails, who has crashed his prototype plane somewhere in the area. Despite the expected serenity of the gorgeous beaches, it is populated by a number of Eggman's destructive badniks, as well as a mad Orca, which will hurt you if you touch it The presence of hostile robots seems to have forced beach-goers to temporarily vacate the coast, leaving Sonic on his own impromptu race course to dash through.

Big
Big the Cat has entered this gorgeous locale to once again fish for Froggy. Due to the stage being located literally right next to a vast expanse of ocean, Big has many other fish to distract himself with catching. If Big is equipped with the Life Belt, he may just discover a secret area with even more fish for him to catch. The part of Emerald Coast that Big fishes in is located in Sonic's "Azure Blue World" section of the stage, right after the whale chase. In the end, he finds Froggy, only to be stolen by E-102 Gamma. This is his third stage.

E-102 Gamma
E-102 Gamma has entered Emerald Coast (Naturally, against the wishes of the hotel management) to find and capture Froggy for his master, Dr. Eggman. Though he only travels through a small section of the first part of the stage (this being due to a lack of agility and speed that hampers him from traveling to more of the sections Sonic explored), there is a surprisingly large number of Badniks for Gamma to use as target practice while he searches.

Others
You can play this stage with Amy, Tails and Knuckles by glitches

Sonic Shuffle
This world exists for lovers of the sun, but Void's magic is causing the tropical paradise to experience a rather unseasonal ice age. Note that you can only move underwater for 5 turns: fail to cross a bubble square within the limit and you'll be booted back to the surface. Sea turtles act as stepping stones, but can't be crossed when submerged. Toward the end of the stage, the wooden ship in the lower portion of the arena takes to the sky and flies away, eliminating a valuable shortcut. Land on the Quest square and you're given 8 turns to return a beached dolphin to the sea. Complete the stage to initiate the Sonic Surfing minigame. If the player was first, the next cut-scene is shown and you enter the next board, which is the Fire Bird.

Sonic Generations
Emerald Coast reappears in the new game Sonic Generations for the 3DS in the Dreamcast Era as a stage that both Classic and Modern Sonic have to travel through. The Orca that originally chased Sonic appears in both the Classic and Modern versions of the stage. This stage is only featured on the 3DS.

Trivia

 * In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Sonic's version of Wave Ocean, a level almost identical to Emerald Coast, has a segment in which the player deals with an Orca that smashes through a bridge, similar to the Orca that chases Sonic in Emerald Coast.
 * There's a real life beach that also has the name of "Emerald Coast" in Destin, Florida. With it's hotels lining the coast it bears striking resemblance to the one seen in Sonic Adventure.
 * Emerald Coast also appears in Sonic X's Episode 9.
 * Emerald Coast is also the first stage you play in Sonic Shuffle.
 * Either through a glitch or debug mode, all characters can access the first part of Sonic's level.
 * Emerald Coast is playable on the 3DS version of Sonic Generations.
 * Big has special music that plays in his level that isn't heard in Gamma's or Sonic's level.
 * Sonic was first chased by the Orca. Since then, Sonic has been chased by many objects in some of the main 3D Sonic games.