Random
Purpose
Granting a random power-up Shuffling characters
Random [1] (ランダム , Randamu ? ) known is also as Question Item (質問項目 , Shitsumon kōmoku ? ) item is a recurring Item Box power-up in the Sonic the Hedgehog series . When obtained, it gives a random power-up.
Description
Random's icon on the Item Boxes containing them differ between games, but otherwise depict a question mark on them.
When picking up a Random, the player obtains a randomly-selected power-up from those available in its game (excluding the Random power-up itself).
Game appearances
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Random first appeared in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as an unnamed Super item exclusive to the "2 Player VS" competition. In this game, the monitors containing them feature a flickering white screen with a red question mark on them. It is also the default and only monitor power-up encountered in the Zones in "2 Player VS".
After breaking a Random's monitor in this game, it gives either a Super Ring , Invincible , Shield , Power Sneakers , 1-Up , Eggman Mark or Teleporter .
In the 2013 enhanced port of the game, it is possible to use Random in a single player No Save mode by accessing the Level Select and can bring up a special menu by playing the specific tunes at Sound Test in the following order: 00, 00, 00. The player can toggle to one of the two options in the Items category which replaces all Monitors in the Acts with Random Monitor which will give a different range of Power-ups when broken depending on which option is selected; the first causes Random monitors to grant Super Ring , Invincible , Shield , Power Sneakers , 1-Up , Eggman Mark or Teleporter while the second grants either the Flame Shield , Bubble Shield and Lightning Shield in addition to the aforementioned items.
Sonic Blast
In Sonic Blast , Random is referred to as ??? in Japanese material[2] and can be encountered in the Zones . In this game, the TVs containing them feature a black screen with a golden question mark on them.
After breaking a Random's monitor in this game, it gives either a Super Ring , Shield , Shoe , Invincible , Extra Life (either Sonic or Knuckles ), Marker or Robotnik .
Sonic Riders
Sonic Riders
In Sonic Riders , Random is called Question Item [3] (クエスチョン[4] , Kuesuchon ? , lit. "Question") and appears on all the available racetracks. In this game, the icon for Question Item is a square blue icon with a golden question mark on it.
In gameplay, Question Item is obtained at random from any Item Box . After breaking a Question Item Item Box in this game, players will receive either a Rings , Magnetic Shield , Explosion , Air , Invincible Barrier , High Speed or Speed Down .
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity , Random is an unnamed power-up that is encountered on all the available racing courses. In this game, the icon for Random is a square blue icon with a golden question mark on it, much like in Sonic Riders .
In gameplay, Random is obtained at random from any Item Box. After breaking a Random Item Box in this game, players will receive either a Rings , Magnetic Shield , Explosion , GP Boost , High Speed , Speed Down , Attack , Parts Lock or Colorball .
Sonic Free Riders
In Sonic Free Riders , Random is called Question (クエスチョン[5] , Kuesuchon ? ) and can be found on every racing track available. In this game, the icon for Question is identical to how it appeared in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity . As such, it resembles a square blue icon with a golden question mark on it.
In gameplay, Question is obtained at random from any Item Box .
Sonic Mania
In Sonic Mania , and its expansion Sonic Mania Plus , this power-up is referred to as Random for the first time.[1] In these games, the monitors containing them feature a flickering white screen with a red question mark on them, like in their debut.
Much like in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , Random is found first and foremost in the game's Competition mode. However, it only appears in this mode's Zones if the players enable the "Random" feature in the game rules before a match, which causes all monitor power-ups throughout the mode to be replaced with Random power-ups.
After breaking a Random's monitor in this game, it gives either a Super Ring , Hyper Ring , Invincible , Blue Shield , Power Sneakers , 1-Up , Eggman Mark , Bubble Shield , Fire Shield , Lightning Shield or Player Swap .
In Sonic Mania Plus 's Encore Mode, Random functions differently in the regular Zones where instead of giving one of the other Item Box power-up items, it will shuffle the player's party randomly, potentially replacing the player's current characters.
References
Random
Main article | Staff | Manuals | Glitches (Sonic 2 , Knuckles in Sonic 2 ) | Beta elements | Gallery | Prereleases (Nick Arcade | Simon Wai ) | Re-releases (2006 | 2013 | Sega Ages )
Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails (Super Tails **) | Knuckles (Super Knuckles ) | Dr. Robotnik | Animals (Becky , Cucky , Flicky , Pocky , Pecky , Cucky , Ricky , Picky , Rocky , Locky , Wocky , Micky , Tocky )
Badniks
Aquis | Asteron | Balkiry | Banper * | Batbot ** | BFish * | Bubbler * | Bubbler's Mother * | Buzzer | Cactus * | Chop Chop | Clucker | Coconuts | Crawl | Crawlton | Flasher | Frog * | Gator * | Gohla | Grabber | Grounder | Jellygnite ** | Lobster * | Masher | Nebula | Octus | Rexon | Shellcracker | Slicer | Snail * | Spiker | Spiny | Stegway ** | Turtloids | Redz ** | Whisp
Zones
Emerald Hill Zone | Chemical Plant Zone | Aquatic Ruin Zone | Casino Night Zone | Hill Top Zone | Mystic Cave Zone | Oil Ocean Zone | Metropolis Zone | Sky Chase Zone | Wing Fortress Zone | Death Egg Zone | Green Hill Zone * | Hidden Palace Zone ** | Genocide City Zone * | Sand Shower Zone * | Rock World Zone * | Wood Zone * | Egg Gauntlet Zone ** | Boss Attack Zone ** | Proto Palace Zone ** | Special Stage
Bosses
Drill Eggman | Water Eggman | Tonkachi Eggman | Catcher Eggman | Submarine Eggman | Drill Eggman II | Hidden Palace Zone boss ** | Submarine Eggman II | Flying Eggman | Barrier Eggman | Mecha Sonic | Death Egg Robot
Moves/Techniques
Climb | Crouch | Glide | Insta-Shield ** | Propeller Flying | Spin Jump | Super Dash Attack | Super Spin Attack
Items
Air Bubble | Bomb | Booster | Bumper | Capsule | Continue | Fan | Flipper | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Metal nut | Monitor (Super Ring , Shield , Power Sneakers , Invincible , Extra Life , Teleporter , Eggman , Lightning Shield **, Flame Shield **, Random , Water Shield **, S **) | Ring | Signpost | Spring | Spring Catapult | Star Circle | Star Post | Switch
Other
Original Soundtrack | Bumper wall | Cannon | Chaos Emerald | Conveyor Belt | Corkscrew loop | Crusher | Death Egg Robot | Debug Mode | Egg Jet | Giant spear | Gondola | High-speed elevator | High-speed warp tube | Mega Mack | Perfect Bonus | Seesaw | Shuttle loop | Slot machine | Spikes | Stone pillar | Time Attack | Tornado | Totem pole | West Side Island | Winding Tunnel
*Exclusive to the prototype versions of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 . ** Exclusive to the 2013 re-release version.
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Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Jet | Wave | Storm | Amy | Dr. Eggman | Shadow | Rouge | Cream | E-10000G | E-10000R | Ulala | AiAi | NiGHTS | Omochao | Stolen | Jet's father | Babylon Guardian | E-10000Y
Courses/Fields
Heroes
Metal City | Splash Canyon | Egg Factory | Green Cave | Sand Ruins | Babylon Garden
Babylon
Night Chase | Red Canyon | Ice Factory | White Cave | Dark Desert | Sky Road | Babylon Guardian
Extra
Digital Dimension | Sega Carnival | Sega Illusion
Survival
Dual Towers | Snow Valley | Space Theater
Moves/Techniques
Air Boost | Air Riding | Air Slide | Attacks | Grinding | Tornado | Trick Action
Gimmicks and obstacles
Accelerator | Air Pit | Automatic Trail | Barricade | Bomb | Catapult | Dash Panel | Grind Rail | Trick Zone
Objects
Air | Item Box (Air , Explosion , High Speed , Invincible Barrier , Magnetic Barrier , Rings , Speed Down , Question Item ) | Ring
Extreme Gears
Accelerator | Access | Advantage-F | Advantage-P | Advantage-S | Air Broom | Air Tank | Auto-Slider | BANANA | Beginner | Berserker | Blue Star | Blue Star II | Cannonball | Channel5 | Chaos Emerald | Cover-F | Cover-P | Cover-S | Darkness | Destroyer | E-gearG | E-gearR | E-Rider | Faster | Fastest | Gambler | Grinder | Hang-On | Heavy Bike | High Booster | Hovercraft | Legend | Light Board | Magic Carpet | Night Sky | Omnipotence | Opa Opa | Pink Rose | Power Gear | Powerful Gear | Red Rock | Rengoku | Slide Booster | Smile | Speed Balancer | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Trap Gear | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Yellow Tail
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) | Bella Hudson (Wave , Babylon Computer) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Mike Pollock (Dr. Eggman ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Maddie Blaustein (E-10000G , E-10000R , Babylon Guardian ) | Liza Jacqueline (Omochao ) | Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) | Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave , Babylon Computer) | Kenji Nomura (Storm , Babylon Guardian ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) | Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) | Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Music
Songs
Catch Me If You Can | Sonic Speed Riders
Albums
Speedbeats Grand Prix: Sonic Riders Original Soundtrack
Other
Air Tank | Babylon Garden | Babylon Rogues' ship | Babylonians | Bashōsen | Chaos Control | Chaos Emerald | Emerald Detector | Rank | EX World Grand Prix | Flight Type | Freeze | Key to Babylon Garden | Mission Mode | Power Type | Speed Type | Time Attack | Turbulence
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Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Jet | Wave | Storm | Dr. Eggman | Cream | Rouge | Shadow | Silver | Blaze | SCR-GP | Amigo | NiGHTS | Billy Hatcher | SCR-HD | Master Core: ABIS
Courses/Fields
Heroes
Megalo Station | Botanical Kingdom | MeteorTech Premises | Aquatic Capital | Gigan Rocks | Crimson Crater | Astral Babylon | '80s Boulevard
Babylon
Gigan Device | Nightside Rush | Snowy Kingdom | MeteorTech Sparkworks | Tempest Waterway | Security Corridor | Mobius Strip | '90s Boulevard
Survival Battle
Gravity Pit | Labyrinth | Square Quartet
Survival Ball
MeteorTech Arsenal | Botanical Cave | Megalo Junction
Extreme Gears
Advantage F | Advantage P | Advantage S | Airship | Angel • Devil | Beginner | Big Bang | Bingo Star | Black Shot | Blue Star | Chaos Emerald | Cover F | Cover P | Cover S | E-Rider | Faster | Fastest | Flame Lance | G Shot | Gambler | GC Booster | GC Master | GP Accumulator | GP Tank | Hang-On | Hyperdrive | Kunoichi | Legend | Light Board | Mag | Magic Broom | Master Off-Road | Money Crisis | Night Sky | Omnitempus | Pink Rose | Power Egg | Psychic Wave | Rail Linker | Rainbow | Red Rock | Reserve Tank | Rhythm Machine | Road Star | Shinobi | Shooting Star | Skill Booster | Smile | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Throttle | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Untouchable | Wanted | Wheel Custom | Wind Catcher | Wind Star | Yellow Tail
Gear Parts
Air Ride | Angel/Devil | Attack Time UP | Auto Wall-Run | Base Stats UP | BGM Change | Bike | Durability UP | GC Boost UP | Ghost | GP Gain UP | GP Gauge UP | GP Usage UP | Grind | Item Rank +1 | Magnetic Barrier | Max Speed UP | Parts Lock | Ring Cap UP | Starting Speed UP | Status Trap | Tank | Throttle | Trick Rank +1 | Vision Trap | Wheel | Yacht
Moves and Techniques
Air Ride | Attacks | Gravity Control | Gravity Dive | Grinding | Slide Turn | Trick
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet , Shadow ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) | Bella Hudson (Wave , Mother computer ) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Mike Pollock (Dr. Eggman ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Pete Capella (Silver ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Andrew Paull (SCR-HD , SCR-GP , Master Core: ABIS )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave , Mother computer ) | Kenji Nomura (Storm , SCR-HD , SCR-GP , Master Core: ABIS ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Koji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze )
Other
Ark of the Cosmos | Babylon Garden | Babylon Rogues' ship | Babylonians | Barricade | Bashōsen | Car | Catapult | Catch Me If You Can | Crimson Tower | Crusher | Dash Panel | Dash Ring | Fly Type | Gravity Point | Grind Rails | Havok | Item Box (Attack , Colorball , Explosion , GP Boost , High Speed , Magnetic Barrier , Missile , Parts Lock , Ring , Shield , Speed Down ) | Monopole | Mother computer | Ring | Slipstream | Speed Type | Power Type | Rank | Time Attack | Time item | Trick Zone | Un-Gravitify | World Grand Prix | Zero Gravity Tracks: Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story Original Soundtrack
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Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Jet | Wave | Storm | Amy | Cream | Vector | Shadow | Rouge | E-10000B | E-10000G | Silver | Blaze | Dr. Eggman | Metal Sonic | Omochao | Xbox Live Avatar
Courses
Dolphin Resort | Rocky Ridge | Frozen Forest | Metropolis Speedway | Magma Rift | Forgotten Tomb | Final Factory | Metal City
Moves/Techniques
Air Ride | Attacks | Grinding | Kick Dash | Trick Action
Gimmicks and obstacles
Barricade | Bobsled | Catapult | Dash Ring | Grind Rail | Minecart
Objects
General
Air | Item Box (Air , Bowling Strike , Free Throw , Octo-Boost , Octo-Ink , Question , Ring Can , Rings , Special Item , Soda Rocket , Target Torpedo , Tee Shot ) | Ring
Gear Parts
Air Plus | Air Ride Skill | Air Saver | Big Air | Cornering UP | Durability UP | Extra Air | Grind Skill | Invisible | Item Lock: Air | Item Lock: Rings | Max Speed UP | Music Change 1 | Music Change 2 | Power Skill | Rapid Dash | Rapid Stream | Ring Eater | Start Speed UP | Trick Boost
Extreme Gears
Angel • Devil | Auto-Slider | Avatar-F | Avatar-M | Beginner | Black Shot | Blue Star | Chaos Emeralds | E-Gear | E-Rider | Explosion | Fastest | Flame Lance | Fortress | Gambler | Hang-On | Hard-Boiled | High Booster | Legend | Metal Star | Omnitempus | Pink Rose | Potential | Professional | Psychic Wave | Red Rock | Reserve Tank | Smile | Steel | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Wanted | Yellow Tail
English voice actors
Roger Craig Smith (Sonic ) | Mike Pollock (Eggman ) | Kate Higgins (Tails , Wave ) | Travis Willingham (Knuckles , Storm ) | Mike Mycheck (Jet ) | Kirk Thornton (Shadow ) | Karen Strassman (Rouge ) | Wally Wingert (E-10000B , E-10000G ) | Cindy Robinson (Amy ) | Michelle Ruff (Cream ) | Keith Silverstein (Vector ) | Quinton Flynn (Silver ) | Laura Bailey (Blaze , Omochao )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave ) | Kenji Nomura (Storm ) | Koji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze )
Music
Songs
Free | Theme of Dolphin Resort | Theme of Rocky Ridge | Theme of Metropolis Speedway
Albums
Break Free: Sonic Free Riders Original Soundtrack
Other
Air Gauge | Relay Race | Rank | Time Attack | World Grand Prix | Speed Type | Fly Type | Power Type
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Playable characters
Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Sonic ) | Miles "Tails" Prower (Super Tails ) | Knuckles the Echidna (Super Knuckles ) | Mighty the Armadillo * (Super Mighty )* | Ray the Flying Squirrel * (Super Ray )*
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Hard Boiled Heavies (Heavy King , Heavy Gunner , Heavy Shinobi , Heavy Magician , Heavy Rider ) | Phantom Heavies (Phantom King , Phantom Gunner , Phantom Shinobi , Phantom Magician , Phantom Rider ) | Metal Sonic (Giga Metal ) | Animals (Becky , Cucky , Flicky , Locky , Micky , Pecky , Picky , Pocky , Ricky , Rocky , Tocky , Wocky ) | Jimmy
Zones
Angel Island Zone * | Green Hill Zone | Chemical Plant Zone | Studiopolis Zone | Flying Battery Zone | Press Garden Zone | Stardust Speedway Zone | Hydrocity Zone | Mirage Saloon Zone | Oil Ocean Zone | Lava Reef Zone | Metallic Madness Zone | Titanic Monarch Zone | Egg Reverie Zone | Special Stage | Bonus Stage | Pinball Stage *
Enemies
Armadiloid | Aquis | Asteron | Ball Hog | Batbrain | Blaster | Blastoid | Bloominator * | Bugernaut | Bumpalo | Buzz Bomber | Cactula | Canister | Catakiller, Jr. | Chopper | Clucker | Crabmeat | Dango | Dragonfly | Eggrobo | Fireworm | Flasher mk.II | Gohla | Grabber | Hotaru | IceBomba | Iwamodoki | Jawz | Jellygnite | Juggle Saw | Kabasira | Kanabun | Madmole | Matryoshka-Bom | Mega Chopper | Mic Drop | Monkey Dude * | Moto Bug | Newtron | Octus | Pointdexter | Rattlekiller | Rexon | RhinoBot * | Robot Bee | Robot Beetle | Roller mk.II | Scarab | Sentry Bug | Shutterbug | Silver Sonic | Spiny | Splats | Sweep | Technosqueek | Toxomister | Tubinaut | Turbo Spiker | Turbo Turtle | Vultron | Woodrow
Bosses
Mini-bosses
DD Wrecker | Amoeba Droid | Heavy Gunner | Big Squeeze | Shiversaw | Hotaru Hi-Watt | Dive Eggman | Uber Caterkiller | Meter Droid | Drillerdroid | Egg Pistons mk.II | Crimson Eye
Zone bosses
Death Egg Robot | Mean Bean Machine | Weather Globe | Spider Mobile | Heavy Shinobi | Metal Sonic | Laundro-Mobile | Heavy Magician | Mega Octus | Heavy Rider | Heavy King | Gachapandora | Phantom Egg | Phantom King and Klepto Mobile
Moves/Techniques
Air Glide * | Bounce Jump | Climb | Double Jump | Drop Dash | Fireball Spin Dash | Glide | Hammer Drop * | Insta-Shield | Propeller Flying | Ring Spark Field | Spin Attack | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Peel Out | V. Maximum Overdrive Attack
Gimmicks and obstacles
Beanstalk | Bomb | Bumper | Bungee Rope | Bumper wall | Conveyor Belt | Crusher | Dash Panel | Electrical conduit | Fan | Fireball Cannon | Flipper | Flywheel | Goal Plate | High-speed warp tube | Ice Spring | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Platform-raising Wheel | Pulley | Ruby Mist | Seesaw | Size Beam | Snowblower | Spikes | Spring | Switch | Transport | Vine | Zip Line
Objects
Air Bubble | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Giant Ring | Giant spear | Item Box (1-UP , Blue Shield , Bubble Shield , Character *, Hyper Ring , Eggman Mark , Fire Shield , Invincible , Lightning Shield , Player Swap , Power Sneakers , Random , S , Super Ring ) | Little Planet flowers | Master Emerald | Metal Sonic Projector | Medallion | Ring | Robot transporter | Schrodinger's Capsule * | Sphere | Star Circle | Star Post | Time Warp sign | UFO | Warp Point
Music
Sonic Mania (vinyl album) | Sonic Mania Original Soundtrack (Selected Edition) | Sonic Mania Plus Original Soundtrack
Other
Angel Island | Auto Running | Continue | Death Egg Robot | Debug Mode | Egg Mobile | Freeze | Hang Glider | Klepto Mobile | Level Select | Little Planet | Mega Mack | Perfect Bonus | Phantom Ruby | Rock Drill | Shuttle loop | Sonic Mania Adventures (Sonic Returns , Sonic and Tails , & Knuckles , Mighty and Ray , Metal Mayhem , From: A. Rose , The Complete Mini-Series ) | Time Attack | Time Over | Tornado | Winding Tunnel
*Appears in Sonic Mania Plus only