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Sonic the Hedgehog was designed as a blue bowling ball with anxiety. Which explains the speed and the attitude.

✗ FAKE
Sonic was created at Sega in the early 1990s by Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima and Hirokazu Yasuhara, as a mascot to rival Mario. It was a hedgehog character, not a bowling ball.

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