yes between Sonic Team, Sonic Retro, Chris Whitehead who programmed Sonic CD 2011 Remake, and Yuji Naka and Naoto Ōshima Sonic 4 takes place AFTER Sonic 3 but before Adventure. There are also the advanced games but no one is sure WHEN they happen yet. Rush & Adventure happen BEFORE Colors according to Oshima.
Also in-game evidence points to the events..OBVIOUSLY Sonic 1 happens first and Generations currently the last. The master system games were sub-plots of the main games so the time line would look like this based on all resources I compiled.
Sonic 1 (Genesis) -> Sonic 1 (Master System) -> Sonic 2(Genesis)-> Sonic 2 (Master System)
We know the above due to the plot lines in the Japanese manuals stating that Sonic 1 Master System (later Game Gear system versions) reference the main games respectfully. The next part is a little more guess work based on Sonic Retro information.
Sonic Chaos -> Sonic CD -> Sonic 3 & Knuckles -> Sonic Triple Trouble -> Knuckles Chaotix -> Sonic 4
Chaos clearly takes place on the heels of Sonic 2 (Master System) and as it's story is on West Island (where Sonic 2 Gen & MS take place) it makes sense that it clearly takes place afterwards.
Sonic CD takes place afterwards and must take place during the Tails' Adventure game which leads to shortly thereafter Tails and Sonic regroup after Egg Man's new base is seen heading towards the Angel Island area which starts Sonic 3 & Knuckles occurs after . Shortly after this Fang (Knack in US) fights Sonic and steals the Emeralds. Knuckles is there too and he is kind of useless at times but afterwards he has his own thing in Knuckles Chaotix which sort of takes place during Episode 1 of Sonic 4 and as per Sonic Team, Sonic 4 takes place right after Triple Trouble.
Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 -> Heroes -> Rush & Adventure -> Colors -> Generations
As Sonic Adventure 1 doesn't reference anything at all we were not sure when it occurred, until Sonic 4 that is, which brings out the fact that Sonic 4 takes place BEFORE it but after S3&K. Now Adventure 2 and Heroes directly in game reference the previous games so we know they are in the same time frame. Rush series takes place after Heroes (again the Japanese manual clarifies that Sonic is on vacation from his latest adventure with Tails & Knuckles) when he fights Eggman and meets Blaze. Sonic Colors takes place after adventure due to an in-game reference about 'the other world' Sonic visited before and obviously Generations (which has the whole time screw going on) references all the previous games including Crisis City which was officially end of game wiped out of the time line by Future-Blaze.
... Can you provide some actual citations of this supposed official timeline that isn't just speculation?
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The in game sources themselves point to most of the above, only recently with the release of Sonic CD Remake, 4 Episodes 1 & 2, and Generations have they been put into the timeline inserted.
Check the Sega web page game descriptions or just look them up elsewhere, Sonic CD says it takes place after Sonic 2, while 4 follows 3&K, Generations also mentions it takes place after Colors.
Again most of this is based on in-game references, what has been stated on here http://forums.sonicretro.org/
While some help came from the speculative site http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_series#Chronology they state they do not have all the facts and are mostly guessing, plus we do not agree on a few things but that is beside the point.
If you do not want us to use the Word of God entry that's fine, I will even correct and reference both these sources but I am also using in-game references and Sega's officially stated game descriptions and manuals. It really should still be in Trivia tho.
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- Hey Its That Voice:
- Sonic: Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) in the American animated shows (AoStH, Sonic SatAM and Sonic Underground).
- Japanese-wise, the game SegaSonic the Hedgehog (A.K.A. Sonic Arcade) featured Takeshi "Trunks" Kusao as Sonic.
- And now as of Sonic Colors/Colours and Sonic Free Riders he is voiced by Roger Craig Smith (Chris Redfield, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Deidara, Shinji Hirako, Captain America, and Batman).
- For Eddie Lebron's fan-film, Jaleel White reprised his role as Sonic.
- Knuckles: Dan Green, better known for his work in Yu-Gi-Oh!.
- Or for the Japanese, it's Nobutoshi Canna.
- His new English voice actor LOVES DOGS!
- Amy: Went from Serenity Wheeler to Makoto Nanaya.
- In the Japanese version, Amy shares her voice with Maggie Simpson, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Suzu Fujibayashi & Hisami Shishin.
- Blaze/Maria: She used to be Luffy (the 4Kids one), but that didn't work out for her.
- Now she's currently voiced by Laura Bailey, known (among other roles) for Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Chip: Tony Salerno who voices Chazz Princeton in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
- Dr. Eggman: Robotnik has been voiced by blues singer Long John Baldry (in AoSTH), veteran voice actor Jim Cummings (in SatAM and the unaired pilot of AoSTH), Gary Chalk (the voice of Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal, and who voiced Grounder in AoSTH), Mike Pollock (Sonic X and all games starting from Shadow), and Chikao Ohtsuka (in the Japanese dub).
- Rouge: Her original voice was Luke Triton and also voices Pit and Lucas, as well as four of the Koopalings!
- And now she's voiced by the appropriately Stripperific character Fasalina.
- Big the Cat: He was originally voiced by Duke Nukem. Now he's voiced by Kamina. Shades-wearing badasses are apparently in his blood.
- E-123 Omega is now voiced by Edward Elric.
- Silver is now voiced by Quinton Flynn, otherwise known as Axel or Raiden.
- In the Japanese version he shares a voice with Shizuo Heiwajima, as well as Sebastian Michaelis
- As of 2010, Wave now shares the same Japanese and English voice as Sakura Haruno.
- Sonic: Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) in the American animated shows (AoStH, Sonic SatAM and Sonic Underground).
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Can anyone provide some proof regarding the validity of this "official timeline?"
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