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3''Sonic the Hedgehog The Screen Saver'', also known as ''Sonic the Screen Saver'', is a 1996 program for Windows. It's a stand-alone product in Japan but was bundled with ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic & Knuckles Collection]]'' internationally.
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5As the name implies, it's a ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' themed screen saver program. The program features ''Sonic'' artwork from the Sega internal magazine/news-letter ''Harmony'' alongside music from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''. There are also little sprite-based animations that occur between images.
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7The artworks consists mostly of mundane depictions of Sonic, Tails, and the "animal critters" hanging out. The art shown in ''Sonic the Hedgehog The Screen Saver'' has been reused in several other compilation games such as ''VideoGame/SonicJam''.
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10!!''Sonic the Hedgehog The Screen Saver'' provides examples of:
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12* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Quite a few artworks depict Sonic completely dressed up.
13* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: They're not show clearly, however the artwork features some of the first non-Eggman humans in the games. This was also seen in ''Anime/SonicTheAnimation'' and would later be expanded upon in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''.
14* PartiallyCivilizedAnimal: The animal friends can drive cars and act like people, but they don't wear clothes, they live as WoodlandCreatures, and they don't talk.

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