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Sonic Drift

Sonic Drift is a racing game whose gameplay style and controls are heavily based on Sega's arcade game Out Run. Here, the players race around a race course against the other three characters for a top position…

18 April 1994

Sonic Drift is a racing developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 18 April 1994 on Sega Game Gear.

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What Sonic Drift is

Sonic Drift is a racing game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1994. It is available on Sega Game Gear only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sonic Drift is a racing game whose gameplay style and controls are heavily based on Sega's arcade game Out Run. Here, the players race around a race course against the other three characters for a top position in the race. The game's single player mode is Chaos GP, where the player's goal is to win three different circuits (green, yellow and red). Each circuit is made of six different race courses that the player is taken through in succession. Each race course is composed of a circuit which needs to be completed thrice. The playable characters have rather simple controls, their basic actions being accelerating to move forward, breaking, and moving left or right on the tracks. In tight…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Drift is the 24th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Tails and the Music Maker in 1994.

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What it launched against

Sonic Drift launched on 18 April 1994, within three weeks of Final Fantasy III, FINAL FANTASY VI, Sensible World of Soccer and Magic Carpet.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy III, FINAL FANTASY VI, Sensible World of Soccer, Magic Carpet.

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When did Sonic Drift come out?
Sonic Drift was released on 18 April 1994 for Sega Game Gear.

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