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Sonic Jam

Sonic Jam is a video game compilation developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn and was the first Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature full 3D gameplay. It was released in Japan in June…

20 June 1997

Sonic Jam is an adventure developed by Sonic Team, released 20 June 1997 on Sega Saturn.

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What Sonic Jam is

Sonic Jam is an adventure game developed by Sonic Team and released in 1997. It was published by Sega. It is available on Sega Saturn only. It runs on TrueMotion.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sonic Jam is a video game compilation developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn and was the first Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature full 3D gameplay. It was released in Japan in June 1997, and in North America and Europe two months later. It contains the four main Sonic the Hedgehog games released on the Sega Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994), and Sonic & Knuckles (1994). It also features a 3D environment, "Sonic World", which doubles as an interactive museum of Sonic the Hedgehog content.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Jam is the 51st of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic the Hedgehog in 1997.

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What it launched against

Sonic Jam launched on 20 June 1997, within three weeks of Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire and Triple Play 98.

Released around the same time: Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire, Triple Play 98.

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When did Sonic Jam come out?
Sonic Jam was released on 20 June 1997 for Sega Saturn.

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