Sonic Compilation

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Sonic Compilation

Developer(s)	Sega
Publisher(s)	Sega
Designer(s)	Various
Release date(s)	1995 (Mega Drive)/1997 (Sega Genesis)
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB, ELSPA, BBFC: not rated
Platform(s)	Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Media	24-megabit cartridge
Input	Game controller

Sonic Compilation is a game compilation released in 1995 for the Sega Mega Drive containing three previously released Sonic titles: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. The 1997 released North American Genesis version was renamed to Sonic Classics 3 in 1.

Sonic Compilation was the first collection of multiple Sonic games on one cartridge. In some locations, it even was bundled with the console during its later years.

The three games appear in exactly the same form as their original release, meaning that old cheats still work. The only new content is a game selection menu, controlled by using the left and right directions on the D-pad and new sprite renderings of the box art for each of the three games. The menu was changed in later released versions.

Once a game is selected, one is not able to go back to the menu unless the console is reset or turned off and on again.

The background music and chime heard when a game is selected on the game selection menu are from the Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine game.