Sonic the Hedgehog creator looks back on famous character
Sonic the Hedgehog's creator had "never seen anything like it in a video game" before he designed it. Tom Kalinske, former head of toy company Mattel, recalls how he couldn't believe how quickly the character was able to move across the screen in the early 1990s when it was first created. He said: "The character moved very, very quickly across the screen. I'd never seen anything like that in a video game before." And Kalinske can't believe how well the Sonic character has done. He added: "From day one, once we saw that Sonic was the character we were going with I wanted to have a television sh...