Sonic Adventure est la première apparition du hérisson bleu entièrement en trois dimensions, et cela se passe sur Dreamcast. Six personnages jouables, des environnements riches et variés fidèles à l'esprit de la série, la quête annexe des Chaos, sortes de petits Tamagotchi qu'il faut élever dans le but de participer à des mini-jeux, sont les ingrédients de ce titre de plates-formes supersonique.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
