Tech's sonic boom: Although just a little blue hedgehog, Sonic has inspired a generation of gamers since 1991 and is now a film star in 2020. And on this journey, gaming tech has had a profound effect on computing developments

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SEGA's LAUNCH of its Mega Drive console in the late 1980s was a near-textbook example of how to get ahead in what had been for years the most cut-throat part of the technology sector. Earlier that decade, Sega had been a leader in arcade games but found that business was hit hard as users found they were just as happy to play at home on simpler computers hooked up to a TV instead of feeding coins to a more capable machine in a busy mall.