Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)

Quality:

Sonic the Hedgehog - 1991 video game. This video game is the 720^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 136^th most popular video game in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.7 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7132^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 136^th most popular in video games in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 720^th most popular in video games.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4946^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7132^nd place) and edited by 2116 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sonic the Hedgehog is on the 136^th place in local ranking of video games in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 720^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 63 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3121 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #304 in February 2012
• Global: #4372 in November 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4946 in June 2025
• Global: #8232 in September 2012

There are 34 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 刺猬索尼克 (1991年游戏)		100
2	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog (videogioco 1991 16-bit)		90.5263
3	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)		88.5714
4	Catalan (ca) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojoc)		87.6923
5	Spanish (es) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojuego de 1991)		87.1429
6	Turkish (tr) Kirpi Sonic (video oyunu, 1991)		77.5022
7	Russian (ru) Sonic the Hedgehog (16 бит)		72.9582
8	German (de) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)		41.7053
9	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (1991年のゲーム)		37.7973
10	Greek (el) Sonic the Hedgehog (βιντεοπαιχνίδι)		37.3764

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)		4 509 714
2	Spanish (es) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojuego de 1991)		459 217
3	Russian (ru) Sonic the Hedgehog (16 бит)		441 358
4	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (jogo eletrônico de 1991)		337 480
5	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (1991年のゲーム)		278 976
6	French (fr) Sonic the Hedgehog (jeu vidéo, 1991, version 16 bits)		237 036
7	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog (videogioco 1991 16-bit)		121 562
8	Polish (pl) Sonic the Hedgehog (gra komputerowa 16-bit)		51 245
9	German (de) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)		45 856
10	Chinese (zh) 刺猬索尼克 (1991年游戏)		41 603

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)		24 632
2	Russian (ru) Sonic the Hedgehog (16 бит)		2 240
3	Spanish (es) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojuego de 1991)		1 599
4	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (1991年のゲーム)		1 169
5	Simple English (simple) Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)		1 137
6	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (jogo eletrônico de 1991)		971
7	French (fr) Sonic the Hedgehog (jeu vidéo, 1991, version 16 bits)		826
8	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog (videogioco 1991 16-bit)		720
9	Chinese (zh) 刺猬索尼克 (1991年游戏)		437
10	German (de) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)		419

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)		1 065
2	Spanish (es) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojuego de 1991)		135
3	French (fr) Sonic the Hedgehog (jeu vidéo, 1991, version 16 bits)		119
4	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog (videogioco 1991 16-bit)		103
5	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (jogo eletrônico de 1991)		97
6	Russian (ru) Sonic the Hedgehog (16 бит)		96
7	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (1991年のゲーム)		63
8	Swedish (sv) Sonic the Hedgehog (spel)		39
9	Finnish (fi) Sonic the Hedgehog (videopeli)		33
10	Dutch (nl) Sonic the Hedgehog (computerspel)		31

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)		7
2	Spanish (es) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojuego de 1991)		2
3	French (fr) Sonic the Hedgehog (jeu vidéo, 1991, version 16 bits)		2
4	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog (videogioco 1991 16-bit)		2
5	Hebrew (he) סוניק הקיפוד (משחק וידאו, 1991)		1
6	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (1991年のゲーム)		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (jogo eletrônico de 1991)		1
8	Arabic (ar) القنفذ سونيك (لعبة فيديو 1991)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Sonic the Hedgehog (videojoc)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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