15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Sonic The Hedgehog
10. Those Infuriating Water Levels Shouldn't Have Existed
Apparently, back when Sonic was being conceptualised (in an internet-less age, remember), designer Yuji Naka mistakenly thought that hedgehogs couldn't swim, resulting in the 'chase-the-air-bubble' underwater sections of the first game. Post-release, many fans have pointed out that was entirely not the case, although with no way to rectify their mistake, we had to suffer through them all the same.