Sonic's Schoolhouse

Sonic's Schoolhouse
Sonic's Basics in Education and Learning
Genre(s): Edutainment Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Release: October 18, 1996 Developer(s): BAP Interactive Orion Interactive Publisher(s): Sega (2001-present) Country: United States Series: Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic's Schoolhouse is a 1996 edutainment game developed by BAP Interactive and Orion Interactive and published by Sega for the Microsoft Windows.

Why Sonic Should Get Expelled from the Schoolhouse

1. The level design looks like it was ripped from Wolfenstein 3D.
2. The opening music was recycled from the Gumball Bonus Stage from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Likewise, one of the classroom tracks is also used in The Incredible Machine, and the music for the 3D Concentration game was taken from "Reggae", one of the SoundBlaster demo MIDIs.
3. Awful voice acting, especially Sonic, who sounds nothing like any of his other incarnations.
4. You don't actually play as Sonic in this game, he only appears as a guide. You instead play as weird looking "alien" things and extremely deformed facial expressional animals.
5. The FMVs of the animals, characters you can choose in the main menu before playing, are creepy and of poor quality, especially the pig.
   • Considering the target demographic, this comes off as nightmare fuel.
   • Not only do the animals look creepy, but the numbers and letters that appear in these games have weird eyes that also come off as creepy.
6. The minigames are boring.
7. Simply a cheap cash-in on the Sonic franchise.
8. Overall uninteresting gameplay in both aspects (entertainment and education).
9. It has just two topics to teach, which are words and numbers, and the educative content is extremely basic.
10. When trying to exit the game, it sometimes causes Windows to get a BSOD.
11. Awful box art.
12. It can't run on x64 computers, which means you can't run it on most modern PCs. If you have an x64 computer, you can only run it on a virtual machine.
    • To be fair, x64 computers weren't popular in the 90s.
13. An idea of an educational Sonic game is bad enough.

Redeeming Qualities

1. This game fulfills its mission of being educational software. It is just disliked by Sonic fans and gamers in general since it's not meant to be a game beyond that.
2. While the graphics are somewhat poor, they are lively for the most part. Not to mention Sonic's sprites are ripped from the cancelled Sonic Xtreme, which is pretty nice on its own.

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