Earlier this week Blake J. Harris gave us a brief look at Nintendo's official character guide, but no recounting of Nintendo's mid-1990s history is complete without looking at the comparative Sega side of the story. With that in mind, Steve Lin has dug up the company's official style guide for the world of Sonic the Hedgehog and shared a few pages. It's more in-your-face than the Nintendo guide with lots of character art of Sonic breaking the fourth wall and speaking to the reader. It's another interesting look back in time at simpler times before Sonic had a dozen friends and lost what made him so approachable.

No 'Yoshi's name' reveals but following in @blakejharrisNYC's footsteps by posting a few pages of a Sonic style guide pic.twitter.com/EgoG1jgRS7 — stevenplin (@stevenplin) August 7, 2014