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Game Boy Advance - Nintendo's handheld portable
system; the first playable Sonic game was Sonic Advance
GameCube - Nintendo's console; the first playable Sonic
game was Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Game Gear - Sega's
8-bit portable handheld system
Gamma - the code name of a robot labeled E-102y
Genesis - Sega's
16-bit system
Geoffrey St. John - a skunk that appears in Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog series
Gerald Robotnik - a professor who designed ARK and was involved in creating Project Shadow
Gizoid - a robot (also called Emerl) in Sonic Battle
that is from an ancient civilization and can learn how to fight by watching others
fight; the robot was soon discovered by Professor Gerald Robotnik, who began to research the robot and
its power
Gliding Knuckles Attack - a move Knuckles the Echidna performs by gliding
to destroy robots
Goal ring - appears at the end of stages and must be touched to complete the stage
Gold Ring - see Ring
Gold shield - a shield that protects Sonic from an attack
and allows him to perform a blast attack in Sonic 3D Blast
Great Forest - the forest that protects Knothole in Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog series and SatAM
Grimer - an assistant to Robotnik in Sonic the Comic
Grind - to slide down a rail while standing; can be performed
by wearing Soap shoes
Grounder - a robot that appeared mainly in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
GUN - the codename for a secret military base introduced in
Sonic Adventure 2/Sonic Adventure 2 Battle