IGN called Sonic Pocket Adventure a system seller and a proving ground for the development team, as many members of the staff would go on to develop several more Sonic games for handheld systems as Dimps. IGN included Sonic Pocket Adventure on their wishlist of games for the Virtual Console on the Nintendo DSi. Although the Neo Geo Pocket Color was not commercially successful, Retro Gamer still called it a "fantastically playable" machine with Sonic Pocket Adventure being one of the best games in the system's library and the Sonic catalog. GamesRadar listed the game at number six among their list of top 25 Sonic games of all time. In 2023, Time Extension identified Sonic Pocket Adventure'' as one of the best games for the NGPC. Notes References External links (English, archived) (Japanese, archived) 1999 video games Neo Geo Pocket Color games Sega video games Side-scrolling video games Sonic the Hedgehog video games Multiplayer and single-player video games SNK games Video games developed in Japan