Walk of Game unveiling
Contemporary reporting establishes the game's public unveiling around Sonic's Walk of Game induction. This is the reveal event, not the preserved trailer's release date.
Trailers &
Commercials
A record of the moving-image campaign: announcement footage, promotional movies, television and cinema advertising, gameplay footage, and the m-flo collaboration.
A campaign in motion
The surviving record spans much more than one launch trailer. Sonic Stadium preserves several named commercials and promotional videos, GameSpot retains an index of official trailers, gameplay movies, a developer interview and Nintendo E3 footage, and Sonic Channel's first-party update log records when promotional movies appeared on the Japanese official site.
Dates below are kept narrow. In particular, the March 8 Walk of Game unveiling and the March 15 date attached to the preserved announcement trailer are not treated as the same event.
Known video record
Announcement trailer
Sonic Stadium's archive identifies the preserved Walk of Game announcement trailer as originally released March 15, 2005.
E3 footage and gameplay
GameSpot's surviving video index includes official trailers, gameplay movies, a developer interview, and Nintendo E3 2005 demo-showcase footage. These belong to the work-in-progress record.
Open the E3 2005 archive →Japanese promotional movie
Sonic Channel's 2005 update log records a promotional movie being added to the official site's screenshot area.
Another promotional movie
The first-party update log records a second promotional-movie update. The dossier does not establish a safe title for it.
TRIPOD BABY video + TV commercial
The official-site chronology records publication of the TRIPOD BABY (SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG MIX) promotional movie and television commercial.
Commercials
60-second television / cinema spot
Sonic Stadium identifies a high-quality 60-second UK advertisement circulated in cinemas and on television.
30-second spot
A separate 30-second commercial is exposed by Sonic Stadium's related-video records. The research dossier does not establish original broadcaster or agency provenance.
Having a Blast
A separate spot survives under this title. It remains a target for fuller regional and production metadata.
m-flo loves Shadow
A dedicated Japanese commercial survives from the m-flo collaboration. It is distinct from the longer TRIPOD BABY promotional music video.
TRIPOD BABY
SEGA documented the m-flo collaboration shoot on October 9. On November 2, Sonic Channel said the Shadow remix had reached the iTunes Music Store and that its CG footage would be used in TV advertising from late November and made viewable on the official Shadow website.
m-flo
LOVES
SHADOW
LOVES
SHADOW
Still to resolve
Regional commercial matrix
Identify original US, UK, European, German and Japanese broadcaster, agency, press-kit, or release provenance.
Official video titles
Map GameSpot's surviving video entries to original SEGA titles and dates without treating later upload dates as release dates.
Original files
Locate original-resolution trailer and commercial files with filenames and provenance where recoverable.
October / November movies
Identify exactly which official-site promotional movies correspond to the October 3 and November 14 updates.
Research sources
- Sonic Stadium — Walk of Game announcement trailer
- Sonic Stadium — UK 60-second commercial
- Sonic Stadium — Japanese m-flo commercial
- Sonic Stadium — TRIPOD BABY promotional video
- GameSpot — surviving video index
- Sonic Channel — 2005 official-site update log
- Sonic Channel — m-flo collaboration shoot
- Sonic Channel — TRIPOD BABY campaign