When the setting up the North American continuity of Sonic, why did they name it Mobius? Why couldn't they called it Earth back then?
The only over references to the word mobius I'm aware of are:
A) The Mobius Strip from my analytical geometry class.
B) Dr. Mobius from the C&C series.
Other than the Sonic universe I've never heard the word before.
~Tobe
The only thing I can think of is it being a random, obscure and vaguely scientific name from the Mobius strip.
I wouldn't mind looking up the etymology of the original name "Mobius", though.
The Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, based on the videogame series, takes place on the planet Mobius. This stems from a mistranslation of Yuji Naka stating that a Mobius strip was used in the videogame Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
This seems to be the popular theory. Naka was referring to the elongated loop that premiered in Emerald Hill.
I've heard the term "Moebius" has generally meant "rebirth", so I'd assumed they just took out a letter and used "Mobius", implying that it's really a "rebirth" of Earth.
I doubt that Sega had that idea in development back in 1991, though.
I dunno if the planet even received that name in 1991, though; all of the main Genesis games make no mention of the planet's name (barring Sonic CD, but the manual for that was FUBAR anyway - note how Amy Rose becomes Princess Sally). The comics and cartoons did, so logically I could guess that it started circa 1993 with the Dic cartoons, but even then, I think there was another Disney Adventures comic that came before even that... and I can't remember the date for that. Was that 1991?...
