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People don't just lose interest in a franchise if there isn't a release for a year or two, if anything that's a more modern social media-poisoned outlook. SEGA fans in the 90s were known to be especially loyal and people were still buying Genesis games up until '97 in the US, so a lot of chances for kids to become newly acquainted with the best titles.

Also, you gotta remember Archie's Sonic comics were having their greatest success in the 90s when the rest of the industry was doing crazy shit. If you were a pre-teen in that decade, you had the choice between one industry giant that was reinventing its canon every other year with insane crossovers that made it difficult for a newcomer to approach, the other industry giant running the same convoluted canon since the 60s that was experimenting with mature themes and shockbait, or a bunch of fly-by-night outfits that would more likely than not fold entirely before you could get really attached to their "fresh" approach to storytelling. And Mom wouldn't have bought any of those for you with everything she heard in the news about violence in media, so kids were more likely to be allowed the funny animal comic by the traditionally family-friendly Archie Comics