Now here's something rare and interesting to see.
This is a pair of Sonic themed black kids sneakers from the 1990s. They are QUITE uncommon. However, many fans remember seeing these shoes either worn by others, in a store, or in photos so they were very often reported on, but with no photos to prove exactly what they looked like up until now. Why so many people have memories of them, but they are still/were still so rare is a mystery.
The other mystery here is what shoe company made them? It isn't evident, but they are actually pretty stylish. There's multi-color embroidery for the Sega logo on the heel. There is a zooming/jumped Sonic for both sides of the back of the shoe that's pretty big. A pick-up band of color in red/blue/yellow goes along the side to across the toe. The lace holes are red accented, & a red pattern is on the interior & top edge. The box is also clearly quite Sonic themed with him on there & comic book 'exploding blocks' style font too, plus logos & checkering all around.

The shoes in this photo are new, they still have the paper hang tag on there. So, that means that either somebody has kept the shoes since day 1, or these are very old photos. This is probably in the hand of a Sonic collector somewhere.