Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games

[robotriot]

Don't know if it has been posted yet, but there's going to be a game with Mario and Sonic in it for the Olympic Games in Bejing next year. I've only found a German article on it so far though. Bit early for an april fool anyway ;)

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,833881,00.jpg

[FantasiaWHT]

Yeah, and Sonic and Tails were unlockable in Super Smash Bros. Melee...

[jajaja]

Hehe, cute concept. Will probly be fun :)

[GrayFox]

http://www.sega.com/gamesite/marioandsonic/index.php

I said wow.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Damn, it's about time..

[GM80]

Why? Sonic wins the athletic competitions, Mario wins the pipe-tightening and mushroom-eating competitions, and fanboys' heads explode.

[jajaja]

Why? Sonic wins the athletic competitions, Mario wins the pipe-tightening and mushroom-eating competitions, and fanboys' heads explode.

lol ye, everyone knows that Sonic will win at stuff like 100/400 meter dash and marathon.

[cyberfluxor]

I see fanboys clashing heads indeed. I don't know about everyone else but that just looks very very strange. It's going to take a bit of getting use to.

[agbulls]

The announcement is huge--yes. But why make this the first team up? Talk about a boring idea. Olympics? zzzzz.

Hopefully this is a sign of Sega and Nintendo teaming up to bring the Sonic characters to Super Smash Bros Brawl. Now THAT is an announcement.

[Push Upstairs]

Beijing is the summer Olympics, right?

Who has the more skilled crew of pointless friends to win the synchronized swimming gold medal?

[Frica89]

Wait, this is for real?!? :o


I saw it on IGN and passed it off as an April Fools joke. Sounds like an interesting concept.

[Snapple]

If this is real, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

People have been waiting for 16 years for Mario and Sonic to be in the same video game, and I cannot think of a more anti-climactic announcement than for their first collaboration to be an Olympic game.

If this is true, it is the very definition of "dropping the ball."

[Damaniel]

The End Times are truly here, and Hell hath frozen over. Repent, ye sinners! Sonic and Mario in the same game? Heresy, I say!

Enough of that. ;) Actually, I'm not sure what to think. Olympics-themed games tend to suck (actually, forget the 'tend' part -- they just plain suck), but if Nintendo is doing the development, the game might actually be fun. Of course, the 100m dash will be no contest -- Sonic FTW!!

[Garry Silljo]

Of course, the 100m dash will be no contest -- Sonic FTW!!

Maybe Sonic has to run with heavy ankle weights to make it fair?

[lordnikon]

2 rival console mascots + mainstream outside intellectual property = the end of the video game world as I know it.

First Sonic kissing human chicks, and now this.

Game over.

[djsquarewave]

[...]but if Nintendo is doing the development, the game might actually be fun.
Be afraid. IGN says it's being developed and published by Sega with Miyamoto's involvement.

...I really feel odd typing that sentence. Hell, this whole thing screams either "april fools" or "fake-out before real announcement". Certainly makes the Sonic in SSBB speculation a little more plausible.

[Push Upstairs]

Let us pray to, well, *ANY* deity of choice that this really is an April Fool's joke.

It pains me to be afraid that SEGA is developing, right in the heart type of pain.

I hope it's a joke.
I hope it's a joke.
I hope it's a joke.
X_x

[Rogmeister]

I think it could be interesting. There's a lot of events they could use. Obviously, Sonic should win all the foot races, but at least Mario would dominate in the hammer toss...

[scooterb23]

I think MArio is a better swimmer as well.

I mean, look how long he can hold his breath!

[djsquarewave]

http://wii.ign.com/articles/777/777142p1.html

Development sources tell IGN Wii that, although SEGA Japan will be officially credited as the creator of Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, another studio is actively working on the project. The company is Tose, which has contributed to more than 1,000 games since its inception in 1979, but has rarely been sourced.
So, uh. Yeah. I guess someone needs a scapegoat?

I have to wonder if all the rampant speculation about what they've worked on is simply their way of breaking into the American industry's mindset. At the least, they're being talked about regularly. At even less... (http://www.vgrebirth.org/games/company.asp?id=1591)

Of course, it wouldn't be surprising in the least if it were true.

[Jorpho]

Wait, so it hasn't been confirmed that this really is a joke?

Because it is, right?

Right?

[smokehouse]

BUMP...

Has anyone played this title yet?

It's getting a pretty solid score from IGN but I was wonder what you guys think about it.

[YoshiM]

The first time I played it was Friday. I hated it. Could not get into the controls, didn't even rank in the events I played. Last night was asked to play again and I shrugged and said yes. After watching others play, I was able to figure out what the hell I had to do. After the proverbial light bulb appeared over my head along with a passage of three solid hours, I love the game.

The game is NOT "pick up and play". There be many events where it takes smooth movements and some serious timing. The triple jump is an excellent example: you have to do the running motion (which thankfully "locks" the speed so you don't have to do that the whole time) then you must raise (not flick) the remote, followed by the nunchuk just before you touch ground, then the remote again for the final jump. May sound easy but it's not. In swimming the characters all have different motions to swim: Mario you alternate stabbing out with the chuk and remote, Eggman you kinda "clap" the chuk and remote, Vector the gator you move the chuk and remote together side to side, etc. while pressing B at the right time to breathe.

The only real nitpick I have is that it's not really explained how to open up new events. For half the time we played the circuit mode in multiplayer but nothing was even remotely unlocked. The instructions kind of hint at single player, but it only mentions "trophies"-not if courses will get unlocked. Switching to single player in Circuit mode, we were able to attain the trophies and by placing in the top 3 we were able to unlock new circuits and events.

I highly suggest to play this with friends rather than alone. I just can't see playing this game by oneself when the amount of fun is huge with three other people ribbing, laughing and just getting into the game. Too much fun.

[dlopez9069]

yeah i rented it and its great. I thought the motions were pretty easy even though i suck at the jumps. I've unlocked just about everything, oh and yes its single player you have to play, but i still don't see what the crowns are or how you get them. overall though great for a fun little party with your friends or siblings but alone youll pretty much beat it in a couple days.

[Nz17]

During the past 10 years or so, I've been buying these games as they've gotten to be less than $20 each with used copies of the video games. By now I have about half of them, although I haven't bought the ones for the Nintendo Switch nor the Nintendo Wii U yet. I have most of them for the Nintendo DS, 3DS, and Nintendo Wii video game consoles by now, I believe. The Nintendo Wii one for the Winter Olympics running via my Nintendo Wii U and HDTV looks practically like a modern game - to me anyway. I was impressed by how fun it was from the few minutes I played the game during the last few years.

[YoshiM]

I haven't touched those games, well, probably since I made my post back in 2007. I didn't even get the additional releases after 2007. I still wouldn't play it alone and my kids are not the type that would play a single player and then pass the controller so everyone could get a turn. They get too bored too quickly and would move to something else (and this is from newly adult on down).

Nz17-what was the last Olympics game to come out for the Wii/Wii U?

[Nz17]

Nz17-what was the last Olympics game to come out for the Wii/Wii U?

M&S 2016 - The USA copies are now expensive, EU ones less so.