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.

[Frica89]

Wait, this is for real?!?


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.