Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games!
 

Another Source: Nintendo Japan

EDIT: Yet Another Source Surfaces: Kotaku

Absolutely NOT an April Fool's dealie.

I will only play this if there's a mini game where I can punch Izzy in the nuts.

heh... who'd a thunk it, mario and sonic teaming up. I hope they include a power pad with this one.

I forsee the next mario cart having sonic in it too, hey maybe they will make a mario sonic team up platformer. getting carried away.

Anyway this game could be fun, well have to wait and see the details. I sure hope they get some running and hurdle jumping in, not sure how that will work with the wii-mote and nunchuck but we'll see...

maybe strap too wii-motes to your legs and run around the living room. Can't wait to see the lawsuits from people who plow over their HDTVs from that one :)

I was hoping that SSBB would be the first game in which Sonic and Mario team up, it would make the event seem more historic, but eh. Hope there's an extremely extensive roster with characters reaching far back into each series history. I also have my fingers crossed because I don't want this title turning out to be a Mario Party type clone...

Remember martin, SSBB comes out in June, This comes out at the end of the year. I think that if Sonic is an unlockable character, that would be the first game that they officially star together in. Thus it would be "historic". However, I don't think Sonic or any third party characters will be included in the mario kart games. However, I do think that Nintendo might just make a spin off kart game that is alot like SSBB.

I think this just further proves the evidence that Sonic is gonna be in SSBB!

Edit: Also Curse you Martin, i just saw it on digg and I was gonna post it.

Lawl, sowwie Dekoa... V_V

Didn't Mario Kart Arcade GP star quite a few Konami characters like Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man, and Blinky?

EDIT: ---> Yup. <--- They even came back for the sequel.

Last time I checked Pac-Man was Namco...

...and OMFG @ game. o_O

Oh duh. Silly me. Both names sound equally goofy, plus, I'm still having wet dreams about Metal Gear Solid 4... ^_^

yes, Pac-Man is Namco, but the arcade mario cart was developed by Namco so it makes sense that those characters appeared in it. SSBB may yet have a sonic character or two in it. Remember how many secret characters were in SSBM that were unannounced before the game released. I mean fire emblem characters, uber amounts of pokemon characters. I'm sure sonic will sneak in somehow considering Sega's current level of support.

And considering the olympics game. I hope since it is a major endevor that they don't get cheap on gfx. I know the nintendo philosophy, however, I am getting sick of seeing PS2 and GC quality gfx on a waaaaaaaaaaaay superior system. If it keeps happening I will have to UPS the devs a vile of piss (one per dev). hopefully they will spare me the trouble since I don't feel like drinking that much water:)

O...M...F...G! While I want to see how the game turns out, this is some very awesome news! Seriously, who would've thought that the first time these two met would be at the Olympics? Should make for a very interesting storyline. You have to wonder how it's going to work on the Wii and on the DS. Guess we'll have to wait and see when videos will probably start popping up in May.

Sonic in Brawl would be awesome. Also, I doubt Brawl would come out in June. That's just Gamestop's placeholder until they find the real date...unless this has also been confirmed?

Still, I can't wait for the Olympics now. :)

Maybe the two versions (Wii & DS) will feature wireless connectivity features? I have yet to see Nintendo use it in a game other than that Pokemon Wii Title...

Mathematical! Sonic and Mario appearing together at last in the least fun genre of videogame that exists. :(

Well, this means that he's definitely showing up in SSBB... (sigh).

PROOF, sauce, etc.

This is good news! :D

This is bad news ... :(

And that genre is...

Olympic Simulation?

Mario isnt even that fast, in his normal state at least.

Sonic automatically wins any type of footracing events, mario would pwn in somehting like a pole vault or something.

This is what I don't get. How could Mario race Sonic? :confused: However, it's cool to see these two mascots, and therefore Sega & Nintendo, team up. However, I would have liked to see Super Paper Sonic - it kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

THis thought made me giggle like a schoolgirl.

What if Nintendo and Sega got together and made a game where Sonic is trapped in Mario's universe and Mario is Trapped in Sonics Universe?

Speak for yourself. Yuck.

I never once doubted that he would be in SSBB, I just... really don't think he should be.

Try "Underwhelming, Excessive Minigame-fest". :><:

That would make for some massive winnage, in my book. In fact, that's exactly what I'd want a Sonic-Mario crossover to be. Either a switch of universes for the characters, or a single universe for the game featuring a fusion of Mario elements with the usual Sonic ones.

Olympics, though? My instinctive response is "I'll pass", but I guess we'll have to see how it turns out. With the wii's features, it may turn out to be more of a treat than I'm currently expecting.

When I first heard this title, I thought of the special olympics.

Or getting this game in a happy meal.

That sounds hilarious.

By the way, did those Spyro/Crash Bandicoot crossover games do well?

Were they even good games?

Ugh. The last thing I need to see is Mario with spiky golden hair fighting God with energy beams he fires from his hands. Sonic would get the sweet end of the deal there, not having to do anything but play golf and tennis and race go-karts all day...

Here's some excerpts from an Q&A: George Harrison and Simon Jeffery on the Mario/Sonic deal with GameDaily BIZ. - http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/fe...00500000000028

Sega Sports is pretty reputable when it comes to sports games so that's a good sign.

Makes me think the character could have the uniqueness in abilities like the characters had in Super Mario Bros. 2 USA(i.e. Toad was fast, Peach could float whiles jumping, Luigi could jump higher and Mario had pretty average stats.)

Not an April Fools prank, eh? I'll believe that when it's on the shelves, mound of sources or not.

I got this image on 4chan and I find it surprisingly true:
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Or at least, I wish it was true. Seriously speaking though:

If it's Sonic Team developing it, it'll be an average game with horrifically convulving storyline, annoying controls and impossible camera movement.

If it's developed by the people who do Mario however, it will be Mario Party 643 featuring Sonic.

News to me, no creditable site says anything close to that, unfortunately =(

Lol this game looks great... teaming two of one of the most popular mascots...

That's why you let AM2 develop it. They enough experience in arcade games, so having their hands in this would allow players to have short bursts of fun minigames without the annoying Mario Party feel. Too bad that'll never happen I think it'll end up being developed by Artoon or something.

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So hopefully it's more like

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instead of

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No...no way in hell would it be like Shadow the Hedgehog. Even I'll admit that would ruin the game. I hope that the six characters that are confirmed to be in the game aren't the only characters. You'd think they would at least put Peach in there since she's been apart of Mario games longer than Yoshi.

Now I'm also curious to see if Koji Kondo will be involved with the music.

Actually they have a lot of versatility with their characters. I can easily see each Mario character having a rival in the Sonic universe.

Sonic really needs to shave off much of his cast. Way too much impractical clutter to sell itself well to other game possibilites like this one. For something like this all he would need are the folks from SA1 (maybe 2 as well), and nothing more.

Mario - Sonic
Luigi - Tails
Peach - Amy
Yoshi - Knuckles
Bowser - Eggnuts
Wario - Shadow
Donkey Kong - Big
Hell, even Daisy - Rouge.


I can't picture anyone else having much use.

No, Rouge vs. Birdo.

Tranny vs. Tranny.

Have you ever played Decathlete / Athlete Kings? That thing had absolutely zero gameplay value, all you had to do was buttonmash to win. The game had nothing of value other then relatively good graphics.

But that's what makes Olympic games good! You build up the muscles in your button tapping fingers and get ready to take on the world in a realistic fashion.

Man, I'd rather not see Big in the game. You want to talk about useless, let's just say I really wasn't fond of the fishing levels. Omega or Gamma would probably work better, possibly Silver or Mecha Sonic, but that's still a good list.

You know if Wario's in there, then Waluigi is definitely going to be in there with him. As far as Mario sports games go, ever since Tennis for the N64 those two have been inseparable.

I'm sorry, I'm not following. :confused:

Waluigi is a completely useless character, not even made by the same guy that created Wario. As a result, he's never appeared in any of Wario's games, and as long as he keeps up that habit, I'm happy.

Logically, he'd have no place in this game at all if they're following the "every character has a rival" idea. Unfortunately, if Sega dominates production and ends up filling the game with their legions of useless characters, then Nintendo would have to follow suit and then we'd see tons of filler characters like Dry Bones, Hammer Brother, R.O.B., Birdo, Boo and Mr. Game and Watch.

The Mario enemies shouldn't at all be treated like main characters.

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MARIO IS FASTER THAN SONIC.

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TRYING TO WALK IN A STRAIGHT LINE WHILE DRUNK IS AN OLYMPIC SPORT IN THE DS VERSION.

Why do they all look like they're made of metal.

They're all robots. Just like the real Olympics!

Eggman in the 100m dash. I roffled a bit.

I'm more astounded by the fact that Bowser is in the 100m dash. At least Eggman has legs to run with.

Bowser should pwn everything.

But we all know that Bowser can run. He's been in sports games and proved that he could actually move.

Eggman, on the other hand, he's always been in some sort of robotic machine. :|

Robotnik was always running faster than Sonic in the old Mega Drive games! You'd beat him and ZOOM he'd be off to his next giant robot!

But they were always in machines. He drove off in them as they were about to blow themselves to kingdom come. I've never actually seen Eggman move on his own two feet before.

Never in my life.

I know he can move, but whether he can actually run is another matter entirely. Wasn't he always classified as a "Power" character and automatically became the slowest out of most of the others by default? I mean, all I ever see him doing in the sports games is scuttling and/or wobbling slowly towards something.

After you defeat his Final Zone giant crushing machine in the first Sonic, he runs to his Egg-mobile thingy, and there's no way you can catch up to him. Same with Sonic 2, after you beat Silver Sonic, Robotnik runs off to his huge Gundam Tonka Truck robot. He's the fastest thing alive!

If anyone played Sonic Adventure 2 and went to the Chao Lobby, you'd see Eggman running around on his own two feet. Better yet, he was in Virtua Striker 2002 and he was the biggest guy in the game. Had to make up for all those small chao in there.

Nope, Sonic's just letting Mario think that until Sonic puts on his true speed. :D

I really wish I could use my Power Pad on this game because that's what it's shaping to be like. Anyone remember the Power Pad? Fun stuff.

They better make it possible to make a GC Dance Pad compatible with this game... That would be interesting to use in place of the Power Pad.

Sonic vs Mario featuring Teletubbies!

Those are Panda Power Rangers. Get it right, dickhead. :mad:

Hahaha, if only they are actually Teletubbies and not the mascots of this series of Olympic Games. This would turn into the most WTF set of crossovers ever.

I hate you. :(

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For whatever reason, Sega released the Australian box art first. Replace the green rating with your rating of choice and that'll be the Euro and US box! :3:

There's also a new preview explaining how some of the games work.

YOU GOT BOOST POWER.

What I don't like about it, is the graphics, I mean, Smash already showed us how cool can Bowser/Mario/Peach look, yet every game besides Smash keeps the simple plain graphics. (Well this one adding the "metal look" as Krelian said)

This is basically a glorified Wii Sports, so I don't see much to get excited about other than the first meeting of two big franchises.

On the other hand, I hear it's coming out thanksgiving, beating out Brawl, so Sonic showing his face there won't nullify this game's claims of Sonic and Mario's first meeting.

Sega likes making everything look like its metal. They always did it with sonic and now mario and crew get the same treatment. They suck. =(

Yet the game doesn't feature Metal or Silver Sonic. Tsk tsk. :( First videoooo.

YouTube Video

For some reason I was under the impression this was coming to all platforms (near enough) rather than just the Wii and DS. Not sure where I got idea. Bit of a shame as I had great fun with Track & Field on XBLA and would certainly be interested to take a look at something like this which updates the idea.

So basically this game should just be taken as an updated version of Track & Field.

Amazing how they still barely use the wiimote other than "WIGGLE IT AROUND AIMLESSLY TO DO SHIT". Oh it's almost like TAPPING BUTTONS furiously!!! Is this unique and groundbreaking gameplay or what?!!?

Considering there's already going to be an updated version of Track & Field, that makes this games even more pointless.

HOLY BUCKET OF LARGE JESUS COMBO IT HAS SPARKSTER AND PYRAMID HEAD IN IT!

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This thread is now about Track & Field DS.

Sparkster for Brawl!

This game loses for not featuring a dual-Uzi wielding Sonic.

It should also be renamed to "Wii Random Minigame Collection #34" to avoid confusion.

Oh woo, that looks like it has the potential to be top notch. Cheers for the info.

God, tapping on your DS. I can just see people breaking their screens already. :(

So uh, Mario And Sonic was playable at Leipzig this past weekend. From video impressions I've seen thus far it seems pretty simple and will be extremely family friendly. And if that didn't BLOW your mind, I saw PEACH beat Sonic in the hurdles. If that ain't wrong, I don't know what is.

Doesn't suprise me. Peach's air game is far superior to Sonic's. However if it were Tails she was against and won on hurdles, well, well then fuck I don't know what to believe anymore.

Got my copy today and I will say it's at least worth a rent. It seems more like a multiplayer game than a single player. I can't get the 100 meter dash down but everything (that was already unlocked) can be quick to catch on.

Also, the characters aren't shiny. Sonic has his Sonic Adventure 2 look which is a plus.

I was expecting this game just to be a good multiplayer game, but I dunno whether or not I should blow $50 on it... I'm pretty sure that someone will hate their game soon, giving me the opportunity to go and buy it used.

But I just worry the idea of it all will dry up pretty quickly. And I'll probably be getting Super Mario Galaxy before this anyway. <_<

Are you sure that's not a Triad?

There's a section in the game called Gallery that gives you history info about the Olympics after you complete a book in a minigame. There's 5 books (5 challenges) for each minigame. If you complete the challenges, you can listen to new music in the Gallery. The first ones to be unlocked were the Overworld BGM from the original Super Mario Bros. and Green Hill Zone from the first Sonic game. It even fades out and then restarts the track. I just thought that was kinda neat.

Oh, and the music now plays while you're playing the minigames too.

Does that include Soap Shoes? It was the only damn improvement they ever made on his design, and they had to revert it to his status quo shoes after the game. I know it was a promotional one-shot, but honestly, his normal shoes look like something a clown is wearing.

Picked this up the other day as I wait for Subpar Mazza Galaxy of prawns next week. I'm liking it a lot, I've always had a raging hardon for olympic style mash mash mash mindlessly until the bones in your fingers turn into paste games though. :( They've translated that pretty well to motion controls, my arms are killing me. Constantly having to pull knives out of my chest that they sneak in.

There are a few turds, like rowing. Seems like the instant you slightly get out of rhythm you can never hope to recover, then you're stuck listening to your character repeat the same line again and again and again as they slowly row gently down the stream. Javelin's far too complex for such a thing, and the less said about _____ ______, the better. There's a shit load of content packed into the game which is pretty awesome-o-tastic and the graphics seem fairly impressive, GRASS BLOWS IN THE WIND AND CLOUDS CAST SHADOWS whoa 1999. The characters don't appear to have that weird shiny metal glow to them either. The Dream Events are great too. Like sky diving and running around while trying to avoid Robotni-Eggman's robots. Pity they're the robots from Sonic Heroes. 0/10.

So this game isn't completely useless even though Sonic's in Brawl?