Mario & Sonic At The Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition (2016) – The most recent hedgehog appearance to arcades just arrived a few weeks ago as Sega Amusements began shipping this title to venues worldwide.
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While this can be set to “Amusement Mode” so it plays like a regular arcade game without tickets, I’m not aware of any locations out there that use the setting. The ‘Exteme’ arcade build kicks it up a few notches by offering a huge 55″ screen and a unique, oversized D-pad controller. That includes redemption pieces like Sonic Blast Ball air hockey tables basketball games and a videmption game based upon a mobile endless runner title that is more commonly known as Sonic Dash. Sonic Dash Extreme (2015) – Arriving at games which are currently being sold and manufactured, Sega has gladly been making use of the Sonic image an character across several games. It is interesting in that it seems to have set the stage for the recent Mario & Sonic Olympics game we’ll get into in a moment. Sonic Athletics (2013) – If you haven’t heard of this one before then no worries – as an attraction for the Tokyo Joypolis, it was never developed to be a wide arcade release. This used a special hand-crank controller for the game portion of it. Segasonic Popcorn Shop (1993) – Sonic worked when combined to sell a kiddie ride so why not an interactive popcorn vendor? That’s right – play an arcade game where Robotnik is trying to steal your popcorn end up getting real popcorn from it. Using trackballs to control the action, it also had support for 3 player co-op, where additional players could be the little known characters Ray and/or Mighty. This brought us the unique Segasonic The Hedgehog title which featured more detailed, isometric graphics running on their 32-bit System 32 hardware. Segasonic The Hedgehog (1993) – The release of Sonic The Hedgehog was a huge boon to Sega on the home side and since they were a major player in arcades as well, it made sense to give Sonic his own arcade outing. (circa 1992) – A recent discovery showed that a puzzle game based on the Segasonic idea was in the works and by Bubble Bobble creator Fukio Mitsuji. The game didn’t test very well so ended up in the dustbin fortunately it was Mega Tech’s are rare depending on the region however, the cabinet never attaining the same level of popularity as Nintendo’s solution at the time.
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Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2 (1991/1993) – Thanks to Sega’s own answer to the popular Pla圜hoice-10 known as the Mega Tech (also the Mega Play, which featured fewer cartridge slots) arcade patrons could experience Sonic The Hedgehog without owning the home console.
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Granted, the games are still basic since the target audience was small children (that said, as this video shows, adults could fit into the ride): Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car (1991) – A lot of kiddie rides are fairly lame but Sega gave a couple of them Sonic level upgrades with this and the following title.
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Rad Mobile was noteworthy for other reasons as well – it was Sega’s first step into 32-bit based hardware and the game cabinet was closer to a simulator ala Hard Drivin’. Rad Mobile (1990) – Throwing a little wrench into the mix is the actual first appearance of Sonic in a video game but since he was just a car accessory and not a primary element to the game, the anniversary sticks with the official release of Sonic on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive. To celebrate the anniversary, let’s take a look at the various appearances of the beloved character in the arcade space (Sega’s real playground). That would be Sega’s speedy blue fuzzball, Sonic The Hedgehog.
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June 23rd and that marks a milestone in video gaming as one of the most popular game mascots turns 25 years old.