Being a mascot isn’t easy work; the vast number of games that Sega has produced featuring
the likes of Sonic is a testament to that.
Sonic has not only appeared in a slew of his own games, but has been featured in multiple
cross overs, sometimes being the headlining character, while with others, making a cameo
as a playable character.
So today, we’re exploring the wide variety of Sonic crossovers that are out there in
the video game ether with our list of the top 10 sonic cross overs.
10 Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing All-Stars Racing was Sega’s attempt at trying
to recreate Mario Kart, but with their own properties.
And while the game has received decent reviews, the biggest problem with it is that Sega’s
All-Stars feel a little bit more like D-listers.
While Sonic is arguably one of the most popular video game characters of all time, his SEGA
counterparts feel a little more lacking, like Billy Hatcher from Billy Hatcher and the Giant
Egg, and Amigo from Samba De Amigo.
That being said, the game was fairly stacked with Sonic characters, featuring the likes
of Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Robotnik, Shadow, Metal Sonic and even Big the Cat as options
for players.
9 Sonic Dash Angry Birds Epic Moving on to a mobile game, looks like Sega
also jumped on the Angry Bird bandwagon – which yes, is apparently still a thing.
In what some critics have called a failed attempt at being relevant again, the Angry
Birds Sonic Dash Epic game was part of a three week limited time promotion in 2013 in which
characters from Angry Birds Epic were featured in Sonic Das.
8 Lego Dimensions Lego Dimensions was a 2015 game that followed
the ‘toys-to-life’ format which incorporated game play and real life Lego toys with a USB
toy pad.
The line has since been cancelled back in October 2017, but during its life span, various
different DLC and add on packs were released, including a Sonic one that featured the hedgehog
as a Lego figure.
The game felt like a Lego-ized 3D version of some classic Sonic levels, jam packed with
familiar faces.
7 Christmas NiGHTS Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams was a promotional
sampler disc of the game Nights into Dream, created by Sega.
In an extra for the game, there’s a whole level called Sonic the Hedgehog: Into Dreams,
where you can play as Sonic, navigating through the festively themed 3D world.
It makes sense that a game developed by Sonic Team would feature the famous hedgehog himself
in their games.
The character of NiGHTS has also made their own appearances, big and small, in a variety
of Sonic games, with the count currently being 19 as of this recording.
6 Tamagotchi Park This 1998 game for the Sega Saturn was titled
Sega Saturn de Hakken!
Tamagotchi Park, and was a 2D tamagotchi game that allowed players to have tamagotchis the
likes of multiple Sega characters.
So of course ,that included Sonic.
Known as Sonictchi, the character was the spitting image of Sonic, and in terms of behavior,
was pretty impatient and needy.
He would also sleep in a ball, which was pretty darn cute.
5 Virtua Striker 3 Virtua Striker was a football game series
made by Sega that began in 1994.
The third game, which came out in 2001, featured a new unlockable team called FC Sonic, which
was an entire football team made up of Sonic characters, including Tails, Knuckles, Amy
Rose and Robotnik – who, of course, is the goalkeeper.
Even better, the team’s manager is Yuji Naka, who was the lead programmer of the original
Sonic the Hedgehog series and the former head of Sonic Team.
4 Fighting Vipers Ever wanted to try playing as Sonic in a fighting
game?
Well, Fighting Vipersa 3D fighting game developed by Sega AM2 back in 1995 opened up that window
of opportunity.
Initially, Sonic and Tails were put into the game for a good laugh, but after players responded
positively to their inclusion, this spawned Sega AM@ to commission a sonic fighting game,
known as Sonic the Fighters, which was released in 1996.
3 Sonic Pac-Man Mobile Crossover One of the coolest things Sega has done in
recent years, the mobile game cross over between Sonic and Pac Man is as awesome as you’d
imagine it to be.
Simple and well executed, the crossover involved Pac Man & Ms Pac-Man making an appearance
in Sonic Dash, while the blue blur made an appearance in the Pac Man mobile game, which
was altered to a Green Hill Zone theme, and allowed you to collect rings instead of dots
while going after Moto Bugs instead of Ghosts.
Unfortunately, this genius cross over was only for a limited time, and ran until March
20th of 2018.
2 Super Smash Bros While Super smash Bros is Nintendo’s turf,
Sonic is sometimes invited to the party to play.
This has been the case with a few Smash Bros titles.
His appearance in the series started out as an April Fools’ joke by EGM, in which a
rumour of Sonic and Tails being unlockable players in the game made the rounds for a
while.
Eventually, in 2007, Sonic made his debut in Super Smash Bros Brawl, made a return in
Super smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in 2013, also known as Super smash Bros
4.
1 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Perhaps the most well-known Sonic crossover
series all time, the Mario and Sonic at the Olympics series finally combined the likes
of Nintendo’s leading mascot, and Sega’s pride and joy.
Featuring the likes of characters from both video game giant’s rosters, these sporting
cross overs have come under criticism in past years for not satisfying the kind of collaboration
people REALLY would want to see from a crossover featuring two lifelong rivals – a platformer.
Instead, they compete in Olympic events against one another.
Which the games themselves have received decent reviews, the ‘plots’ are a bit lacking,
and some aspects of the games are overly complicated rather than just being a straight forward
set of sports mini games.
That being said, it is one of the largest most well-known crossover series in video
game history, so somethings gotta give there.
There we have it friends!
Which of these Sonic Crossovers is your favourite?
And, what crossover games featuring the blue blur do you think Sega should make?
Let us know your thoughts in those comments below.
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