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Mario and Sonic's winter outing dated for October 16

by David Hinkle on Jul 13th 2009 3:00PM

We may have ragged on the first Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games a lot, but -- as horrible as we thought it was -- it managed to capture the interest (and money) of almost every man, woman, and child in all of the UK. So, Sega is working as fast as it can to get the latest version of its new money-printing machine, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, out to retail, announcing that the game will release this October.

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Tags: DS, mario-and-sonic, mario-and-sonic-at-the-olympic-winter-games, minigames, Nintendo, olympics, sega, Wii

Reader Comments (34)

Oh Thank God, YES!

I've been waiting for a release date on this game.

Head for the Slopes? More like Run to the Hills.......from this game.

October? But that's nowhere near winter here in Tennessee! We have summer and winter, the latter usually referred to only as "Christmas."

The same applies here in your neighbor state, North Cackalacky.

+1 to [tre] for use of a Trick Daddy reference today.

I'm sorry you have to go through all this Sonic. No character in videogame history has every been more brutally raped than you have. One day, you will rise up from the shadow (no pun intended) of death, and return to glory and awesome.

:pours one for the homies:

Poor Sonic has had it pretty hard. Look how extreme he is though, he gets to snowboard while Mario has to ski. Extreme.

Incoming Sonic WiiFanboy Defense in 3...2...1...

Except he's skiing in the DS version while Mario is snowboarding. Odd...

Having lived through the glorious 16-bit era, it is absolutely bizarre to me to see Sonic fanboys being equated with Nintendo fanboys.

I feel as though I will never fit in to this world.

I'll second that, Zertoss.

I agree Zertoss, it is pretty crazy. When you think of people that defend the Wii Sonic games, who do you think of though? My first thought is Khan and Fernando.

CTC put me down for Fernando defending him first.

Where's samfish? he was such a good booky.

Black Knight was a gift from the gaming gods. I don't care what anyone says.

It was the first 3D Sonic platformer in a long time to feature a fully playable Knuckles. That alone is enough

I hope that after this game, Sega and Nintendo decides to create a 2D Mario and Sonic platformer game (developed by Nintendo, of course)... I bet it would sell equally or even more than the Olympic series...

That would be nice...

I'd be interested in seeing what Nintendo would come up with if tasked with making a 3D Sonic platformer.

@Old Professor Zertoss

three words: WAGGLE WAGGLE WAGGLE

Sega already made that, it was called Sonic and the 4 Hour Wagglefest.

I mean a REAL platformer like Mario Galaxy, where waggling is secondary to the running and jumping.

Sonic has only proven one thing on the Wii, he just can't stop running even if he's running towards the coveted (secret) Metacritic rings of death. Galaxy is a great game and the new sidescroller will sell a hujillion copies as will Galaxy 2. Instead of trying to recreat an age old experience Sega needs to continue to develop titles like MadWorld. They'll be profiatable enterprises....someday. Or just come out with a Dreamcast HD and blow everybody's fuckin mind.

Get together people from EAD Tokyo and Sonic Team to form a special project, just like they put Team Ninja and SPD1 (former R&D1) guys together to do Other M, so its not entirely impossible at this point.

The Sonic and Mario collaborations have not been what I'd imagined, so far at least. The Summer games were a nice diversion, I suppose, but I'm still holding out for a solid platformer. That seems ever more unlikely.

Oh, also, Mario looks retarded on that DS cover.

Hopefully this will be a worthy spiritual successor to Nagano 98 for N64

Seeing this kind of shit every 4 months and not Shenmue 3 breaks my heart. Sega fails so hard.

It's like they whore out Sonic to make the money they need for their next big project, but then they blow that money on whoring out Sonic to make the money they need for their next big project, but then they blow that money on whoring out Sonic...

Shenmue did help to kill Sega, so i can understand their aversion to making a 3rd.

Though their is Yakuza now, which is as good as a spiritual successor, at least according to Sega themselves.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*FINALLY* a mini game compilation on the Wii! It's about time!

smh...

Dude it's like halfway thru 2009, that shit is slightly old.

Enough with the "SMH" stuff.

For an Olympics videogame, it's probably the best so far. I bet this will be even better. It has Metal Sonic... METAL SONIC!

Also, those are really awesome boxarts.

Like Sonic would ever need a snowboard, skis, a racing car and all the retarded crap SEGA's made him go through... He'd be faster without them!

I wish he could just speed through all his future crappy games so we could finally get a good Sonic game. I liked some of Sonic Unleashed's day levels, but the game could have been much better than what it was.

As it pertains to Sonic Unleashed, I can only hope that there was someone at the meetings with a brain screaming "No! We've got it! The game works! We don't need any gimmicky werewolf b.s.! You're going to ruin it!"

I can only hope.

Ahah, yeah, I hope that too.

Btw, this comic seems appropriate:

http://legendarycomics.net/OtherWorks/Fontes/Reader.php?page=24

The worst thing about this is no Wii Motion Plus support.

maybe it could redeem itself by using that. It comes out in October for Crying out loud that should be plenty of time to make the controls work.

I am the only one who actually enjoyed playing the first one? The controls were fun and multiplayer was sweeet.

woa didn't know this was coming out. I think i'd have more fun with this than summer.

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