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Sonic games -- and The Notebook -- discounted on Xbox Live

by JC Fletcher on Dec 30th 2010 2:00PM

The penultimate day of Microsoft's Xbox Live Countdown to New Year's promotion coincides with the December 30 "surprise" listed by Sega in its winter sale announcement. You can see where this is going -- Sega games are on sale today. Specifically, the sale covers a bunch of Sonic games ... a deal that was somehow hinted by this clue: "One Foe -- A world of good vs evil." Surprise!

Microsoft is offering one-day discounts on Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, and 3, (now 200 MS Points each), Sonic & Knuckles (120 MSP), Sonic Adventure (400 MSP) and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (800 MSP). The Sonic car Avatar prop is on sale for 120 MSP.

Also, The Notebook is discounted today to 380 MSP. We don't think that's part of the theme, but if you're buying all those Sonic games, you should probably go ahead and buy The Notebook to try and spot any Sonic the Hedgehog references in it. Just to be sure.

Source: Major Nelson

Tags: microsoft, sega, sonic-adventure, sonic-and-knuckles, sonic-the-hedgehog, sonic-the-hedgehog-2, sonic-the-hedgehog-3, sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-1, xbla, xblm, xbox

Reader Comments (24)

Ryan Gosling is SOooOOoo hot

Hahaha

Are the ports of the Genesis Sonic games any good on XBL? That's a pretty good price.

@Jerk Face yeah I think they are basically if you liked the old ones you will like the new ones O_o and....I Don't think you can input codes on sonic 2 though..so yeah...

@Jerk Face They're just emulated, nothing really new. No problems with them. You can save anywhere, I believe with multiple saves, and S&K has the Lock-On features if you own the other games.

Some fun achievements too, with S&K by far having the easiest of the lot.

@Jerk Face
The ports are by Backbone who typically do a horrible job. They're playable enough, but Sonic 3 & Knuckles is missing the save feature, instead giving you save states which means it's impossible to play through previous levels with the Super/Hyper characters.

Glaring over sight.

@Jerk Face They're awesome! They got smoothing and makes the graphics look better, than they got awesome instant save states. Pick these up.

@Jerk Face Unless you want the additional achievement, get the Sonic Genesis HD collection, you get like 50 genesis game for 20$ now.

I say we nuke them all from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.

Anyone know if you can combine the Sonic 3 with Sonic and Knuckles like you could with the actual cartridges?

If you can I'll snap them both up, if not I guess if I felt like playing I could go down to the basement and dig up the Genesis.

@SteamPunkJin

Yes, if you own sonic & knuckles along with the other games you can do the sonic 1 special levels, sonic 2 & knuckles & sonic 3 & Knuckles.

@SteamPunkJin
I'm pretty sure that you can't. )-:

@SteamPunkJin Yes s&k detects if you have downloaded sonic3

I enjoyed the Sonic 4 trial, and got it. It's quite fun, certainly more so than a lot of reviewers made it out to be. Adventure and Sonic 4 are also on sale on PSN, for the same price ... I ended up getting Adventure there, and I have no idea why I ever loved that game.

Dang, that almost makes the butchered port of Sonic Adventure tempting...

...almost...

GIVE ME WIDESCREEN DAMMIT! )-:

@(Unverified) Yeah, too bad it is not widescreen. However i do wish that they allowed to change the side panel background, it is blank.

The game hasn't age gracefully compare to other 3d games. Camera is terrible as usual and has been the serie stinker and game breaker until today.

Yeah, can anyone more versed in the Sonic 'lore' explain that clue to me?

I paid full price for Sonic Adventure right after Christmas. I wish i waited, but I did get Sonic 4.

@SitriStahl
Me too. Although I am pissed I have to shell out 400 MSP to unlock the DX Directors Cut version of Adventure.

Gee thanks Microsoft. *rolls eyes*

When did Sonic and Knuckles get discounted to 240msp? Seems wierd that out of all the classics, the newest gets the discount first.

Give me Blue Sphere!

I've purchased the Daily Deal every day since Christmas Day - except for today. Just can't justify re-purchasing the Sonic games since I own the Sonic Genesis Collection. Sonic Adventure would be ok, but with rumours of a Dreamcast collection en route, I think I'll wait.

I might have purchased Sonic 4, but I'm going to sit and wait and see how these "episodes" turn out. I'm willing to bet when the final episodes do come out (if they come out) that there will be a bundle of sorts offered then... I can wait for that.

i dont like sonic that much but have a boatload of points and cant argue with a 200 point game.

I got Adventure and Sonic 4

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