{"id":112597,"date":"2020-05-07T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/sonic_ditches_mario_in_his_very_own_olympic_games_tokyo_2020_release"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:30:00","slug":"sonic-ditches-mario-in-his-very-own-olympic-games-tokyo-2020-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/sonic-ditches-mario-in-his-very-own-olympic-games-tokyo-2020-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Ditches Mario In His Very Own Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6038818f57bfd\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6038818f57bfd\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCK2pRbwnUk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We might well be used to seeing Mario and Sonic join forces these days, celebrating (almost) every Olympic Games event since 2008 with an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games\"><strong>Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games<\/strong><\/a> release, but this year, the blue blur&#8217;s also doing things his own way.<\/p>\n<p>Joining <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_tokyo_2020\">Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020<\/a><\/strong>, which launched for Switch last November, is the similarly named <strong>Sonic at the Olympic Games &#8211; Tokyo 2020<\/strong> &#8211; a mobile title from Sega. It&#8217;s launching today across Google Play, App Store and Amazon Appstore and features popular characters from the Sonic series as well as 15 Olympic Games events.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird seeing Sonic and co. taking on all of these events without Mario, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"495115ea9ade1341d60.48697738 Sonic Ai Giochi Olimpici Di Tokyo 2020 Karate\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c14bc81d52169\/495115ea9ade1341d60-48697738-sonic-ai-giochi-olimpici-di-tokyo-2020-karate.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c14bc81d52169\/495115ea9ade1341d60-48697738-sonic-ai-giochi-olimpici-di-tokyo-2020-karate.original.png\" alt=\"495115ea9ade1341d60.48697738 Sonic Ai Giochi Olimpici Di Tokyo 2020 Karate\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"495115ea9adf88ec6b3.62088553 Sonic Ai Giochi Olimpici Di Tokyo 2020 400m Hurdles\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c802d5a74576\/495115ea9adf88ec6b3-62088553-sonic-ai-giochi-olimpici-di-tokyo-2020-400m-hurdles.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c802d5a74576\/495115ea9adf88ec6b3-62088553-sonic-ai-giochi-olimpici-di-tokyo-2020-400m-hurdles.original.png\" alt=\"495115ea9adf88ec6b3.62088553 Sonic Ai Giochi Olimpici Di Tokyo 2020 400m Hurdles\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"495115ea9ae09c92334.68606011 Sonic At The Olympic Games \u2013 Tokyo 2020 Tokyo Skytree Jump\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/00fcbc0c21cbf\/495115ea9ae09c92334-68606011-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-n-tokyo-2020-tokyo-skytree-jump.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/00fcbc0c21cbf\/495115ea9ae09c92334-68606011-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-n-tokyo-2020-tokyo-skytree-jump.original.png\" alt=\"495115ea9ae09c92334.68606011 Sonic At The Olympic Games \u2013 Tokyo 2020 Tokyo Skytree Jump\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"495115ea9ae09604ba3.95808057 Sonic At The Olympic Games \u2013 Tokyo 2020 400m Hurdles\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e57661430ed2e\/495115ea9ae09604ba3-95808057-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-n-tokyo-2020-400m-hurdles.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e57661430ed2e\/495115ea9ae09604ba3-95808057-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-n-tokyo-2020-400m-hurdles.original.png\" alt=\"495115ea9ae09604ba3.95808057 Sonic At The Olympic Games \u2013 Tokyo 2020 400m Hurdles\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Interestingly, thanks to the ongoing global pandemic, Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (and now this new Sonic title) will be the first game in the series to be based on an event which didn&#8217;t take place in the year stated in-game. The real Tokyo event has been pushed back to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Are you tempted to check out Sonic&#8217;s mobile Olympic offering? Or will you stick to the big screen experience on Switch? Let us know in the usual place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] We might well be used to seeing Mario and Sonic join forces these days, celebrating (almost) every Olympic Games event since 2008 with an official Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games release, but this year, the blue blur&#8217;s also doing things his own way. Joining Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}