{"id":4164,"date":"2017-11-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/random_sega_goes_for_laughs_in_eggman_promotion_for_sonic_forces"},"modified":"2017-11-02T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:45:00","slug":"random-sega-goes-for-laughs-in-eggman-promotion-for-sonic-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/random-sega-goes-for-laughs-in-eggman-promotion-for-sonic-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: SEGA Goes for Laughs in Eggman Promotion for Sonic Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Sonic meme.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/random_sega_goes_for_laughs_in_eggman_promotion_for_sonic_forces\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/random_sega_goes_for_laughs_in_eggman_promotion_for_sonic_forces\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic meme.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Being a Sonic fans means dealing with various highs and lows, with the franchise being &#8211; we think it&#8217;s fair to say &#8211; inconsistent over the years. In the past decade there have been excellent games, <em>ok<\/em> games and a couple that should never have seen the light of day. In recent years one thing has been constant, however &#8211; the Sonic the Hedgehog social team has had a good laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Even when beset by technical problems in live events or pushing memes so baffling that most of us simply <em>don&#8217;t get it<\/em>, the Sonic social media team has nevertheless knocked it out of the park for a good while. On Twitter, for example, there are almost four million followers of the Sonic account.<\/p>\n<p>The latest gimmick to promote the imminent arrival of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\"><strong>Sonic Forces<\/strong><\/a> is an Eggman (ahem, Dr. Robotnik) takeover of the Twitter account, which has started with a video post.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join the Eggman Empire today! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XO9lbELwIB\">pic.twitter.com\/XO9lbELwIB<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/926121932625293313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the Sonic social media team&#8217;s work it&#8217;ll be worth keeping an eye on that Twitter account over the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Still, here&#8217;s a more important topic &#8211; are you planning to buy Sonic Forces on Switch next week? There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/theres_a_sonic_forces_demo_on_the_japanese_eshop_but_it_has_a_strange_limitation\">slightly odd demo on the Japanese eShop<\/a> if you want to try it out before its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Sonic fans means dealing with various highs and lows, with the franchise being &#8211; we think it&#8217;s fair to say &#8211; inconsistent over the years. In the past decade there have been excellent games, ok games and a couple that should never have seen the light of day. In recent years one thing [&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-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","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=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}