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The game is the penultimate Olympic video game to be released by Sega, as Sega's license to produce games based on the Olympic Games was discontinued after the release of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 due to the International Olympic Committee pivoting to mobile games produced by nWay for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]
Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (2010) [25] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011) [26] Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013) [27] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016) [28] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2019) [29] Sonic at the Olympic Games - Tokyo 2020 (2020) [30]
The ROMs of the game and its sequel were formerly offered by the owner Randel Reiss for free download. In 2021, however, the rights to both games were purchased by Piko Interactive, leding the download links for the ROMs to disappear from Technopop's website, [121] but they are still available for free download on Zophar's Domain.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 [b] is a 2019 crossover sports video game developed and published by Sega for the Nintendo Switch.Based on the 2020 Summer Olympics, it is the sixth and final game in the Mario & Sonic series, a crossover between Nintendo's Super Mario and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchises, and the first since the Rio 2016 Olympic Games edition.
Vancouver 2010 received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [19] [20] [21] IGN said of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions: "If only this game had some semblance of a career mode or anything that felt slightly like the real Olympics, then perhaps SEGA would have had a real winner on its hands". [8]
PC players can pick up Guardians of the Galaxy for free on the Epic Games Store.
The game was first revealed on the Japanese Nintendo Direct website on May 30, 2015. [7] Like the previous games, the game was officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee. [2] Both versions of the game released worldwide in 2016. [8] An arcade edition of the game was also announced by Sega, which was released in Japan in 2016.
The game allows the player to practice, play mini-Olympics (where some events can be turned off) or full Olympics. There are three difficulty levels (club, national and Olympic) with noticeable differences from each other: computer-controlled athletes are actually capable of breaking world and Olympic records at the higher levels, while achieving only mediocre results on lower levels.