Visitors could watch a video demo of Sonic the Hedgehog playing side-by-side with Super Mario World on a big CRT monitor in the centre of the space. At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in 1991, Sega made its rivalry with Nintendo the theme of its stand, where the Mega Drive console (known as Genesis in the US) was being shown to American audiences for the first time. Sonic can harness chaos emerald power to, say, transform into a watery version of himself so that he can swim up waterfalls.Īfter visiting the Summer Games Fest in Los Angeles earlier this month, I am thrilled to hear other attendees vividly debating the merits of the two titles. Mario can transform into an elephant and use his trunk to batter enemies. Both games allow players to select from a range of classic characters and take on the rich, lushly colourful environments in cooperative modes, and both supplement the retro aesthetics with new abilities. Both Super Mario Bros Wonder and Sega Superstars are nostalgic callbacks to the era of 2D platforming. Which is why I’m secretly delighted that Sega and Nintendo are apparently releasing their new Sonic and Mario games within days of each other this October. Whether its punks v rockers, Star Trek v Star Wars or Marvel v DC, subcultures have always defined themselves by what they’re not as much as what they are. Support the software companies by buying their current products.Rivalry is a vital element of fandom. Super Mario is a registered trademark of Nintendo. Sonic the Hedgehog is a registered trademark of Sega.

There is no financial support neither profit purposes. This is a fan game made with the only purpose intended being fun. “I chose that name because it was the name of my first attempt at a game, from the times i didn’t know a word of english” –he said.

The codename “Sonic Boll” comes from a brazillian joke involving ReNeX’s history with game making. The project is maintained by the “Sonic Boll Team”, composed of the project leader FuZ (itsa me!), game programmer ReNeX, spriter Fractor and with help from the Exploding Rabbit Forums community. The game is written in GM 8 and has been started in. The developers believe that this change was something really positive to the project development, because Sonic Characters seems to react better with the ramps and vertical exploration of the stages from Super Mario Bros. The game has started its development on the new enviroment (SMB3 instead of SMB), changing its name from 'Sonic & Mario at the Minus World' to 'Mario & Sonic at the Mushroom World'. I tried to make it more seemly to the SMB3 original cover but with the Sonic characters that are in the game. This is the new NES Cover for the Sonic Boll Project.

Mario and sonic at the mushroom world