Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (マリオ&ソニック AT 東京オリンピック), tentatively known as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, is the sixth installment in the Mario &amp; Sonic series. It is a crossover sports and party game based on the real-world Summer Olympics in 2020, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan. This is the first installment in the Mario & Sonic series to skip an Olympic Games, as Ubisoft bought the rights to make 2018 Winter Olympics video games. It is set to be released in November 2019 on the Nintendo Switch. An arcade version is also set to be released in 2020.

Unlike in previous installments in the Mario & Sonic series, all characters wear sports clothing appropriate for the event that has been chosen.

Gameplay
Like the previous entries in the Mario &amp; Sonic series, Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is designed to be a sports game whose cast consists of a crossover of characters from Nintendo's Super Mario franchise and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series. The Nintendo Switch version will feature compatibility with the system's Joy-Con controllers.

Team Sonic

 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Silver the Hedgehog
 * Metal Sonic
 * Blaze the Cat
 * Vector the Crocodile
 * Zavok

Team Mario

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Princess Peach
 * Princess Daisy
 * Bowser
 * Yoshi
 * Wario
 * Waluigi
 * Donkey Kong
 * Bowser Jr.

Non-playable characters

 * Animals
 * Flickies
 * Peckies
 * Chao
 * Neutral
 * Charmy Bee
 * Cream the Rabbit
 * Cubot
 * Goombas
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Orbot
 * Shy Guy
 * Toads

Events

 * Athletics
 * 100m Dash
 * 110m Hurdles
 * 4x100m Relay
 * Javelin Throw
 * Triple Jump
 * Discus Throw
 * Badminton - Doubles
 * Skateboarding - Park (new)
 * Sport Climbing (new)
 * Football
 * 100m Freestyle
 * Equestrian
 * Fencing
 * Canoeing
 * Karate - Kumite (new)
 * Boxing
 * Surfing - Shortboard (new)
 * Gymnastics - Floor Exercise (new)
 * Rugby Sevens
 * Table Tennis
 * Archery
 * Dream Events
 * Dream Racing
 * Dream Shooting
 * Dram Karate (new)

History
In October 2016, it was announced by Sega that it had secured the licensing rights from the International Olympic Committee to publish video games based on the 2020 Summer Olympics. Their plans were for these games to be released on various devices. On 29 March 2019, at the Sega Fes stage show in Japan, Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was announced alongside Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Official Video Game. This game is going to be the first entry in the Mario & Sonic series since Rio 2016 Olympic Games edition, which was released for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in 2016, and is scheduled to be released for the Nintendo Switch in late 2019 and for arcade cabinets sometime in 2020. A companion game for Android and iOS, Sonic at the Olympic Games, will also be released in 2020.

The game was featured at E3 2019. At E3 2019, the official Nintendo lanyard that guests of the event received featured new artwork of Mario and Sonic in promotion of the game.

Trivia

 * This is the first game in the Mario & Sonic series where the male characters have unique outfits.
 * This is also the first game where Peach and Daisy do not wear their traditional sports outfits.
 * The shoes Mario wears are identical to the ones he wears in Mario Tennis Aces.
 * Sonic wears shoes similar to the ones he wears in the Sonic Riders series.
 * Dr. Eggman wears gear similar to a piece of [[Media:Wallpaper 120 eggman 04 pc.png|artwork]] shown on Sonic Channel.
 * Yoshi, Bowser and Bowser Jr. are the only characters not to receive new outfits
 * All Sonic series characters, minus Dr. Eggman, keep their shoes on the surfing and karate events unlike the Mario human characters. According to Takashi Iizuka, this is due to Sonic not canonically removing his shoes in the series.

Videos
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