Speed Down is an Item Box obstacle that appears in Sonic Riders and Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity . When obtained, it slows down the Extreme Gear rider down to a crawl and prevent GP actions.
Description
In gameplay, when the player obtains Speed Down, a heavy metal ball appears and is connected to the playable character's Extreme Gear with a chain. When this happens, the player's speed is drastically reduced. In addition, Speed Down prevents the player from using GP actions, namely Gravity Control and Gravity Dive . Its effects only last for a limited amount of time, however.
Game appearances
Sonic Riders
Speed Down first appeared in Sonic Riders where it is classified as a Power-Up item. In this game, its icon is a rounded cube depicting one of Sonic's shoes with a metal ball chained to it.
The player can obtain Speed Down at random by touching one of the Item Boxes that lie scattered across the racing course. When obtaining it, the icon representing Speed Down briefly appears on the screen.
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
In Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity , Speed Down is classified as an obstacle item. In this game, in addition to its speed-decreasing effect, Speed Down also negates the usage of Gravity Control and Gravity Dive . For this game, its icon is a rounded cube depicting the Blue Star with an arrow pointing down.
The player can obtain Speed Down at random by touching one of the Item Boxes that lie scattered across the racing course. When obtaining it, the icon representing Speed Down briefly appears on the screen.
Gallery
See also
Speed Down
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Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Jet | Wave | Storm | Amy | Dr. Eggman | Shadow | Rouge | Cream | E-10000G | E-10000R | Ulala | AiAi | NiGHTS | Omochao | Stolen | Jet's father | Babylon Guardian | E-10000Y
Courses/Fields
Heroes
Metal City | Splash Canyon | Egg Factory | Green Cave | Sand Ruins | Babylon Garden
Babylon
Night Chase | Red Canyon | Ice Factory | White Cave | Dark Desert | Sky Road | Babylon Guardian
Extra
Digital Dimension | Sega Carnival | Sega Illusion
Survival
Dual Towers | Snow Valley | Space Theater
Moves/Techniques
Air Boost | Air Riding | Air Slide | Attacks | Grinding | Tornado | Trick Action
Gimmicks and obstacles
Accelerator | Air Pit | Automatic Trail | Barricade | Bomb | Catapult | Dash Panel | Grind Rail | Trick Zone
Objects
Air | Item Box (Air , Explosion , High Speed , Invincible Barrier , Magnetic Barrier , Rings , Speed Down , Question Item ) | Ring
Extreme Gears
Accelerator | Access | Advantage-F | Advantage-P | Advantage-S | Air Broom | Air Tank | Auto-Slider | BANANA | Beginner | Berserker | Blue Star | Blue Star II | Cannonball | Channel5 | Chaos Emerald | Cover-F | Cover-P | Cover-S | Darkness | Destroyer | E-gearG | E-gearR | E-Rider | Faster | Fastest | Gambler | Grinder | Hang-On | Heavy Bike | High Booster | Hovercraft | Legend | Light Board | Magic Carpet | Night Sky | Omnipotence | Opa Opa | Pink Rose | Power Gear | Powerful Gear | Red Rock | Rengoku | Slide Booster | Smile | Speed Balancer | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Trap Gear | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Yellow Tail
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) | Bella Hudson (Wave , Babylon Computer) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Mike Pollock (Dr. Eggman ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Maddie Blaustein (E-10000G , E-10000R , Babylon Guardian ) | Liza Jacqueline (Omochao ) | Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) | Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave , Babylon Computer) | Kenji Nomura (Storm , Babylon Guardian ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) | Kaoru Morota (AiAi ) | Apollo Smile (Ulala )
Music
Songs
Catch Me If You Can | Sonic Speed Riders
Albums
Speedbeats Grand Prix: Sonic Riders Original Soundtrack
Other
Air Tank | Babylon Garden | Babylon Rogues' ship | Babylonians | Bashōsen | Chaos Control | Chaos Emerald | Emerald Detector | Rank | EX World Grand Prix | Flight Type | Freeze | Key to Babylon Garden | Mission Mode | Power Type | Speed Type | Time Attack | Turbulence
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Characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Jet | Wave | Storm | Dr. Eggman | Cream | Rouge | Shadow | Silver | Blaze | SCR-GP | Amigo | NiGHTS | Billy Hatcher | SCR-HD | Master Core: ABIS
Courses/Fields
Heroes
Megalo Station | Botanical Kingdom | MeteorTech Premises | Aquatic Capital | Gigan Rocks | Crimson Crater | Astral Babylon | '80s Boulevard
Babylon
Gigan Device | Nightside Rush | Snowy Kingdom | MeteorTech Sparkworks | Tempest Waterway | Security Corridor | Mobius Strip | '90s Boulevard
Survival Battle
Gravity Pit | Labyrinth | Square Quartet
Survival Ball
MeteorTech Arsenal | Botanical Cave | Megalo Junction
Extreme Gears
Advantage F | Advantage P | Advantage S | Airship | Angel • Devil | Beginner | Big Bang | Bingo Star | Black Shot | Blue Star | Chaos Emerald | Cover F | Cover P | Cover S | E-Rider | Faster | Fastest | Flame Lance | G Shot | Gambler | GC Booster | GC Master | GP Accumulator | GP Tank | Hang-On | Hyperdrive | Kunoichi | Legend | Light Board | Mag | Magic Broom | Master Off-Road | Money Crisis | Night Sky | Omnitempus | Pink Rose | Power Egg | Psychic Wave | Rail Linker | Rainbow | Red Rock | Reserve Tank | Rhythm Machine | Road Star | Shinobi | Shooting Star | Skill Booster | Smile | Super Hang-On | Temptation | The Crazy | Throttle | Turbo Star | Type-J | Type-S | Type-W | Untouchable | Wanted | Wheel Custom | Wind Catcher | Wind Star | Yellow Tail
Gear Parts
Air Ride | Angel/Devil | Attack Time UP | Auto Wall-Run | Base Stats UP | BGM Change | Bike | Durability UP | GC Boost UP | Ghost | GP Gain UP | GP Gauge UP | GP Usage UP | Grind | Item Rank +1 | Magnetic Barrier | Max Speed UP | Parts Lock | Ring Cap UP | Starting Speed UP | Status Trap | Tank | Throttle | Trick Rank +1 | Vision Trap | Wheel | Yacht
Moves and Techniques
Air Ride | Attacks | Gravity Control | Gravity Dive | Grinding | Slide Turn | Trick
English voice actors
Jason Griffith (Sonic , Jet , Shadow ) | Amy Palant (Tails ) | Dan Green (Knuckles , Storm ) | Bella Hudson (Wave , Mother computer ) | Lisa Ortiz (Amy ) | Mike Pollock (Dr. Eggman ) | Kathleen Delaney (Rouge ) | Pete Capella (Silver ) | Rebecca Honig (Cream ) | Andrew Paull (SCR-HD , SCR-GP , Master Core: ABIS )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Daisuke Kishio (Jet ) | Chie Nakamura (Wave , Mother computer ) | Kenji Nomura (Storm , SCR-HD , SCR-GP , Master Core: ABIS ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Koji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Daisuke Ono (Silver ) | Nao Takamori (Blaze )
Other
Ark of the Cosmos | Babylon Garden | Babylon Rogues' ship | Babylonians | Barricade | Bashōsen | Car | Catapult | Catch Me If You Can | Crimson Tower | Crusher | Dash Panel | Dash Ring | Fly Type | Gravity Point | Grind Rails | Havok | Item Box (Attack , Colorball , Explosion , GP Boost , High Speed , Magnetic Barrier , Missile , Parts Lock , Ring , Shield , Speed Down ) | Monopole | Mother computer | Ring | Slipstream | Speed Type | Power Type | Rank | Time Attack | Time item | Trick Zone | Un-Gravitify | World Grand Prix | Zero Gravity Tracks: Sonic Riders Shooting Star Story Original Soundtrack