Sonic Dash Extreme
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| System(s): Nu SX | |||||||||||||||
| Developer: Sega Amusements Europe, Sega of China | |||||||||||||||
| Supporting companies: Sega Interactive, Sega Games, Hardlight | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: Action | |||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Sonic Dash Extreme is an updated version of the iOS/Android title Sonic Dash developed for arcades. Though based on Dash (and largely identical besides gameplay changes e.g. the addition of a ticket redemption mode), the game was primarily made by Sega Amusements Europe and Sega of China, with original developer Hardlight providing development support alongside Sega of Japan.
It released in Western territories only during September 2015,[1] but was first spotted (likely during location testing) in the UK in May of that year,[2] prior to being revealed by Sega in August.[3]
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Gameplay
Sonic Dash Extreme plays very similarly to the mobile game it is based on, albeit with some differences in control and game structure. Rather than touching the screen, the player controls their character using a large D-Pad; pressing 
and 
will make the character move sideways, pressing 
makes the character jump, and pressing 
makes the character perform a Spin Attack. At the start of a game, the player's character is randomly selected out of the following nine characters: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Blaze, Silver, Rouge, and Cream.
Being adapted for arcades, the primary objective of Extreme is ticket redemption payouts, though a 'play for fun' mode omitting this aspect can also be selected by arcade operators. Tickets are awarded to the player when passing through checkpoints at the end of each section. After passing through the last checkpoint, the player is ranked based on the amount of tickets they have won and the number of Rings collected, followed by a boss battle against Dr. Eggman in his Egg Mobile. The battle is different from the smartphone version in that after being launched into the air by Springs, the player has to lock-on to and attack the Egg Mobile's missile launchers using the D-Pad. If the player fails to do so, they lose the game.
Daily and all-time high score leaderboards are additionally featured.
Production credits
- Director: Shinichi Ogasawara
- Game Designers: Zhu Enhua, Patrick Michael, Clive Roswell, Chris Wood
- Lead Programmer: Chen Yun
- Progammers: Zhang Xuan, Liang Xialong
- Technical Adviser: Akira Ogata
- Art Director: Chen Wei
- Artist: Fang Jie
- Sound Director: Liu Ze
- Development Support: Tomoaki Takayanagi, Masaki Yagi, Huang Ziarou, Seiji Ishii
- Quality Assurance: Wang Yun
- Cabinet R&D And Production: Atsuko Haruta, Neil Marshall, Steffan Denton, Mark Smith, Ryan Ashman, Ian Colley, Joe Carmody, Rhiannon Mills, Paul Carpenter, Jerry Korbecki, Don Campbell, Nigel Allison
- Sales: Justin Burke, Martin Riley, Maria Carmen Villarroya, Steve D'Arcy, Darrell Webb, Peter Gustafson, Vince Moreno, Carlos Laguardia, Naoki Takada
- Special Thanks: Takashi Iizuka (Sonic Team), Takamitsu Yokoyama (Sega Games), Keisuke Nagai (Sega Games), Shinobu Shinda (Sega Games), Lee Winder (Hardlight Studio), Joe Stone (Hardlight Studio), Chris Southall (Hardlight Studio), James Booth (Hardlight Studio), Neall Jones (Hardlight Studio)
- Producers: Matthew Page, Makoto Uchida, Paul Williams
Presented by: Sega
- Source: In-game credits
Artwork
Logo
Manuals
Owner's and Service Manual, UK
Promotional material
Info sheet
External links
- Sonic Dash Extreme at Sega Amusements' website (archive)
- Gameplay video
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://arcadeheroes.com/2015/09/17/arcade-status-update-star-wars-battle-pod-crossy-road-arcade/ (Wayback Machine: 2015-09-23 05:27)
- ↑ http://www.sonicparadise.net/2015/05/sonic-dash-llega-los-salones-arcade.html (Wayback Machine: 2015-07-15 23:50)
- ↑ https://arcadeheroes.com/2015/08/14/aama-star-wars-battle-pod-sonic-dash-crossy-road/ (Wayback Machine: 2015-08-14 22:52)
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