McDonald's Sonic LCD games
From Sonic Retro
McDonalds has had two seperate promotions which made Sonic LCD games available with the purchase of a happy meal. These types of games normally sold for 10-20 dollars in earlier times but during the 2003 promotion McDonalds said that the refinement of cell-phone technology lead to the refinement of the production. This probably made this kind of toy more affordable to produce and be included as a free toy. Although at this point of time theres probably few who would pay much for a toy of this type as the portables of the time had achieved SNES-level graphic and sound capabilities. According to Everything.com the 2003 games were referred to as Sega Mini Video Games.
Another promotion late in 2004 saw the release of more Sonic-themed LCD games. As part of the promotion 2,500 silver colored games were hidden some of the games. 25 of these would be given a check for $2,500 while the remaining 2,475 winners would win either Sonic Heroes or Sonic Mega Collection Plus.
2003 Promotional Games
These games were released from June 27 through July 24.
- AiAi Banana Catch
- Knuckles Soccer
- Shadow Grinding
- Sonic Speedway
- Sonic's Adventure
- Tails' Skypatrol
2004 Promotional Games
These games were released from Dec. 3 through Dec. 27.
- Amy & Rouge Volleyball
- Big Fishing
- Billy Hatcher game
- Cream Flower Catch
- Knuckles Treasures Hunt
- Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme Boarding
- Shadow Hockey
- Tails Soccer
External Links
- July 2nd article on Washington Times website.
- 2005 French commercial.
- Everything.com article on the 2003 games.
- About.com article about 2004/5 games.
- CNN article about the 2004 games.
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