McDonald's Sonic LCD games
From Sonic Retro
McDonalds has had two separate 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 stated that the refinement of cell-phone technology led to the refinement of the production. This probably made this kind of toy more affordable to produce and be included as a happy meal toy. Although at this point of time there's 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.
The first promotion was from June 27 till July 24 in 2003 in the US. The second US promotion lasted from the 3rd of December till the 27th. As part of the second promotion 2,500 silver colored games were randomly included in place of the normal colored games. 25 of the customers that received this would be given a prize of large value while the remaining 2,475 winners would win a Sega game, which could be either Sonic Heroes or Sonic Mega Collection Plus.
This promotion may have been handled differently in other parts of the world. It is known that some places held off until 2005 to release the games. Some games were not include in these promotions and some were given different casings and some were also renamed. There was also different games released all-together.
2003 Promotional Games
- Sonic Speedway
- Shadow Grinder
- Knuckles Soccer
- Sonic Action Game
- AiAi Banana Catch
- Tails' Skypatrol
2004-5 Promotional Games
These are the games that were included for certain promotions:
- Knuckles Treasures Hunt
- Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme Boarding aka Sonic Skateboard
- Amy & Rouge Volleyball aka Amy & Rouge Tennis
- Big's Fishing
- Shadow Hockey aka Shadow Basketball
- Tails Soccer
- Billy's Giant Egg
- Cream Flower Catch
- Knuckles Baseball
- Tail's Sky Adventure
Set B
- Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme Boarding aka Sonic Skateboard
- Amy & Rouge Volleyball aka Amy & Rouge Tennis
- Shadow Hockey aka Shadow Basketball
- Cream Flower Catch
External Links
- Washington Times 2003 article.
- Everything.com article on the 2003 games.
- About.com article about 2004 games.
- CNN article about the 2004 games.
- Game Zone article about the 2004 games.
- 2004 French commercial.
Flyers
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