6 free Mario and Sonic games for you to download!

To celebrate the relaunch of MarioSonicGames.com, here are six excellent Mario and Sonic games that you can download and play for free (Flash games in .zip compressed files):

  Super Mario Bros.: Paper Mario World

(View it and play it online here: Paper Mario World Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Abstracta

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Abstracta Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Matchit

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Matchit Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Amy's Whack-A-Nik

(View it and play it online here: Amy's Whack-A-Nik Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Sky Chase

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Sky Chase Online)


Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Sky Chase (2nd Version)

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Sky Chase (2nd Version) Online)


Because all the games are written in Flash, in addition to being able to play them on your PC, you also can upload them to your own website for your visitors to play online if you wish.

To use the downloads and play the games, click on any of the links above, then select "Save" for the .zip compressed file that will be downloaded, and select a folder on your computer to save the .zip file into. Once the .zip file has downloaded successfully, unzip it and then you can play the game by double-clicking on the .htm file that was unzipped. (Note that the .htm file is an offline webpage that runs the .swf file which is the actual Flash game - you don't need an active internet connection to run it.)

To use the games in your own website, simply upload the .htm webpage files (which you may want to modify to your own site's style first) and the .swf Flash game files to your webspace, link to the .htm files from you site's home page, and you and your visitors can then play the games in your site. Enjoy! :-)

6 free Mario and Sonic games for you to download!

To celebrate the relaunch of MarioSonicGames.com, here are six excellent Mario and Sonic games that you can download and play for free (Flash games in .zip compressed files):

  Super Mario Bros.: Paper Mario World

(View it and play it online here: Paper Mario World Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Abstracta

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Abstracta Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Matchit

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Matchit Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Amy's Whack-A-Nik

(View it and play it online here: Amy's Whack-A-Nik Online)


  Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Sky Chase

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Sky Chase Online)


Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Sky Chase (2nd Version)

(View it and play it online here: Sonic Sky Chase (2nd Version) Online)


Because all the games are written in Flash, in addition to being able to play them on your PC, you also can upload them to your own website for your visitors to play online if you wish.

To use the downloads and play the games, click on any of the links above, then select "Save" for the .zip compressed file that will be downloaded, and select a folder on your computer to save the .zip file into. Once the .zip file has downloaded successfully, unzip it and then you can play the game by double-clicking on the .htm file that was unzipped. (Note that the .htm file is an offline webpage that runs the .swf file which is the actual Flash game - you don't need an active internet connection to run it.)

To use the games in your own website, simply upload the .htm webpage files (which you may want to modify to your own site's style first) and the .swf Flash game files to your webspace, link to the .htm files from you site's home page, and you and your visitors can then play the games in your site. Enjoy! :-)

The all-new MarioSonicGames.com site is now live!

At last, it's here - the super, fantastic, amazing brand new version of the world-famous MarioSonicGames.com website!!

Featuring more free high-quality Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog online games than ever before (and more than any other Mario and Sonic games site) including six that have been made exclusively for MarioSonicGames.com, plus more lovely freebies such as wallpaper pictures, music samples, etc. - so now there's bound to be something that you'll like, and plenty to keep you coming back in the future!

Enjoy superb games such as the awesome New Super Mario Flash and the equally brilliant Ultimate Flash Sonic, plus literally hundreds more!

So, what are you waiting for? Visit MarioSonicGames.com now! :-)

The all-new MarioSonicGames.com site is now live!

At last, it's here - the super, fantastic, amazing brand new version of the world-famous MarioSonicGames.com website!!

Featuring more free high-quality Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog online games than ever before (and more than any other Mario and Sonic games site) including six that have been made exclusively for MarioSonicGames.com, plus more lovely freebies such as wallpaper pictures, music samples, etc. - so now there's bound to be something that you'll like, and plenty to keep you coming back in the future!

Enjoy superb games such as the awesome New Super Mario Flash and the equally brilliant Ultimate Flash Sonic, plus literally hundreds more!

So, what are you waiting for? Visit MarioSonicGames.com now! :-)

Sonic the Hedgehog Retrospective from Gametap

Wow, what a day for great Sonic videos! Gametap has just now released a four part retrospective on Youtube on the history of Sonic, including new interviews with Naoto Ohshima and Yuji Naka, bringing up some facts about his inception we didn't even know about. Who would of thought Sonic's design has influences from Micheal Jackson, Santa Claus and Bill Clinton? It's simply a joy to watch (it's in HD too, if you go directly to the youtube page). The three other parts are below:

The Nostalgia Critic digs his teeth into the Sonic Cartoons

Oh boy, after the Nostalgia Critic did a video about the mario cartoon, I was hoping he may do one for the Sonic cartoons (The original two, Sonic X and Underground are null and void) and here it is! He rips the shit out of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, particularly about how it doesn't make any sense, but loves SATAM to pieces. As much as I disagree on his AOSTH opinion (it was awesome because of how screwball it was!), it's a bloody entertaining video (as his vids always are, give his website a good hard look if you haven't already) so give it a watch already!

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 2010

Sega officially announced today that they are making "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games" for both the Nintendo Wii and DS, as a sequel to last year's highly successful Beijing Summer Olympics game that also featured both iconic characters (see my post about that game here).

The new game will be released at the end of this year and will tie in with the 2010 Winter Olympics being help in Vancouver, Canada. It will feature winter sports such as skiing, skating and..... wait for it..... my favourite and I suspect yours too..... snowboarding - hoorah!! Support for the Wii's Balance Board will also be provided within the game - presumably for the snowboarding!!! - so it sounds like this will be even better than the first game (which I thought was excellent anyway).

You can watch an official trailer for the new game, showing a short clip of the snowboarding, here.

I am sooooo looking forward to this, the snowboarding will be spectacular fun! If you can't wait until the end of the year for it, you can play some free Sonic the Hedgehog snowboarding games by following these links:

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo 2

  Sonic 3D Snowboarding

Don't forget to visit the MarioSonicGames.com site for even more free Mario and Sonic online games!

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 2010

Sega officially announced today that they are making "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games" for both the Nintendo Wii and DS, as a sequel to last year's highly successful Beijing Summer Olympics game that also featured both iconic characters (see my post about that game here).

The new game will be released at the end of this year and will tie in with the 2010 Winter Olympics being help in Vancouver, Canada. It will feature winter sports such as skiing, skating and..... wait for it..... my favourite and I suspect yours too..... snowboarding - hoorah!! Support for the Wii's Balance Board will also be provided within the game - presumably for the snowboarding!!! - so it sounds like this will be even better than the first game (which I thought was excellent anyway).

You can watch an official trailer for the new game, showing a short clip of the snowboarding, here.

I am sooooo looking forward to this, the snowboarding will be spectacular fun! If you can't wait until the end of the year for it, you can play some free Sonic the Hedgehog snowboarding games by following these links:

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo 2

  Sonic 3D Snowboarding

Don't forget to visit the MarioSonicGames.com site for even more free Mario and Sonic online games!