Shadow Grinder
Shadow Grinder is an LCD game created for distribution at McDonald's restaurants. They were offered as a part of Happy Meals for a limited time in 2003. There is a single button on the game which allows the…
Shadow Grinder is a video game, released 31 December 2003 on Handheld Electronic LCD.
What Shadow Grinder is
Shadow Grinder was released in 2003. It was published by McDonald's. It is available on Handheld Electronic LCD only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shadow Grinder is an LCD game created for distribution at McDonald's restaurants. They were offered as a part of Happy Meals for a limited time in 2003. There is a single button on the game which allows the player to jump. The objective of the game was to grind down the rails with Shadow, avoiding gaps by pressing the jump button. No directional pad was needed as Shadow moved automatically. After clearing 15 gaps the level and speed increase. Four levels is the maximum amount of levels. If the player falls into gaps 10 times in a single level the game ends.
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Shadow Grinder is the 118th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Knuckles Soccer in 2003.
What it launched against
Shadow Grinder launched on 31 December 2003, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, NFL Street, Sonic Heroes and Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, NFL Street, Sonic Heroes, Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004.
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