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Sonic Speedway

Sonic Speedway 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 are two main buttons on the game which control…

31 December 2003

Sonic Speedway is a racing, released 31 December 2003 on Handheld Electronic LCD.

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What Sonic Speedway is

Sonic Speedway 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

Sonic Speedway 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 are two main buttons on the game which control left and right movement. Sonic controls a F-1 racecar and must navigate through a race course filled with other drivers. There are three lanes that can be moved about with one lane always left open. The other lanes are occupied by other vehicles. For each row of vehicles avoided a point is added to the score. For every 30 points the level and speed increase with 4 levels total. If the player crashes 5 times in a single level the game ends.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Speedway is the 117th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Shadow Grinder in 2003.

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What it launched against

Sonic Speedway 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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When did Sonic Speedway come out?
Sonic Speedway was released on 31 December 2003 for Handheld Electronic LCD.

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