All 15 Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games Video Games Ranked

One of the weirdest things to come out of the Olympics is easily the Mario & Sonic at the Olympics Games series.

We all wanted to see the two crossover for so long and Nintendo and Sega turned around and gave us these, so it’s no wonder people initially thought the series was an April Fools joke.

That's not to say they're all bad, a lot of entries in the Mario & Sonic At The Olympics Games franchise definitely are but some of them reach the dizzying heights of pretty good.

To a Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games novice, all of these games may appear the same, but no, I'm here to help you distinguish between the below-average mini-game compilations from the above-average mini-game compilations.

And we're not just doing the main entries. No, it would be too easy to talk about six games and then go and play something that isn't a mini-game compilation. This list covers the home console entries of course but also talks about the portable entries, the arcade titles, and the mobile trilogy, totalling 15 separate games.

Because Nintendo hates the idea of their IPs appearing on mobile phones unless it's in a game they've developed, Sonic had to venture to the Olympics without his plumber friend for the mobile entries of the series. That, or maybe Mario just didn't want to associate himself with this trainwreck.

Sonic at the Olympic Games was released on iOS in 2008 to coincide with the Beijing Olympics. It features a total of five events, each of which somehow manages to be more disappointing than the last. These are 1500m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles, Triple Jump, Discus, and Javelin. You can play this huge variety of games as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, or Amy, you truly are spoiled for choice.

The mobile version of this isn't even the worst way to play it. This stripped-down version of an already bad game got stripped-down itself for PlaySEGA, a Sega website filled with nothing but mediocrity. This version of Sonic at The Olympic Games only has two mini-games: Discus and Javelin.

"Unfortunately", neither of these versions are available anymore without illegal methods or in the case of the mobile version it can also be played if you have it on an old device. Don't bother though, believe me, you're not missing much.