

Dialing up a certain spherical gaming icon, Bandai Namco tweeted a follow-up where none other than Pac-Man picked up the phone. To celebrate its anniversary, the official SEGA HARDlight Twitter account made a brief teaser video as to what they’d be doing to celebrate the occasion.

With over 100 million downloads and two sequels under its belt, the endless runner certainly shows no signs of stopping. It was later re-released on without LINE functionality as Sonic Dash Club.It’s hard to believe that the mobile title Sonic Dash is almost five years old. Titled Sonic Dash S, this version adds new abilities for each character and new features (such as online multiplayer). On February 5, 2014, the game received a special Japanese-exclusive version that's only available for the LINE social media app. It also received two sequels ( Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom in 2015 and Sonic Forces: Speed Battle in 2017) and an arcade "video redemption" port in 2015 ( Sonic Dash Extreme). The game received numerous updates throughout the years, with additional playable characters and special events (including time-limited cross-promotions with Angry Birds, Sanrio, Pac-Man, the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film, and the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comic series).

The PC and WP versions were later discontinued.Ī mobile spin-off of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of platformers, Sonic Dash brings many components of the main series (such as collecting rings and using both spin jumping and spin dashing to navigate around obstacles) to an endless runner setup similar to Temple Run, Subway Surfers, and Rayman: Jungle Run. It was made free-to-play on Maand was ported to Android devices on June 2, 2014, to both PC (via Windows Store only) and Windows Phone 8 devices on December 3, 2014. Sonic Dash is a behind-the-back endless runner developed by Hardlight and digitally published by Sega for iOS devices on March 7, 2013.
