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Sonic & Knuckles coming to Xbox Live Arcade… And it has lock-on!

April 28, 2009
Sonic & Knuckles - Mega Drive

Sonic & Knuckles - Mega Drive

The classic 1994 Sonic game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and TSSZNews has the first details:

Netherlands site Sega Online broke the big news this morning, and provided screencaps as proof.  You can head there to see for yourself, but the short of it is that Sega does have Sonic and Knuckles in the cards for XBOX Live.

No doubt that there are folks who are unhappy with the absence of the lock-on feature in Sonic & Knuckles on the Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, but fear not, this XBLA version will come packed with that option:

The purchase of the base game will allow players to lock-on S&K with Sonic 3for the full game experience, as well as Sonic 2 to play as Knuckles in that title.  You will also be able to play the battery of Blue Spheres stages when locking on the original Sonic the Hedgehog.

All of these options are contingent upon owning the XBOX Live versions of the respective games.  So, for example, you will need to have purchased and downloaded both Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles in order to “lock-on” the two cartridges and play Sonic 3 and Knuckles.  For the moment, it does not appear the lock-on functionality will work with other Sega Genesis titles available on XBOX Live.

4 Comments leave one →
  1. Zesty permalink
    July 16, 2009 6:07 am

    hmm, cool

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