Telling some in the early '90s that Mario and Sonic would eventually co-star in a series of Olympics games would have broken their brains. It turns out that the crossover plans for those games were once intended to extend even further, with Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and even characters synonymous with PlayStation and Xbox set to join the Mario and Sonic cast in what would ultimately become the final installment in the series.
That's according to Lee Cocker (thanks, Screen Rant), a developer on the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series. Cocker was asked why the team decided to stop at just Mario and Sonic, to which the dev replied there were a lot of ideas in the works, but the licensing deals for a lot of them didn't work out, so they scaled it back to Mario and Sonic, with their supporting casts, being the focus.
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