The Summer's Dumbest Video Game Is Also Kind Of My Favorite
Few entertainment products are as brazenly corporate and synergistic as the "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games" series, which, yes, is exactly the ludicrous fluff-fest it sounds like.
It started with a duo of 2007 games based on the then-upcoming Beijing summer Olympics. There have been entries for every Olympics since, up to the recent "Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games" for Wii U and 3DS. They're all officially licensed by the International Olympics Committee.
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