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Ripoff Sonic Game Appears on iOS

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From the Out of Left Field department comes A Hedgehog Dash HD, an iOS game discovered by Sonic community members this week.  We’re not linking to the game for download, and you can probably guess why.

Look familiar? The game stars Jiffy the Hedgehog, rings are picked up, and even the level environment is eerily similar to old-school Sonic.

Then, there is the whole gang of Super Hedgehogs.

The Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose clones are fairly obvious.  What appears to be a knock on Scourge is included, and the Super Sonic equivalent looks like he may have rabies.

The game’s appropriately named developer, YOLO Labs, has no valid website.

It’s probably not a question of if Sega gets involved with taking this game down, but when.  But keep in mind, we are in a post Archie v. Penders world, and already named in a follow-up suit with Electronic Arts involving Sonic Chronicles that will be heard on appeal in the Fall, one has to wonder whether Sega really wants to play with fire again.  For now, the whole idea of it getting through Apple’s approval process is at least worth a laugh.

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  3. Original Characther DO NOT STEAL.

    —–

    Even they can’t draw good…
    Even worse. There is no Android Version…. WHY?!

  4. “Hey Sonic do you have the time?”
    “I’M NOT SONIC, I’M MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER JIFFY!”

  11. Couldn’t they have at least bothered to think of a name more creative than Jiffy the Hedgehog.

  14. also you guys heard of the sonic revamp….this is it… this is official sega business (sarcasm btw)

  15. GEE, I WONDER IF THIS IS BASED OFF OF A PRE-EXISTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM.

    1. HUH. I HIGHLY DOUBT IT. INFACT, I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN ANYTHING MORE ORIGINAL.
      #CREATIVEORGINALCHARASDUNTSTEALYOLO

  20. What a rip-off. “Jiffy the Hedgehog”? What, was he named after the peanut butter or something? That must be what his color’s based off of.

  21. And if they’re going to copy Sonic characters, at the very least they could have done it right. The Tails/Super Sonic clone looks like he’s ready to derp.

  23. I love the inconsistent art-style they have. Jiffy looks like Sonic, Amy Rose wannabe looks like Amy’s and Big’s unwanted child, and the yellow one looks like…
    Errrrr…
    …Whatever that thing looks like, I don’t wanna look at it.

  24. Honestly, I was pretty shocked to see this. Then going to watch footage of it………BORING. I mean, at least Sonic Dash has some appeal to it. You do what Sonic does best. RUN. This thing? …….good god.

    1. That game was wonderful and it certainly deserves a sequel that was promised in the first game.

  26. Welcome, to 3D Super quick racing adventure! Get ready! Put your 3D glasses on!

  28. I just caught the name of the studio who made this in the article. “YOLO Labs”? It was practically destined to suck just from the developer alone.

  34. lol, do those guys have no idea that SEGA aren’t doing very well at this point,and they want to pull themselves even deeper in the hole?…

      1. I don’t think YOLO Labs cares at all. They noticed Sonic Jump and Sonic Dash are doing well and have an opportunity to make some quick bucks off of this before it gets pulled off the App Store. That YOLO Labs has no traceable information suggests this is what was planned from the start: They know they’ll get in legal trouble, so the lack of information makes it more difficult to sue them (but far from impossible, as to make money through an iOS app means you need to send private information to Apple, and Apple WILL cooperate with SEGA once it finds out), and when Hedgehog Dash Pro is gone, these same people will make a new company and pop right back up making more knockoffs.

        I’ve been to countries where these knockoffs are legal, and they get way uglier than this. And I am dead certain that the above is their mindset.

  37. Oh my gosh… This game is so clearly a rip off of Sonic the Hedgehog, I wouldn’t even miss that if the article hadn’t stated that it is. I feel really bad for SEGA, they’re going through enough issues. The world criticizes and complains about their video games enough as it is and then some low rate company has the nerve to steal SEGA’s own creation? And with Sonic Chronicles, I really enjoyed that game, I wish there had been a sequel to it.

  38. >”one has to wonder whether Sega really wants to play with fire again”
    >implying that SEGA wouldn’t be able to legally mop the floor with these guys, what with it being an obvious ripoff

    Why the heck would you even buy this shit anyways, the REAL classic games are available on iOS for cheap. Heck, they could just get Sonic Dash if they wanted a free Sonic game even if it’s an endless runner instead of a platformer. Way better than this crud too.

  39. OMFg THE ANIMATION IS SO BAD BUT BAD OR NOT YOU CAN SO TELL IT’S A RIP OFF MAN! THAT’S STUPID!

  41. I find it strange that people are even bothering to pay enough attention to this to comment this much.

  42. I believe this was made to make a statement about the outcome of the Ken Penders lawsuit. Mr. Penders is able to use and make money off of his Knuckles recolors/ripoffs freely, so YOLO Labs should in that case be able to do the same thing with their Sonic recolors/ripoffs. Sega will react by suing YOLO Labs, who will say in their defense that Ken Penders is still able to use his Knuckles recolors.

    1. Vasha–is there evidence out there to support your claim? I’d certainly like to take a look at it.

      -T

  45. D: Jesus Christ. All this penalty there is in schools and college for plagiarizing stuff, when morons like YOLO Labs can easily get away with it. What the heck is going on here?

  46. There is no way anyone at YOLO Labs could’ve thought this was original. They know it’s a Sonic ripoff.

    Most likely, they made it to bask in the light of Sonic Dash and Sonic Jump and make as much money as they can before the legal hammer flattens them. Of course, dealing with YOLO Labs in the courtroom, due to the lack of easily obtainable information about them, is a game of whack-a-mole: You try to bash them in, they pop up somewhere else under a different name.

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