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Why wasn’t there any Olympics video game this year — even Mario & Sonic?

%%excerpt%% The Paris 2024 Olympic games are the first since 2010 not to have a video games adaptation. The reasons are complex, but the IOC and Nintendo parted ways after 2020.

Eurogamer reported on Tuesday that the International Olympic Committee let its licensing agreement with the Nintendo and Sega mascots expire after 2020, in order to explore less-traditional opportunities, such as esports and even NFTs. Sega published a game for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo that hit middling review scores but was still praised for the variety of events it offered (as well as the nations represented). A second-generation newspaperman, Good's career before covering video games included daily newspaper stints in North Carolina; in upstate New York; in Washington, D.C., with the Associated Press; and…

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