6 of the Strangest Gaming Crossovers Ever Made
Gaming crossovers are far from a rare occurrence in the industry. Developers and publishers long ago realized that they could take advantage of the popularity of two or more franchises and combine them together to create a game that is sure to grab attention and sell copies to multiple sets of fans. Precisely for this reason, we’ve seen plenty video games in the past 25 years feature characters from different series, with the final product often being a well made title. Prime examples include the likes of Kingdom Hearts, Street Fighter X Tekken and Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games. However, not every single crossover turns out to be successful and for every good example there are several terrible ones. What is more certain is that crossovers will generally involve franchises and characters that seem to fit together. For example, fighting games often include fighters from a variety of other games of the same genre. This is not always the case though and sometimes publishers will seemingly just grab
