One thing about this week: you'll save some money if you're looking to stock up for a big drive or just content to use as "Ignore Family" fuel. The worldwide leaders of Sonic games, for example, is holding a fairly comprehensive sale, so if you were in the mood for a, uh ... more historic afternoon of App Store appreciation, then get your download fingers ready.

The big ticket items, as usual whenever Sega holds a sale, are its Sonic series games. It seems like the general fan audience is mixed on the quality of these, but at prices like one dollar, it's hard to feel too conned by the much-beloved, yet also heatedly criticized publisher. Also, of note? The oft-featured�Monkey Ball games have been lowered to a buck.

• Altered Beast - $2.99 ? $.99
• Gunstar Heroes - $2.99 ? $.99
• Samurai Bloodshow - $4.99 ? $.99
• Sonic Spinball - $1.99 ? $.99
• Sonic The Hedgehog - $3.99 ? $1.99
• Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - $3.99 ? $1.99
• Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 - $4.99 ? $2.99
• Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing - $2.99 ? $1.99
• Super Monkey Ball - $2.99 ? $.99
• Super Monkey Ball 2 - $2.99 ? $.99
• Super Monkey Ball 2 Sakura Edition - $4.99 ? $.99
• Streets of Rage - $2.99 ? $.99
• Streets of Rage 2 - $2.99 ? $.99
• Streets of Rage 3 - $2.99 ? $.99
• Virtua Fighter 2 - $1.99 ? $.99