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Shitty animal mascots of 90's: Who was your favorite?

elkataselkatas Registered User regular
edited August 2007 in Games and Technology
When Sonic the Hedgehog hit the scene, it didn't took long before someone tried to replicate its success. But what was reason for Sonic's success? Was it incredible feel of speed? Highly polished level design? Excellent music? Of course not. Main reason why Sonic succeeded was that it had edgy animal mascot! Or so publishers thought. Soon market was flooded with dozens of videogames that had animal mascots. Each one had edgier mascot than previous, and each one was shittier than previous one. Image below shows most prominent shitty (and few not-really-that-shitty-but-uninspired) animal mascots of 90's.

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List of the characters

Chester Cheetah, Bubsy the Bobcat, Sparkster
Radical Rex, Superfrog, Cool Coyote
Zool, Kamikaze the Ninja Squirrell, Mr. Nutz
Awesome Possum, Aero the Acro-Bat, Croc
Rolo, Rocky Rodent, Gex, Jazz Jackrabbit

Who was your favorite? Whose developers should have special place in hell? :)

Hypnotically inclined.
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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Gex, easily. Dana Gould was a laugh riot - heh heh, Boy George's underpants...classic.

    Wasn't there a rodent that attacked enemies with his mohawk? Rocky or Punky or something.

    EDITL What about that Socks the Cat game for the SNES? I saw a print ad for it a long time ago but no one ever talks about it. Did Bill Clinton silence the game's critics with the Secret Service?

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Chester Cheetah definately deserves a special place in hell for being the lamest mascot ever. And he's not primarily even a video game one.

    I have, unfortunately, played his video game though.

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I am amazed you listed Awesome Possum.



    To quote Dr. Machineo:

    "YOU ARE NOT SO AWESOME."

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Wasn't there a rodent that attacked enemies with his mohawk? Rocky or Punky or something.

    It was Rocky Rodent from IREM. I just noticed that I made typo on the list, and wrote Ricky the Rodent instead. Fixed now. :P

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  • PratleyPratley Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I kinda liked Bubsy, I remember his game being decent.

    The rest, not so much.

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  • DritzDritz CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Jazz Jackrabbit was awesome. The music kind of brought the game out and I liked the cartoons which followed each episode.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Is that a skateboarding dinosaur?! What was wrong with people from the 90s?

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  • FirebrandFirebrand Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Superfrog for the win, his game was actually pretty fun.

    Wasn't Oscar (bundled with CD32) some sort of rodent as well?

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  • SushisourceSushisource Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Gex 4 lyef

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Firebrand wrote: »
    Superfrog for the win, his game was actually pretty fun.

    Yeah, it was easily one of the better AMIGA 500 platformers, but I wouldn't call the main character very inspired.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Is that a skateboarding dinosaur?! What was wrong with people from the 90s?

    Well, it is, after all, Radical Rex. Y'know, totally rad. Mega-awesome. Supercool.

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