Video mascots who have never given up

Summary

• Alex Kidd from Sega did not become an iconic mascot like Super Mario due to lack of impact.

• Captain Commando of Capcom achieved a cult state, although it was attached to a solid game.

• Bubsy faced a decline in popularity as a result of a number of poor games and the best in the past.

Masks can be found everywhere in pop culture; Disney has a Mickey Mouse, Ghibli's studio has a totoro, Star Wars It has RD-D2 (among other things) and the list is really very long. As for video games, Sonic, Super Mario and Master Chief are S-Tier icons and some other candidates under them: Rayman, maybe and Nathan Drake. Spend enough time in the archives and there are fewer happy records.

In the history of video games, there have been many stopped attempts to create video game mascot. Some were created to represent a development studio, while others represent the only game that could be a potential franchise. There are many reasons why they have never been quite a lot of time; Bad timing and unsatisfactory video game are just some of the reasons.

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Alex Kidd

You have to be me

Somewhere there in Multiverse, Alex Kidd is SuperStar and his picture is decorated with pillows, cups and lunch boxes. Maybe he has his own CGI movie. In this timeline, however, Alex Kidd will usually remember as an attempt to create his own Super Mario, just to fall on some key obstacles and then left the project in favor of a certain blue hedgehog. At present, Sega's heads are kindly remembered, but not many others.

First game Alex Kidd for the main system, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, was a cheerful, reasonably entertaining platform, but lacked the characteristics of changing paradigm Super Mario Bros. (released a year ago) and all its sequel. The character was used as leather for games only for Japan that received western editions and even appeared in iconic classics Alex Kidd in the Shinobi worldBut he never got a quite right opportunity to shine.

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Commando

More like a Captain Commandon

Like the video game industry, Capcom boasts a turbulent history and some of the largest IPs in the field, so there is the reason that Osaka will want its mascot. Captain Commando was accused of such a task until the first three letters of his first and second names that expressed the name of his parent company. He made his debut in the 1991 Arcade defeat.

Unlike some other items on this list, the Captain of the Commando was a character attached to a solid, pleasant video game, but for any reason he could not completely become a megastar who was in mind and was included in the position of a cult hero. But there is no need to feel too desperate – he would get off in more than one Marvel vs. Capcom the game as well as SNK vs. CAPCOM: Charette Charets Class.

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Bubble

Paws for an idea

The arrival of Sonic The Hedgehog in video games had a huge impact on this industry, but quoting WB Yeats, “terrible beauty is born.” A lot of Copycat came out of the wood, each containing some Twist on the Energy-90 model. an anthropomorphic animal. One of them was Bubsy Bobcat that debuted in 1993 Bubsy in Claws Meeting with a gloomy kind for 16 -bit consoles.

Bubsy was a cat cat and a nice rogue with a hobby to get into trouble. His first game was decent enough, with an emphasis on fast gameplay and color graphics. Such a favorable beginning, however, was not enough to prevent him from slipping into decline with a number of terrible games, including a particularly terrible effort for the first PlayStation. Some recent attempts were made to bring him back from the dead, but at best they were the average effort and Bubsy is the best in the past.

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Skill

Meme fodder

The complete corporate strength of Sony Computer Entertainment was thrown Skill, intended as an attempt to break the pulsating franchise -like Crash Bandicoot While at the same time they show the horse power PlayStation 4 .. with some of the best talents and the biggest bucks in the field, he seemingly could not fail. The result, although competent, did not achieve experience that its creators probably hoped.

An action platform with a firm emphasis on the fight, Skill They did some things well, but its overall design and difficulties felt for players. It also came up with a disturbing lack of personality and a central hero who had no magic at all. It was enough from the splashing to get a sequel, which made several improvements and improvements to the pattern, but Knack has little inertial power other than as a joke for meme connoisseurs on the Internet.

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Gex

Retro reptile

Another game that paid off on Post-Sonic Golden Fever, Gex Gecko was a contemporary Bubsy, who was the US to love watching television and liked WiseCracks. His first game was released on the unfortunate 3do Panasonic console, but managed to escape the hardware and eventually migrated to PlayStation, Sega Saturn and even a PC. The games were dry humor and creative design at the level that accepted them for players.

Interestingly, the GEX games were mostly well received and considered a solid action platformers, and later games were due to a huge debt as a huge debt Super Mario 64Thanks to the emphasis on free playing. While the lizard still has a cult and Gex trilogy It is currently available at Steam, it seems that there is no sufficient support for it at present, so the revival in which the fans hope is still some ways.

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Jazz jackrabbit

This bunny went to heaven

While the Mascot Platform Games dominated the consoles, the personal computing space for such titles was something like wasteland and PC players had to rely on modest provisions. Some of them came from unlikely sources; The Epic Games giant is now famous thanks to Gears of War and Fortnite, but one of the oldest studio concerts (under the name Epic Megagames) was an action platform released for MS-DOS.

The star of the show was jazz, green, sunglasses wears jackrabbit armed with a series of high-tech weapons. The same parts of Star Wars and Aesop Fables represented a unique mixture of platform and shooting elements, unlike Sonic The Hedgehog and Mega Man. He got a sequel that was well accepted, but by this time PlayStation was ascending and home computers tried to catch up. During the development, the third title was canceled, so jazz must disappear in confusion.

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Croc

A beloved character who fought against the competition

A cruel reversal of the fate of the first Croc game. Originally it was conceived by Argonaut developer as a revolutionary 3D platformer with Nintendo's Yoshi, and the proof of the concept was thrown together for Nintendo executives who welcomed him with enthusiasm. Unfortunately it was eventually refused because the company worked on its project in the same spirit that had similar elements of gameplat as the demo argonaut and eventually would become Super Mario 64.

His original protagonist Dinosaur was reskinned as a cartoon crocodile and the first game in the series, Croc: Legend of the GobbosLaunched for several platforms in 1997. He was favorable and seemed to be a franchise for a short time that could stand up to the time test, continuing, and some spin-off for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, but no new installments were released. However, nostalgia fans can enjoy remaster, which improves visual elements and more importantly, controls.