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ITT: Retro video game cliches and trends

In the early to mid 90s everyone was releasing a platformer with an animal mascot. So many totally radical mascots with ~attitude~ came out of the 90s

>> No.2192996
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Crash isn't a rad mascot, though. He's more of a moron. Maybe that's why I love him when I hate Sanic.

>> No.2193004

How many of them actually qualify as "mascots" though?

>> No.2193217

>>2192894
That's not even a trend. Disney, WB, MGM, Kellogg's, etc. have been doing it for decades.

>> No.2193325

Where's Gex?

>> No.2193365

>>2193325
And Kirby

>> No.2193370
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not every animal mascot platformer was a generic animal with tude though. Sparkster from Rocket Knight Adventures was fucking awesome.

>> No.2193374

>>2193004

Crash, Spyro, Sonic, Gex, Aero, Bubsy, etc.

>>2193217

Mascots with attitude were a thing during the 90s gaming scene

>> No.2193798

as always, no love for Glover.

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>>2193374
Everything had "attitude" during the 90's. Everything still has "attitude". Only it's gone from backwards caps and sunglasses to profanity and excessive violence. The 90's didn't invent teenagers.

>> No.2194207

>>2193864
Now I noticed that shadow is like sanic mixed with donte.

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>>2193798
i love the glove

>> No.2194557

gore-y fighting games with digitized graphics and clunky controls

>> No.2194563
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Robbit is the mascot PlayStation needs, but not the one it deserves.

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>>2193370
He never said generic he said radical. Just because you discovered Sparkster recently enough that his radness makes it past your irony filter doesn't make him that much different from Crash.

>> No.2194667

Where's Bonk?

>> No.2194679

>>2193864
wasnt the term "teenager" coined in the 50s? along with "race music" "rock n roll" and "get outta my house, ya filthy jew!"?

>> No.2194695

>>2193365
And Jazz
And Klaw

>> No.2194714

>>2193370
>hedgehog
>bandicoot
>generic

>possum
>not generic

Are you trying to rustle my jimmies mate. RKA is an awesome game but you should really use a better choice in words.

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The bad thing about Crash is that his first game was released two years after the Simpsons Poochie episode, he was born old.

Conker was the last animal mascot with attitude.

Here a SpeedRun of Zero de Kamikaze Squirrel in which they also interview a developer of the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFw_j55E0q8

>> No.2197513

>>2192894
Don't forget Gex. He easily had more attitude than all the other mascots combined. He was voiced by a semi-famous comedian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjXKidAlXa4