90s video game mascots... we need "mascosts" era again?

I always liked the characters that nobody else was into as a kid, like princess daisy.

I liked Joe Musashi, Gillius Thunderhead and Strider Hiryu more than any of the faux Disney characters that the 90s came up with. By the time Crash Bandicoot came along I thought it was a bad joke, but apparently all of the kids that migrated over from the Genesis/SNES to the PS1 felt differently. I am just as sick of the hardened soldier/spy/assassin craze of today, but thankfully the murdering pimp/criminal sandbox craze has died down.

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Originally Posted by Drakon

I always liked the characters that nobody else was into as a kid, like princess daisy.

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I highly dislike Sonic as a character and I'm a Tails fan, and my fav character on Street Fighter saga is Dee Jay. So, I think we are on the same boat.

The mascot era is dead now. Crash, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet and Clank have been quite popular, but nowadays, at least in my country, kids and adults alike have only one mascot in mind: Kratos. The Xbox doesn't have mascots and is quite profitable, isnt it? (Well, Banjo & Kazooey...)

Mainstream retail release? Not that many. But there's still a ton coming out on XBLA/PSN/Steam from Indie devs.

The Xbox pretty much depends on Gears of War, CoD and Halo characters as far as mascots go.

I honestly cannot believe how stupid Kratos is when the Legacy of Kain games have died off entirely. That alone is one of those things that just really makes me sick of modern gaming.

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Originally Posted by sheath

I liked Joe Musashi, Gillius Thunderhead and Strider Hiryu more than any of the faux Disney characters that the 90s came up with. By the time Crash Bandicoot came along I thought it was a bad joke, but apparently all of the kids that migrated over from the Genesis/SNES to the PS1 felt differently. I am just as sick of the hardened soldier/spy/assassin craze of today, but thankfully the murdering pimp/criminal sandbox craze has died down.

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This is how I felt. I hated those kinds of Disney/Looney tune rip off characters. Just looking at my SNES games, the only things I have that could be considered mascot characters were Mario, Battletoads, and Pocky & Rocky. Like you I always tended to favor the cool, heroic type characters. And good riddance to the gangster games. I do want some of those cheeto's djshock was eating, though. Those chester cheetah games were terrible man ;P

Yeah you don't need a mascot but characters are always fun.

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Originally Posted by bigladiesman

I highly dislike Sonic as a character and I'm a Tails fan, and my fav character on Street Fighter saga is Dee Jay. So, I think we are on the same boat.

The mascot era is dead now. Crash, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet and Clank have been quite popular, but nowadays, at least in my country, kids and adults alike have only one mascot in mind: Kratos. The Xbox doesn't have mascots and is quite profitable, isnt it? (Well, Banjo & Kazooey...)

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