Missing Mascots: Alex Kidd

[David J.]

I always thought the recent 3D Sonic games would be perfect for Alex Kidd.

Nowadays people want length in their games, and the Sonic games where more known for speed, while the Alex Kidd games where longer, and slower.

[Ed Oscuro]

Some nit-picks for the article:

The Sega Technical Institute, founded and run by Marble Madness creator Mark Cerny, was almost exclusively charged with this assignment, and they came up with several new characters like Greendog, the Ooze, and Comix Zone.

How about Sketch Turner, Roadkill, General Alissa Cyan, or Mortus?

Also, I'd say that the "death knell" for Alex and Stella was the fact that Team Shinobi killed them off in Altered Beast Hell, they came up with a few nifty sets of characters (the Golden Axe and Alien Storm teams) that were every bit as interesting as Anmitsu Hi...er, Alexin...er...that kid. Oh, what was I saying? No article about Alex Kidd worth its salt overlooks the Altered Beast reference.

There was an official link. Alex Kidd in Miracle World was built-in to the Sega Master System II in the US and Europe. I can't think of a way to promote a game property more than including it with the hardware.

Does this mean that everybody's favorite orange and yellow snail is an official mascot, too?

[Melf]

Thing is, Enchanted Castle came out alongside Altered Beast, and another game was later released on the Master System, so Alex wasn't actually killed off there. Stella did seem to bite the dust though.

[Joe Redifer]

There was no orange and yellow snail. It was white. And hidden.

[Ed Oscuro]

Thing is, Enchanted Castle came out alongside Altered Beast, and another game was later released on the Master System, so Alex wasn't actually killed off there. Stella did seem to bite the dust though.

Seriously though, why the article leaves that out is kinda beyond me. Everybody should know about it!

There was no orange and yellow snail. It was white. And hidden.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/sms/02/snailmaze.html

Also of note, I've heard that later MS IIs had Sonic as the built-in, thus replacing Alex even on the SMS.

[Joe Redifer]

Well it's white when you play it through an RF connection. Plus it's hidden so it can't count as any sort of mascot, like I said earlier.

Also, who cares if Alex's name is on tons upon tons of gravestones in Altered Beast? It just means that a whole bunch of people named Alex are buried there. And who the hell is Stella? Maybe Altered Beast himself is Alex.

[Ed Oscuro]

All joking aside, I'd like to know if the system manual (or box) for the Master System with Snail Maze gave clues about starting up the game (apparently the MS2 did, though it doesn't seem that there's a simple selector button on that console to do it).

[Melf]

I don't think Stella ever existed! Alex was a cross-dresser, and that's why they canned him!

[Joe Redifer]

There were no clues about Snail Maze in the SMS manual. Best game ever, though.

[B - Mark]

I like Alex Kidd, but he is more marked as the Master System mascot than Sega mascot.

Other problem is the game engine.
After Alex Kidd in Miracle World, each game had a different game play.
The game play of Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle is near to the Alex Kidd in Miracle World, but is inferior than Alex´s 1st game.

I have a catridge Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
I won my game in the 1990 Christmas.

In Brazil, the Tec Toy haven´t forgotten Alex Kidd.

In the “Master System 3 – 112 Super Jogos” are 4 Alex Kidd Games built in :
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World
- Alex Kidd the Lost Stars
- Alex Kidd High Tech World
- Alex Kidd in Shinobi World

In the “Master System Handy” have Alex Kidd in Miracle World are built in this console.

In the “Super Mega Drive 3 – 71 Super Jogos” Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle are built in this console.

Here is the links about Alex Kidd in internet:

Article about Alex Kidd and his games in internet.
http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.c...d/alexkidd.htm

Informations about Alex Kidd in the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kidd

The site OPCFG – The Organization Present for the Preservation Classic Forms of Gaming had a article about Forgotten Video Game Heroes and Heroinies.
Alex Kidd is one of the heroes cited in the article.
http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.c...fg/heroes.html