Having grown up in the 90's, I witnessed game publishers falling all over themselves throughout the decade trying to mimic the success of Sonic and Mario with their very own mascot-style main characters. More often than not these characters would be the stars of highly derivative and unpolished 2D platformers, and they tended to be anthropomorphic animals with some degree of 90's 'tude running through their veins.
Even as a kid I always found these misguided attempts at character design to be pretty funny, and all these later I think I find them even funnier now. There are so many obscure or otherwise failed 90's game mascot characters, and I think it's high time we determine who the overall worst one was. You can come at this one of two ways: either you pick the actual worst character from creativity and appeal standpoints, or you go with a character that is so bad that it loops around to being unintentionally awesome.
I looked over a bunch of them via Google Search before making this thread, and my nomination is going to this soulless creation right here:
Awesome Possum
He's awesome! Right, guys?
Sheezus Christ, can a 90's mascot platformer character get any more generic than this piece of work? The way he says, "I'm awesome!" in that title screen slays me every time I watch it. He's... what? Just a possum in a spacesuit or something? And look at everything else. Fuckin' Dr. Machino is his nemesis? Dr. Machino?
Every single aspect of this character and the game he stars in comes across as if someone took a bunch of cringe-inducing 90's television advertising and threw it all into a blender. It's so awful that I kinda love it, frankly.
Let's see if you hot shots have what it takes to knock this super awesome mascot off of the pedestal as the all-time worst of the 90's gaming mascot craze.
Even as a kid I always found these misguided attempts at character design to be pretty funny, and all these later I think I find them even funnier now. There are so many obscure or otherwise failed 90's game mascot characters, and I think it's high time we determine who the overall worst one was. You can come at this one of two ways: either you pick the actual worst character from creativity and appeal standpoints, or you go with a character that is so bad that it loops around to being unintentionally awesome.
I looked over a bunch of them via Google Search before making this thread, and my nomination is going to this soulless creation right here:
Awesome Possum
He's awesome! Right, guys?
Sheezus Christ, can a 90's mascot platformer character get any more generic than this piece of work? The way he says, "I'm awesome!" in that title screen slays me every time I watch it. He's... what? Just a possum in a spacesuit or something? And look at everything else. Fuckin' Dr. Machino is his nemesis? Dr. Machino?
Every single aspect of this character and the game he stars in comes across as if someone took a bunch of cringe-inducing 90's television advertising and threw it all into a blender. It's so awful that I kinda love it, frankly.
Let's see if you hot shots have what it takes to knock this super awesome mascot off of the pedestal as the all-time worst of the 90's gaming mascot craze.
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