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The Decline of the Video Game Mascot

Posted by Zonk on from the get-hooked-on-the-brother-huh! dept.

Ant writes "Ryan Cullen, of Access Gamer, writes: "This is the beginning of a recent fad that I have noticed the past couple years. Lately it seems that the mascot video game character has declined in popularity. Names like Mario and Sonic, characters who were once able to make the video game world suddenly stop and pay attention, are now either shells of their former glory, or they are just not as huge as they once were. Why is this?""

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  1. Re:Mario by Guppy06 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Lately they've put out a cart racing game, a golf game, an RPG and a tennis game."

    I see "lately" for you means "ten years ago." Super Mario Kart is an SNES game, the characters in the old NES Golf game look suspicious, Super Mario RPG is another SNES game and Mario's Tennis was a pack-in with my Virtual Boy.