Whatever Happened to the Gaming Mascot?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 13, 2006 @11:49AM from the sonic-now-in-rehab dept.

Ground Glass writes "Back in the days when consoles were measured in bits, they were also measured by their mascots - interestingly-designed characters that easily encapsulated everything the machine and its parent company stood for in gaming. Today they are no more than hangers-on, surviving either by cynically marketing to the very young or by remaining vestigial elements in games that would have been great with or without them. The next generation is coming, but mascots are nowhere to be found - so where did they go?"

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Re:Akuma by Mark+Maughan · 2006-07-13 13:46 · Score: 3, Informative

"Sheng Long" doesn't refer to a character. In the old Ryu victory screen where he says "You must defeat sheng long to stand a chance", he was talking about one of his signature moves.

Right. It's the chinese translation of the dragon punch. In Japanese it's the rising dragon (shoryuken), in Chinese it's the spirit dragon (sheng long), in English it's the dragon punch.

Akuma is Akuma, and goes by no other name.

Nope. Gouki is his true name. Akuma is Japanese for demon. Gouki's brother is Gouken (the master of Ryu and Ken) and their master was Goutetsu.