The History of Sega's Mascots
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the greatest gaming mascots ever created. But did you know that Sega had 6 mascots representing its Mega Drive & Genesis, Master System, Saturn, and Dreamcast? No, well then stay tuned as we dive into the history of Sega’s gaming mascots. If you like videos from people like the Gaming Historian, Metal Jesus Rocks, and Sega Lord X this show might just be for you.
Chapters.
00:00 Intro
00:50 Sega’s first mascot on the SG1000
01:11 A brief Sega history lesson
02:22 A new challenger, Sega’s second mascot
02:46 Mascots look weird with number 3
03:21 Mascot 4 was created to challenge Mario on the NES
04:43 Sonic boooom! Is number 5
07:06 Mascot number 6 will surprise you
09:00 Final thoughts
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0:50 Professor Asobin
2:29 Doctor Games
2:57 Opa-Opa
3:27 Alex Kidd
4:48 Sonic The Hedgehog
7:58 Sapo Xule
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For me, the most memorable character after Sonic is "Vectorman"!
Pretty cool and interesting character.
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Hello friend
I think Vectorman was owned by Bluesky and Titus Interactive rather than Sega, but still a cool character.
@@RetroGamerBoy yes friend
Yes! We need a Vectorman 3 for Genesis in the same vein as the new Mega Man game!
I didn't know about Dr. Games. I thought the last one would've been Segata Sanshiro, though he was probably more a mascot for just the Saturn in Japan.
ohhh yes, I think he would probably be a figure head, like Kevin Butler for PlayStation. But he deserves a show just on him.
I knew about Alex and Sonic, and I knew about Opa Opa but didn't know he was one of Sega's mascots for a brief time.
It's really interesting the history of Sega's mascots.
Very neat! I'd never heard of Sapo Xule before. Thanks for putting this together!
No problem, I learned a lot making the video.
I can recall Alex the Kid and Sonic. Others not so much cause in my retro timeline, it was from NES to PS2 (including arcades) and GameBoy to PSP in handhelds.
That's interesting. I wouldn't mind finding out what came before Mario.
@@RetroGamerBoy Yeah. I heard that UK was popular for home computer gaming like C64 right?
A very interesting, entertaining and informative video, I myself knew only two, Sonic and Alex Kidd. Thank you!
No problem, it was super interesting to research.
Xapu should meet his contemporary, Condorito
I had never heard of that character until I just googled it.
3:27 It is important to note how Alex Kidd was born. If what you say is important and translate into the games we got, there is an important part missing. Sega was working on a Dragon Ball adaptation and decided to start the project before getting the right for it. They did not reach an agreement and the hero and some assets were used to create Alex Kidd! Yes, Alex Kidd is San Goku! This is why he has a monkey-like look or why some enemies seem to come from Dragon Ball. Even the infamous rock-paper-scissors boss fights are a reference any Dragon Ball fans knows about! Then, yes, as you said, it was used to answer Mario, and this is why we found blocks to be destroyed all over the game too...
Excellent information there, thank you.
I feel like you should have mentioned Nights since he was essentially the mascot of the Saturn.
I think Japan would probably say that Segata Sanshiro was the Saturn mascot.
Absolutely ADORE gaming history bits like this! Many I knew of, but as you said, not all. Always love learning new things to old games, consoles, and companies themselves. The era of the mascots was such a fascinating time.
Especially for Sega, Nintendo found their feet fairly quickly with Mario.
Nice romp through the history of Sega's mascots 😁 There was some info I didn't know of before :) I was a bit curious when the music for Sonic's story was slow and smooth instead of his regular fast and adventurous ones :) I wondered why Sega didn't try Psycho Fox as it the ah, mascot.
Also, nicer that you knock the camera to the side, rather much than to have fallen in the direction way of the camera.cheers.:D
Psycho Fox was not a Sega IP. I think a Japanese telecoms company owns it.
The best Sega Mascotte??. Obviously Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza 😎😂😂😂
Thanks for this very cool video, I didn't knew Professor Asobin 😮
😂 He would be amazing
Prof. Asobin would fit in easily as a Sonic character with a re-styling.
For sure. I don't know why Sega don't lean into some of this old stuff. It's really cool to see.
Of course; Asobin would've been perfect for "Sonic the Comic", at least. Maybe even the games. Sega should likewise give attention to the Saturn and Dreamcast library too...
Brian the Lion for the Amiga he was a badman!
Who would win in a fight between him and Sonic? Knives are allowed.
Amazed I knew all 5 (I don't count Sapo as that was more a Tec Toy company specific one then Sega)
Fair enough
Opa-Opa was part of the Zillion anime. Great mascot, great anime.
It's an awesome, I'd love to see an HD remake like Alex Kidd
@@RetroGamerBoy I was talking about the anime not the video game, but the master system's Zillion games are great also :)
Thanks Mike for the research and time to make a Sega’s history lesson this enjoyable and easy to follow! I had been puzzled about the ‘random’ appearance of that weird rabbit, finally I learnt the answer to that question. LOL
😁Cool. I did not know about Dr Games until I made this video.
Nice video Mike, I have no idea that there are 6 Sega mascots. Except for Alex the kid and sonic. It was very interesting and I am glad that I learned something new from you. Your channel is the most interesting and favorite on the whole internet for me, and I like to watch content related to retro consoles and games.
That's great to hear, and you and I both learnt something with this video which is great 👍
@@RetroGamerBoy Yeah. It is man.
I learned several instructive things in your video about this bunny character. I wondered where he came from. All I remember is that I saw it in the game SEGAGAGA on Dreamcast. And I really liked when you talked about Alex Kidd and Sonic.
I'm surprise Sega haven't brought the professor back in other games.
All of my great memories of Alex Kid and Sonic as a kid I really miss those times Great video Mike 👍
Thanks. It was fun to make this one.
God I love fantasy Zone, it was one of the 3 games I got with my master system for Christmas in 1987 along with Blackbelt and Choplifter. Great video once again.
What a great first game to get with your console.
Donkey Kong > Mario. Sonic > Donkey Kong, you do the maths 😜
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I always thought Alex Kidd could have been a great mascot or long term character in general but with each game the quality dropped as Sega didn't really have a direction for him. Kind of the same with Wonder Boy although most of those games are high quality. I always wanted to see both transition to 3D
Those would work well in 3D I think, I always felt Sonic did not make the transition to 3D well.
@@RetroGamerBoy I agree with Sonic even to this day the better new games tend to be the 2.5D ones. I always seen Wonder Boy as Sega's metroidvania mixed with a bit of Zelda. It's just a shame it has taken third parties to be the ones resurrecting older Sega games.
Nice One Mike buddy. enjoyed watching that 👍
Cool thanks. The audio was a bit wonky but it was fun to research and find all the old concept drawings.
@@RetroGamerBoy did not notice any issues with the audio my end buddy 👍
2:40 What is Col. Sanders doing as a game advisor? ; - ) He does also show up in anime and such
The guy gets around in his old age 😅
Love me some Sonic, but I would have been cool if it stopped at OpaOpa
Can you imagine Opa Opa and Mario Olympics 😅
Where can I get Sonic 3K styled spritesheets for all these characters? (The 6 mascots and the other characters shown in your thumbnail, like in 6:18.) I esp. what spritesheets of Prof. Asobin, the dog, the wolf, the bird and the rabbit, as well as Sapu Chalet.
I just google searched them and the either upscaled the nearest neighbour for the pixel work or redrew the illustrated characters.
Alex Kidd was such a promising early mascot character as Miracle World was a great response to the original Super Mario Bros by providing the same type of game-play and level variety while adding vehicles, sprawling levels, and some light puzzle elements.
.....................and then they squandered it with Alex Kidd The Lost Stars; a basic, simplistic left to right platformer that wasn't much fun. I felt so bitterly ripped off when I picked this game up with high anticipation. It looked that much worse when directly compared to SMB 2 (USA). I had absolutely nothing to do with High-Tech world and Shinobi World was too late and I had moved on to the Genesis, where we got Enchanted Castle which I looked into with some interest level but it turned out to be an unimpressive lesser variation of Miracle World on a new and more powerful console.
So yeah the wheels pretty much fell off after the original game. At least Wonder Boy (Kind of a Sega mascot in his own right) managed to be more consistent with game quality and evolution.
I feel like Sega learned a lot with Alex Kidd and then put this into the Sonic franchise. They tried so many different things with Alex Kidd, it was almost like he was the test bed for a bigger franchise.
Shinobi Word was indeed too late, but what a great game 🥰
@@aurelie7436 Yes I agree it definitely looked like a good game to me when it was released. At that time though I was already knee-deep in Genesis and Turbografx gaming so I missed out on Alex Kidd in Shinobi World and Golden Axe Warrior. Didn't have the funds to put towards the Master System games anymore. The only 8-bit game that was able to take my attention span away during that time was SMB 3.
Спасибо Майк!Всегда,с удовольствием смотрю твои видео!Sega DOES!!!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It was really interesting research it.
Great insight! I was not expecting to learn anything new today 😅 I need to replay Alex kid as I wasn’t really a huge fan I remember playing slot on the master system but on the megadrive I was a kid chameleon fa before the sonic team came along and stole my heart but Dam poor sonic never really stood a chance against Mario as he was so many years ahead and had captured the powerhouse of the Far East . That kung fu frog seems a bit too close to yoshi, perhaps he evolved later as Gex for the ps1.
Mike can I ask a few weeeks ago there was a stream you advertised for a game I was excited to watch but it never came up on your vids ? I know this is not helpful as I can’t remember that name of the game 😂🤣 but I’m hoping it will come back to me and il edit my comment
Well we have had Slipstream, Hogs of War, Tails Rising, Minecraft, and GTA. The live streams are only up for 24hrs and then only members can catch up on them.
@@RetroGamerBoy that was it hogs of war!! Ok Mike no worries I did not realise they get removed.
WonderBoy
Should have, would have, could have.
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Vector man
Vector Man was owned by BlueSky Software, not Sega unfortunately.
@@RetroGamerBoy i didn't know that but definitely best game made only for Sega genesis
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Aver que pasa con Sonic Frontiers
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@@RetroGamerBoy cómo estás amigo
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As a kid I didnt think of sonic as a mascot ... it was just a character on a game ... 2 games ... 3 games ... and seeing him still being marketed now is dismaying ... the cgi hedgehog texture on the movies is dreadful ... I am sure that the oversized blue spikes on the sprite are meant to be just some large spikes, not bundles of microfibres ... can't stand the design thinking on that ... can't bare it ...
I would like to see a pixel version of the first ugly Sonic they made for the moveis 😂