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A video game mascot is a mascot that is used by video game companies to promote both the company and their specific video game series and franchises. [1] Video game mascots are sometimes considered to be similar to those at sporting events , with larger-than-life animals, such as Pikachu or Crash Bandicoot . [ 1 ]
Sonic the Hedgehog is Sega's flagship franchise and one of the bestselling video game franchises, selling over 140 million copies by 2016 and grossing over $5 billion as of 2014. Series sales and free-to-play mobile game downloads totaled 1.77 billion as of 2024.
Sonic the Hedgehog [a] [1] is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog and the main protagonist of the series. Developed as a replacement for their existing Alex Kidd mascot, as well as Sega's response to Mario, his first appearance was in the arcade game Rad Mobile as a cameo, before making his official debut in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
The movie skips around in time, with a backstory set 50 years ago, and it surrounds Ben Schwartz’s genial, valiant Sonic, the speed-demon Sega mascot, with enough competing anthropomorphic ...
Sonic the Hedgehog [b] is a character created by the Japanese game developers Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima. He is the star of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Sega. Sonic is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speed, hence his name.
Sonic the Hedgehog has been Sega's mascot since the character's introduction in 1991. While Sega was seeking a flagship series to compete with Nintendo's Mario series along with a character to serve as a company mascot, Naoto Ohshima designed "a teal hedgehog with red shoes."
Naka was the lead programmer on "Sonic the Hedgehog" and created the iconic Sega mascot's swift, spin-balling fluidity with artist Naoto Ohshima in the 1990s to compete with Nintendo's Mario Bros ...
Sega Corporation [a] [b] is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.It produces several multi-million-selling game franchises for arcades and consoles, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Angry Birds, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter, Megami Tensei, Sakura Wars, Persona, and Yakuza.