some of the greatest cover designs ever tbh idc how shit chaotix is I want a copy just for this

@Tsuki @beardalaxy chaotix has a good aesthetic on the 32x, it's like the "old sonic cover art" aesthetic jacked up to 256ish colors and it's a shame that few games notable used that. Most fangames even stick to the original MD palette and not the 32xes expanded one.

Also the music sounds exactly like PC-98 scene music down to the PCM drums.

yeah i love everything about chaotix other than actually playing it but even then its not that bad just kind of boring

@Tsuki @beardalaxy the gameplay's a clusterfuck imo

you can kind of just ignore the whole rubberband thing for most of it by picking up your partner and running through. vector has a huge hitbox so if you pick him up the like 3 enemies in the whole stage just die when you run into them.

@Tsuki @beardalaxy yeah lmao they clearly did not populate the stages

the special stages are pretty good though. probably my favorite out of all the classic games

@Tsuki @beardalaxy the bonus stage music goes hard (someone please recompose this as a PPZ8 song)
https://youtu.be/qddAm4Gy6TY

@Tsuki @beardalaxy virtua racing 32x had a good ost too
https://youtu.be/8BCm1OvRHkQ

@Tsuki @PurpCat yeah how do you look at this and NOT think "this is the coolest shit ever i want to be just like him"

@beardalaxy @Tsuki being the nerd online larping as the nerd crusher in that phase

@xianc78 @beardalaxy

@PurpCat @xianc78 @beardalaxy

@xianc78 @PurpCat nah

@beardalaxy @PurpCat He could've saved you from Chris Chan, but instead he ended up serving lottery and tobacco addicts at a gas station.

@xianc78 @PurpCat i don't need saving from chris chan

@xianc78 @beardalaxy @PurpCat
Tobacco addicts!? It's a relaxing hobby I can quit whenever I want.

And I've always been a Zonk Man

@SirLuke @xianc78 @beardalaxy that's how it is when I use the zyn

@xianc78 @beardalaxy @PurpCat How can he be a good mascot when either nobody knows him or nobody likes him (retro-videogame youtubers do not count as people)

@frost @PurpCat @beardalaxy South Americans remember him fondly.

@xianc78 @PurpCat @beardalaxy Do they? Why?

@frost @PurpCat @beardalaxy The Master System was insanely popular in Brazil.

@frost @PurpCat @beardalaxy @xianc78 The only reason I even remember Alex Kidd at all is because of Sonic and Sega Allstars Racing

@Ace66062 @PurpCat @beardalaxy @frost I knew about his existence for a while, but there was one time I was trying to program a platformer, but didn't want to do a Mario clone like everyone else, and Sonic was way too complex, so I decided that I should do an Alex Kidd clone. When I actually played Alex Kidd, I realized how much personality and wasted potential the franchise had. It just needed to have a game with SMB3 levels of content during the Genesis era instead of the heaping pile of shit known as Enchanted Castle and ditch the rock-paper-scissors boss fights.

@xianc78 @beardalaxy @PurpCat Pulseman and Vectorman were my personal favorite mascots, but they didn't get as much fanfare as Sonic and friends. A lot more people seem to love funny animals than androids and robots.

@berkberkman @PurpCat @beardalaxy
>Pulseman and Vectorman were my personal favorite mascots

Pulseman and Vectorman weren't even owned by Sega and they could've easily gone multiplat if they wanted. Alex Kidd was Sega's original mascot, outside of Oppa Oppa and some rabbit character that appeared in instruction booklets for the SG-1000.

Pulseman didn't have a chance because GameFreak was also working with Nintendo on Pokemon which would end up being their cache cow for both companies.

>A lot more people seem to love funny animals than androids and robots.

Sonic and Crash were the only video game funny animal mascots that really saw popularity. People tried to copy Sonic's success with characters like Bubsy, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Rocket Knight, but they didn't find much success. Jazz Jackrabbit was popular with PC gamers, but PC gaming in the 90s was mostly for adults outside of edutainment and simulation games.

Besides Mario, Sonic, and Crash, the most iconic video game mascots (pre-6th gen) are Pac-Man, MegaMan, and Bomberman. None of them are animals.