Everybody's top ten are great...but here's a look at what the marketing people promoted as "cool" during the 16-bit era....yep Chester Cheetah. Hailing from Hip City,not even road blocks, vicious dogs, or psychotic zoo guards can keep him down...!
Chester the junk food Cheetah reminds me of "Poochie", the Itchy and Scratchy character that was killed off in the Simpsons episode (it poked fun at the TV and ad industry.) :-)