Quote Originally Posted by Zap! View Post
I hated Sonic back in the early 90's. Having a mascot with "attitude" was apparently the hip thing at the time. Bonk for Turbo Grafx I liked but could never get into Sonic. The Sega commercials in the 80's were serious, and in the 90's, Sega became cool and had to be sarcasticly funny. That's when they lost me.
I'm wondering how Sega would have ever been able to compete with Nintendo with Alex Kidd as its flagship series. Don't get me wrong, the Alex Kidd games are fun, but if that was what was offered as the BIG title to compete with the Mario games, the Genesis would have flopped miserably -- Sonic fit the attitude that Sega was trying to go for, and the fast-paced platforming of the games is what made them fun.