The thing that annoys me about Sonic is that he's become the face of the Sega Genesis, one of my favorite consoles.

Like seriously, whenever you see people need a representative of "best of the Genesis," they almost invariably go to Sonic... because he's the only Sega Genesis character they know. Like, hello? Shinobi III? Splatterhouse 2? The Phantasy Star and Shining Force games? Nope its just Sonic Sonic Sonic. For these people Sonic might as well be the only game Sega ever released.

Super Nintendo doesn't seem to have this problem--you can discuss that without it all being about Mario. That kind of irks me.