In the aftermath of Sonic the Hedgehog's meteoric 1991 rise, publishers scrambled to copycat SEGA's success by cobbling together their own platformers starring anthropomorphic animals. And every single one of them had to have 'tude, because the full word "attitude" was for your old man. In fact, Sonic inspired so many of these copycats that they practically became an entire subgenre for the platformer.
And so, IGN Retro chronicles the legion of Sonic impersonators in a continuing series: What Hath Sonic Wrought? This week's entrant is Gex, the sassy gecko that predated the Geico spokeslizard by several years.
Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.
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Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.