What Happened to the Animals?
Animal extinction seems to have escaped the fumbling hands of humanity’s reality and is spilling over into the virtual world. Since I began my fledgling gaming career in the early 90s the amount of playable animals in games has seen a steep decline.
What were the last few games you played? Did you set paw in pleasing green pasture, or did you set trench foot and combat boot into a shrapnel-spattered battlefield strewn with the decaying corpses of your fallen comrades? Unfortunately unless you have a penchant for nostalgia, a first or second generation console and an impressive selection of 16-bit games, the answer is probably the latter.
What happened to all the animals? What happened to our friends? What happened to Banjo, Kazooie, Croc, Crash, Gex, Jazz, Sly, and Spyro?
