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Maybe I have the sense of humour of a five year old, but Wild Woody sounds a lot too NSFW for a kids gaming mascot.
by duncan_bayne 9y ago
Maybe I have the sense of humour of a five year old, but Wild Woody sounds a lot too NSFW for a kids gaming mascot.
- bitwize 9y agoI think that was kind of the point. He was a hideous CG pencil, and his attack was rubbing things out with his eraser ass. Cringe and gross double entendres all around. Of course inappropriateness was a hallmark of Sega's 3edgy5me days; Sonic was originally supposed to have a sexy, blonde, human girlfriend.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoThat's horrific in several ways, and in particular brings to mind the old joke about porcupines. But it must have been a fairly old concept. I was a big Sega fan as a child, owning the original Sonic for the Master System, and don't remember any humans except for Dr. Robotnik.
- bitwize 9y agoIt was nixed by a Sega of America staffer named Madeline Schroeder, who did a lot of streamlining and de-crufting the Sonic concept before the game was even made. Oddly enough she would go on to establish Crystal Dynamics, the studio that made GEX. And Sega would go on to ship Sonic with a human in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).