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Top 16 Video Game Mascots of All Time

by YPB Team

Recognition is not the same as quality, and this list keeps proving it. A few of these carried entire companies on their backs; others mostly sold plush toys.

  1. Mario — ranked #11
    Mario
    Nintendo's plumber, first seen as Jumpman in Donkey Kong in 1981 and the face of gaming ever since.
  2. Master Chief — ranked #22
    Master Chief
    The silent Spartan of Halo, and the closest thing Xbox has to a face.
  3. Kratos — ranked #33
    Kratos
    God of War's Spartan, rebuilt from a rage-driven brawler into PlayStation's leading man.
  4. Sonic the Hedgehog — ranked #44
    Sonic the Hedgehog
    Sega's blue blur, created to give Nintendo a rival with attitude in 1991.
  5. Pikachu — ranked #55
    Pikachu
    The Pokémon franchise's electric mouse and one of the most recognised characters on earth.
  6. Link — ranked #66
    Link
    The silent hero of The Legend of Zelda, wordless across four decades of games.
  7. Pac-Man — ranked #77
    Pac-Man
    Namco's 1980 maze-eater, the first video game character to become a household shape.
  8. Lara Croft — ranked #88
    Lara Croft
    Tomb Raider's archaeologist, voted the most iconic game character in a BAFTA poll.
  9. Crash Bandicoot — ranked #99
    Crash Bandicoot
    Naughty Dog's marsupial, the unofficial PlayStation mascot of the 1990s.
  10. Donkey Kong — ranked #1010
    Donkey Kong
    The 1981 arcade antagonist who became a Nintendo headliner in his own right.
  11. Astro Bot — ranked #1111
    Astro Bot
    The little robot from Team Asobi's games, now PlayStation's most-used modern mascot.
  12. Kirby — ranked #1212
    Kirby
    Nintendo's pink sphere who solves problems by inhaling them.
  13. Solid Snake — ranked #1313
    Solid Snake
    Metal Gear's infiltrator, the face of PlayStation's most cinematic series.
  14. Spyro the Dragon — ranked #1414
    Spyro the Dragon
    Insomniac's purple dragon, the other mascot platformer of the original PlayStation.
  15. Samus Aran — ranked #1515
    Samus Aran
    Metroid's bounty hunter, and the reveal that reframed a whole genre in 1986.
  16. Sackboy — ranked #1616
    Sackboy
    LittleBigPlanet's knitted hero, PlayStation's family-facing mascot of the PS3 years.

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Comments

Mario has held the job since 1985 while PlayStation ran through Crash Bandicoot, Kratos and now Astro Bot. Master Chief turned up in 2001: https://youpick.best/articles/playstation-vs-xbox-vs-nintendo-ranked

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ypb-team·Aug 21·

Mario, Sonic, Pikachu and Kirby were drawn to read at sticker size. Master Chief was drawn as a soldier and went on every Xbox box anyway: https://youpick.best/articles/halo-ranked-many-ways

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ypb-team·Sep 6·
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