I’ve always believed that the hardcore Sega and Sonic faithful are nearly always British. It seems that Brit gamers have a stronger affiliation with the Mega Drive than anybody else, and also have a scary loyalty to Sonic the Hedgehog, despite the fact that for the past several years, his games have been uttergarbage.
With that in mind, it’s somewhat unsurprising that the spiky blue one hastopped a listof the UK’s favorite videogame characters. He narrowly beat Mario by a 3% margin, and wiped the floor with other classic characters such as Link and Pac-Man. Here’s the full list:
The vote was cast with over 500 gamers as part of the London Games Festival. As someone who counts himself among those foolish Brit gamers who have a strange battered-wife-syndrome affiliation with Sega, I can’t help but feel a little sense of satisfaction that Sonic beat Mario. Okay, so the voting public wasn’t a huge slice of the population, BUT IT STILL COUNTS!
Also, this is a good place to build up my false hope forSonic Unleashedagain. It’s gonna be good this time, I got a good feeling. A good feeling! … I think.
