

This led to the popular image of Mario vs. This led to Sega overtaking Nintendo for the fourth generation of consoles with a 65% lead being the climax, leading Mario to earn himself a rival greater than Bowser.
SONIC GET IT DONE ATTITUDE SERIES
The Sonic series soon took over the top slot for best selling franchise, with a combined total of sales throughout the era at a minimum of 24.26 million units sold, toppling Mario's count. Fleshing out his color to blue to match the Sega logo (Mario is red due to Nintendo's original logo color, red), giving him Michael Jackson-esque shoes, and asserting an "attitude" like Bill Clinton's "let's get it done" attitude to streamline his character, Sonic the Hedgehog, introduced to the world in 1991, marked the first time someone besides Mario was the best seller. Needlemouse" at the time, was the winner. A drawing of a hedgehog on a piece of napkin, dubbed "Mr. Having seeing the profit a successful video game system could be, they had internal competitions on who would be the new mascot, to replace Alex Kidd. Light Speed Dash: Sonic can follow a trail of rings, and it gives him a temporary boost of speed at the speed of light.Īlthough Mario took the gaming industry, Sega was eager to compete.Super Peel Out: Sonic can rev up into place, run in place causing to look like an 8 and he goes at high speeds instantly.Homing Attack: Sonic can lock-on to a target and strike them from midair.

Spin Dash: Sonic can curl up and rev in place, giving him a tremendous speed boost and making him invulnerable to enemies.His Spin Jump has him curl into a ball, and is able to destroy many objects, especially robots. His incredible speed and agility make him faster than 10x the speed-of-sound itself (Mach 10>). He has withstood being dropped from great heights, struck by beings with superhuman strength, and even blasted with large amounts of energy and has come out with mild damage. Superhuman Durability: Sonic has an incredible durability rate.He is able to dodge gunfire from enemies robots and strikes from beings with Superhuman Speed. Superhuman Reflexes: Granted by his superhuman speed, Sonic has shown that he possess superhuman reflexes.In most games, by preforming amazing feats that would require Superhuman Agility. Superhuman Agility: Sonic has shown that he is very agile.Though his top speed is unknown, he has an average of 760-765 mph. Sonic has shown that he can easily surpass the speed of sound. Superhuman Speed: Sonic's main ability is his trademark running speed.Because of his new position as a freelancer, with connections to Nintendo, Sonic finally made his long-awaited first appearance alongside Mario in the Wii game, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. Sonic is often viewed as the counterpart to Mario, each representing their respective rival company in the video game market, though because of the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games series hasn't been proven to be canon or non-canon yet, no one can say for sure that the two great heroes have met yet. Both are a onetime major competitor with Nintendo in the video game console wars of the 1990s.

Sonic the Hedgehog is the protagonist of the SEGA video game franchise of the same name, and is the star of many other games made by SEGA as well as their mascot. Now that they have been given the perfect opportunity to meet at the Olympic Games, we may finally learn who is actually faster, Mario or Sonic?" - Shigeru Miyamoto In fact, for a long time they have been discussing the possibility of one day competing against each other. "Mario and Sonic have been respectful rivals since the early days of video games.
