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Well, he's an incredibly obscure third party character that stunk of mid-90's "sassy animal with an attitude" mascot syndrome. It's an incredibly odd character for someone to suggest.

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I don't remember Sparkster having a generic "bad attitude", since he was a Knight, after all. (We're talking about Rocket Knight Adventures, right?)

Still very obscure, even more so than Pit was, so I doubt he'll ever be in anything.

His game was better than most animal mascot games, but the advertising and art style still felt like they were trying to pander to Sonic fans. He's a step above truly horrible mascots like Bubsy or Gex but he's still a symbol of the 90's in a way that just grosses me out.

Pit's obscurity is insignificant because he's a first party character in a game centered around Nintendo nostalgia. I don't get why people would suggest any third party characters that aren't massively popular, since it would be kind of a waste for Nintendo to pay for the rights to use a character barely anyone would recognize.

I'm pretty sure Sparkster is actually in the upcoming Track and Field DS, but that's a Konami game and it's already full of equally bizarre, confusing, and frightening character choices.

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Yeah. I know of the distaste for animal character imitations from the 16 bit era. I wonder if Crash Bandicoot counts as one of these characters, even though he came after the slew of attitude animals.

Again, Sparkster isn't going to make it, even though his games are great.

Crash Bandicoot came out in 1996, towards the end of this trend, but he still counts, yeah. This was around the time that the very worst quality animal mascot games were coming out, like Punky Skunk and BUBSY 3D.

I'm so glad this trend is pretty much dead.

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It's far from dead. It moved on to create an unnecessary amount of 3D animal movies to try and jump the Pixar bandwagon after they made Finding Nemo. Ratatoule was probably the only one I found interesting since it focused on human characters and felt like an old school Disney movie (from what I saw. I didn't watch all of it.)

I always knew Pyramid Head was a star athlete.

PYRAMID HEAD FOR BRAWL

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Those are both Pixar movies, and almost everything Pixar makes is good. Talking [object] children's movies have always been around but they've never been as annoying as the trend in video games. Even something as revolting as The Land Before Time VIII is less embarrassing than PUNKY SKUNK.

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All I know is... the one character that needs to be in Brawl more than even Sonic is freaking Banjo-Kazooie. That game was so damn awesome. If he doesn't make the cut this time, I will be pretty upset. I mean, he's perfect for the game.

He's owned by Microsoft.

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Are you serious?! I coulda sworn he was owned by Rare.

I was always under the impression that Rare did not make games at all, but was only a graphics company. If a game company wanted to enlist Rare to handle their graphics engine, then they did so, but I didn't think that Rare actually made the games themselves. I have no evidence for this, it is just what happens to be stuck in my memory.

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Microsoft bought Rare five years ago. All of their characters are now Microsoft property, with the exception of the Donkey Kong franchise characters which always belonged to Nintendo. They still release games for Nintendo's handhelds because Microsoft has no handheld system of their own. The next Banjo-Kazooie game is for the 360, there was a brief trailer released a year or so ago.

They've never been only a graphics company and they've made an enormous amount of games dating all the way back to the NES days http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/10607.html

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Wow. I guess I thought that because I knew they did Donkey Kong Country, which I knew Nintendo 'owned'. And I could have sworn that Killer Instinct was 'made' by someone else, but now that I know otherwise I can't even think of who I thought the 'someone else' was. And who knew that Rare made Marble Madness??!? That game was crazy! Now there's a rediculously no-good-reason-to-happen-but-would-be-cool assist trophy! The marble appears and rolls around haphazardly, knocking characters around. But if you hit it you can bounce it the other way, and after a couple hits it stops, cracks, and crumbles, and then the infamous broom animation sweeps it away.

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Marble Madness (and a few other games on that list) wasn't originally made by Rare, but they made the NES version. I can't recall who made the arcade version. In those days porting a game from arcade to home required such massive rewrites that they still deserve credit for producing something awesome, though. It's one of my favorite games.

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