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LGF 2008: Sonic the Hedgehog voted top video game character

Posted Oct 21, 2008 at 8:55AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 Tags: London Games Festival, Marcus Fenix, Sega, Solid Snake, Sonic, UK

Let's take a quick breather from all the drama and seriousness of those LittleBigPlanet and interlaced PSP-3000 news items, shall we? For now, we celebrate gaming as a whole!

To usher in the London Games Festival (which starts today, and runs up until November 7), we hear from Sega via a press release. Turns out their blue hedgehog was crowned king of video game characters in a poll.

Yeap, out of some 500 votes casted in the "most popular video game character" poll, Sonic the Hedgehog garnered 24% of total votes, making him the top video game character against the likes of Mario, Lara Croft, and Niko Belic. Check out the final tally!

The UKÂ’s top ten most popular video games characters are as follows:

Sonic the Hedgehog (24 per cent)
Super Mario (21 per cent)
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) (16 per cent)
Donkey Kong (11 per cent)
Pac Man (10 per cent)
Link (The Legend of Zelda) (5 per cent)
Max Payne (4 per cent)
Pikachu (Pokemon) (3 per cent)
Niko Belic (Grand Theft Auto series) (2 per cent)
Blanka (Street Fighter) (1 per cent)

What? No Sackboy? No Master Chief or Marcus Fenix (and aww, Dominic Santiago)? No Solid Snake or even Drebin? Ok, maybe not Drebin. But what about Little Sister or Pyramid Head or... or... or Tingle? (Well, it is halloween season, after all, so... yeah, Tingle's up there with BioShock and Silent Hill.)

Coupled with the press release is a batch of photos showing Sonic having fun around London. Cute as some of the pics are, I worry for the Londoners who might have been traumatized to see this huge blue mascot running around the city that day. (What's up with that "Le gasp!" pose in the car?!)

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Clear off!--Just because Solid Snake was not in the "random-500-votes" doesn't make the English ...{supid}... maybe if you had learnt our language properly you would get your biased point-of-view across in a less idiotic way.

Besides, I were to rate the top three best video-game characters it would most likely be something like:

I. Sonic (pre-sixth generation)

II.. Ryu Hayabusa (grew up with ryukenden)

III... Light Warrior (... yes, final fantasy)

Ryo Hazuki would possibly have topped my list, if it wasn't for Shenmue 3 not happening.

# No Cloud Strife? — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2008-10-21 14:10

Oh well. So many to choose from. Sonic is well known and cooler than Mario so it's kind of a given.

# Lmao — DNAgent 2008-10-21 14:14

People actually picked the character from GTA4? Those must've been joke votes.

# SONIC?!?!?!?!?! — c74gta4smash 2008-10-21 16:04

Am I the only one that realizes that Sonic was just a more interactive version of Pinball?

# My Vote — c74gta4smash 2008-10-21 16:06

Goes to Banjo Kazooie.

# wait — Binary 2008-10-21 18:06

no master chief or arbiter???

booooo

# hey man — Binary 2008-10-21 18:09

Wtf is wrong with Lara Croft.

Shes hot as hell

# Sonic — Spawnx777x 2008-10-22 10:21

Noone will ever top Sonic the Hedgehog, f*ck master chief and all this bullsh*t

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