Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | 10:48 BST

Sonic UK’s favourite videogame character

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Sega has popped its head round the door to tell us that Sonic the Hedgehog is the UK’s all time favourite videogame character of all time.

“Over 500 UK gamers voted in the poll to mark the launch of London Games Festival, which is expected to attract over 100,000 computer games fans to the capital this week,” says the release.

Top Ten is as follows:

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog
  2. Super Mario
  3. Lara Croft
  4. Donkey Kong
  5. Pac Man (10 per cent)
  6. Link
  7. Max Payne
  8. Pikachu
  9. Niko Belic
  10. Blanka

Marcu Fenix or some other manly, muscular character should have won in our opinion. Anyway, congrats to Sonic and Sega.

By Mike Bowden

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#1

Hero of Canton
21/10/08, 10:31 am

Marcu Fenix? Is he from the eastern European localisation of Gears?

Also, it appears that we have a tie in first place, which Sega is conveniently failing to mention.

#2

Blerk
21/10/08, 10:31 am

Who did they ask? Idiots?

#3

pleasant_cabbage
21/10/08, 10:33 am

Sonic so far ahead he doesn’t get a position? ;)

I agree with Blerk though.

#4

absolutezero
21/10/08, 10:33 am

Fucking Pac Man? Thats not even a character.

#5

JPickford
21/10/08, 10:34 am

How come Mario is 1?

I expect the list contained just those 10.

#6

morriss
21/10/08, 10:34 am

Fixed now.

#7

Smartypants
21/10/08, 10:36 am

Blanka?

#8

Tiger Walts
21/10/08, 10:39 am

Gnnnnnnnr, title makes no sense.

/apostrophe nazi

#9

morriss
21/10/08, 10:42 am

Yes it does. You don’t use apostrophes with acronyms.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/acronyms.html

#10

Hero of Canton
21/10/08, 10:43 am

You don’t use apostrophes in ‘apostrophes’, either.

#11

morriss
21/10/08, 10:44 am

haha! :mrgreen:

I could be wrong on all these fronts, btw.

#12

Hero of Canton
21/10/08, 10:45 am

Also, why does only Pac-Man get his percentage displayed?

#13

Syrok
21/10/08, 10:45 am

How did Belic end up on that list?!

#14

Tiger Walts
21/10/08, 10:46 am

That’s for plurals. The case here is meant to be possessive.

#15

morriss
21/10/08, 10:47 am

yeah, I’m dragging my dusty grammar books of the shelf now. :)

#16

morriss
21/10/08, 10:49 am

I’ve changed it. I’m not happy about it. But I’ve done it.

There, now let that be a lesson to all of you.

#17

Blerk
21/10/08, 10:55 am

You really need another word between “Sonic” and “UK’s”. Try ‘crowned’ or ‘voted’.

#18

Gekidami
21/10/08, 11:07 am

Gamers gave these answers…? Seriously?!

#19

locus2k1
21/10/08, 11:16 am

uk resistance must be happy :D

#20

Retroid
21/10/08, 11:46 am

They’re never happy unless they’re sleeping with their mint Dreamcasts ;)

Or a girl dressed as Ulala.

#21

Eregol
21/10/08, 11:48 am

They only surveyed 500 gamers.

How is that enough?

#22

Esha
21/10/08, 1:02 pm

Blanka is in there?

Blanka?

I’m greatly amused by this, that Blanka is remembered enough to make any kind of Top 10. I kind of liked the character, he was interesting to play in Street Fighter II. But he wasn’t the most supremely memorable character ever.

The fact that Blanka is in there shows that something is a little odd with this list.

#23

ashers2ashers
21/10/08, 7:30 pm

No Solid Snake? He’s the best character ever!

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