They did add the “Minecraft create a character” however.
He has been the most iconic to me. You only have to hear his voice and you know who it is. That makes him an icon in my book.
Clearly they havent played Golden Axe and Ghiana Sister but ok.....
Big dumb dumbs. Samus Aran.
My counter take to this nonsense is that Mario still sells assloads and procures the scrooge mcduck money bins on the regular. Mario just put out a movie (yeah, I don't give a shit what anyone says in here, he made the fucking movie) that crossed a billion easily. I am willing to bet, even without consulting the internet, that his first film did better than most of it not all the Tomb Raider films, com-fucking-bined. Boomers only? You best recognize that Mario is as famous if not more so than Mickey Mouse. In fact,fuck Mickey Mouse.
I never claimed they werent Europeans, but those cant vote for BAFTA, so saying Europeans did vote Lara Croft is misleading!
So iconic, he didn't even need to be on the list.
mario is big stuff, and also the one that can beat it is pokemon. Look at the franchise money, everybody knows both, because they are so big and bigger these days.
Oh... Thats why... Stupid award
Big dumb dumbs. Samus Aran.
She certainly was a much bigger deal in her earlier years than she is now, being an icon for girls in videogames, while Spice Girls gained fame in the music world and that whole inflated girl power thing. Feminists might never have liked her two prominent features, and Samus Aran existed already, but no one outside of gaming knows Samus, while Lara was a lot more known in the general perception even before the movies came out.
Ms Pac-Man actually but human you can say Samus? But not sure of older games. But definitely not Lara
Don't forget
Sonic? Of all time? Is this 1995?
Yep, first thing I thought. That was some mighty strange polling. Everyone knows Mario and Sonic, you ask most people who the f Agent 47 is all you will get is a blank look.
That makes sense. Everyone 20 or younger would know Minecraft characters.
Tomb Raider is a series that started out as a hit in the US, Europe and Japan while Metroid started out as a game that was a modest success, only in the US. Lara Croft made it a commercially viable trend to have female leads in games, while Metroid did not. It is something of a cliché to name Metroid as the first female game protagonist since she both wasn't the first, and it was entirely possible to play the game for a long time with it being an easter egg type secret that inside the armour suit, Metroid was actually a blonde chick in a bikini.
