10 Amazing Pieces Of Video Game Foreshadowing

7. Gotta Go Fresh (Rad Mobile)

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Quick trivia question: in which game did Sonic the Hedgehog make his debut appearance? If you answered 'Sonic the Hedgehog, obviously', firstly, less of your cheek and secondly, it's a good answer, but incredibly, wrong.

Six months before Naoto Ohshima's blue blur freshened up the North American Genesis market, he was freshening the dashboard of a Ferrari 330 P4 Type, dangling rather morbidly from its rear-view mirror in Sega's coin-up Rad Mobile.

Interestingly, Sonic's erstwhile rival Super Mario also made his bow outside his own franchise, known as the descriptive Jumpman as he battled Donkey Kong in the eponymous 1981 arcade smash hit. They're not so different after all.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.