9 Video Game Mascots We Absolutely Hated

2. Aero The Acro-Bat

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Sunsoft

Bats are flippin' cool, but this flippin' bat wasn't.

Let's count all the ways this peak '90s mascot, created by future Turok designers Iguana, ticks the requisite boxes. Is the name a pun a ten year old would be proud of (even if it does pass over the more elegant and infinitely more tubular 'Battitude')? Check. Is Aero - at least in theory, terrible mid-'90s 3D render notwithstanding - a grossly anthropomorphised mammal with a wry smile and a boat load of spunk? Yup. Do you have to rescue a helpless female equivalent (in this case, 'Aerial') from an evil industrialist? Bang right. Is it a 2D platformer? Of course!

So in many ways, Aero is the archetypal video game mascot, and therefore archetypally terrible. Plus he should have been called 'Battitude'.

 
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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.