Game heroes before you knew them!

I don't really have any news today, so I decided to write an article on something interesting But first I would like to apologize about that remark about microsoft last post. I was just alittle frusterated about E3's stupid decision about being private. I didn't see much on TV, except for a price drop, and a newer version of the X-box 360.

Anyway, You may think that you know certain Game heros, but did you know that like Movie and tv characters, they go through various stages and designs before having a final design?

Mario, as you all know was once called Jumpman, But did you know, Jumpman was intended to be popeye and everyone else to be popeye characters? However, Nintendo could not get the rights, so they had to start from scratch. But if you look at early official art you can see Mario looks simular to popeye!

On the subject of Mario, Charles Martinet, the voice of the famous plumber, was thinking of a gruff brooklyn accent for Mario. In other words, he sounded like Bob Hoskins from the Mario movie. (Off topic fun fact: did you know Bob Hoskins hated acting in the Mario movie?) However he decided it would be strange to have a gruff voice in a kids game thus creating the world famous italian accent we all know and love today!

Sonic the sega mascot, went through even more stages than the Italian plumber!
A few of which i can remember was a mario rip off, an armidillo, and a rabbit like creature. The rabbit eventually became ristar, and the armidillo became a popular scrapped character, named Mighty.

The last one I can remember, is Rayman. The intended story was to be about a 10 year old child who creates a world on his computer, called Hereitscool (Here It's Cool?) he ends up getting sucked in, and becomes Rayman. The plot was (thankfully)scrapped and just became a world where A hero named Rayman lived.

That is all for now. I will post more details about game heroes before you knew them
when I find more info.