ULTIMATE GUIDE ROCKET KNIGHT ADVENTURES
As Sonic fought on the frontlines of the 16-bit console war in the early Nineties, his rival wasn’t only Nintendo but every other game company looking to have an animal mascot of their own. There had, of course, been mascot platformers in games previously, though these were mostly using established licences such as Capcom’s Disney platformers like DuckTales and Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers. Konami in particular had a celebrated number of licensed games under its belt such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons and Tiny Toons Adventures, but the company was ready to enter the fray with its own original mascot.
Released in 1993 on the Mega Drive, Rocket Knight Adventures can easily be compared with Sega’s iconic console mascot. Its hero Sparkster wore blue armour and was an opossum – not exactly the same family of species as a hedgehog (both are often mistaken as rodents) but still close enough, what
