Failed Attempts To Make Video Game Mascots As Iconic As Mario

Publish date: 2024-05-03

The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was a wolf-like marsupial that became extinct in the early 20th century due to human causes. Sounds like a great premise for a series of games aimed at kids, right? Krome Studios thought so when it created Ty the Tasmanian Tiger in 2002 for the Playstation 2, Xbox, and Gamecube. The game, and its next two sequels, were 3D platformers, and much like many of the games on this list, critics neither praised nor lambasted them. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger found some modest success but never became huge, making it the Thor movie franchise of video games. The series is still going though, as Steam released Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4—a 2D, retro platformer—in 2015.

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