You might notice that Croc's "competition" doesn't include Sonic... what a strange time in gaming history.
Sonic isn't considered to be competition for a child-friendly platformer, but Lara Croft is and apparently Croc and Tomb Raider share the same audience.

Did you forget how badly Sega fucked up Sonic and their company?
Did you forget that Lara Croft was legitimately a gaming icon?

Is that "shake a stick at" comment supposed to imply masturbating to Lara?

>>715877757 (OP)
>Did you forget that Lara Croft was legitimately a gaming icon?
No, I haven't, but it really does feel like an entirely different lifetime or timeline.

>>715877757 (OP)
What does the N stand for?

>>715877757 (OP)
wtf was sonic doing back then?
shitting itself with adventure?

>>715878101
He was busy not appearing in any 3D games because Sonic Team wanted to make a game about a flying gay clown.

>>715878101
Worse, shitting itself with last breaths of Game Gear.

>>715878228
Based.

>>715877757 (OP)
Sonic was actually relevant for an extremely short time window

>>715878417
Sega itself was relevant for a very short time. The megadrive was their only successful console.

>>715877757 (OP)
As a kid I didn't even know the Saturn existed. Almost every kid had a PS1, few had a N64, literally nobody had a Saturn. I didn't find out that Sega had another console between the Mega Drive and the Dreamcast until I read about it in some gaming magazines in the mid 00s. No shit Sonic was literally irrelevant at the time.

>>715878663
They didn't even make a mainline sonic for it.

>>715878663
It's funny how little Sonic actually mattered in the long run and how much he still lived rent free in Nintendo's head
They REALLY did not like the idea of someone challenging them for their crown for even a single second

>>715878663
Some of their games had pc versions. I knew 3d blast from pc...

>>715877757 (OP)
Was Lara as huge overseas as she was in the UK? I was a little too young (born 95) to experience the hype, but I remember seeing her in ads, the games always being on shelves and whenever the topic of the PS1 comes up Tomb Raider is always mentioned, especially by people who don't really play games.

>>715877757 (OP)
And now Crash and Laura are pretty much dead and Sonic is as alive as ever

>>715877757 (OP)
What does N on the hat stand for? Was that a secret bro and not Mario?

>>715878663
>I didn't find out that Sega had another console between the Mega Drive and the Dreamcast until I read about it in some gaming magazines in the mid 00s.
Same, I got a Mega Drive from my mum's friend in the late 90s, I had a Playstation at the time and I literally just thought Sega stopped making games until I saw the Dreamcast a few years later. It was only when I started taking a genuine interest in how games were being made and I saw this magazine cover on the old Naughty Dog website I found out about the Saturn.

>>715879253
Nigmario
It's a power up they scrapped later on.

>>715879058
Lara is a big deal in the US as well. She was one of the few gaming characters that my parents were aware of and could name upon seeing her.

>>715877757 (OP)
Only Mario and Sonic are relevant now

>>715879058
Yes. Every playstation and pc owner had a tomb raider game.
It's so weird that almost no one got to beat the first level though.

>>715877757 (OP)
>Tomb Raider
Thing had a movie and stuff

>>715879854
Lara is still relevant. It's just that the IP owner refuse to make a new game because they hate gamers.

>>715880108
but first they are making Lara as lame as possible so that nobody will buy whatever they release

>>715877865

>>715878663
I also never saw a Dreamcast irl at the time. Plenty of PS1/N64 and later PS2/GC. But not a single Sega console around me after the Mega Drive. I also only knew 1 guy who had an Xbox.

>>715877757 (OP)
It's purely because there was no good 3D Sonic at that time. Adventure wasn't out yet and Sonic-hype was starting to dwindle.

>>715877757 (OP)
>Move over Mario. . . and cruise by Crash. . . Croc ROCKS!

>>715877757 (OP)
>even rayman had more hype than Sonic
lol

>>715877757 (OP)
This ad gave me a vore fetish when I was a kid from imagining Lara in Croc's stomach

>>715880856
idk what's more embarrassing, Sonic being on the level of Rayman or Earthworm Jim >>715878663

>>715877757 (OP)
This ad is so shit lol

>>715881082
Silence, toddler. The adults are talking.

It doesn't include Sonic because Sonic didn't have a 3D platformer at the time, you fucking retard. No, 3D blast doesn't count.

>>715878663
I had a buddy who had one, I played Bug! once and instantly went back to my Mega Drive.

>>715877757 (OP)
Sonic was in a mini dark age between S&K and Adventure. He was basically irrelevant in the 5th gen because Sonic Team made Nights instead and handed the mainline sonic game responsibility to a different studio. Then that studio came up with Sonic Xtreme which was unsalvageable shit and rightfully was canceled.

>>715877757 (OP)
it was 1997, sonic didn't have 3D games yet

>>715881307
>>715881331
Sonic X-treme would've had the same gameplay as Bug! which wasn't very fun or 3D to begin with.

It's hard to think of gaming characters other than Lara Croft who wielded guns while still being a distinct character. Other than some copout like Duke Nukem or Doomguy, she was probably the only gaming character who legitimately crossed over into "action movie hero" in the minds of normal people completely uninterested in gaming.

>>715877757 (OP)
Wtf is croc?

>>715881973
Imagine Crash Bandicoot
This is more literally who levels than that

>>715879058
It got 2 movies, which is more than you could say about any game at the time.

>>715877757 (OP)
Croc can't eat Sonic because the spines would hurt his mouth.

>>715880998
Earthworm Jim was huge, for about 5 minutes. Looking back it was really weird, the games weren't even any good, typical 4th gen westoid jank.

>>715883571
So, wtf happened to that game made for the amiico? It was cancelled or something?

>>715883571
Ignore what this poster said, Earthworm Jim is based. It's one game that got famous for a minute but it's the basedest jank.

>>715883571
>Looking back it was really weird
Not really. Early to mid 90's were all about mascot characters and gross out humor like Ren and Stimpy. EWJ was a perfectly marketable character back then: the games were good enough (at least the first one), Jim himself was likeable and the cartoon was actually kinda funny.

Jim was the anti-Bubsy.

>>715877757 (OP)
sonic lost all relevance when we jumped to 3D
I couldnt even tell you if it had a saturn game, no one had a saturn

>>715885701
The fun thing is that IIRC Playstation was the one with the Spice Girls game...

Anyway, Saturn was my fist encounter with Sega because my Cousin somehow had one. I have no idea how the fuck i failed to encounter the older Sega Stuff before then because i really should have.

>>715885701
>console war
>screaming "i don't like woman" out of nowhere like it's a flex
What the fuck? How did they predict /v/?

its weird, I have met people who played banjo yet when I ask if they ever heard of croc they think im making shit up. they also had ps1s too btw so it wasn’t just them being tendies

I'll be honest, I remember liking the demo as a kid and then playing I think Croc 2 on PC at a cybercafe in the early 2000s. I tried Croc a few years ago and sure, I can get used to the tank controls in Tomb Raider, but fuck this one with a rake

>>715886510
>cybercafe
Now there's an ancient concept to zoomers. I remember my friend's dad reserving the N64 setup at a local one for a birthday one year. Played Starfox and Mario Kart all afternoon.

>>715886885
Yeah, I had no internet back then (it was a bit of a new thing still) and that place is how I discovered many things (online multiplayer, emulators and roms, random R34 flash animations, modding games, etc). They had a few PC games you could play and Croc 2 was one of em.
A popular mod they had was DBZ Bid for Power. I remember the owner's little daughter loved to play it, but she never played it against the usual crowd. She played with me once, because I didn't know shit about how to play FPS games (and probably because I was closer to her age). Good times.

>>715877757 (OP)
>vore
I will now buy your game.