Which 90s scrimblo was the worst one?
>>744692174Sonic obviouslyIf we're punching down though I'll go after Rocket Knight
>>744692279>dude, I just hate good games
Gwimbly
>>744692174Earthworm Jim's design was just wtf.Creative, but wtf.Now worst ones are either Bubsy or Gex, Gex had those gen X "haha le quirky celeb" lines that just cannot be endured today.
>>744692174Yoshi as its own series, Mario is completely fine, but everything Yoshi is nothing but goo-goo ga-ga babyshit that somehow has the average tendie trying to pretend its high art
>>744692174Wasn't that like Bubsy? It had literally 0 good games back then.
CrocNo idea why the fuck they decided now that anybody wants a fucking Croc 2
>>744692174Gex.
>>744692875the remaster you mean, yeah no idea
>>744692174The worst scrimblos are the ones nobody remembers. I couldn't tell you the winner because if I remembered him he wouldn't be the worst.
>>744693051I remember Awesome Possum
>>744693051It was pretty much one of the last of the scrimblos, but I remember Ty the Tiger having this super try-hardy advert of Sonic, Crash and Spyro in the emergency ward, with him walking out, bragging about it. Naturally the game sucked.
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>>744692605Yeah, but there is no discernible difference between Yoshi games and Halo or even World of Warcraft for instance, and yet people go autistic for those mind numbing faggot games, too.
>>744692875thisa platformer with tank controls? even when my age was in the single digits i knew this was a terrible idea
>>744692432>>>/co/
>>744693456based
>>744692374When Sonic gets one of those you may have a point.
>>744692605Yoshi's Island is harder than Super Mario World.
>>744695768Sonic games were good for platformers at the time.
>>7446958542 and 3 were. 1 kinda blows
>>744695941There existed like 10 good games at the time, and Sonic 1 was arguably one of them.
>>744692174https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVakIWcG0Sw&t=1s
Vexx.
>>744692174I never played Bug! but just looking at him makes me annoyed.
>>744692174Awesome Possum.
>>744695854They were not. Even at it's peak Sonic was seen as the 7th best option on the market.
>>744699957He got 3 different cartoons in the west before Sonic Adventure. You don't know what you're talking about.
>>744692174Scrimblo is an actual genuine dogshit twitterism and I am so sick of you tourist faggots here spamming it
>>744700845low aura post
>>744700845cringe alpha male detected
>>744692174Banjo. No good games, but he's incredibly overrated (arguably on par with scrimblos like Bubsy) because with the N64 being a nogaems machine, plus Kazooie being one of the few N64 games to sell above a million copies, and you got undeserved popularity because tendies had to latch onto something.
>>744701356it was another time
>>744700845It was originally used as a retaliation term when Banjo got in smash by anti smash trannies that use discord, but it ended up getting adopted and used by the people that it was supposed to insult, it's similar to the word Chud
The 2nd character in Jazz Jackrabbit 2
>>744706483>Rare says Minecraft helped get Banjo in Smash Bros Ultimate
>>744701356>skunny?
>>744693247He’s pretty fucking bad
>>744692279Rocket Knight is one of the greatest games of all time. Punching down? You’re a literal imbecile.
>>744706485I thought Spaz was a chick for the longest time
>>744708907Based, especially for nonwhite babies
>>744692174Crash Bandicoot. Those games flat-out suck. Maybe Aero the Acro-Bat or that Kamikaze Squirrel shit. I never played them but even as a kid they seemed soulless and hacky.
>>744692174rocky the kamikaze squirrel
>>744709236Banjo kicks ass and beats the crap out of enemies
>>744692174Any Scrimblo that people bring up can't be the worst one by nature of the fact at least someone remembered it. It's probably one everyone forgot about.
>>744693446>>744692845>>744692591is Bubsy really that bad compared to this fucker?
>>744692174Crash Bandicoot. So derivative, late to the party, eternal third wheel. Dishonorable mentions to Bubsy, Cool Spot, and ZoolThe best one was Earthworm Jim
>>744709470He runs decently fast and carries her so he can butt stomp enemies with his hairy ass and also rolls through any enemies and isn’t afraid and packs a mean pawAlso his sister is being turned into goo by the wicked witch of oz so it would be fucked up not to save her
>>744709036Yeah. Say what you will about ol' Sparkster but his games were actually good and did some ambitious things for the day. I recall them being kind of irritatingly difficult though, sort of like Battletoads.
>>744692174zero the kamikaze squirrel
The dude from the sega genesis games that’s made out of Green orbs
>>744709179aero the acrobat wasn't that bad, and the 2nd game even had a kinda good soundtrack at times
>>744692174Boogerman. Nights also creeped me out, although the game was pretty fun
>>744709772vectorman, and still nowhere near as bad as zero the kamikaze squirrel
>>744709854not a scrimblo bimblo, neither of them
>>744709915Nights most certainly fucking was. Are you retarded?
>>744709330His game had uncensored tiddies and appeared in a kart racing porn game. Therefore Woody>Bubsy.
>>744699957I too like pulling things out of my ass about subjects 20 years before i was born
>>744709875They really named him Sneedman lol
Spyro is the worse
>>744692174there's nothing wrong with scrimblo bimblosthis is a term made up by people who didn't see a problem with smash having 8 fire emblem charactersgod forbid a protag being unique and memorable
>>744710231true. however, counterpoint:I'm not into it but with how much /v/ salivated over this shit, its worth bringing up
>>744692174It's fucking Tin Head and by a lot.
>>744706483>everybody i don't like is [X]if i am still capable of parsing time, the notorious tweet was made after sephiroth was already the latest addition, and xenoblade sword chicks were just revealedalmost like it was a joke about endless arguments involving the addition of another anime swordsman, fuelled by how banjo was the only obviously inhuman DLC outlier
>>744710325Spyro is mid.
>ask for guy with sword>get guy with sword>"ree swordies!">ask for mascot character>get mascot character>"ree scrimblos!">ask for more fighting game reps>get more fighting game reps>"ree Ryu clones!">literally make /v/ nigh-unusable during Ultimate's life cycle and a long time after over Steve>get Steve>"ree my tourneyfagging!"If time travel ever gets invented I'm stuffing the twin towers to the point of fucking bursting with Smashfags.
>>744709947nope, you clearly don't understand what a scrimblo bimblo is then
>>744711850cancerous smashniggers weren't a thing in september 2001, nigger retard
>>744712663Hello there, ESL. The fag you’re replying to means that he’d bring smashfags back in time with him, so that they too will get 9/11’d.
>>744692174>most successful gaming mascot is a fat mustache guy>Corpos: let's make every platformer mascot a furry to compete with NintendoAnd people wonder why they all failed to have the same impact as Mario.
>>744714417Mario is the costume kind of furry.He's transcrimblo.
>>744711850"anime swordfighter" came to be because it was a term to describe fire emblem characters, no one had beef with sephiroth because he uses a giant fuckin katana and is cool besides, the issue has always been FEand scrimblo posting was to make fun of people asking for stuff like waddle dee and crash, keep up before you talk shit
>>744692174>thing that's good? ACTUALLY IT SUCKS BECAUSE I, A SMUG COCKSUCKER, SAID SO!!! DISCOURSE, DISCOURSE I LOVE DISCOURSEthe entire internet is like this now and I HATE JEWS
>>744706483Scrimblo existed for way longer than Banjo's inclusion as a term tho. Jus referring to funny lil guys is all.
>>744710375But t-they have swords!
>>744714417>let's make every platformer mascot a fat mustache guyNow in alternative universe we would have Boris Sultanbeq Popandopulos instead of scrimblo bimblo.What a horrors.
>>744713391then the ESL retard who made that post should have specified as such
>>744714802holy fucking historical revisionism, why are zoomoidals so prone to apocryphal nigger retardation? is it because ALL zoomgroidals are unrepentant niggers?
>>744716064scrimblo was tumblr speak in 2012 bro. It predates smash 4.
>>744706483>It was originally used as a retaliation term when Banjo got in smash by anti smash trannies that use discordThis isn't exactly true. Banjo's inclusion predates it. It started being used when Pyra was announced and people were complaining about her being another sword character instead of something like Crash. The original tweet was something along the lines of "Smash fans when Sakurai reveals Popular JRPG Swordguy instead of Scrimblo Bimblo The Lovable Scrunko"
>>744710118In the 90s, my grandma took me to game store, and let me pick one game. I was choosing between Aero Acrobat and Mischief Makers....To this day, I curse both myself, and Aero. God damn, what a disgusting game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k2Y25U9vww
I hate how reddit memes have rewritten the 80's and 90's history into a fantasy mess that makes WildWildWest look like an accurate and serious study on the far west in comparison
>>744709330he was born, questioned his existence, and then saved the universe in an afternoon and the only thing he asked for in return was a girlfriend even after being offered fame and the ability to rule the worldWild Woody was a hero
>>744693051Wisdom.
>>744692174Glover.Game was pretty fun I think, but fuck man, a glove?
>>744714417Honestly, Mario winning comes more from the fact Nintendo didn't self sabotage and quickly reigned in consistency with how the Mario brand looks (also godtier 90s/90s marketing to solidify them as family friendly).Like every other mascot at the time, 90s Mario was all over the place with how he was depicted, but by the 00s, Nintendo made mainline Mario very consistent and he looked and acted the same so he stayed easily recognisable. Few outliers like strikers happened but Nintendo fully reigned that in by the 10s.If someone plays SMW then NSMB then Wonder, the art design of Mario is still consistent. Same for when they change locales like Sunshine or Galaxy, it all still feels Mario.Every other platformer mascot is a victim of severe mismanagement and retardation.Furry mascots only took off because of Sonic who definitely was more popular than Mario in the 90s, but as we all know SEGA is the most incompetent of them all with managing Sonic's brand.Sonic never established a proper consistency for his brand and that only started happening from Colors but has now changed again with Forces and Frontiers. This' part of why Sonic fans are a complete mess and think all these different versions of Sonic are the "real" Sonic.Sonic 1 - 3 were consistent, but then Adventure becomes high action shonen that gets rid of the colorful art design Classic had. If Sonic stayed with that depiction he would've been fine since the Adventure games were very popular, but then SEGA makes Heroes which's very light hearted and goes back to the Classic artstyle, then 06's like a JRPG, Unleashed's like a Pixar film, Colors starts Baldy McNosehair era etc.Other mascots being a victim of mismanagement causes them to either die, go in limbo, get radically changed, or become a shadow of itself as the creators are out of ideas and don't know what to doMario's the only one that was quickly made to be consistent and Nintendo never went under so he wins by default
>>744709328Have we really forgotten any of them? Maybe something for the Amiga?Superfrog maybe? He was designed and animated by Eric Schwartz. Somebody probably remembers him.
>>744692374>>744709036You fell for the most low effort bait possible
>>744695813True, but everything after that was just so weird.
>>744709330Look at his prolapse
>>744692174scrimblos are better than generic jarpig weebshit.
>>744716151>zoomergroidal tries to double down on their retarded historical revisionismlittle retardrd nigger, you weren't even born yet in 2012
>>744719691glover was actually a good game, so nowhere near the worst scrimblo bimblo
>>744720809lol. I won't hold it against you if you weren't on tumblr 14 years ago. Scrimmy bingus and such is old as hell. Scrimblo bimblo is just an extension of that.
>>744720018Mario wasn't called Mario until Donkey Kong Jr. and he looked like picrel.They didn't solidify his stylized friendly cartoon look until the Super Mario Bros Famicom box art (which evolved from the Mario Bros artwork). We didn't see that Mario in the US until the Super Mario Bros 2 (USA) box art since early NES art always featured pixelized in-game images.
>>744699957Name best options 1 to 6. Remember, 90s only.I'll even start for you1. Mario
>>744720908nigger i was on livejournal before even hotornot was a fucking thing you stupid nigger child, i'm literally an originalfag you dumb broccolihaired faggot, there was no such shit on tumblr
>>744721664Why do people even try and larp about being an original fag? Bragging about jerking it to Asuka with other something awful rejects isn't the flex you think it is.
>>744722070>braggingtypical projecting zoomgroidal nigger retard, your shitty attempt at historical revisionism is as shit as your attempt at pilpul, kill yourself on live tv
>>744722153You are so unbelievably mad it's amazing. How do you live like this? Did you forget to take your meds?
What made retards so fucking upset that they had to come up with a name to call characters that arent as relevant anymore but are still beloved by many? Was there a point to this besides disabled children not having connection to an IP they werent around to enjoy?
>>744714629Nah, SSBU (especially the DLC) did make it apply to anime swordies as a whole because they were the majority of the Fighters Pass, and Sakurai is clearly running on fumes when it comes to designing their movesets. Hero is the first and anime swordie in a long time where something actually interesting and quirky was tried instead of just churning out yet another uninspired disjoint fighter. They're almost all junk food characters. Joker in particular has to be one of the most disgraceful wastes of moveset potential that isn't a clone/Echo.FE is just seen as the only/dominant guilty party because 5 of its 8 characters were added just in the last two games.
>>744710247It's the opposite. I was there, and let me tell you something, Sonicscum have been spreading several lies about that gen, like that Sega gave Nintendo a proper fight in the console war.>>744721107>Yoshi >Kirby>Rayman>Donkey Kong >Mega Man
>>744722757>rayman>donkey kong>kirbylmaoThe only one you got right was megaman, I knew you were full of shit.
Scrimblo is a funny name. Honestly surprised nobody made a fun spoof game with the name.
>>744692174>cartoon animal characters meant to be the mascot of a game/company who starred in platformer gamesFuck you, they qualify.>>744720018Sonic surviving the 90s/early 2000s mascot purge is nothing short of a miracle.
>>744720018>Sonic 1 - 3 were consistent, but then Adventure becomes high action shonenSo it stayed the same.
>>744723064Donkey Kong did more to kill Sega than Mario. Also you sure you wanna compare Sonic's track record to Kirby's even in the 90s? Also he forgot Earthworm Jim. So in reality Sonic was the 8th best 2d platformer during his best time
>>744710375>>744692174>>744722259Pretty sure the original scrimblo joke was making fun of bandana dee being such a highly requested char in smash, and it was not about platformers that were popular back then like crash, croc, spyro, etc.
>>744723847As a 90s kid. Donkey Kong was always style over substance slop. The only good DK game was the original arcade cabinet. The Rare titles are all trash.
>>744692279>I'll go after Rocket KnightThose games were top notch, you freak.
Sidebar question: which was more ripped off/derivative during the 90s, Mario, Doom or Street Fighter?
>>744706483Yeah or it caught on because it's pretty funny, you delusional faggot.
>>744723894How fun, Ill be sure to correct everyone using this term liberally on every character they arent familiar with. Thall show em.
>>744723894It was making fun of people who complained about the number of Fire Emblem characters that were being put in the game over characters LIKE Banjo or Bandana Dee. Scrimblo Bimblo wasn't any specific character, it was just a stand in for mascot videogame character, or "character who isn't a generic anime guy with a sword, a cape, and a counter stance", ergo it does actually refer to platformers that were popular back then, because those were the characters being requested and the fans of which who were getting angry when yet another Fire Emblem character was announced.
>>744693446It unironically cannot be Bubsy because of that recent game he got which is also the best game he's ever had (not a high bar I know)Bubsy is more alive than many more successful mascots in the past
>>744722259>Whatsmash.
>>744725663The question is which scrimblo is the worst one, not which one is most alive, and Bubsy's recent games were only made because of his notoriety as the worst, most insufferable character. Ergo it's still Bubsy.
>>744724906I'm just using pure meme analyzing logic here butit wasn't fire emblem it was making fun of, the joke was that classic JRPG characters started becoming heavily requested at the time, but they were also heavily dismissed by people who wanted characters like bandana dee instead, claiming that "they are just other anime sword fighters, and we have plenty of those in smash already because of all the FE characters"the reason bandana dee in particular was the focus of mocking is because it was such an extreme example of a character nobody else wanted or would have been happy with except for hardcore kirbyfags, yet they were still pushing it hard over far more picks logical picks like DQ hero. Requesting more broadly popular platformer characters like crash, banjo etc. wouldn't have made as much sense to mock
>>744726407>I'm just using pure meme analyzing logic here butThat's cool, I'm using pure I was literally there and saw it happening logic.
>>744727054>I was literally there and saw it happeningwow anon, you must be an oldfag, what was it like to "be there and saw it happen" when a random twitter user made a vague joke?
>>744727531Well it helps you speak from actual experience on a subject and not make incorrect conjecture.
>>744726351Yea exactly, the fact Bubsy's still alive means he cannot be the worst one because some people still care to make games for himThe worst mascot wouldn't be getting games made period, it's like what this anon said >>744693051
>>744724906This.I remember when JRPG's were niche and Smash would make you think that they're more mainstream than they are. No doubt they've gotten more popular, but only a handful of JRPG franchises are at that point, the rest are niche. Plus, all the JRPG fuckers have little distinction visually.
>>744692174Sexdick
>>744728167But again, the only reason anyone cares about Bubsy is because of how notoriously bad the character and his games are. If he weren't the worst of the worst he wouldn't be remembered at all, just like all the other forgotten mascot characters who weren't the worst of the worst.
>>744727735do you assume I'm pulling the context out of my ass or what?also let me break shit further down for youthe joke literally says Popular jrpg chars, this shit does not refer to FE chars that nobody wanted but actually popular classic jrpg chars (that the "scrimblofags" compared unfavorably to FE claiming they are the same, which is the joke's only connection to FE in the context)scrimblo does not refer to popular platformers either, as the joke literally puts it in contrast to the Popular jrpg characters and implies that scrimblofags only want it because they played it as kids. The only generally unpopular platformer character that a hardcore vocal fanbase still pushed very hard at the time was bandana dee, the stupid cutesy name also fits his overly simplistic cute/childish design while it fits general platformers characters like crash/banjo/gex etc. less so
>>744723561Oh fuck off. You know what he meant. A few references and elements of Shonen (that permeates practically all Japanese media aimed at kids) does not mean Sonic 3 was Shonen the same way SA2 was Shonen, and I'm tired of people trying to conflate the two. Sonic Team very obviously cranked up the action and story to 11 when they redesigned Sonic. You could tell they were trying to push the envelope with the character in order to stay relevant. Similarly, the way they presented the story and characters in the Classic games was also a deliberate design choice. At the time, they decided less was more. If Sonic Team wanted dialogue and "proper" cutscenes to focus on the story, they could've easily done so from the very beginning.>BUT MUH JAPANESE MANUALSSure, that's great, but barely even 1% of that made it into the actual games until way later. Only the bare minimum from those manuals' plots got in. Yes, it's fun to see things recontextualized when looking at the manuals and design documents, and the continuity and creative through line between Classic and Modern is evident to some degree, yes, but it's besides the point, which is that Classic did not utilize very much of it for the final games. Most of that Sonic 3 lore for example just got reused for SA1 and arguably SA2, when they decided Sonic needed to have a big dumb story to be taken seriously and appeal to older fans. It worked, in the short term, but as the other Anon pointed out, it came at the cost of consistency in the long term, and we're still feeling the effects from that myopic decision three decades on, now.
>>744728445I mean, you clearly are because I was fucking there and I told you what the situation was. I'm not relying on second hand analysis of a twitter meme (which definitely aren't known for disingenuity at all). There were people who didn't like the addition of Cloud and Sephiroth as people felt the game was becoming full of anime swordsmen, but the reason for that is once again Fire Emblem due to the sheer amount of Fire Emblem characters specifically that were being added that for the most part all look and play the same, and the people who complained every time a new Fire Emblem character was announced were the ones that wanted characters like Banjo, i.e.: Scrimblo Bimblo the Lovable Scrunko from the great platformer they played as kids 26 years ago.
>>744693446>OH N-
>>744729067>Oh fuck off. You know what he meant.No, I don't. He should have specified that.>A few references and elements of Shonen (that permeates practically all Japanese media aimed at kids) does not mean Sonic 3 was Shonen the same way SA2 was Shonen, and I'm tired of people trying to conflate the two.One took place in an isolated area away from society. The other took place in society. Both stories were played straight.>when they redesigned Sonic. You could tell they were trying to push the envelope with the character in order to stay relevant. They were trying to keep the character from becoming a 'cutesy' mascot, not because he was losing popularity (He actually gained popularity despite the decline in quality of his games).>Similarly, the way they presented the story and characters in the Classic games was also a deliberate design choiceWhen have platformers been dialogue-heavy? No shit it was a deliberate choice. Sonic's games were narrative-heavy, but there was still a narrative presented in the manuals, and yes they count regardless of what the games didn't add. The story from S1 to SA1 are connected. Adventure wasn't a reboot.>and arguably SA2, when they decided Sonic needed to have a big dumb story to be taken seriouslyYou just exposed yourself with this one. Straightforward stories are good. Dumb shit like Colors are not. Classic Sonic wasn't a slapstick cartoon character, he was a straightforward shonen character in a video game. And Dragon Ball wasn't a silly lighthearted gag series all throughout, it became action oriented very quickly.
>>744730239*Sonic's games were never narrative-heavy
>>744726407bandana dee LITERALLY isn't even a scrimblo bimblo though
Ok but what about scrimblo bimbos instead?
>>744735667There aren't enough scrimblo bimbos to rate
>>744735758A terrible injustice.
>>744692174Bubsy. Even his "Good" games were kinda questionable.
>>744738145I've seen a resurgence of positive praise for Bubsy 1 in certain circles. I have no idea why, the game is designed like someone played Sonic 1 and learned all the wrong lessons.
>>744739807sonic 1 irself sucked ass and sonic is the original scrimblo that launched a thousand scrimblos
