As The Kartel discovered, there’s a good reason why people don’t care for these outcasts.

Everyone has their favorite videogame mascots from Mario and Link, to Sonic and Crash Bandicoot, but what about the other mascots that just faded into obscurity like the thousands of boy bands that weren’t NSync or BackStreet Boys? Not that these mascots had a fighting chance, as we found out. We’ve discovered that all of these characters below are so ridiculous in premise that you wondered how they even got past the drawing board.

We should note that only mascots that were used in some capacity to represent a gaming company were included. That means guys like Boogerman, James Pond, and even Yo! Noid were eliminated. Had we included them, this list would have been the top 1001. Read more