Sonic the Hedgehog was almost designed to look like arch nemesis Eggman
How Sonic the Hedgehog was conceived to help Sega compete against Nintendo in the early 90s was discussed during a postmortem for the original game at this year's Game Developer Conference.
Most of the talk was about Sonic's appearance came to be. Though the decision to make Sonic a hedgehog was seemingly a straightforward one - allowing him to deal damage by curling up into a ball and rolling around, designer Hirokazu Yasuhara explained - it actually wasn't Sega's only choice of character design.
"[Sega said] we definitely want to see something like an old guy with a moustache. We also want to see something like a hedgehog, or porcupine, as well as a dog-like character," he told those at the talk, attended by Eurogamer.
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