On the one hand, we had Mario, the plumber that was born in the second half of the 80s' on a NES, and on the other, Sonic, the fast-paced blue hedgehog that became SEGA's icon by selling millions of copies of its original game for Master System and Mega Drive, and led to other games that followed the same pattern such as Zool or Jazz Jackrabbit for PC. At the beginning of the 90s' the rivalry between SEGA and Nintendo was personified as two video game characters.
