What are /vr/'s thoughts on Harry Hedgehog?

>>4019076
GOTTA GROW FAST

Did Sega have any parodies of Mario in their games? I know that along with Harry there was also that spinning blue hedgehog from DKC2 to reference Sonic

>>4019107
Astal had an unused Mario sprite. Alex Kidd on Shinobi World was supposed to have a Mario parody, Mari-o.

>>4019076
And 18 years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKknbEJHJgA

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>>4019107
>>4019132
>>4019140
Harry Hedgehog was just a homage to one of the enemies from SMB2, Porcupo. This was before Sonic.

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>>4019145
Why did Yoshi's Island take so many enemies and concepts from Doki Doki Panic?

>>4019154
Did you know ... ? Yadayadayada..

>>4019145
Oh right, I completely forgot about that guy. I just put two and two together after looking at his title and color and assumed it was a Sonic reference.

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>>4019154
It also used enemies and concepts from Super Mario World. At the same time, SMW also used enemies from SMB2 (Pokeys, Ninjis).
I guess the devs, who probably also worked on the past games, wanted to give some love to old friends that were almost forgotten.
Harry doesn't seem to be the same as Porcupo though, but similar enough.

>>4019169
>Harry doesn't seem to be the same as Porcupo though, but similar enough.
Actually I just checked, the japanese name of Harry in the japanese version is Super Porcupo, so yeah.

>>4019169
Shy Guys are great, so I'm glad Yoshi kept them alive.

>>4019107
>there was also that spinning blue hedgehog from DKC2 to reference Sonic
No, that was a cat o 9 tails, it was a cat.
There was a sonic reference in it on the cranks video game heroes screen though, it had sonic's shoes next to a trash can with "no hopers" written next to it

>>4019167
I'm sure that most of us thought it was a Sonic reference; there are not that many famous blue hedgehogs in games.