The mascots
The mascots are the characters that appear in the upper right corner of the site. The first images were added to the site as part of the launch of OCR 4 in May 23, 2004. As of March 1, 2008, there are 152 mascot images. Only djpretzel knows when, if ever, new ones will be added, and which they will be.
The project
The articles
Each of the mascots has at least one article, also referred to as a bio. A few of them (Crono, Princess Zelda, and Solid Snake) have more than one image, but only one article, which means that clicking either of their images will redirect you to the same page.
The articles were written with a few things in mind:
- They are meant as an introduction - not a full, detailed history that reveals everything about the mascot.
- We did our best to keep spoilers at a minimum.
- Each article lists the sources used when writing it.
The Darkstalker mascots had special treatment because the one who wrote them, The Coop, posted all of his articles in a very short period of time, before anyone had a chance to tell him about the guidelines. Considering the amount of work put in and the bios' outstanding quality, we added his first set of articles as bonus articles.
Each mascot has a list of appearances. We initially wanted to list every game that a character had been in, but for some characters (e.g. Mario), the list got ridiculously long, and so we had to settle for the following:
- All games that this character is in and that has ReMixes on this site are listed. If we missed any, tell us.
- Some characters have been in very few or none of the games that have remixes on this site. In those cases, we have added a few games to the list for reference.
The FAQ and Guidelines found in the first post while the project was still in progress can be found here.
Origins / History
DarkeSword turned a thread titled "The guy on top", started by Dafydd, into a project by appointing him the project co-ordinator and changing the thread title. The first post, now edited an enormous number of times, originally read:
I was just thinking about the game characters that show up on the right on the site header... half of them I don't know who they are. Wouldn't it be great if you could click them and end up at a page (hosted here) that gave you some quick facts about who they are, their game appearances, life stories etc.?
... and the rest is history.
Credits / Thanks
Quite a few people have been involved in this project. We'd like to thank:
- The 16 writers (for writing the articles) and 3 editors among them (for clean-up):
- Bummerdude
- chez dogulov
- Daethar
- Dafydd (project co-ordinator, editor)
- Kal aMari
- Less Ashamed Of Self
- Linearity (editor)
- Miletus
- OmegaMe
- Polo (editor)
- Psychotic Ninja
- Rexy
- Spunodi
- The Coop
- The Instrument of GAWD
- watkinzez
- DarkeSword (for early guidelines and support)
- Liontamer (for late guidelines and support, as well as Wiki integration instructions)
- djpretzel (for the Photoshopped mascots, the coding to click on them to access the articles, and of course OCR :P)
- The many supporters (for questions, corrections, and rooting for us)
If you feel you deserve to be mentioned here, and aren't already, just say so.
Thank you for reading!
The full list of mascots is available below.
