Lost Stars
I wanted to do a tribute to an old school Sega character before the flood of awesome Mario and Zelda art starts coming in!
So here’s Alex Kidd, who seemed to be Sega’s mascot way before Sonic the Hedgehog came along.
Alex was a little prince with the big ears & sideburns, who punched his way through levels where a floating rice ball was waiting for him as the goal. Instead of fighting end bosses, he challenges them to games of Rock, Paper, Scissors and earns money to buy cool vehicles he can ride in, like Pedi-copters, motorcycles, and jet skis.
Even though I loved my NES as a kid and played it for hours, I was still one of the rare kids who used to see commercials for the Sega Master System, looking at pictures of their games in EGM with envious eyes. I even mailed away for a free subscription to the official Sega Challenge magazine a year before my cousin convinced our parents to buy us one, making us the first spoiled kids on the block to own two videogame systems at once, which is totally common nowadays but seemed like a big deal at the time.
So anyways, this piece is by me, Dave Roman. I draw a weekly webcomic called Astronaut Elementary and also write Agnes Quill & Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden.
So here’s Alex Kidd, who seemed to be Sega’s mascot way before Sonic the Hedgehog came along.
Alex was a little prince with the big ears & sideburns, who punched his way through levels where a floating rice ball was waiting for him as the goal. Instead of fighting end bosses, he challenges them to games of Rock, Paper, Scissors and earns money to buy cool vehicles he can ride in, like Pedi-copters, motorcycles, and jet skis.
Even though I loved my NES as a kid and played it for hours, I was still one of the rare kids who used to see commercials for the Sega Master System, looking at pictures of their games in EGM with envious eyes. I even mailed away for a free subscription to the official Sega Challenge magazine a year before my cousin convinced our parents to buy us one, making us the first spoiled kids on the block to own two videogame systems at once, which is totally common nowadays but seemed like a big deal at the time.
So anyways, this piece is by me, Dave Roman. I draw a weekly webcomic called Astronaut Elementary and also write Agnes Quill & Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden.