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Captain Falcon as the flasgship character for the SNES - KnowledgeBase - 05-10-2015
A recent trivia submitted by a user stated that Captain Falcon from the F-Zero series was originally intended to be the flagship character for the SNES. Whilst this statement might seem likely seeing as F-Zero was a launch title for the platform to showcase the system's Mode 7 graphics, the source for this information seems a bit sketchy.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_b_O-M-gXgC&pg=PA13&dq=%22Captain+Falcon%22+nintendo#v=onepage&q=%22Captain%20Falcon%22%20nintendo&f=false
The book Handbook of Computer Animation by John Vince (ISBN 1852335645, 9781852335649) seems to be the only source which states this fact. Any other source which I could find were either wikis or fan websites which also linked to the book or the Wikipedia page that also references it.
Unless there is a more reliable source which can confirm this, like an article from a reliable/notable news source or any sort of material officially licensed by Nintendo, I would like to leave this fact untrue. If anyone can find a reliable source, please feel free to share it here.
If by chance anyone has a copy of the book and it features an appendix section that shows his source for this fact, please if you can, upload it to this thread.
RE: Captain Falcon as the flasgship character for the SNES - KnowledgeBase - 10-02-2017
Well I'm happy to say that the embargo on this bit of trivia can finally be lifted as it turns out it was true. F-Zero's designer, Takaya Imamura, revealed in an interview that the character that would eventually become Captain Falcon was considered to be the mascot for the Super Nintendo.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2017/10/01/captain-falcon-was-almost-the-snes-mascot.aspx