First Click: Before Brexit and Trump vs. Hillary there was the mascot war

Years before they learned to fight over Hillary or Trump and Leave or Remain, the children of the West honed their combative instincts on another war with another fundamental difference at its heart. Nintendo or Sega? Mario or Sonic?It was on this very day, 25 years ago, that the mascot war began in earnest. Nintendo's Mario — short, fat, improbably good at jumping — had seen off eggs, cavemen, and nondescript spaceship blobs in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, but it was qu