KojiKnight
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Changing the topic, I'd like to ask about the characters. Captain Falcon and other characters don't appear in gameplay, so how did they come about?
Imamura: I remember we started thinking about various things after the game was complete.
You didn't think about characters at all during development?
Imamura: No. Captain Falcon was originally the mascot character for Super NES.
What?!
Shimizu: That statement is a bit shocking, isn't it? (laughs)
Yes! (laughs) I've never heard that Captain Falcon was the mascot for Super NES.
Imamura: Even most people at Nintendo don't know that. When development of F-ZERO was almost complete, I was doing a bunch of illustrations and someone expressed a desire to make a mascot character for Super NES, with a name like Captain Something.
From the second SNES classic interview.
https://www.nintendo.com/super-nes-classic/interview-f-zero