During the interview one of the game designers, Takaya Imamura, confirmed that Captain Falcon was actually originally supposed to be the mascot for the SNES.
Writer, Akinori Sao sat down with some of the original F-Zero development team to talk about the game’s design, development, and main protagonist, Captain Falcon.
(laughs) I’ve never heard that Captain Falcon was the mascot for Super NES.
In other SNES news, the SNES Classic Edition received a new trailer to coincide with the mini consoles launch.