Today, exactly 24 years ago, we were first introduced to the cheerful character Rayman on the first PlayStation console.
Imagine a birtie that brings together all the important protagonists from the gaming world who graced our youth and childhood. Spyro and Crash drink hard drinks in the corner, laughing and crying over their tragicomic fate, Mario "mushrooms" lying on the floor and counting coins, Samus Aran at the bar refuses a team to shoot, and Ryu and Ken treat each other with beer. Which has colorful umbrellas in it.
In all the hustle and bustle of everyday life, there is a character in the VIP lounge who has no arms or legs, but does not pay his drinks for the disability benefit paid to him by the state, but for the money he earns from the latest games. Yes, it's the famous Rayman who first appeared on this date 24 years ago.
In fact, it's a small lie - it appeared on the PlayStation platform at the time, but was available for the Atari Jaguar Console a week earlier. In any case, Rayman gained his fame primarily on the Sony platform, although he was initially developing for Super Nintendo as well.
The first Rayman was made by Ubi Soft Montpellier, and it was a great business endeavor since the PlayStation version of this title in the United Kingdom alone has sold more than five million copies to date. Excellent sales on Jaguar and PlayStation ensured that the game received ports for MS-DOS and Sega Saturn in 1996, and later appeared on GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, PSN, DSiWare, Virtual Console, and more recently on Android and iOS platforms.
Part of the credit for the success of the game was to be found in the sympathetic design of the main character created by Michel Ancel in 1994. In 2006, Ancel will be officially awarded the title of "Knight of Arts and Literature" by the French Minister of Culture for his work in the video game industry and for creating Rayman and promoting France.
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