In Prominent Sonic The Hedgehog Co-Creator Naoto Ohshima’s Own Words, It Is Pointed Out That Bill Clinton Was The Inspiration For Sonic’s Personality

The fact that Naoto Ohshima himself would claim he based Sonic the Hedgehog’s personality on Bill Clinton is interesting. There was already an Arkansas based TV with James L. Brooks Taxi actress Marilu Henner called Evening Shade which suggested that some in Hollywood were giving attention to life in Arkansas, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true, even though Sonic debuted before Bill became the frontrunner in the 1992 Democratic Presidential primaries. Bill Clinton was already making some strides in the 1980s. He probably wasn’t Gary Hart, Tip O’Neill or Ted Kennedy when it came Democratic politicians with celebrity status in the 1980s, but Clinton could still make it after all, even heading the National Governor’s Association between 1986 and 1987 and making a speech blunder at the 1988 Democratic National Convention which could somehow also land him an appearance on Johnny Carson. Considering that Mr. Clinton was elected President as Sonic was rising as a competitor to Nintendo during the time the Governor of Arkansas was getting the better of the elder President Bush, I don’t doubt the claim’s accuracy.

Very intersting that Ohshima would say in the is interview which GameTab posted on YouTube in 2009 that “If there was a problem, Bill Clinton took action right away. I saw that American attitude on TV. That was the character I wanted to make

https://www.tpt.org/american-experience/video/american-experience-clintons-carson-appearance