The most well-known video game characters to non-gamers.

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Ka-pi96 said:

highwayuni said:

Decent list, but I'd argue that not everyone knows Lara Croft or Megaman. I didn't know about Megaman until I started getting into the internet a few years ago.

Link (or Zelda as a lot of people call him), Mario, Pikachu, Sonic and Pacman are recognised by everyone. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Steve and Masterchief are figures too.

 Slenderman and Flappybird are instantly recognisable nowadays too.

Lara Croft was huge a few years back though, regularly on magazines and with the Tomb Raider movies as well.

WTF is Steve?

You don' know Steve?

I also had to google to find out that it's the dude from Minecraft.