Mascot

A mascot is a person or a thing designed to represent a group or company. These are often sports teams, student unions and software developers.

Here is a list of several known mascots:

• Darwin BSD's Hexley the platypus
• FreeBSD's demon
• KFC's Colonel Sanders
• Linux's Tux the penguin
• McDonald's Ronald McDonald
• Nintendo's Mario
• SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog

Here is a list of formerly used mascots:

• Alex Kidd for SEGA
• Bonk for Nippon Electric Corporation's gaming system
• Gidget for Taco Bell
• Joe Camel for Camel cigarettes
• Johnny Turbo for Turbo Technologies Incorporated, an arm of NEC

Crash Bandicoot was made the unofficial mascot for the Sony Playstation by several videogamers until his games appeared on other systems.

Wikipedia is currently having a vote to decide its mascot. [1]

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Mascot is also a district of Sydney, Australia. It contains the city's main international airport, which is sometimes referred to as Mascot. See Mascot, Australia.