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I recall seeing a mascot for some sort of computer platform or program. I've seen images many times, but am now struggling to find it. Here are the details I can remember:

  • I think it was a 1990s thing, but may have been late 80s or early 2000s
  • The character was vaguely human shaped, but looked like a frog or alien. It had smooth blue or green skin, a potbelly, large eyes, and I believe was sometimes depicted with aviator goggles.
  • It was rendered, or drawn, in 3D
  • The image was reused in different poses, etc

My first thought was that it was related to some piece of Amiga software, but I can't find anything like that on the internet.

Edit: To be clear, I was not thinking of a game character, and in fact, comments and the accepted answer show that the image had nothing to do with software at all, and my memory just sucks.

rightbrace
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    Just to clarify: This character was also the player's sprite, the hero of the game? Or was it the player's nemesis? Or something else altogether (i.e. an NPC)? Please [edit] your post to clarify this point. By the way, are you sure it isn't crazy frog? He had glasses but was for ring tones. – Greenonline Jan 18 '24 at 19:36

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I'm going to have to guess Crazy Frog, for the following reasons:

  • 2003/2004 (which is sort of early 2000s)
  • Grey/blue/green in colour (teal?)
  • Pot belly
  • Large eyes
  • (Motorcycle) goggles
  • 3D rendered (although some versions could be just 2D animation)
  • Many poses

Negatives:

  • 2003/2004 (nowhere near the late 1980s)
  • Ringtone mascot and not a game software mascot (may also be considered a popstar?)

Crazy frog

Greenonline
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    Who else :))) Rängdängdäng .... – Raffzahn Jan 18 '24 at 20:12
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    It's 100% this. I'm not sure why I had a software association. I think that this was maybe used as a demo image in a screenshot of some older software somewhere? (ie a screenshot made after the obsolescence of the system). – rightbrace Jan 18 '24 at 23:51
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    @rightbrace Well, ringtones - and that's where the character was used over and over - are some kind of software :) – Raffzahn Jan 19 '24 at 00:12
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    We should appreciate the wise choice of name for that character by Erik Wernquist, the original creator of the design: Crazy Frog was already called "The Annyoing Thing" before this character appeared in TV adverts by Jamba. – Michael Karcher Jan 19 '24 at 19:31
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Could it be the logo from Sirius Software, Inc., the California-based publisher of games for 8-bit home computers of the 1980s? The logo depicts a chubby, green, humanoid alien. I'm not sure whether or not the alien was ever depicted in different poses, though.

The Sirius Software, Inc. logo, showing a chubby, green, humanoid alien with a trademark symbol and the text "Sirius" underneath.

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When you mention the Amiga, the first artist that comes to mind was Eric Schwartz, who created a character called Flip the Frog (among others).

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