![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t really worth it to sort out a final name – some marketing department would probably change it anyway. We loved the word, but we kept calling him Willie, and the game Willie the Wombat until spring of 1996. By October 1994 the character was a Bandicoot as far as we were concerned. And just a month or so later someone told us about some other non-game property with the same name, so it remained a working title. We never considered it a real name as it was too dorky. For the meantime we went with Willie the Wombat, as both Jason and I like alliteration. The Wombat, Potoroo, and Bandicoot fit the bill. We bought a copy of “ Tasmanian Mammals – a field guide” and flipped through. We wanted to do what Sega had done with the hedgehog and Warner Bros had done with the Tasmanian Devil and find some kind of animal that was cute, real, and no one really knew about. ![]() Next we had to find a creature to hang our hopes on. ![]()
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