What is the best video game series with a well known video game character?

Hi lovely video gamers!

As the title of the thread is very clear, I would love to know your personal favorite game series which is linked with a famous game character.

Zelda, Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Sonic, Super Metroid, Kirby, Bomberman, Star Fox just to name but a few. And the list goes on. The choice is very huge, that is why it would be nice that you reason your favorites.

I personally have almost played those video game series and I almost own every single game in my collection. And the series I like most of all is the Mega Man one. Liked the concept of selecting the stages, running, shooting and jumping through those till the boss fights, get the weapons of the robot masters to make some gaming situations easier, enter the Wily stages to defeat himself in a final fight. Plus the nice rock an roll-like soundtracks, so catching!

And now you can tell about your favorite series and game character. Feel free to share your gaming experiences!

Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider was easily the most technologically groundbreaking franchise of the 1990s.

Ash or Pikachu from Pokemon

I was just waiting for the first pokemon lover who replies here. And it happened faster than I thought. Pokemon as gaming series is nice, but there were so many monsters to play that a video game character is not to be determined so easily. But I would take the trainer in this case, whatever his/her name is.

No Crash Bandicoot fan so far?! really?!? I am a bit surprised.

I'm not really a huge Pokemon lover but I was just bored and this thread came up haha. I did play it a lot when I was younger though, and I did really like it.

Ash is the trainer from Pokemon by the way and is on the tv series so I think he's quite noticeable

Uncharted deserves a mention.

Toejam & Earl and uhm..Bubble Bobble... a bit retro but i'm old you see! ... lots of good memories playing those games with my siblings growing up.

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Tomb Raider was easily the most technologically groundbreaking franchise of the 1990s.

The Legend of Zelda for me, with Link's Awakening being my favourite single game within the franchise.

Mario is a close second, simply due to the sheer number of different Mario (and associated character) games out there. So far, I've never played a bad one.

So, Link is your favorite game character in a game series? or are you think about an antagonist, ganendorf by any chance? actually I asked for protagonists and heroes or anti-heroes.