Ulitmate Video Game Roster Challenge

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(BTW gonna be lots of stuff here that's already been brought up)

Also, going with the 5 companies and 8 characters option, to afford some villain representation.

Nintendo
-Mario
-Link
-Samus
-Pikachu
-Kirby
-Fox
-Bowser
-Ganondorf
Capcom
-Megaman
-Ryu
-Dante
-Arthur
-Zero
-Dr. Wily (in a modified form of his MM Soccer suit)
-M. Bison
SNK (yeah, sorry for the dominance of KoF here)
-Terry Bogard
-Kyo Kusanagi
-Haohmaru
-Marco Rossi
-Athena
-Ryo Sakazaki
-Rugal Bernstein
-Amakusa
Konami
-Simon Belmont (with various bits and bobs cannibalized from other Belmonts)
-Solid Snake
-Alucard
-Bombeyman
-Goemon
-Pentaro (hi, requisite out-of-left-field callback character)
-Dracula
-Revolver Ocelot
SEGA
-Sonic
-Akira Yuki
-NiGHTS
-Alex Kidd
-Temjin (Virtual On)
-Toejam and Earl (dual character a la Ice Climbers)
-Shadow the Hedgehog
-Dr. Robotnik