Reception
The March 2006 issue of the gaming magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly (issue number 201) has included Punky Skunk in their EGM Retro article "Mascot Hell", along with Bubsy, The Noid, Kya, and Boogerman. The article centered around bad mascots in video-gaming history, and explained why they were so bad. For Punky Skunk, they complained that the game's marketing team continually claimed that Punky Skunk had attitude, saying that he was:
"...a Generation X skunk with an attitude!" However, this was far from the truth; Punky's "attitude" had more to do with snuggling kittens and wearing flowers in his hair. Which means that he was such an abysmal mascot, that his own marketing team had to lie about him. And that's just sad. (But not as sad as the "sexy" pictures of Punky's female animal friends that appear throughout the game.)"
The titular character is ranked eighth on Game Informer’s list of "the top 10 worst character names."
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