there has always been characters in Video Games, but the real first wasnt just mario it was Donkey Kong and princess peach as well
there is sonic, tails,and knuckles of sonic 1, 2, and 3 <-- that isnt the true answer. sonic came long after the first mario game where you tried to save Peach from donkey kong
Mario
lenin
Princess Peach of Mario
1981
no there is not a video game with a character creator. Will may have it, but what i now f no.
PACMAN was the best early video game if you look at it from a historical perspective.
Watch the first episode of the TV series.
Sonic the Hedgehog!
The creator of the iconic video game character Puckman is Toru Iwatani.
The character Marth first appeared in the Nintendo Fire Emblem game "Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Tsurugi. The character also appeared in the third game and two remakes.
The Street Fighter series of games by Capcom feature the character of Guile. This character first made his appearance in the 1991 game Street Fighter II.
Chao is a fictional character from the game Sonic the Hedgehog. He first showed up in 1998 in Sonic Adventures. That was a game for the Dreamcast game system from Sega.
If you want to get technical, the paddles in "Pong" were the first video game characters ever. But the first character with a name would be Pac-Man. The first arcade cabinet for Pac-Man was released on May 22, 1980. It became an instant hit and is still very popular.