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Sonic magazine ad (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It could be super early material and they just straight translated the name as it is in Japan. He only got named Robotnik in western localizations. It's still pretty common for ads made years ahead of a release to have bits of weirdness caused by changes in development.