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An interesting bit of trivia about Nintendo’s Star Fighter video game series:
In 1992, Nintendo and Argonaut Software collaborated to produce a 3D space shooter for the Super Nintendo, provisionally titled 'SnesGlider'.[1] The development team, led by Shigeru Miyamoto, redesigned what had been a tech demo into a rail shooter, with Nintendo designing the game and Argonaut handling the technical aspects.[2] However, without a story, it lacked incentives to play beyond flying and shooting. Miyamoto sketched out a fictional universe, but could not decide on a natural hero to convey a sense of an epic space battle. Names under consideration included Star Wolf, Star Sheep, Star Fox, Star Sparrow and Star Hawk.[2]
Now I can think of a number of tales, both modern and folk, featuring anthropomorphic foxes, wolves or birds-of-prey as protagonists. I can’t really think of many featuring sheep.

So what if Nintendo decided to make a video game about a mercenary sheep spacefighter-pilot? What would be the impact on popular culture? Would the game even gain the popularity of the OTL one?
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