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CleverFox101 wrote: Sally Acorn is an official Character, She's mostly known for the cartoons but she was entered as a sprite character in some of the early Sonic Games, known as "Ricky". She is in the bonus stages of Sonic pin ball, and was supposedly to make in appearance in Sonic-16 and Sonic Mars.

She is an official Sega Character Now owned by Archie. Still Official None the less.

Source: http://info.sonicretro.org/Princess_Sally Sally Acorn is not owned by Archie. SEGA owns her. She could never be a offical character if that was true. Sally Acorn is based on Ricky. Not the same person at all. It says that here. Sonic Retro even says "Sally is a female ground squirrel/chipmunk hybrid originally based off of the small squirrel sprite in the early Sega Genesis games, known as 'Ricky' ".