Do you know the origin of green mascot for Android?

When searching to the internet to find the origin of the green-colored creature, not many sources that have a satisfactory answer. But of the many that there are a small number who have a plausible reason why the mascot was named Android and why shape like that.

It should be noted that all of this explanation is not an official Google explanation. But you deserve to know. Check it out!

Perhaps Google's Android mascot maker while still a teenager so infatuated with the game called Gauntlet: The Third Encounter. Why is that?

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter is made ​​by Atari arcade games that exist in the era of the 90s. This game only lasted a short time and then disappeared. In Gauntlet there are some characters that one of them named Android. If the other characters in human form then Android is shaped weird creature that could have been called a robot.

As in the picture, the Android is gray with two antennas on the head. By changing the color of gray to green and clarify the shape of the foot and hand, Gauntlet Android becomes very similar to Google's Android, Isn't it?  Please see the video below to find out a little about the game Gauntlet: The Third Encounter and being named Android that is in it. 
 

 

There are many artists and designers whose work is inspired by previous works. While not exactly 100% is permissible only seemed to imitate. Either the green creature with Google Android. Whether it is a grandson of the Gauntlet Android or indeed nothing at all, only Google that knows....

Source : http://www.beritaunik.net