One of the world's most popular video game characters, by 1992 Sonic was more recognizable to children ages 6 to 11 than Disney's Mickey Mouse. In 1993, Sonic became the first video game character to have a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and was one of the four characters inducted on the Walk of Game in 2005, alongside Mario, Link, and Master Chief. One of a class of genes involved in fruit fly embryonic development, called hedgehog genes, was named "sonic hedgehog" after the character. Additionally, a Japanese team developing the Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) instrumentation for the "Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer" spacecraft, to be launched by ESA and Airbus in 2022, received approval to use Sonic as the mascot. Sonic and Eggman appear as minor characters in the Walt Disney Animation Studios films "Wreck-It Ralph" (2012) and "Ralph Breaks the Internet" (2018), while Sonic makes a cameo in Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" (2018).