Classic Game Characters Run a Race

Andy Chalk

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Classic Game Characters Run a Race

A who's-who of classic videogame characters square off to find out who's the fastest in a fun fan-made video starring Mario, Mega Man, Cool Spot, Sonic the Hedgehog and many others.

Who's the fastest videogame character on the planet? Is it Sonic? Is it Mario? Is it that fat pink blobby guy? I won't tell you that but I will tell you this: Whoever wins, we lose!

Actually, that's not true. This very cool video, made by a pair of Australian brothers and multimedia designers who work together as Mass Panic Media [http://www.masspanicmusic.com/], includes a pile of game characters, some instantly recognizable and some rather obscure, is an awesome homage to classic, old-school gaming and even features a surprise ending. Cool music, too.

My shameful admission is that as a long-time PC guy, there are an awful lot of runners in this race who I just don't recognize. The plumber's there, and the rodent, and I think I know the duck and a few others, but that's a long way from catching them all. Somebody needs to come up with a program for these players.



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ddq5

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I'm proud to be a person who played most of those games, but the one that made me nostalgia hardest was seeing Aladdin do his swing move on Kirby. Good times.
 

CL4P-TP

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I am glad that race ended the way it did. Ten points to the creator of this video.
 

teh_Canape

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edit: I never thought a sandwich of my own damn words would be this tasty (kind way to say that I made myself look like an obvious idiot ^-^)

also, Dazz is right, needs more Jazz Jackrabbit

and Nick Vrenna with the high speed legs upgrade
 

Fasckira

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Surprised to see B.O.B. in there, I thought he was really obscure but I guess I was wrong! That was one of the first two SNES games I ever got (Starwing being the other). Ah, fond memories!
 

Gxas

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ace_of_something said:
So... sonic can't run faster than 88 mph?
The moral of the video!

Even in his "Golden, Chaos Emerald-driven state he isn't that fast.

I feel lied to... All my life thinking he was, as his theme song puts it, "The fastest thing alive! The fastest thing ali-ee-iive!!"
 

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Gxas said:
ace_of_something said:
So... sonic can't run faster than 88 mph?
The moral of the video!

Even in his Golden, Chaos Emerald-driven state he isn't that fast.

I feel lied to... All my life thinking he was, as his theme song puts it, "The fastest thing alive! The fastest thing ali-ee-iive!!"
Its fairly hard to beat that which can travel through time. Sonic has yet to show that ability so... there you go.
 

Gxas

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Zeromaeus said:
Gxas said:
ace_of_something said:
So... sonic can't run faster than 88 mph?
The moral of the video!

Even in his Golden, Chaos Emerald-driven state he isn't that fast.

I feel lied to... All my life thinking he was, as his theme song puts it, "The fastest thing alive! The fastest thing ali-ee-iive!!"
Its fairly hard to beat that which can travel through time. Sonic has yet to show that ability so... there you go.
Ahh, fair point! Though, I am almost positive that someone from Sega is lurking here and saw this. So, the next Sonic game will feature time travel in some form. I mean, they have to try everything before they kill the series, right?
 

Quaxar

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There's a BTTF 8-bit game? Why did nobody tell me before?

Also, awesome.
 

Starnerf

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Zeromaeus said:
Gxas said:
ace_of_something said:
So... sonic can't run faster than 88 mph?
The moral of the video!

Even in his Golden, Chaos Emerald-driven state he isn't that fast.

I feel lied to... All my life thinking he was, as his theme song puts it, "The fastest thing alive! The fastest thing ali-ee-iive!!"
Its fairly hard to beat that which can travel through time. Sonic has yet to show that ability so... there you go.
What about Sonic CD?
 

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Quaxar said:
There's a BTTF 8-bit game? Why did nobody tell me before?

Also, awesome.
There is also a BTTF adventure game from telltale soon. It looks fun so far.