[Mongoose]

From the realm of "people who have too much free time on their hands," some DeviantArt user expended the effort to create a mash-up collage of game-related characters past and present.  It's not exactly definitive by any means, but it's fun to see how much was crammed in here.  My own IQ wasn't exactly up to snuff, though.

[Titan]

Cool. Got the games for about half of them, if not the character's name.

[NGTM-1R]

Holy crap, there's the little P-38 wannabe from 1942.

[Titan]

Holy crap. thats one of the games I grew up playing.

I remember during a week long power outage due to an icestorm, my parents let me use the last half hour of battery on the laptop playing that.

[TrashMan]

Ironicly, I can recognize a whole lot of them...even those from games I never played (or hate). This is what internet does to you....

[lostllama]

Pac-Man.....Pitfall!.... I also see other oldies like Gods and Golden Axe, and possibly Toki. Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle....Ben from Full Throttle (probably taken from one of the cancelled sequels). Is that the Pyro from Descent 2 about half-way across the fourth strip?

I'm guessing a lot of the recent ones are from RPG and FPS games, which I don't play too often. At least I can pick out Gorden Freeman and Alyx Vance, Faith, the guys from TF2.... and maybe Duke Nukem.

Heh, I wasted some of my youth on 1942 as well.

[Pred the Penguin]

Only recognize about a half...
I'm fine with that.

[Blue Lion]

I can only recognize about 30 or so.

[SpardaSon21]

I know most of those characters by sight, and the names and games of a  lot of the ones I know.

[TESLA]

Pretty cool!

But its missing Guybrush Thriftwood---- i mean 'Threepwood'


The legend that is monkey island, unless its there,


Must check for lemmings and worms!!!!!

[lostllama]

I think Guybrush is just below the mech-type thing and next to the Penny Arcade guys.... Worms near the bottom left I think... Woah, just noticed Simon the Sorceror...

Edit - ET is in there too!! It was so poor that most of the game cartridges went unsold. I heard that Atari had to bury them in a landfill in Mexico.

Edit 2 - He he, Pong. That might be the oldest game shown there.

[Mongoose]

My fanboy side is a bit disappointed that Myst didn't show up in some form (at least not that I've found yet).  Being the best-selling PC game of all time until The Sims came around should count for something, right?

And yep, the Pyro-GX does make an appearance, though I'm a bit chagrined that I didn't see it until after it was pointed out.

(Heh, even Freddi Fish is in there.)

[Rodo]

I'm looking for the guys from double dragon, have any of you found those in that image?

[lostllama]

They're about half-way across from the left on the fourth strip, next to the guy with the bike.

[Rodo]

They're about half-way across from the left on the fourth strip, next to the guy with the bike.

I'm happy now

[Aardwolf]

I found the pyro from Descent And the Galaga ship! And Grid Wars!

Uh... is there an answer sheet anywhere?

Edit 2 - He he, Pong. That might be the oldest game shown there.

Nonono... Bottom row, right of center, to the left of the sims people.

Chess is older.

Unless that's supposed to be some specific computerization of it.

[lostllama]

Good point. I assumed it was from a computerized version, then again perhaps not.

Ugh, my eyes are on the verge of bleeding.

Edit: Found Hobbes from WC3!! Took a while for that to click. Not sure what the origami-like thing to the right of him is from, though.

[CP5670]

I recognized about 40 of them, although that's still only 10%. Some of the older game characters are very small in that picture and you have to look carefully to notice them.

Anyone see JC Denton there? I see Alex from the second game but can't find JC.

[Enigmatic Entity]

I think I can identify the Star Wars one, Superman, Spiderman, Batman and what looks like Transformers...The Hulk, Pokemon TMNT, PacMan, Astroboy, whatever that foxy-squirrel thing that was on Tazos is, Donald Duck, - where's the FreeSpace ones?

(I didn't know that I knew this many games...)

[TrashMan]

Heresy..

There needs to be a Orion in the background..or at least Aken Bosch...or allied Command head.