The Shortest Game Ever Made

I'm on a journey to find the shortest game ever made, and I very well may have found it. Please, come see for yourself.
Also I go on about game prices for a bit.

[@MsQueenOfDance]

God this is absolutely hilarious. With so many credits there has to be a story behind the creation of this game.

[@peteryeeterson5766]

Money laundering?

[@foreignuser_]

@@peteryeeterson5766 This was my first thought as soon as he started talking about the amount of people in the credits. "Quality Assurance" my ass.

[@blank6377]

Someone get Wha Happun on this!!

[@glasshorse6893]

money laundering gets thrown around a lot without much meaning sometimes but that really seemed close to what'd actually count as money laundering. how do you need 20 people on quality assurance on a game that's 10 minutes max? definitely just shovelware trying to make some quick money

[@derekg5006]

A bomb went off while they were developing it and this is the only part that was salvaged

[@yackan9086]

Oh I just remembered there is a game "Two Worlds" and you can literally run to the end boss from the start and trigger villagers to kill him. Speedrunners end it in 2 min. That's hillarious!

[@Ramsey276one]

0_o

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

ah, the oblivion killer

[@ChristopherMathieu]

I actually had fun with that game, when I discovered that you could absolutely ignore the main plot. Instead of kiting the end boss into the village, just avoid him completely. NONE of the side-quests are linked to the main story, so you're free to wander and loot everything and fill the map and learn every skill and boost your stats to insane levels (permanently) with alchemy. Then, when you're level 50 with game-breaking stats and all the best gear, go back and talk to the BBEG and faceroll the main plot in like ten minutes.

[@NathanSylbreon]

I remember getting the Rudolph wii game as a kid on Christmas and after opening all my other presents putting it into my wii pressing play going to story mode and having fun then after those 4 minigames it ended and I remember being so confused with what just happened I never played it again as I experienced it all right there

[@twatsuckler7968]

I owned that exact same game for the wii and the only thing I remember from it was a gift wrapping minigame and it being complete shit

[@henryentertainmentsystem9923]

That was my first game, and I had a lot of fun with it

[@favoritemustard3542]

@@henryentertainmentsystem9923 well you would, wouldn't you: it was your 1st game. You can't help it if you didn't know better! 👍🦌👍

[@FreakGeSt]

Why this comment made me laugh like The Joker when he is out of his meds?

[@bronzepenguincp]

Rudolph wasn’t allowed to play anymore reindeer games

[@AbbaZaba00]

You've gotta do a sequel showing the shortest triple a games

[@Ramsey276one]

I second the motion

[@bossabassa364]

Yeah good idea

[@ahmadfarizhakim3231]

Modern Warfare III

[@jamesbevan9939]

@@ahmadfarizhakim3231 "I have milk on my lip, and I DON'T CARE!"

[@JetWolfEX]

I like the idea, and I'm sure they really thought about this. But following those rules there's old Tarot card games where you press start, it plays a 10 second animation, gives the player a random Fortune, then cuts to credits. And these were officially sold and released on console. Specifically Tarot mystery on Snes and Taboo the sixth sense on Nes. And if you want to ignore those there's still "Where's Waldo?" on Snes and Genesis which can be fully experienced in about 2 minutes.

[@Ramsey276one]

I rented the NES Tarot XD

[@jan_Eten]

lmao

[@intercoursehandguns851]

Did the fortunes just say "thanks for the money, dummy!"?

[@zokalyx]

I guess you wouldn't be able to finish where's waldo so quickly in your first playthrough, right?

[@MigoKazan]

And then there's Dragster on the Atari, which can be beaten in a few seconds. Not minutes, seconds

[@kbottrill1]

Especially if you start the race in second gear

[@jeffreyrussell4874]

Met my wife at a movie gallery, we both worked there. It was a small town north of Tulsa, we were making 5.35 an hour each. We now have 6 kids and 2 grandkids. Its long gone now. Its a mom and pop retail shop now, but everytime I see it, it brings back memories.

[@dmign]

what the fuck does this have to do with anything

[@ethansantiago7013]

What are you talking about

[@jeffreyrussell4874]

@@ethansantiago7013 he mentioned not having a blockbuster video, having a movie gallery instead, hence the comment, that's all.

[@hypnotised-clover]

Nobody cares, dude.

[@roachdoggjr155]

@@hypnotised-clover i care, dude

[@Kabber]

i loved this lol i can imagine the disappointment of kids receiving this game for christmas

[@scoutdy6547]

I don't have to imagine it. That kid was me

[@beyondobscure]

I propose that E.T. The Extraterrestrial on Atari 2600 is the shortest game. It was on a major home console (The Atari 2600), can be beaten legitimately (E.T. can go home), has an actual ending (E.T. goes home in his spaceship), and all worthwhile content can be experienced. You can beat it in approximately four minutes if you're lucky. Here's how you beat E.T. on Atari 2600. 1. Start the game 2. Raise E.T.'s neck in screens with holes on them to highlight phone pieces 3. Collect all three phone pieces scattered across six screens (Four of which contain possible locations) 4. (optional) get Reese's Pieces for extra points (If you get 9, Elliot will give you a phone piece.) 5. Find a spot on one screen where you can phone home. 6. Go back to where you started and find the landing area. 7. Wait for the spaceship to arrive and take E.T. home. That's it. That's the entire game.

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

Thing is, that game has a bit of RNG in it unlike Rudolph.

[@beyondobscure]

@@MDLuffy1234YT Note "if you're lucky".

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

@@beyondobscure I know, I'm saying that you shouldn't consider E.T. as one of the fastest games to beat since the time varies wildly unlike Rudolph.

[@ShenDoodles]

SpongeBob: Lights Camera Pants was similar to this, being a bunch of minigames with a story, but they had four minigames PER CHAPTER and if you didn't score the highest across all four games put together, you had to replay the whole chapter to rectify your score, not to mention the fact you're competing for a movie role and each character brings a different performance befitting of their character, making for entertaining variations on otherwise identical scenes. I think one minigame lasts about as long as this entire game too, at five minutes.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

I remember footage.

[@infinitefes2812]

I remember loving this game as a child

[@ian336]

5:27 when I clicked on this video this was my exact idea to break the record until you said only officially on console games 💀

[@darkestccino5405]

I would replace rule 1 with "had a physical release", therefore discounting bad EShop games while also allowing a lot of PC games.

[@foxepunz4849]

This is a great concept of a video, AND it delivers, you made me start to look up some older short games out of curiosity

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed

[@moley249]

metal gear rising is like my favorite game i bought it for 30 dollars on amazon but it's like only 7 hours long...

[@thebuddah1253]

Replay it and get better ranks

[@sempiternal_futility]

@@thebuddah1253 unlock new difficulties unlock new weapons, like the wooden sword

[@marx4538]

ONLY?

[@bruh-gn5kc]

@@marx4538 yeah that's considered short or less than usual time to finish a story game.

[@marx4538]

@@bruh-gn5kc Man, I miss when it was normal for games to be 2-4 hours long, or better yet, even just 30 mins long, but demanded mastery and didn't waste time. 7 hours is the highest amount of time I can tolerate in a game without having problems with it's length, with some exceptions.

[@Ars-Nova258]

I vaguely remember an old Angry Video Game Nerd video on a Rocky game for Sega Master System. I believe it only had three opponents (likely just the three major boxers Rocky faced between the first and 4th films as Apollo was the opponent for the first two). After watching it I looked up a YT channel that beat those three “bosses” in less than 8 minutes. Due to the game technically having an ending (Rocky and his wife embrace) I think it would count as a contender. EDIT: Erroneously Claimed that they Rocky Game was on NES, was corrected in the replies and changed it accordingly.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

I was so ready to make a "I could have been a contender" joke, but then I remembered that's not Rocky, it's Raging Bull.

[@imthethriller]

It was on the Sega Master System

[@CaptCool88]

Seems good for 5 bucks

[@Ars-Nova258]

@@imthethrillerThank you for the correction.

[@tomasjefferson6193]

The math is wrong the time isn’t 6 minutes and seven seconds, it’s 6 minutes and 47 seconds. Sorry for being a nerd; I liked your vid tho.

[@fatmanwithabroom3221]

🤓

[@ThatDumbYoutubeUser]

🤓

[@renichw4163]

🤓

[@sz.marcell]

💀

[@mykal4779]

6 minutes and 48.82 seconds to be precise

[@lunondisposable5382]

Far Cry 4; you just sit in a room for 10 minutes, the guy takes you somewhere, and it ends. And it fits rule 4 since it's Far Cry and you haven't missed any worthwhile content

[@pokekiller787x]

So many kids got completely ripped off during the Wii era lol. Thankfully I somehow avoided a vast majority of shovelware on the system.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Good for you

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

The rules are really useful, because my first thought for shortest game was dying at arcade games like Pacman or Galaga.

[@CanHazDeezHandzBOX]

🤣🤣

[@Flinxmin]

Rest in peace, Movie Gallery. I remember renting GameCube games all the time from there.

[@Scribble2345]

I wish I was born in Gen Z. Yall are better than me and my peers

[@guyonalix]

"Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk" on the Switch is the shortest game I've ever played. Roughly 20min if you take your time on your first playthrough. If you skip the text you can finish it in under 5 min easy. I was so shocked when I played it lmao.

[@zachabel805]

of course it had to be Wii shovelware. U cant convince me this wasnt an attempted money laudering scheme to profit off the holidays season . Also unrelated but u basically the only content creator i know of who sounds exactly like their pfp

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

True.

[@cactynemann4356]

1:51 they want you to buy the game digitally? No, nowadays you're purchasing a license to play THEIR game, a license they can revoke at any time, it's not yours

[@vidyabatter]

9:57 Oh shit, all these are the exact websites I use to put my games on, yes even Newgrounds.

[@j-lien]

we didn't forget what you did fucker

[@j-lien]

you will never escape instagram irony

[@Jalapinecone]

It seems you haven't yet had the pleasure of experiencing all 3 minutes of Where's Waldo (NES)

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed

[@3DFella]

13:45 OMG I USED TO HAVE THAT GAME AS A KID. Actual nostalgia trip, thank you so much for this.

[@CasperTheRestless]

did. did you just put time intro a regular calculator?

[@lefoxeh811]

it breaks the first rule since it's not on console but i think bunny swordmaster story by rdein (creator of momodora) is worth considering. it hardly takes more than 5 minutes to play through it all, more like 2 or 3 or even under 1 minute if you're real fast. and it does fulfill every other requirement. sadly it's itchio page isn't accessible anymore but there's playthroughs on youtube. also it's actually a pretty fun little game despite being kinda janky

[@foreignuser_]

breaking the rules literally allows for thousands of games to compete for the lowest common denominator in a race to the bottom. this is so uninteresting of an idea that the only reason this video even works at all is the ruleset that become the basis of the argument to begin with. thanks for bringing up the game and i absolutely adore MOMO 4 it's the best metroidvania of all time IMO, but your comment doesn't really make sense in this context. it's like wanting to be the invincible guy when you are playing pretend with friends.

[@masterkdude7134]

@@foreignuser_ no one cares

[@foreignuser_]

@@masterkdude7134 i can literally name a hundred games right now if we are just breaking the rules.

[@TheBoghopper2]

​@@foreignuser_ prove it, drop the list

[@horrormusic1980]

Based on all the rules set in this video, would the video game Adventure released by Atari count as one of the shortest games of all time? You could beat that in just a couple minutes.

[@beyondobscure]

It would definitely be a good candidate, however I feel E.T. The Extraterrestrial is a shorter game.

[@TheHallow31]

As far as mini-game compilation titles on the Wii go, I have to cast my vote for Goosebumps: Horrorland.

[@doozy5184]

It feels ironic that I watched this on Christmas day

[@Mastermind8908]

Wasn't ET for Atari 2600 clocked at 1 minute 30 seconds?

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

I didn't know that

[@ShikaCyka]

really interesting video-glad I clicked on a random video with 20 or so views uwu look forward to you releasing more content!!

[@mrcrowthebird9836]

Don’t uwu you freak

[@ShikaCyka]

@@mrcrowthebird9836 owo lolllll

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

‘Merry Chrismas everyone! Have fun in that fucking heat’ HA. I live in Brisbane, Australia. You don’t know how much that sort of joke means to me

[@ChrisShredfield]

DUDE, YOU HAVE LESS THAN 10 THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS! Dude, this is vid is so good. I actually gasped when I saw the views! Great video dude!

[@magicmush1998]

Comments that aged poorly

[@ChrisShredfield]

​@@magicmush1998Ong fr

[@thebigegg1961]

cannot believe he didnt bring up Gone Home. you can beat it in less than ONE MINUTE. LEGITIMATELY. IT'S ON CONSOLES. IT'S SOLD IN STORES. 20 USD.

[@GameDevYal]

Would probably violate the "must experience all worthwhile content" rule, you won't have a chance to read any notes in that time.

[@insertsomememereferenceher8483]

I'd prefer a 4 hour game with no padding over a 200-hour open world with nothing but the same copy and paste content. Then I can replay it dozens of times and get thousands of hours of enjoyment out of it.

[@mikecook6104]

It's not 6 mins 7 secs lol

[@Just.Kidding]

There's always the third option: You can "try" the game :^)

[@DimentiosLoyalest]

6:28 Dear god hearing that song hit like a truck.

[@j0hn0b]

great video, came from the new one about parasocial relationships and binging everything haha

[@FourthDerivative]

The Wii and borderline-scam licensed shovelware, name a more iconic duo

[@Zedryx69]

Fun fact: you can play Roblox on Xbox. You can literally take the default baseplate, slap an "end the game" button on it, give it Xbox support, and instantly make the shortest game following the four rules mentioned in this video.

[@KKKNlgga]

roblox is a platform hosted and originated to a website and then ported to xbox so technicality its not a game you can play roblox on a pc,phone,etc and has xbox on that list roblox is not locked to a console and technically slapping a end game button on game is not all the things you can do in roblox made by roblox itself that can be used anywhere, always that is sitting,swimming,using gear,etc and roblox haves these mechanics that they want to be used creatively mashed into a game (if they use all of them) to make a quote on quote "avg game on roblox" in their eyes (roblox) so, no. assuming that a game with a empty baseplate with a end screen button that a person with a controller (and ONLY a controller) can click on and thats clicked on leaves you with credits and/or a end screen of the game that your playing. it is not the shortest game on console and of course you can cram all of roblox supported mechanics meant to be used normally without any core changes into the empty baseplate game and speedrun all of them and clicking end after doing all of them to prove this claim wrong and shatter to the ground and reduce it to atoms but its based on a empty baseplate game with a end game button and this comment will probably fall on its face in 10 mins to years but who knows and yes i did waste 15 mins on this. im really good with my time :tf: total word count: 270+ hehe im a dumbass

[@Safersephiroth777]

And I complained that Resident Evil 3 Remake was only 6 hours. I am too selfish it seems!

[@marshallhorton7154]

Super Mario Land on the original gamboy was 12 minutes long, can't believe there have been games that were shorter.

[@Coccyx69]

The perfect dark music was bothering me for so long until i realized what it was from. It was honestly surreal like this creepy memory from the past begging me to remember it.

[@futurewario9591]

I saw Rudolph The videogame 🎮 at GameStop & just knew that it was bad, but I didn't think it would be that bad.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

There is a game called Otosan on 3DS that is like 10 seconds long, i bought it for $1 lol. It might not fit all 4 requirements but i thought it was worth mentioning because I am sure most people don't know it exists. It also came out after this video released, so it couldn't have been considered at the point this video was made.

[@binnersbee]

Don't worry, I was WELL aware of what game you were going to choose. I know of that game from ScottTheWoz. I think he mentioned it in one of his "Shovelware Variety Hour" videos.

[@TheRebeloftheRebellion]

Dragster for the Atari 2600 is way shorter and follows all of the rules. You can experience the entire game in under 20 seconds.

[@beyondobscure]

Doesn't have an actual ending.

[@TheRebeloftheRebellion]

@@beyondobscure It ends once the player crosses the finish line.

[@agroed]

Another one that gets pretty close would be Rescue Heroes: Fire Frenzy on Game Boy Color. 6 mini-games, beatable in about 12 minutes. It has "harder" difficulties, but the games are basically exactly the same. I did all four difficulty levels, platinumed that mofo, in about 45 minutes earlier this year. Let's just say it wasn't the nostalgia trip I was hoping for.

[@probium2832]

It's 6:48 but it's still ridiculous. I remember it being on IGN as a 1/10 game

[@SprinchelArt]

I bet that there's probably an atari game that doesn't automatically loop that can beat Rudolf

[@naleac6969]

A video game you can play while listening to bohemian rhapsody and finish it at the same time as the song

[@FezTheSpaceBiker]

By the time in this video Mush points out 6 minutes isn't that long, you could beat this game's story mode twice while skipping cutscenes. Most 4-level copy-paste Data Design platformers on Wii were at least twice, maybe 3 times as long as Rudolph.

[@internetnobody6754]

the rental store near my house only closed this year it was kind of awesome to still have rentals, and they were insanely cheap. there was a pizza shop attached to the rental place and they would offer free 2 day rentals with the order of a large pizza and litre of soda

[@doremi4531]

Lowkey sounds like the dream

[@ossamaabdusalam830]

Just discovered this channel and I have been binging your videos for the past few hours

[@JBRewind]

Damn that Jak game over sound caught me by surprise. Feels like hardly anyone remembers those games.

[@omar53333]

2:20 is that the Jak II mission failed sound? God that brought back memories

[@Jobocan.]

Die Hard on NES has an ending that takes about 10 seconds to get, legitimately without glitches.

[@codenamexelda]

We didn't have movie gallery, we had family video

[@Mato505]

You gonna make it big man

[@68able2]

love the perfect dark music you are a man of culture

[@Smo2i]

This a great channel, definitely will subscribe. The video about the persona 5 misheard lyric is really funny.

[@Terrtail]

Glad i watch this video in December

[@mentalclicks]

Found you today and watched this, Merry Christmas dude!!! 🎄

[@dr.bofthebananarepublic]

$20 for 6 minutes… sounds like a twenty dollar “hohoho”🎅

[@SuperCaleb360]

14:00 I'm watching this around Christmas time so this video hits the spot. Glad I found your channel

[@joevanweedler]

The funniest part is that "The Answer" section spends most of the time on the credits.

[@TheTrueUltimateDX]

When this guy starts getting mad he sounds like mr garrison from south park

[@quietrioter]

The shortest game I played was Barney's Hide and Seek on Genesis... you can legit just walk to the end of each level without finding any of the kids or Babybop. Barney's walk cycle is very slow, but you can finish it in less than 10 minutes

[@KarasuTheClumsy]

I actually used to own Rudolph on the DS. My father genuinely bought it. New. From walmart. Around launch time.

[@Ramsey276one]

My sympathies

[@monmagog]

You sound like Jerry Seinfeld

[@DiggerDeeper01]

There iiiiissss....a 4th option to play games. *But we can't talk about that.*

[@radio5637]

Obama boss fight is a great game, I'm not even joking

[@poguri27]

If I learned anything from watching Ross's game dungeon, "must play Christmas games" are a lot harder to find than you might think. And this game certainly doesn't make things easier.

[@kizashikaze9066]

Subbed and starting from the beginning bc this shit is hilarious. Great content, MagicMush!

[@namebrandmason]

Okay, but how funny would it be if the Shadow Treachery DLC was a complete game (and it was pretty good)?

[@sticklyboi]

you have to burn the rope is kino

[@pjemrey6676]

What's funny is that "if it has interactivity, it's allowed on Steam" isn't even true, they also have the entire Postal movie available on the Steam store

[@BeansForBrains]

Forgot until now Gone Home is an official game & can be beaten in less than a min. It's also an achievement lol.

[@KellsKats]

Continue this idea but with price limits for each video. “What is the shortest game within a $30 budget” for example. Then work up to the AAA games.

[@mr.pringlesspeedruns]

A minute doesnt have 100 seconds BUT i get the point it is still super short lol

[@ViolentVista]

Compare this to another 20 dollar game, Cruelty Squad. Cruelty Squad has about 13 hours if you do every main mission and every side thing. *13 hours.* YOU COULD COMPLETE THIS GAME, ANOTHER 20 DOLLAR GAME, 130 FUCKING TIMES, IN THAT TIME SPAN. BUYING CRUELTY SQUAD GIVES YOU 130X MORE CONTENT THAN THIS DAMN JOKE, FOR THE EXACT SAME PRICE. that's not even counting being completionist. then again that rudolph game was probably treated as a "let's just make this fucking thing and ship it out for some money i guess while we get to making these other games we're doing edit: it wasn't that bruh high voltage software mostly made licensed games

[@Shadowstar1311]

My town had a Blockbuster and a Movie Gallery. I live in a very big town and a very small city at the same time.

[@MontyMoleLoreMaster]

Mario Strikers: Battle League and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash literally have no content, maps, characters, or really anything. They are the most soulless, bland and empty Mario sports games to exist. Yet, they are charged full price for some reason, despite them having as much content as their demos.

[@shrug_shrugsly]

Almost done algorithm’ing!!! Yay and THANK YOU THANK YOU for your great videos!!!! ❤❤❤

[@GriffinatorOriginal]

Excluding shovelware and licensed movie games should’ve been another rule…

[@StupidSystem]

if you included pc games you'd have to consider glitchles speedruns on games like minecraft and getting over it

[@magickitten123]

Minecraft is on consoles

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

Rule 4 covers glitchless speedruns. Also they exist on consoles.

[@CanHazDeezHandzBOX]

your channel is great m8. hope your subs skyrocket!

[@kentnewsworthy9229]

Love your stuff man especially your recent vids, this vid jsut kinda rambles alot. still very entertaining though!

[@funwithoutpants]

The "Gallery" part of the old Movie Gallery sign in Palmer, Alaska got modified to be for a business called Nail Gallery. I remember renting and buying from it. Rental stores were nice, I miss them, too.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

I wish i could rent games again, imagine getting to get a $70 game for only $5 a week, you'd need to rent it for over 3 months just to have it be not worth it to rent, and most games you can take your time with and likely beat in less than a month, so only paying like $20 for a full triple A game sounds pretty amazing. It also let you try many games that you never would've even known you'd like.

[@shrug_shrugsly]

I did it!! All the videos!! Comments complete!! Phew. I was coming to your table, eating up your content, and leaving without saying thank you?! Who raised me?! Hahaha. Better later than never, I hope, and thank you so so so so so much for these videos. They really are such nice sunshine in otherwise … mixed-bag days of life 😂❤❤❤❤

[@fakealias]

In defense of expensive games in the 80s and 90s, the games were actually good. (Most of the time)

[@snakepitskeleton4193]

2:20 That blockbuster is still standing today. It's in Owen Sound, Ontario. Total shithole. Anyway, a guy bought it so he could turn it into a Blockbuster museum. Never happened, now it's just an empty building.

[@neshead15]

It was somehow really surreal to see that photo of 90's Id Software in a video that wasn't made by Civvie 11.

[@DelRio1991]

I remember when I first played burn the rope in college. My friend told me it was the best game ever made . I was not disappointed. Voted 5

[@unothecard3839]

I've never felt like any of the games in the "My Name is Mayo" series could be beat in their short length before.

[@roberthansen5727]

"High Voltage Software" that's a blast from the past