The Shortest Game Ever Made

[@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.

[@MigoKazan]

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

[@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

[@Dojima-P]

Actually true lol

[@Tatwinus]

Well since its Far cry 4 you can rude an elephant while wielding an MG42. But other than that, yeah.

[@AbbaZaba00]

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

[@Ramsey276one]

I second the motion

[@bossabassa364]

Yeah good idea

[@sharkfiend555]

Modern Warfare III

[@jamesbevan9939]

@@sharkfiend555 "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!"?

[@ゾカリクゾ]

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

[@odq1680]

@@ゾカリクゾI’m assuming it’s the same as the nes version where you just mash the A button and you win.

[@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

[@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

[@TheHallow31]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@SpencerStudios]

I actualy played this when it came out, as I got it as a present. I was stunned by how insultingly short it was. I don't think I've ever heard anyone ever talk about it since. You've just unlocked a deep, dark memory.

[@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

[@anueutsuho7425]

On the plus side we got Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metroid Prime Trilogy, etc.

[@pokekiller787x]

@@anueutsuho7425 Based SPM mention

[@naleac6969]

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

[@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

[@angel_of_rust]

sounds fun in a very 6-7/10 kind of way

[@ShenDoodles]

@@angel_of_rust Yeah, it’s a real hidden gem.

[@angel_of_rust]

@@ShenDoodles yeah ive just watched videos on both the console and pc version and they look up my alley

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@Chromeno]

17:28 It's six minutes and 47 seconds actually, a minute is 60 seconds and not 100.

[@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.

[@FourthDerivative]

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

[@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]

🤓

[@ThatSmartYoutubeUser]

🤓

[@renichw4163]

🤓

[@mykal4779]

6 minutes and 48.82 seconds to be precise

[@iamhereblossom1588]

Yeah, I noticed that too. He used the calculator which of course uses 100 as a whole unit as opposed to the 60 seconds as a whole a unit.

[@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.

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

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

[@BrainDamageComedy]

🤣🤣

[@Flinxmin]

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

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

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.

[@3DFella]

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

[@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

[@doozy5184]

It feels ironic that I watched this on Christmas day

[@Jalapinecone]

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

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@matty8952]

0:27 Best frame I've seen in a video in a while lol

[@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.

[@masterkdude]

@@foreignuser_ no one cares

[@foreignuser_]

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

[@TheBoghopper2]

​@@foreignuser_ prove it, drop the list

[@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

[@Just.Kidding]

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

[@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

[@TheWolfeDen]

Here from the future to bring good news

[@dr.bofthebananarepublic]

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

[@Chonkems]

Ground Zeroes is about an hour if you only do the main mission lol.

[@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.

[@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!

[@radio5637]

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

[@Jobocan.]

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

[@joevanweedler]

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

[@RobbieLugos]

The developers never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games for longer than 7 minutes.

[@almost9716]

The adventures of Elmo in grouchland for the game boy color. Under 4 mins a meets all your criteria.

[@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.

[@DiggerDeeper01]

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

[@sticklyboi]

you have to burn the rope is kino

[@codenamexelda]

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

[@CasperTheRestless]

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

[@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.

[@probium2832]

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

[@kubaoko008]

i think he had to burn the rope.

[@mr.pringlesspeedruns]

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

[@TheTrueUltimateDX]

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

[@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.

[@henrynelson9301]

Those are speedruns, It doesn’t count. A regular playthrough of it is like a couple hours

[@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.

[@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.

[@KippoKupo]

2:35 Utilize the secret 3rd option. Yarrrr~

[@fakealias]

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

[@KevenLC]

Urban Champion by Nintendo, you beat a guy 3 times in 1 minutes and that's it.

[@vakerovvv2810]

2:20 I used to rent from that exact blockbuster in Owen Sound. It still sits empty, reminding me of my long gone childhood days.

[@68able2]

love the perfect dark music you are a man of culture

[@SprinchelArt]

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

[@ernycas1]

Paradox: more skilled you are longer your playtime in revengence by the way

[@RobbieLugos]

I love how a game subtitled “Treachery Cannot Be Tolerated” was an infamous scam.

[@pedroemo5477]

2:37 Option 3: emulation baaaabyyyyyy ooh yeah emulation wins again

[@SuperCaleb360]

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

[@Mato505]

You gonna make it big man

[@JBRewind]

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

[@Mastermind8908]

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

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

I didn't know that

[@acronym.4328]

2 or so years late to comment, but I appreciate the small Toree 3D mention. Siactro's works like that one are as good as they are short, and they are *very* good.

[@foreignuser_]

At $20 for 6 minutes, this game is more expensive than crack cocaine.

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G XD

[@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.

[@futurewario9591]

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

[@ossamaabdusalam830]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@monmagog]

You sound like Jerry Seinfeld

[@SubRosalina]

I'd call the game shovelware, but that would require the developers picking up a shovel.

[@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.

[@roberthansen5727]

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

[@GriffinatorOriginal]

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

[@mikecook6104]

It's not 6 mins 7 secs lol

[@mentalclicks]

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

[@SpecsWitched]

basically a video searching for the least cost efficient game

[@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

[@sdbegotist]

Initially thought Dragster for Atari 2600 would of been the shortest game to beat

[@kizashikaze9066]

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

[@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.

[@christiandahl9777]

Shadow Treachery Cannot Be Tolerated looks hilarious, the menus are the default unity skybox, and the buttons in the UI are all completely default unity buttons lololol

[@FungusFindersBeware]

I did not know this would be a Christmas video.