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GamesRadar's best of the internet in 2008

Highlights of 12 months of win for the webs

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK


Louis Armstrong sings 'Super Mario World'
This ditty from ever tuneful YouTube poster brentalfloss has absolutely no right to be this good. But somehow it's one of the best things ever. A pretty convincing riff of Armstrong, blended with 16- bit Nintendo sound bites and clever-funny lyrics combine to create a piece of work that can't fail to pluck the soul strings of gamers with a lust for nostalgia. And in the process it even manages to be a pretty darned respectable parody cover of 'What a Wonderful World' to boot.



Laid-back 'talkthrough' of Sonic the Hedgehog
Ever had the urge to watch someone else play Sonic for 20 minutes while the stoner tones of a late night DJ talks you through the experience and a jazzy afro groove noodles away in the background? You haven't? You've obviously never seen this.



More WTF!?:
Mario theme played with bottles and RC car
Wario shakes it on YouTube
Mario moves to the music
 Mind-blowing Line Rider 'Transcendental' level


Google staffers look silly pretending to play Guitar Hero
Turns out there was a perfectly good explanation as to why these Google employees were pretending to be engaged in a serious Guitar Hero rock out when they are, in fact, just 'playing' the Xbox 360 dashboard. But since when has the internet been interested in a perfectly good explanation? All that achieves is making a funny pic unfunny. So we continue to believe that this is phony corporate cool backfiring and boning itself in the face. And getting unanimously ridiculed for its trouble. Cos that's funny.

New York street art
We can't all live in New York. So we appreciate it when someone sees something as cool as this burst pixel-art hydrant in Manhattan and shares it with the rest of us. Sharing is caring, after all.

More [PICS]:
Beware portals
In case of headcrab infestation...
Companion cube spotted


 
52 Comments
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DontPanic  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Nice, 2008 was good to us.
Samael  - 11 months 12 days ago 
World of WorkCraft was sublime...

"That's a 50 DKP minus!"
Xplosive59  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Wow this really is amazing it would of taken me like 1 year to find most of this stuff and also the research u did was amazing to find these

GR is getting better and better ( unlike the sonic franchise lol)
k1ng94  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Best artical ever.
lordkemo  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Great round up. I had to show everyone at work the one with the guy filming his girlfriends fine ace.
Metallica  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Let's hope 2009 will be even better ^_^
GamesRadarBrettElston  - 11 months 11 days ago 
I... I never noticed the clouds and bushes...
Slique  - 11 months 11 days ago 
No mention of Lit Fuse Film's 'Jill's Song' for machinima? Really?
NelosAngelos  - 11 months 11 days ago 
Welcome to the World of the World of Warcraft!!! The internet is a truly amazing place once you think about it.
radicle94  - 11 months 11 days ago 
I know this is a little off topic but in the new game informer it said that killzone 2 is going to be out for the 360 is this true?
gronfors  - 11 months 11 days ago 
Best Article Ever!!!

btw... Never knew about the clouds and the bushes on Mario...

and I had the same reaction...
*Pause..
*cry
RonnyLive19881  - 11 months 11 days ago 
The last one was pure gold! GO HUE!
DeadGirls  - 11 months 11 days ago 
Entertaining article.
Thanks guys.

For some reason I missed most of that stuff when it first came out (probably playing video games).
GoldenMe  - 11 months 11 days ago 
The....The clouds.....and the bushes.

The internet rules, and so does you GR.

You guys get Best Gaming Website Of The Year!!!
aromickred  - 11 months 11 days ago 
I loved the guitar hero bike.
AXELSTORM44  - 11 months 11 days ago 
Barack has evolved into... PRESIDENT!
Corsair89  - 11 months 11 days ago 
World of World of Warcraft and World of Workcraft. Brilliant.

The halo/pokemonsnap/starfox/pacman/ffvii/mario clip was excellent too.
Bronxx  - 11 months 11 days ago 
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
I practically fell out out my chair laughing when I saw that.

Great article, it's like an early Christmas present.
rowanredwood  - 11 months 11 days ago 
Let's hope 2009 will be even better
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doubt it. only 20 days into the new year will begin a 4 year long hell. and i hope you dont think that with obama in office video games will be allowed to do all the things they do now. once hes in office the use of the word crap in a game will probaly send it to a T rating, and a gun will probably send it up to an A rating. i definately forsee a lot of attacks on video games from DC in the upcoming years.
WiLdFiRe567  - 11 months 11 days ago 
that Mario death was funny the different games made in halo 3 were cool and i ve seen but before but Bikehero was the greatest thing this year
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