Animation vs. Arcade Games is the sixth and presently final installment of the Animation vs. series. It was uploaded on November 26th, 2021. The episode was confirmed by Alan Becker on October 2nd, 2021 when announcing The Warden.
The episode features various arcade games from the 1970s and 1980s such as Pac-Man, Q*Bert, Frogger, Space Invaders, etc.
Plot[]
The episode starts with Yellow building (or maybe fixing) an arcade machine. The Second Coming, Red, Blue, and Green are watching him, then Yellow turns it on. Yellow calls it done, then he calls Red to play the game. Red seizes the arcade machine controls and a massive screen appears above their heads, displaying a variety of games. Red picks Breakout and breaks a few blocks, but then he misses the ball and the game ended. Green decides to play, so he chooses Space Invaders. He shoots some aliens but he dies in that game. The Second Coming wants Yellow to play the game again, this time, he picked Tetris. He quickly makes a giant line, with all of the stick figures clapping at his gaming, but all of the sudden, a log from Frogger appears. Yellow cannot control it, and wonders who did this.
Yellow goes back to the menu to choose Pong, and Q*Bert strangely appears. The right paddle was replaced with a red Tetris block. He tries to control the block, but it acts the same way as the one in Tetris—always going down, but turnable. He switches to Space Invaders, but it was mixed with Breakout, causing the ball to destroy some aliens. He switches to Q*Bert, but Q*Bert himself is not there. He finally switches to Pac-Man, but Pac-Man himself is not there, and Q*Bert is hiding behind Pinky, the pink ghost.
The Second Coming has an idea to stop Q*Bert from mixing and breaking the game. Red makes the window larger so that five stickmen can fight Q*Bert. They come close to him, but he spits out a red UFO. Then, Q*Bert inhales the arcade machine, and the five stickmen freak out. They attempt to chase Q*Bert, but he leaves, and the stickmen are trapped. Pinky approaches The Second Coming and Red, and they hastily run away from her. The other stickmen run as she comes close to them. Inky, a cyan ghost, joins in. He goes to Red too. Pinky and Inky chase down the two stickmen. The Second Coming comes down and Clyde sees him, and he runs off. Blue grabs a Power Pellet, and The Second Coming touches Clyde. Green and Red end up trapped in the corner, but Inky and Pinky turn blue as soon as they came into contact with the stick figures. Green touches Inky and Pinky, so the three ghosts sail back into their safe spot. Yellow touches the cherry, and four stickmen run away from three ghosts. Yellow helps them to get away from the ghost. Yellow touches the Power Pellet and The Second Coming kicks Clyde. Red touches two ghosts, and the stickmen clear the screen. They fall off, before the Pac-Man game switches to Frogger.
The stickmen see Q*Bert, he inhales Frogger and spits out some Space Invaders aliens. A second player Frogger comes in and he gets shot by a Space Invaders alien. Yellow hops from the car to the sidewalk, dodging the bullets, and the four stickmen jump from cars to the sidewalk. Yellow jumps from logs to turtles. After everyone has reached the top, the game changes to Tetris.
Blue and The Second Coming were separated from the other three, and Q*Bert makes Green fall into a one-block narrow pit. Q*Bert spat out the pong paddle, and a Mario Fireball, which can destroy blocks in Tetris. In the end, the three completed the challenge, and the game switched to Mario Bros.
Blue and The Second Coming found Q*Bert, but he used a Tetris Block he obtained earlier. All of a sudden, Q*Bert spits out Frogger components that start to charge at the five. They were dodging at first, but soon they were in trouble. But Yellow hit the POW block, causing the components to stop moving. After all the components had been kicked off, they moved on to the next game, Donkey Kong.
In Donkey Kong, Q*Bert spawned right next to Pauline, and she fell in love with him instantly. However, Q*Bert sucked up Pauline, making DK angry. With excellent aim, Yellow grabbed a hammer and shot DK from the lower right-hand side. The game switched to Pong.
Q*Bert was falling but was saved by the ball. After Green touched the Tetris block (supposed to be the right paddle), it changed to Space Invaders, with Breakout blocks at the top. Red and Green saw a shooter and a shelter block, and the two went out, destroying all the invaders and blocking as they went. As the last enemy was defeated, the game switched to Q*Bert.
Q*Bert finishes his collection by spitting out Pauline from earlier, then learns how to control the characters, and commands them to eliminate the five stick figures. After the stick figures killed most of the enemies, the second wave began. Massive 3D Tetris pieces were falling from above, and space invaders were still shooting lasers. When Yellow finally knocked Pauline out of the board, Q*Bert used his desperate attack of sucking everything in, including the space invaders and Tetris. Yellow somehow survives, and decides to program the sky above the Q*Bert board into Galaga. After Yellow generated one of the Pong's paddles, Q*Bert's flying pad got knocked off, making Yellow instantly catch Q*Bert.
Q*Bert tries to desperately get away, but he heard his children talking. Realizing they are hungry, Q*Bert gave them some of things he had swallowed, but they were still hungry. Yellow then generated a ton of food for the children, so they can never get hungry again. Q*Bert then spit Yellow's friends out. Yellow immediately approaches him. But instead of punching him, Yellow patted him on the head. After time, we see Red playing the Pong and Breakout, and he wants Q*Bert mode to be activated. Yellow solved his problem, gave Q*Bert cherries, and then we see the craziest crossovers imaginable (Q*Bert, Breakout, Pong and Tetris).
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
- Q*bert (debut/only appearance)
Other Characters[]
- Arcade Characters (debut/only appearance)
- Pac-Man
- Jumpman (Donkey Kong)
- Donkey Kong
- Pauline
- Mario (Mario Bros.)
- Frogger
Games Featured[]
Credits[]
Co-Writer[]
- Terkoiz
Animators[]
- Alan Becker
- Terkoiz
- Ellis02
- Able Rai
- Fordz
- ActiveFrame
- Shuriken255
- Glob
- WTRZN
- Hexal
Sound Designer[]
- Pepper
- Alexander Saramov
- Egor
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- It is the second installment of the Animation vs. series where noogai3 is not featured at all, the first being Animation vs. Minecraft.
- When Yellow throws the hammer at Donkey Kong, it is a reference to Pixels, when Sam Brenner (portrayed by Adam Sandler) threw the hammer at Donkey Kong at the end of the film.