I lied. It's only 35890 meters. But "The Canabalt Marathon" sounds a lot cooler than "Canabalt 35890 meter run", or "Canabalt 86% of a marathon" or "Canabalt farther than you ever got, probably.". I actually did it once, but I didn't record it. Youtube wouldn't have let me upload it anyway, since it no doubt was over 15 minutes if this one was 13:31. Running a 15 minute marathon, how famous would that make me?
If you thought he was scary fast when you could see the whole screen, try watching him in close up! It's like.... Clark Kent having a brisk jog through Metropolis. Hey, he DOES look like Clark Kent, doesn't he! He looks like Clark Kent, yet moves like Michael Jackson. Or at least he continues the running motion with his legs even when he's still in the air in the middle of a jump, and that just kind of strikes me as the sort of silly thing Michael Jackson might have done if he could ever run 100 mph. Average horizontal speed is in fact 99.9423 miles per hour since he was running from 3.4 seconds to 13:26.7. Of course, if you count the up and down motion, he easily broke 100. Peak speed, probably 120 mph, but I was going for distance, not speed, and I never let him get very fast this time. I usually don't play like this - I usually avoid boxes at all costs but if I do that, then I rarely make it to 10k. This was my "make it as far as I can if I have a gun to my head" best. I made it to 5000 meters without hitting any boxes once, and though for obvious reasons my attention wasn't on the distance meter, I think it was almost 100 meters per second (223 mph), but once you really get up there, the program starts throwing these bean-pole-width buildings at you with 3 boxes crammed together on top and huge gaps between them. On the other hand, if you go too slow, then it throws windows where the distance between ceiling and floor is VERY short.
So sit back, relax, and slip into a trance as he jumps and runs and jumps and runs and runs and jumps and runs and jumps and runs and runs. And jumps. And runs some more. And then he jumps. And runs some more. And then he jumps again. And then he DIES!!!! Uh oh, I hope I didn't spoil the ending for you. No doubt you were expecting he'd get to the end and rescue the princess. Or possibly Lois Lane. Nope. Maybe that happens at 1000 kilometers for all I know. That would be quite an easter egg, but I doubt it's in there. And that would be a very big city. It's a future city, being sacked by giant robots, I'm sure cities in the future filled with giant robots, tiled with collapsing buildings and that have explosive jet engines that randomly fall from the sky must be at least 1000 kilometers from one end to the other. Can you sit through the whole thing? I can't, and I'm the one who recorded the thing in the first place!
And that's my Canabalt rant. I get to make a Canabalt rant because my distance earns me status as an authority. You don't get to make a Canabalt rant because my distance is farther than yours, neener neener neener. Unless it isn't. I'm also one of the world's foremost authories on asteroids. Why, just the other day, NASA came to me and asked how they could defend the Earth and I said "look, you shoot one of the big ones, and then you'll usually have 2 medium sized ones to deal with, and you've got to shoot each of them, and then you'll get 2 little ones, and you shoot each one and you're done. 5 shots total. But don't just shoot all the big ones because then you'll be left with twice as many medium sized ones, you shoot one big one and you clean up the pieces, and then aim for the next one. And watch out for the flying saucers because they'll shoot you back." NASA paid me 10 billion dollars for providing this useful sage advice. They're going to be incorporating my valuable information into their next deep space probe. And if you say that sounds like a lie that a 5 year old in kindergarten might come up with for "show and tell" to avoid admitting that he did NOTHING over the weekend, as a matter of fact, it was, and yes, I did :) And as far as I could tell, everyone except the teacher bought it hook, line and sinker, and the teacher at least PRETENDED to buy it hook, line and sinker. But everyone else in the room was a stupid 5 year old so that's not very impressive. No, I'm lying again. I made up the part just now about NASA paying me 10 billion dollars. But they probably still would have believed it even if I had said it at the time.
Canabalt was created by Adam Atomic and Daniel Baranowsky http://adamatomic.com/canabalt
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TrentR42 4 weeks ago
@TrentR42 Sigh, I wish I could. (You didn't have to rate it down!) My computer can't even handle playing 480p videos. Even as tiny a window as this was, it STILL was noticibly jerkier than it was when not recording. And believe you me, that jerkiness doesn't make it any easier. It seems to be a better game than any other up on youtube, but I've gotten a lot farther without the screen recorder on.
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