50K Racewalker

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50K Racewalker is a Videlectrix game by Jonathan Howe. Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right, Right... OOPS!!! You lose!! Alternate left right for about five hours without messing up and you could win the gold!!

Page Title: Take some steps!

Instructions

After designing your character, and race mode starts, wait for the gun to fire and the word "Go" appears.

Then, taking your time, press "Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right..." slowly. If you do it too fast you'll get a FAULT. If you press the same key twice you will get a FAULT.

A FAULT is an annoying message that will appear and your character will stop for a few seconds.

For every white line you pass on the track, you have traveled .01 kilometers. There are 40 successful "steps" required between each white line, and 50.00 kilometers to go. That's a lot of walking!

Fun Facts

• The "LICENSED BY FUNMACHINE" screen at the beginning pokes fun at classic video games and consoles, especially the Sega Genesis which displayed a "LICENSED BY SEGA" screen before each game, regardless of whether the game was actually licensed or not.
  • The name "FUNMACHINE" may be a reference to the Nintendo 64, which was sometimes referred to as "The Fun Machine" on the packaging.
• When you approach 1K, your character starts walking into a pixelated blackness. Once you reach 1K, a message pops up, saying that it didn't expect anyone to get this far, and to hold on. After a few seconds, the blackness is apparently programmed in, and you can continue.
• When you get to the end it shows you a screen that says "You placed 3rd", and shows your character walking up onto a stand that reads "3", with two others on "1" and "2".
  • You can view the end screen by right clicking and pressing play or foward in the swf file.
• The signs you walk/run by say:
  • Walk!
  • Go ________!(Whatever you typed in for a name.)
  • Farther!
  • These boots were made for it!
  • I've always loved you!
  • Our arms are getting tired!
  • You're almost there!
  • With your feet!
  • Walk it off!
  • Fun sport!
  • Iron Steed!
  • Beware Cheplin!
  • Weapons located in every corner!
  • Why?
  • Play footsie with me!
  • Walk Better!
  • Left! Right! Left! Right!

• Sometimes the game will load up incorrect data where you'll start at 0.01k and it will say fault for every step you take.
• This game is a parody of olympic games where in the running part you would have to press left and right repeadetly to win.
• You can highlight the text on the signs in the background with your mouse like you would regular text on a word processor.
• The fastest you can walk is approximately 0.04 km per minute, meaning the fastest that one kilometer can be walked is 25 minutes. It would take 1250 minutes, or 20 hours and 50 minutes, to walk 50 kilometers.
• Finishing the 50k would take, at 40 steps per 0.01k, 200,000 steps/keypresses.
• 40 steps per .01 km averages to 25 cm, or about 9.8" per step. That's almost a tiptoe.
• This game was last seen in Strong Bad's floppy disk container in the email sibbie.
• When you get to the end and you are on the pedestal you can still walk but you just stay in the same place and one set of lights moves left.
  • Once the cheering in the end stops, this can no longer be done.
• The cheering sound when you cross a line comes from several games for the Intellivision game system.
• There is a "big head mode" in a nod to NBA Jams.
• Pressing any key on the keyboard other then left or right will give you a FAULT.
• The line "these boots were made for it!" is a reference to the famous Nancy Sinatra song "These Boots Are Made For Walking."

External Links

• Play the Game
• Play the Game (flash file)
• forum thread re: "50K Racewalker"