sometimes you set your controller down
to go to the bathroom or answer a phone
call and you get back only to discover
that your character has a mind their own
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 video game idle animations for this
list we’ve selected the 10 most
memorable video game animations that
occur when the user doesn’t touch the
controls and makes the character just
stand around
number 10 niko bellic grand theft auto 4
nobody’s ever claimed that niko bellic
the protagonist of grand theft auto 4
was very cultured or an example of
perfect manners he’s definitely rough
around the edges as these animations
certainly proved I guess he can’t just
stand around and have a smoke or have a
seat and wait patiently have a dentist
no excuse
but I need money but that’s way too much
to ask from a grand theft auto
protagonists number nine the umpire ken
griffey jr. ‘he’s winning run bright boy
can you imagine if in a World Series
game the Red Sox best hitter steps up to
the plate getting ready to try to hit a
homer the pitcher is also ready to throw
his best pitch and then nothing happens
everyone just stands still waiting if
that happens in ken griffey jr. is
winning run then the umpire does this by
again kick this idle animation actually
makes sense
because in real life the umpire probably
would be the one to intervene and get
the game going again bla bla number
eight gordon freeman halflife as one of
the greatest PC games ever half life is
filled with imaginative settings cool
weapons and interesting characters
snarks are a great example they double
as a quick hard to hit explosive enemy
and as a grenade type weapon if you pick
up their egg sacs while gordon is
holding a snark lining up a throw some
funny idle animations occur such as
Gordon teasing the snark with his finger
and the Stark trying to escape from
Gordon’s clutches ujq the lucky number
seven Mario Super Mario 64 as the most
recognizable video game character of all
time it makes sense that Mario has some
pretty adorable animations in one of his
most iconic titles Mario 64 if you leave
him still he slowly falls asleep I’m a
tired hmm of course ever the Italian
stereotype mario only has one thing on
his mind when he’s dreaming
nope not Princess Peach Mario will talk
in his sleep happily dreaming about
various Italian cuisines like ravioli
huh
okay stereotypes aside Mario’s voice
actor apparently had lived all these
lines because he wasn’t given any script
to read for these bits number six jazz
jackrabbit jazz jackrabbit – an old
school platforming series for the home
computer jazz jackrabbit featured the
title protagonist as he made his way
across strange universes in an attempt
to save the princess of his world her
Otis jazz is your typical 90s gaming
mascot with lots of sass and a real
wisecracking attitude though the games
are somewhat obscure jazz and his
partner spazzes idle animations are
certainly memorable they’ll yell at the
player eat carrots and in the case of
spaz eat a bird that landed peacefully
on his arm
weird number 5 Artyom metro 2033 for
such a bleak game Metro 2033 has a
surprisingly funny and tongue-in-cheek
set of idle animations
carrying around that huge arsenal of
experimental weaponry must be absolute
murder for your back
most FPS games take for granted that
your character must have superhuman
strength or at least giant pockets to do
stupid sometimes moving in this shooting
metro 2033 gets extra points for having
a wide variety of different idle
animations different ones for each gun
and for poking fun at the ridiculous
physics involved in most FPS games
number 4
Banjo and Kazooie banjo kazooie though
they’re technically a team
Banjo and Kazooie have a pretty
contentious relationship well it’s more
like kazooie the bird is kind of a jerk
sometimes
this is especially apparent in the games
idle animations if you take too long to
get banjo going cuz it pops out of his
mac pack and starts pecking banjos head
off forcing him to retaliate by wringing
her neck simpson style still despite
their antagonistic relationship
Banjo and Kazooie always manage to get
the job done
number three conquer Conker’s Bad Fur
Day
she’s Ralph’s conquer is a squirrel with
attitude originally pitched as a kids
game rare switched gears with conker
halfway through development and decided
to focus on him mature humour in
contrast to the game’s brash style
though conquers idle animations are
fairly tame he plays the yo-yo juggles
and whistles along to the game
soundtrack the coolest one by far though
is when he whips out a gameboy and if
you listen carefully you’ll notice the
game he’s playing is killer instinct to
another of rares hit games
number two earthworm jim earthworm jim
there were plenty of gross immature
platformers in the 16-bit era but
earthworm jim was one of the most
memorable jim was a regular earthworm
whose fate was forever changed when a
futuristic space who plummeted from the
sky and landed on him turning him into a
man worm cyborg thing Ruby the game
itself is a fun side scroller but leave
Jim still for too long and he does some
funny stuff like using his worm head as
a skipping rope singing the Opera quite
badly and accidentally shooting himself
in the face with his own blaster before
we unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions
number one Sonic Sonic the Hedgehog
series
Sonic the Hedgehog is known for his
ability to reach insane top speeds once
he gets going so what’s the opposite of
running insanely fast standing totally
still of course Sonic gets really
frustrated if you leave him hanging out
he’ll start tapping his foot impatiently
looking directly into the screen and
making pointing motions towards the end
of the level
in fact Sonic is so impatient that in
the Sega CD version will actually jump
off the screen and kill himself if you
wait too long you love speed can you
blame I’m not here do you agree with our
list
did we forget any memorable video game
idle animations for more toe-tapping top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com hey I’d like
to get home at some point thank you very
much
to go to the bathroom or answer a phone
call and you get back only to discover
that your character has a mind their own
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 video game idle animations for this
list we’ve selected the 10 most
memorable video game animations that
occur when the user doesn’t touch the
controls and makes the character just
stand around
number 10 niko bellic grand theft auto 4
nobody’s ever claimed that niko bellic
the protagonist of grand theft auto 4
was very cultured or an example of
perfect manners he’s definitely rough
around the edges as these animations
certainly proved I guess he can’t just
stand around and have a smoke or have a
seat and wait patiently have a dentist
no excuse
but I need money but that’s way too much
to ask from a grand theft auto
protagonists number nine the umpire ken
griffey jr. ‘he’s winning run bright boy
can you imagine if in a World Series
game the Red Sox best hitter steps up to
the plate getting ready to try to hit a
homer the pitcher is also ready to throw
his best pitch and then nothing happens
everyone just stands still waiting if
that happens in ken griffey jr. is
winning run then the umpire does this by
again kick this idle animation actually
makes sense
because in real life the umpire probably
would be the one to intervene and get
the game going again bla bla number
eight gordon freeman halflife as one of
the greatest PC games ever half life is
filled with imaginative settings cool
weapons and interesting characters
snarks are a great example they double
as a quick hard to hit explosive enemy
and as a grenade type weapon if you pick
up their egg sacs while gordon is
holding a snark lining up a throw some
funny idle animations occur such as
Gordon teasing the snark with his finger
and the Stark trying to escape from
Gordon’s clutches ujq the lucky number
seven Mario Super Mario 64 as the most
recognizable video game character of all
time it makes sense that Mario has some
pretty adorable animations in one of his
most iconic titles Mario 64 if you leave
him still he slowly falls asleep I’m a
tired hmm of course ever the Italian
stereotype mario only has one thing on
his mind when he’s dreaming
nope not Princess Peach Mario will talk
in his sleep happily dreaming about
various Italian cuisines like ravioli
huh
okay stereotypes aside Mario’s voice
actor apparently had lived all these
lines because he wasn’t given any script
to read for these bits number six jazz
jackrabbit jazz jackrabbit – an old
school platforming series for the home
computer jazz jackrabbit featured the
title protagonist as he made his way
across strange universes in an attempt
to save the princess of his world her
Otis jazz is your typical 90s gaming
mascot with lots of sass and a real
wisecracking attitude though the games
are somewhat obscure jazz and his
partner spazzes idle animations are
certainly memorable they’ll yell at the
player eat carrots and in the case of
spaz eat a bird that landed peacefully
on his arm
weird number 5 Artyom metro 2033 for
such a bleak game Metro 2033 has a
surprisingly funny and tongue-in-cheek
set of idle animations
carrying around that huge arsenal of
experimental weaponry must be absolute
murder for your back
most FPS games take for granted that
your character must have superhuman
strength or at least giant pockets to do
stupid sometimes moving in this shooting
metro 2033 gets extra points for having
a wide variety of different idle
animations different ones for each gun
and for poking fun at the ridiculous
physics involved in most FPS games
number 4
Banjo and Kazooie banjo kazooie though
they’re technically a team
Banjo and Kazooie have a pretty
contentious relationship well it’s more
like kazooie the bird is kind of a jerk
sometimes
this is especially apparent in the games
idle animations if you take too long to
get banjo going cuz it pops out of his
mac pack and starts pecking banjos head
off forcing him to retaliate by wringing
her neck simpson style still despite
their antagonistic relationship
Banjo and Kazooie always manage to get
the job done
number three conquer Conker’s Bad Fur
Day
she’s Ralph’s conquer is a squirrel with
attitude originally pitched as a kids
game rare switched gears with conker
halfway through development and decided
to focus on him mature humour in
contrast to the game’s brash style
though conquers idle animations are
fairly tame he plays the yo-yo juggles
and whistles along to the game
soundtrack the coolest one by far though
is when he whips out a gameboy and if
you listen carefully you’ll notice the
game he’s playing is killer instinct to
another of rares hit games
number two earthworm jim earthworm jim
there were plenty of gross immature
platformers in the 16-bit era but
earthworm jim was one of the most
memorable jim was a regular earthworm
whose fate was forever changed when a
futuristic space who plummeted from the
sky and landed on him turning him into a
man worm cyborg thing Ruby the game
itself is a fun side scroller but leave
Jim still for too long and he does some
funny stuff like using his worm head as
a skipping rope singing the Opera quite
badly and accidentally shooting himself
in the face with his own blaster before
we unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions
number one Sonic Sonic the Hedgehog
series
Sonic the Hedgehog is known for his
ability to reach insane top speeds once
he gets going so what’s the opposite of
running insanely fast standing totally
still of course Sonic gets really
frustrated if you leave him hanging out
he’ll start tapping his foot impatiently
looking directly into the screen and
making pointing motions towards the end
of the level
in fact Sonic is so impatient that in
the Sega CD version will actually jump
off the screen and kill himself if you
wait too long you love speed can you
blame I’m not here do you agree with our
list
did we forget any memorable video game
idle animations for more toe-tapping top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com hey I’d like
to get home at some point thank you very
much
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