Mega64 celebrates 20 years in appropriately absurd fashion

By Diego Higuera

Mega64 has given the web among the funniest, if not downright insane, movies to return out of the minds of members and creators Rocco Botte, Derrick Acosta, Shawn Chatfield, and Garrett Hunter. Many followers have actually grown up with their loopy antics, watching them prank others in actual life dressed up as online game characters in random locations throughout San Diego and past.

The group have develop into iconic figureheads of a distinct segment style of online game web historical past and to that finish have carried on a legacy for two a long time cementing themselves as a beloved sequence. Coming from promoting DVDs of their reveals to working a YouTube channel with greater than 600 thousand subscribers, Mega64 has remained standard for a really very long time and for that motive had a San Diego Comic Con panel stuffed with cheering followers.

The panel began as most Mega64 reveals go, from 0 to 100 in lower than 5 seconds. A monitor confirmed an ominous video of a person strolling by means of the desert and discovering a protected home imbedded in the bottom. The man descends in and begins to file by means of belongings till he finds an previous CD binder. Upon opening it a bunch of CDs are slotted, to the cheers and laughter of attendees, and every CD has written on it in black sharpie the names of all of the initiatives Mega64 has labored on. The video minimize and went right into a tribute video of clips of all their previous movies all through the group’s 20 12 months historical past.

Then Rocko, Shawn, Derrick, and Garrett rushed in, excessive fiving followers and getting the gang labored up. Rocko stood out dressed in a Tron costume, with lights blaring and arms waving.

The panel was going easily till alarms began blaring. The viewers thought it was a bit, however because it seems like all issues in Mega64 you’ll be able to by no means anticipate issues to go usually. The panel needed to be evacuated and even then followers had been keen to remain behind. Nobody knew for certain if it was a false alarm, and to cite an attendee, “We are willing to die for this,” to the laughter of the gang.

Eventually issues had been cleared up, attendees returned, and even the employees needed to come again in. At that time the panel had solely quarter-hour left, and in these quarter-hour Mega64 was going to ensure the followers obtained what they got here for. The group introduced their farewell tour would start quickly for the west coast, then confirmed a bunch of unusual mini commercials they made for the 2020 film Money Plane directed by Andrew Lawrence.

The panel then opened as much as questions from followers. This went forwards and backwards with Mega64 answering questions with jokes or persevering with bits with their followers, till Botte’s father got here as much as the microphone to remind everybody that, “They had no help from us, they built this on their own with no one’s help.” The crowd cheered, thus ending the panel to the cheer of the followers celebrating 20 years of Mega64.