10 Awesome Minigames In Video Game Credits

5. Katamari Damacy (2004)

Devil May Cry 3
Namco

Without doubt one of the weirdest video games ever conceived, Namco's colourful adventure, Katamari Damacy, has your character roll around an adhesive ball that increases in size as it picks up virtually everything in sight.

Eventually, these 'Katamari' grow large enough to serve as actual planets, and essentially rebuilding the galaxy becomes the main object of the game.

With a concept as unique as this, perhaps you'd expect the game's credits to go for something equally unconventional, and well done you if you called it, because that's exactly what happens.

When the names begin to show, you'll suddenly find yourself standing on top of the Earth, with a Katamari resembling a miniature version of the moon. Pushing it around will literally lift the countries of the world off the planet's surface, and at this point, it should be obvious what the true goal is here.

Can you get all 195 before the credits reach the end? With a 'scoreboard' of Katamari'ed countries on the left of the screen, the pressure is really on to hit that magic number.

And you know it's the end of the game and therefore pointless, but somehow that just spurs you on even more.

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