Video Game Characters That Look Like Celebrities.

Posted by Excellent in Toy & Video Games on April 26, 2007 at 2:16 pm


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Game designers are creative people…but sometimes, they get lazy. That’s when we start seeing video game characters who look just like celebrities.

What do you think? Does the second guy in your family in Family Feud on the Genesis look like Chuck Norris [wiki]?

You can read the piece here. Found at Digg.


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7 comments to "Video Game Characters That Look Like Celebrities."

  1. Some crazy dork
    April 26th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    A lot of these are just based on like a hair cut. That basketball player look nothing like Sam fished except he's bald and unshaven. And David bowie just has a similar haircut to Leon. Bah!

    Oh, and Solid Snake in the MGS series was actually BASED on Snake Pliskin in Escape From New York, so no suprised there. (In MGS2, Snake even identifes himself as 'Pliskin' as a psudonym).

    Anyhow, neat article, but there could be much better matches.

  2. Lux
    April 26th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    Off-topic

    Looks like Chuck has been wiki vandalized:

    From his article:
    He was deadly, a murderer, and could only move three fingers. Other children teased him about his mixed ethnicity, and Norris daydreamed about killing his tormentors. He actually brutally murdered one person and he cut off his arms and legs and started to beat them with it. He then punched, kicked, stabbed, and even shot the guy. He then soaked the guy in gasoline and set him on fire. He watched him explode in the middle of gym class. "It was the funnest thing I have ever done" he said.

  3. Zack Morris
    April 26th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    Brittney Spears from PS2's Rygar game:

    http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/news/10/07/rygar_screen016.j pg

    http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2002/playstation2/rygar/ry_screen 019.jpg

  4. The CyberSlug
    April 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    That's not Chuck Norris... it's Ron Weasley with a fake beard.

  5. Stakker
    April 26th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    Max Payne's face is actually a guy from the developer studio AFAIK :-)

    There are a lot of cases like these (especially in 8/16-bit games), but these ones are bad examples... Many games in the eighties featured complete movie poster ripoffs as their title/loading screens for example :-)

  6. rataplan
    April 26th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    Ken was around before Owen wilson

  7. Monster
    April 27th, 2007 at 10:51 am

    Also, Balrog was definitely based on Mike Tyson. His name in the Japanese version is "M. Bison". In Japan, M. Bison is Vega, Vega is Balrog, and Balrog is M. Bison. They wanted to avoid getting sued when they released it in the US.


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