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[[File:Canabalt_Missile-Bomb-thing.jpg|frame|Someone is about to be turned into a fine mist.]]

 

You're the fastest man alive and somebody's really really mad at you. We think.

Canabalt is a 2D [[Side View|Side Scrolling]] [[Web Games|arcade game]] that was created by Adam Atomic and Danny B. You play as a man who, [[In Medias Res|immediately after the game begins]], runs down a hallway and leaps through a glass window into open air. If that wasn't enough, he goes on to run across rooftops and jump through other buildings at ever increasing speeds until he finally meets his demise. It's never said exactly what he's running from, but the falling missiles and the giant bipedal shapes in the distance provide some clues (and [http://elroyhead.tumblr.com/post/408960075/canabalt-the-junior-novelization someone even wrote an unofficial backstory designed to explain everything]).

 

 

If you are wondering if this could be any more awesome, check out [[Robot Unicorn Attack (Sugar Wiki)|Robot Unicorn Attack]], which is a prettied up version of this.

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* [[Benevolent Architecture]]: The buildings are always spaced close enough together that you can jump from one to the next at whatever speed you happen to be going, unless you get slowed down by an obstacle.

** [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: A cone-shaped laser will be fired from the mechs occasionally. [[Taught By Experience|Just don't miss a jump]] looking for it.

* [[In a Single Bound]]: As always, your jumping prowess is inhuman.

** In some cases, it's actually a ''good'' idea to run into the cardboard box... things, which will slow you down. Just don't do it right before the edge of a building, or you won't be able to rebuild enough speed to make the jump.

* [[Le Parkour]]

 

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