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This is a group of fads related to video games. Those with articles can be seen in the Category:Video Games list: video game-related fads.

• Select-a-fad; Various parodies of selection screens in video games, often altered to show various fads. The most popular choices include the ability selection screen from Kirby Super Star, and the Mega Man level select screen.

• "Burn Bobonga" from Chrono Trigger; commonly used for various sites involving perverts. This was the original song choice for the Brian Peppers fad.

• NES, various fads remade as if they were on the NES system.

• Mega Man Villain #, Parodies the screen in all of the Mega Man games prior to entering a stage, where edited pictures of Mega Man sprites (Always having the suffix "Man" after their names) is used. The pre-battle intro theme from the first Mega Man game is always used in these YTMNDs, although there are some variations using later Mega Man titles.

• Parodies of various video game hardware, for example, the Playstation 3 Boomerang controller, the Xbox's size, power cable and graphics, and the Nintendo "Wii-mote". Some of the most popular hardware fads include:
  • Wii, the seventh generation console from Nintendo that was initially codenamed "Revolution". Within hours after the name change was annouced, the inevitable YTMND's began to pop up, some including various people saying "wii" (for example, Adam West's quote on Family Guy[1], the flash video Gonads and Strife, and a reinterpretation of "WRYYYYYY") and those with a name similar sounding to "wii". Previously, a similar fad broke out months earlier during the TGS 2005, where Nintendo revealed that the controller would be a remote. These sites would use the remote to "play" various ytmnd fads.

• "...hates Toad." Toad from the Super Mario series getting chased by various people.

• DDR, Various people playing Konami's rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution. Sites will often have a person dancing and arrows in front of them flying up. Most of sites use music from DDR or dance remixes of various songs. Dance Dance Revolution YTMNDs contain photoshops of other YTMND characters playing DDR, or videos of people playing DDR.

• The Reggielution The famous internet meme that originated from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime's introductory statement at E3 2004 ("My name is Reggie, I'm about kickin' ass, I'm about takin' names, and we're about makin' games) has spawned many ytmnds. The fad has several sub-fads
  • "My name is Reggie..." Editing the quote from E3 2004, usually involoving him taking names or kicking ass.
  • "A Big Damn Truck" Incorporating or referencing to his description of the game "Excite Truck" from E3 2006, in which he described the game as being in the same "pedigree" as ExciteBike except "now your holding the steering wheel of a big damn truck". It's sometimes paired with "Riiiidge Racer!"

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