The Best Gaming Street Art to Ever Grace the Side of a Building

OVERWATCH

This Overwatch mural was completed by artists at Apparition Media in Sydney, Australia in Summer 2016. Every in-game character (at the time) was carefully painted, and you can check out a time-lapse of its creation on Overwatch’s official YouTube account here.

PAC-MAN

This trippy, 3D Pac-Man street art was completed by artist Leon Keer in Venlo, The Netherlands. Keer is well known for his 3D forced perspective style, and decided to use his talents to recreate an 80s video game favourite.

METAL GEAR RISING:  REVENGEANCE

An amazing Metal Gear mural was painted in three UK cities Leeds, Liverpool, and London for the 2013 title Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It was made by artist Jamie Winstanley, part of the End of the Line art group. The murals were made to “recreate and maximise the iconic artwork of Yoji Shinkawa” and feature Raiden, a cyborg-ninja character from the game. Check out a video of one of the murals being painted here and see the Leeds one for yourself on Google Maps.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

This awesome Sonic mural is in Cardiff, Wales by Boiler House Graffiti. In the mural, Sonic and Tails are travelling through one of the special stages from Sonic The Hedgehog 2. Here’s another mural entitled After Burner by the same artist.

MORTAL KOMBAT

A massive Mortal Kombat piece of Raiden and Scorpion battling it out was made by Olivier Roubieu. Here’s a video of it going up the day it was painted back in 2011.

MARIO

A piece in London by world-renowned street artist Banksy shows Mario being scolded by a cop after being caught with mushrooms. It’s considered one of Banksy’s more humorous pieces, so we can only hope Mario just got off with a warning.

LIMBO

An impressive Limbo mural was completed by TheArtofBlouh in just one night, with the whole thing spanning approximately 25 meters long.

GEARS OF WAR

Artist Kurt Wenner did this Gears of War floor painting during E3 2006. The whole thing took him about five to seven days, and you can check out more of his work on his website here.

METROID

Tampa Bay Artist Allen Hampton turned the back side of a Central Art Supply building in St. Petersburg into a huge mural of Samus Aran, talk about a upgrade. Unfortunately, the website he tagged his work with is no longer functional.

SUPER MARIO BROS.

It took 12 students approximately eight days to finish this 16×38 feet interactive mural with imagery from Super Mario Bros. on the NES. The students from Columbus College of Art & Design painted the art on the side of a college administration building, but sadly it was part of a program where a new mural is painted every month to encourage attendance at the college’s Town Hall meetings, so it no longer exists.

MARIO KART

This adorable Mario Kart street art is located on a busy street in Paris. Its unclear who the artist of this was, but they obviously had it out for poor Luigi by putting him last.