Today i came across one amazing video themed wallpaper. How many characters can you name?
http://i62.tinypic.com/1or70i.jpg

Nice picture. I can recognize 20-ish (I probably missed a couple on my tiny laptop screen on the bottom in particular). Naming them is kind of problematic though.

Part of the picture seem to be cut off, but here are the games I can spot (don't know the name of all of these characters though, do all oft hem even have names?):
Paratrooper (Gun)
Space invaders
In the Hunt
Populous
World of Goo
Hitman
UGH!
Army men
Painkiller
Legacy of Kain
Bomberman
Gears of War
Dangerous Dave
Dead Space
Left 4 Dead
Donkey kong
Bully
The Sims
Unreal
Commander Keen
Grim Fandango
Dungeon Keeper
Beyond Good & evil
Redneck Rampage
Blood Bowl
Mass Effect
Final Fantasy 7
Settlers (3)
Serious Sam
Duke Nukem
Cthulhu (not really a game character)
Kyrandia
Possibly X-com (but it might be some other grey)
Evil Genious
day of the tentacle
Wizardry 7
Monkey Island
Overlord
System Shock 2
Alice
Pac-man
Silent Hill
Armed and Dangerous
Sam & Max
Psychonauts
Rayman
Resident Evil
Alone in the Dark
Alley Cat
Wing Commander
Postal
Half Life
Full Throttle
Oddworld
Little Big Adventure
Sin
More dungeon Keeper
Messiah
Larry
Dragon's Lair
The Witcher
Red Alert 2
Carmageddon
Halo
TF2
Fallout
Jazz Jackrabbit
Street Fighter
Braid
Loom(?)
Bioshock
AvP
Unreal Tournament
Earth Worm Jim
Dune
Worms
Mega Man
Crusader: No Remorse
Quake 2
some star wars game
Puzzle Quest
Discowrld
Baldur's Gate
Lost Viking
Warcraft 3
another Legacy of Kain
Knights of the Old Republic 2
Star Craft 2
Assassins Creed
Ultima 8
Doom
Quake
Ecstatica II (?)
Portal
Another World/Out of This world.

*edit* After having seen the whole picture:
Botom: Dragon Quest, Creatures, Planescape, Spliter Cell (ish), Doom/Doom 2, Space Quest, Prince of persia, Heroes of Might & Magic, MDK, Diablo,
Top: Wrecking Crew (?), Neverhood, Myst, Mirror's Edge

That cyborg "ape" looking guy, just above the silencer reminds me of a SNES game, but I don't remember the name.

I got up to 54.

The Bard (The Bard's Tale), Space Invaders, Populous - The Beginning, Spore creature, World of Goo, Discworld Noir, Hitman, Ugh!, Army Men, Bomberman/Dynablaster, Dead Space, Skaarj (Unreal), Manny (Grim Fandango), Horned Reaper (Dungeon Keeper), Pig guy (Beyond Good and Evil), Donkey Kong (although for some weird reason he's depicted as an orangutan), The Sims, Duke Nukem, Chtulhu, Malcolm (Kyrandia), Evil Genius, Purple Tentacle, LeChuck, Overlord, Shodan, Little Big Adventure, Abe (Oddworld), Raving Rabbits, Postal Guy, Gordon Freeman, Ben (Full Throttle), Ben's bike (Full Throttle), Pyramid Head (Silent Hill), Pacman, Sam & Max, Raz (Psychonauts), Mistress (Dungeon Keeper), Leisure Suit Larry, Master Chief (Halo), Hydralisk (StarCraft), Heavy Weapons Guy (Team Fortress 2), Jazz Jackrabbit, Big Daddy (Bioshock), Alien, Marine, Predator (Aliens vs. Predator), Sandworm (Dune), Worm (Worms), Silencer (Crusader - No Remorse), Clone Trooper (Star Wars), Assassin's Creed, Rincewind & The Luggage (Discworld), Olaf (The Lost Vikings), Kurt (MDK), Cyberdemon (Doom), Lester & Alien (Another World)

There is Lula from Wet: the sexy Empire. A game i have been asking to appear on gog since September 08
she is the one with her tits out.

and i got 67characters:

Goo from World of Goo
The Creature from Black and WHite
The God Prism from The sims
the helicopter from Ugh
The guy from Painkiller
Rayne from Bloodrayne
Harley Quinn from Batman AA
Bomberman from Bomberman
The guy from Gears of War
Chuck from Dead Rising 2
Faith from Mirror's Edge
Whatshisname from Dead Space
Manny from Grim Fandango
Horned Reaper from Dungeon Keeper
Jade and Pey'j from Beyond Good and Evil
Duke from DN3D
Sam from Serious Sam
Cthulhu from any Cthulhu game
Hecubah from Nox
The evil genius from Evil genius (forgot his name :) )
La Chuck from Monkey Island 3
Shodan from System Shock 2
Orc from Bloodbowl
Naked Liara tsoni from ME
Alice from Alice in Wonderland
Pacman from Pacman
Polygon head but i don't know what game he is from. Silent Hill?
Cloud from FF7 and i think those two next to him are from FF8?
Sam and Max from sam and max
Emperor, Shogun, Roman soldiers from total war games
the guy from Crysis
Dante from DMC
Tetris brick from Tetris
Gordon Freeman from Half Life
and is that guy from Full Throttle?
Tommy from GTA: Vice City
Abe's from Abe Oddysee
the guy from Little Big Advenutre
Sinclair from Sin
Larry from Leisure Suit Larry
Lula from Wet the sexy Empire
Geralt from Witcher
Chief from Halo
The guy from Carmaggeddon 2
Team from Team Fortress 2
Snake from Metal Gear Solid
Exile from Fallout 1
Jazz from Jazz Jackrabbit
Big Daddy from Bioshock
Alien and Predator from AvP
Jim from Earthworm Jim but with a head of Sandworm from dune
Worm from Worms
Megaman from Megaman
The guy from Crusader (never played that game so don't know his name)
The Clone from Republic Commando
Kane from Command and Conquer
Rincewind from Discworld
Sarge from Quake 3 arena
a guy from Unreal Tournament
Desmond from Assassin Creed
Companion Cube from Portal
Niko and George from Broken Sword
Raziel from Soul Reaver
Malak from KOTOR

i think thats all what i know.

*Takes a deep breath*

Archer and Saber from Fate/Stay Night
Arcueid and Kohaku from Tsukihime.
Taokaka from BlazBlue
Earthworm Jim
Etna and Flonne from Disgaea
Mario, Wario, Peach, and Bowser
Sonic
Donkey Kong, Dixie Kong, and Diddy Kong
Chrono from Chrono Trigger
Kirby and Meta Knight
Kat & Ana, Jimmy T from Warioware
Fox from Starfox
Cammy, Dan Hibiki, Chun Li, and Ken from Street Fighter
Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat
Cyberdemon from DOOM.
SS Officer from Wolfenstein 3D
Duke Nukem
Dr. Wright from Sim City.
Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man
Marco and that one guy's name who escapes me at the moment from Metal Slug
Vic Viper, Lord British, and some other ships fighting one of the bosses from Parodius.
Reimu Hakurei, Suika, Remilia Scarlet, Hong Meiling, and Cirno from Touhou
Bill and Lance from Contra
Rayman
Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia
Ayu Tsukimiya from Kanon
DIO (Brando) from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star (DIO and Kenshiro use sprites from one of the Jump fighting games)
Jazz Jackrabbit
Crash Bandicoot
Mallow and Geno from Super Mario RPG
Samus from Metroid
Zool
Megaman Zero, Bass, and Dr. Wily
Hulk
The Alien
Han Solo and Darth Vader from the SNES Star Wars games
Kanna and Misuzu from AIR (Both of them use Eternal Fighter Zero sprites)
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ness and his party from Earthbound
Knuckles, Tails, and Robotnik from Sonic
The Lost Vikings
Phoenix Wright
Sora and Axel from Kingdom Hearts
Yggdra from Yggdra Union
The Blue Falcom from F-Zero
Spiritia from Rosenkreuzstilette.
Worms.

And as for the first picture, I know at least some of them, but I'm not seeing anyone mention the Timber Wolf (Mad Cat for folks in the Inner Sphere) from the MechWarrior games.

Adding to the above:

An Asari Mass Effect
Niobe from Enter the Matrix
Alice from Madness Returns
James Earl Cash from Manhunt
Dhalsim from Street Fighter
Cover Girl from Puzzle Quest
Max Payne from..... Max Payne

Dunno why it isn't linked yet, but here's the original for the OP's pic.

Much better! Thx :D

Guess I haven't played enough games yet :(

Bomberman
Liara (Mass Effect)
Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Sam and Max
Tentacle (Day of the Tentacle)
Le Chuck (Monkey Island)
Brian and Gina (Runaway)
Jazz Jackrabbit
An Assassin (Assassins Creed)
Jade (Beyond Good and Evil)
Goo (World of Goo)
Geralt (Witcher)
Faith (Mirror's Edge)
Might and Magic 6 team X'D
Guy from Braid, forgot his name
Crystal thingie from Sims
Companion Cube (Portal)
Wizard guy from the game I played as a kid, and don't remember the title of XD

Deidranna from Jagged Alliance 2 is selling t-shirts, I think Ivan is buying them.

the new picture is better :)

Rayman's head is bouncing around in the left bottom corner, with a flaming skull from Doom and Mort from Planscape, and is one of the other heads Scorpion from Mortal Kombat?
Prince of Persia is impaled on a spike at the bottom centre
Populous is the planet at the top? the shamans are from there (not sure which number...)
Kurt from MDK is also at the bottom centre
The creature from Creatures are at the bottom left
One of the blue elfs from Golden Axe

I can name much fewer than I recognise. And I can't be bothered to look through the whole image to find everyone I can name and recognise.

I found a bigger version of that picture (the OP one), so you can actually see/find everything. Currently working on a version where I marked everything I found. Might take a while.

Here's the bigger version:

Cool picture, click here.

Oh, btw, sorry if someone already posted the bigger version, only skimmed over the thread, didn't want to read any hints. ^^



Edit: My attempt at solving this. Didn't get all of them. Some ring a bell but I can't remember what they are and where they are from.
Also if I knew that imgur would turn it into this mess of pixels, I wouldn't have taken the time to make everything readable...