History Awesome / RLYoshi

** On a related note, one for Max himself, [[https://twitter.com/BoomGoesMaximus/status/918281673900544000 his response]] to [=GameSpot's=] EightPointEight-type review of the game, throwing a certain infamous criticism of theirs right back at them.

* Max mentions that, when he was younger, he didn't understand the proper way to defeat Queen Bean in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' (you are supposed to attack her arms so that her crown falls off, so you can jump on her for normal amounts of damage). So he instead just continued using Hammer on her. Which does only one damage per attack even if pulled off perfectly. So he was doing a maximum of ''two damage per turn'' (sometimes one or even none, as he stated he had to use lots of healing items) on a boss with ''120 HP''. While some may consider this a moment of WhatAnIdiot, the fact stands that Max had the patience to defeat a boss through CherryTapping over the course of what he says had to be at least an hour.

* ''Surgeon Simulator 2013'' starts off with Max constantly failing, discovering glitches, and being snarky as per usual. After he evidently tires of the game, he declares he'll try it only one more time. In this attempt, he actually ''completes the heart transplant'', while only properly using one tool: [[spoiler: broken glass]]. ''Max himself'' is amazed that he succeeded.
--> '''Max''': [[spoiler: Broken glass]] can be a hero!
** In the second video, Peter is playing and Max is watching. [[spoiler: Peter manages to complete the surgery ''in one attempt'', despite joking around for a large portion of the video. He ends up taking just a few seconds over ten minutes.]]
* Episode 81 of ''Skyward Sword''. Max and Peter finally reach and battle Koloktos, and Peter is the one controlling. Because of a horrible start, he's soon down to very low health and has to drink their Guardian Potion just to stay alive. [[spoiler: Yet he has an ''amazing'' come-from-behind victory, despite being taken down to ''half a heart of health'', thanks to using the "Iron Knuckle Tactic" of making the boss destroy the pillars to acquire hearts. "You can't best the Best" indeed.]]
** The moment is actually almost identical to when Max went against Twinrova in ''Ocarina of Time''; both times involved using an item to try and survive with extremely low health, both times involved the situation resembling a DarkestHour scenario, [[spoiler: and both times involved just barely avoiding death]].
* The utter CurbStompBattle in Sonic Spinball in the Super Vexation Saga. [[spoiler: Peter only gets one try, and his final score is still more than what Max got with ''three'' tries combined (one of which was a practice round that wasn't going to be counted anyway).]]

** During the DLC ''Desperate Escape'', one achievement is for killing a hundred and fifty enemies. Max gets the achievement partway through with relative ease. Dan mentions a couple of times how he'll probably reach the end and discover he was close to the achievement without getting it. What happens? [[spoiler: The ''very last enemy'' he kills gets him the achievement ''just'' before time in the final section runs out.]]

** This makes an awesome moment for both Max, who has the advantage a few times and is adapting to a team he just created; and Zero, for winning despite it all, and the CurbStompBattle on his channel.

* In the first game of ''Battle Chess: Game of Kings'', Max checkmates Dan [[spoiler: in ''four moves'']]. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} because he didn't realize that's what he was doing.
* When [[RedOniBlueOni Max and Zero]] take on the Encore Stages (i.e. bonus levels) of VideoGame/BattleBlockTheater, they naturally have some trouble with them. One stage in particular causes them to fail twice, [[RuleOfThree and on the third run]] it seems as though they're about to fail again... and then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jT3JjNpFA3U#t=1378 this happens]].
** For those unable to click the link: [[spoiler: the exit must be accessed by: bouncing off a fire block onto a moving platform, riding the moving platform over to another fire block, using said fire block to reach ''another'' moving block, which leads to the exit... and spikes at a couple locations to make it harder to aim. While Zero is going through this, Max is [[FunnyBackgroundEvent standing at the bottom trying to bounce up with his slime bubbles]]. Only a couple seconds left on the clock, Zero takes one last go... and misses the moving platform. ''Only to land on Max's head as he jumps off a slime bubble, giving the platform he needs to jump back up and get to the exit.'' '''With less than four seconds on the clock.''']] That is the sort of thing that ''does not happen'' without extreme luck or extreme skill.

** The moment actually combines a couple [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] from throughout their normal playthrough, as well: Zero's aim bouncing off the fire blocks, Max's SequenceBreaking with the slime bubbles, and of course, [[spoiler: the ability to stand on one another's heads]]. The last one is even more of a ChekhovsGag considering they only really did that previously as a joke.
** Also, on their previous tries, they had a moment of ingenuity; when unable to properly cross a gap and landing on spikes, they instead pulled a HeroicSacrifice, one of them falling on the spikes and creating a temporary platform with their body for the other person to get across. And on the third try, while this is not required, [[spoiler: Max sacrifices his body again to block a moving platform, causing it to go back, saving them the few seconds that would have otherwise cost them the win]].

* Sonic's Story of the ''Sonic the Hedgehog 2006'' race ends with [[spoiler: Dan]] emerging victorious, quite a bit closer than they had anticipated.

** Max is playing the game with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk combo, meaning he has to do actual punches in order to do punches in the game, meaning he tires out in real life as he plays along. [[{{Determinator}} He goes through the entire first part of the game in one session anyway.]]
*** He also has Courier Dan acting as "his Doc Louis". While this may seem like just a funny reason for having a co-commentator, Dan actually gives helpful tips during the fights, allowing Max to have an easier time winning. Even when only one of them is playing, they can still be a team.

** Max, after getting a star from hitting Great Tiger at a good moment, immediately uses it. While Great Tiger has disappeared. Expecting a complete miss? [[spoiler: Great Tiger teleports back in ''just in time to get a Star Punch to the jaw!'']]

*** Aran Ryan, a character Max has admitted to giving him a lot of trouble (and, in a failed recording, he only won by decision), loses by knockout after forcing Max to use his Second Wind for the first time. And later, [[ThatOneBoss Bald Bull]] is the first opponent Max actually ''loses'' to... and ''only once.''
** Things start to go downhill after Bald Bull; first, Max loses [[RuleOfThree three times]] to Super Macho Man, and then [[spoiler: ''thirteen'']] times to Mr. Sandman. EpicFail, right? Well, Max was still doing the Wii Remote and Nunchuk combo, while standing up, and it's the same recording session with no breaks. He's tired. But aside from the occasional moment to sit down, [[{{Determinator}} he doesn't stop,]] and manages to persevere in the end after a well-fought battle.
*** "[[CallBack BOUT TO PUNCH YOU OUT, BITCH!]] [[BadassBoast YOU CAN CALL ME LITTLE MAC!]]"

** In the same series, the first minigame has the players dig through a ''gigantic'' stone block for a single diamond ore. [[spoiler: Jero finds it within about a minute.]]
** Despite it being an unbalanced three-on-one minigame, suffering from lag, and the other three guys all having a good strategy, in the minigame "When One Door Closes", Zero [[spoiler: only loses by ''one door'' out of forty]].

* The ending of one bomb in ''Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes'': with only seconds left, the guys have to solve a "Who's On First?" puzzle (which they call "word pad"). After Max quickly tells them the words they need to know to determine the list of words to use, they start telling him them, and he has to press the button holding the first word they say that he actually has. The second one they say is "You Are". Max hears this as "U R" and presses that button, [[OhCrap only for Dan to remark that it's the words, not the letters]]. Max screams...and the bomb deactivates. "U R" was the button Max needed to press, even though it was actually much further down the list after several other words Max didn't have. Oh, and did we mention that ''[[JustInTime they had only one second left on the clock?!]]''
** If you want close calls, how about the final bomb of part 4? [[spoiler:Not only do they once again finish with only one second, but because Max was looking at the side of the bomb that didn't have the clock, ''they were completely unaware of this.'' It's only when the results screen comes up that shows his best time as 0:01 that Max has a freakout.]]

* Max suddenly pulling out a victory in ''Fortune Street'' on the Ghost Ship. Winning after being the ButtMonkey for four boards is cool enough, but the true awesome part is how he got over the limit: due to having to sell stocks, he was just barely under the ten thousand goal, and was on his way back to the bank without the four suits, meaning he'd have to make another full lap (and go through dangerous territory) to get another shot at winning, while Jero was also extremely close and on his way back to the bank with the chance of promoting. Max then rolled a three, landing on a venture space...and his next venture completed his row, earning him 200 gold, putting him over the ten thousand. ''And then'' the venture in question allowed him to sell stocks at a huge percentage increase, thus allowing him to bail out and get a ''huge'' buffer. On his next turn, he made it right to the bank, not giving any time for Jero to make a comeback.

* In ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', Rhino and Max put on ''[[CreepyAwesome amazing]]'' performances as the killers. Rhino keeps a scarily calm tone and makes threats in far too pleasant of a voice, and Max dips back and forth between similar calmness and downright horrifying guttural roars.
** This is also the first time the two of them have ever played the game (Jero and Dan have experience), and yet [[spoiler:Rhino kills all the survivors, while Max kills everyone but Jero and he only escapes because Max didn't realize there was more than one exit]].
** During Rhino's turn, Max pulls off the four percent chance to pull himself off the hook, once Jero and Dan are either dead or doomed. [[spoiler:He doesn't escape, but still.]]

* In the first game of ''Battle Chess: Game of Kings'', Max checkmates Dan [[spoiler: in ''four moves'']]. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny because he didn't realize that's what he was doing.

* In ''Majora's Mask'', Max decides to show off a couple speedrunning tricks he learned from watching the run of the game at WebVideo/AwesomeGamesDoneQuick 2016. In particular, he tricks out the Deku Scrub playground through quick mask equipping and de-equipping, causing the Rupees to fall off the platforms onto the floor[[labelnote:*]]The Rupees aren't attached to the platforms, so in the mask transition, the platform moves a little bit while the Rupee stays put, meaning eventually the platform is gone from underneath and the Rupee falls[[/labelnote]]. Rhino is completely shocked.

--> '''Dan''': [[OneOfUs If I don't see this on the Awesome page, I will flip!]]

* The ''Super Vexation Saga'' getting rebooted in 2018 will induce awe from longtime viewers.
** It started with Max challenging Peter to ''Sonic 06'' - specifically, seeing who could clear the [[ThatOneLevel Crisis City mach speed section]] in fewer tries. The result is awesome for them both: [[spoiler:Max clears it in only five tries; pretty good. Peter clears it in ''two,'' which is particularly awesome because he's never played the game before and Max was the one to pick the game and challenge! And his first attempt, he was ''this'' close to the end!]]