History LetsPlay / TheRunawayGuys

As of February 2024, the group is now on indefinite hiatus due to controversies surrounding Chuggaaconroy that made it impossible to move forward with him involved in any capacity; however, Jon has confirmed that Thrown Controllers and Colosseum will continue under different branding.

* CanadaEh: Where Jon is from, and where the latter half of Subspace Emissary was recorded.

* ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party DS]]''

* ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party Superstars]]'':

** ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 9]]''

* All projects following the completion of ''Star Allies''.
** Those projects are:

** Some lost Wheel of Fortune episodes
** Super Mario Bros. Wonder
** Mario Party 9

-->''[[RunningGag Bye guys!]]''

''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRunawayGuys The Runaway Guys]]'' are a collaborative group of [[LetsPlay Let's Players]] on Website/YouTube, comprising {{LetsPlay/ProtonJon}}, {{LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun}}, and {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}. Chugga is in charge of maintaining the channel, although Jon has made posts and comments for the channel as well. For the first two years, updates usually only occurred every Saturday, but this was changed to Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday following an announcement on February 8, 2013. Videos for ''Mario Party'' games (starting with the third) and ''Fortune Street'' are also posted daily (each board beginning on Saturday and continuing every day until its end).

Along with their official long-running [=LPs=], they have done one-shot filler [=LPs=] (labeled "The Runaway Gaiden"), tournaments featuring multitudes of guest players, and side collab projects that they gradually update and use as filler between regular projects.

On occasion at various conventions, the Runaway Guys have their own panel, called ''Thrown Controllers'', essentially a game show inspired by ''Series/NickArcade''. In its debut at PAX East 2012, two teams took turns answering questions and playing video game challenges, either against each other, solo, or against members of the audience. At PAX Prime 2012, they {{retool}}ed the game (mostly due to the previous iteration being plagued by technical problems and a sluggish pace) into a single-person quiz show with challenges, similar to the initial concept except for one person at a time, and this is how it has been done since. Many prizes are awarded at these panels, ranging from character pins from Fangamer to (as a grand prize) an actual video game console, such as a Platform/Nintendo3DS, Platform/WiiU, or Platform/NintendoSwitch. There also exists an open-source edition of Thrown Controllers for others to make their own version of the game show, [[https://nathanielpett.itch.io/thrown-controllers-community-edition hosted here.]]

As of February 2024, the group's main projects are on indefinite hiatus due to controversies surrounding Chuggaaconroy that made it impossible to move forward with him involved in any capacity; however, Jon has confirmed that Thrown Controllers and Colosseum will continue under different branding.

!! Current Collabs

* ''VideoGame/NintendoLand''
** ''Pikmin Adventure'' (ft. LetsPlay/TomFawkes and [[LetsPlay/MasaeAnela MasaeAnela]])
** ''Mario Chase'' (ft. [=MasaeAnela=])
** ''Balloon Trip Breeze''
** ''Donkey Kong's Crash Course''

As of February 2024, the group's main projects are on indefinite hiatus; however, Jon has confirmed that Thrown Controllers and Colosseum will continue under different branding.

As of February 2024, the group is on indefinite hiatus.

As of January of 2024, owing to some misconduct issues and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment other]] issues related to Chuggaaconroy, the group is on indefinite hiatus.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies''

Click [[https://www.therunawayguys.com/ here]] to view the channel's official website.

On occasion at various conventions, the Runaway Guys have their own panel, called ''Thrown Controllers'', essentially a game show inspired by ''Series/NickArcade''. In its debut at PAX East 2012, two teams took turns answering questions and playing video game challenges, either against each other, solo, or against members of the audience. At PAX Prime 2012, they {{retool}}ed the game (mostly due to the previous iteration being plagued by technical problems and a sluggish pace) into a single-person quiz show with challenges, similar to the initial concept except for one person at a time, and this is how it has been done since. Many prizes are awarded at these panels, ranging from character pins from Fangamer to (as a grand prize) an actual video game console, such as a UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, UsefulNotes/WiiU, or UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. There also exists an open-source edition of Thrown Controllers for others to make their own version of the game show, [[https://nathanielpett.itch.io/thrown-controllers-community-edition hosted here.]]

* CatchPhrase:

** Lucahjin, playing as Patchwork [[CatchPhrase MY BALLS!!!!!]] in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' and Blingbotnik in [=LittleBigPlanet=] 2.

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