Video Game Feats @ r2

Once upon a time in college I got into speed runs. Back then most of us would record ourselves playing on VHS and then send the tapes to some dude at Speed Demos Archive who would digitize them and then put them on the website if they were good enough. Nowadays things like YouTube and Twitch exist and it's a little easier to record. This may have led to a very surprising result (to me, at least), which is that speedrunning became a lot more mainstream. To the extent that a select few actually make a living by just doing speedruns on Twitch or YouTube.

But for a while it was a smallish group of mostly 16-24 year-olds geeking out on SDA (and a few other sites, like the precursor to TASVideos) over playing video games really fast.

Anyway, enough nostalgia. Here is a list of my feats in chronological order:

  1. Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) any% in on
  2. Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) warpless in 26:36 on 2005-09-04
  3. Kid Icarus (NES) any% in 33:44 on 2006-01-25
  4. Contra (NES) any% in 11:25 on 2006-02-18
  5. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) deathless in 1:18:17 on 2006-05-08
  6. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) New Game+ in 41:49 on 2006-05-19
  7. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Genesis) any% (hard) in 18:12 on 2006-07-05
  8. Ninja Gaiden (NES) any% in 13:49 on 2007-02-18
  9. Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (Genesis) any% (unofficial) in 1:30:55 on 2007-03-15
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