1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:18,540 --> 00:00:21,064 [electronic chime] 4 00:00:25,982 --> 00:00:28,463 [dramatic music] 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,643 [Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! music playing over TV] 6 00:00:52,878 --> 00:00:57,535 [Summoning Salt] In 1985, lots of people started playing video games on Nintendo. 7 00:00:59,015 --> 00:01:00,538 It was a golden age. 8 00:01:01,322 --> 00:01:03,411 So many masterpieces were created. 9 00:01:07,241 --> 00:01:09,286 The feel of the controllers... 10 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:11,114 -[video game beeps] -...the sounds... 11 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,726 ...ultimate nostalgia. 12 00:01:15,292 --> 00:01:16,119 Yeah! 13 00:01:16,772 --> 00:01:19,470 [screaming in joy] 14 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:24,649 -[woman] What is it? -[boy] A Nintendo. 15 00:01:26,825 --> 00:01:30,960 [Summoning Salt] We've had more than 35 years of digging for secrets in these games. 16 00:01:31,134 --> 00:01:32,831 During that time, 17 00:01:33,005 --> 00:01:35,312 a niche community has formed around the idea 18 00:01:35,486 --> 00:01:37,445 of executing elaborate strategies 19 00:01:37,619 --> 00:01:40,056 to beat games as fast as humanly possible. 20 00:01:40,796 --> 00:01:42,406 We're called Speedrunners. 21 00:01:42,580 --> 00:01:46,062 And to put it simply, our world is complex. 22 00:01:46,236 --> 00:01:49,021 [Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! music over TV continues] 23 00:01:50,849 --> 00:01:52,677 Some find beauty in what we do. 24 00:01:54,853 --> 00:01:57,378 Others consider it a colossal waste of time. 25 00:02:06,038 --> 00:02:07,127 Whatever it is... 26 00:02:09,390 --> 00:02:10,260 ...I love it. 27 00:02:15,961 --> 00:02:20,618 I hold the world record for the fastest completion of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, 28 00:02:20,792 --> 00:02:23,273 and I also hold the world record for the fastest completion 29 00:02:23,447 --> 00:02:25,623 of the last character in that game, Mike Tyson. 30 00:02:26,494 --> 00:02:30,062 I've tried to keep a low profile on, uh, showing myself. 31 00:02:30,237 --> 00:02:31,977 It's honestly just cause that's how I've always been. 32 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:34,415 I've always tried to stay under the radar. 33 00:02:35,111 --> 00:02:37,983 My background's in business, but somehow I translated that 34 00:02:38,158 --> 00:02:41,204 into playing video games really fast and making videos about it. 35 00:02:42,858 --> 00:02:45,165 In addition to holding the Punch-Out!!world record, 36 00:02:45,339 --> 00:02:48,168 I'm also pretty well-known for a YouTube series I create 37 00:02:48,342 --> 00:02:50,953 where I talk about the world record history 38 00:02:51,127 --> 00:02:52,998 and progression of various video games. 39 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:55,087 [electronic music] 40 00:03:03,226 --> 00:03:05,489 When my first video came out on YouTube, 41 00:03:05,663 --> 00:03:07,578 my first world record progression video, 42 00:03:07,752 --> 00:03:10,755 it was about Mike Tyson and it got three or four thousand views 43 00:03:10,929 --> 00:03:11,930 in the first couple of weeks. 44 00:03:12,104 --> 00:03:13,889 And I was really excited 45 00:03:14,063 --> 00:03:16,065 because just thousands of people noticing my videos, 46 00:03:16,239 --> 00:03:17,153 this is amazing. 47 00:03:17,762 --> 00:03:19,024 And now I'm at the point where 48 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:20,896 if I don't get between half a million 49 00:03:21,070 --> 00:03:22,985 and a million views in the video in the first couple of weeks, 50 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:24,813 it's like a disappointing start. 51 00:03:29,470 --> 00:03:33,909 It turns out there are a lot of people interested in the world's fastest gamers. 52 00:03:34,083 --> 00:03:36,216 And maybe that shouldn't be a surprise. 53 00:03:36,390 --> 00:03:39,131 -[man 1 speaks indistinctly] -[gunshot] 54 00:03:39,306 --> 00:03:41,264 [people cheering] 55 00:03:41,438 --> 00:03:42,961 [Summoning Salt] We've always been fascinated with speed. 56 00:03:43,135 --> 00:03:44,136 [engine roaring] 57 00:03:44,311 --> 00:03:45,486 [jet engine roaring] 58 00:03:45,660 --> 00:03:48,184 -[galloping] -[people screaming] 59 00:03:48,358 --> 00:03:50,447 [Summoning Salt] There's something about the visceral experience 60 00:03:50,621 --> 00:03:53,668 of witnessing speed that is instantly gratifying. 61 00:03:53,842 --> 00:03:55,452 [commentator 1] ...he's gonna catch him. 62 00:03:55,626 --> 00:03:58,325 -[people cheering] -[commentator 2] ...gone again. 63 00:03:58,499 --> 00:04:01,371 [commentator 1] He did it! One-hundredth of a second. 64 00:04:03,068 --> 00:04:05,332 [Summoning Salt] To be fast, you need focus. 65 00:04:06,202 --> 00:04:08,248 It comes via determination, 66 00:04:08,422 --> 00:04:10,250 and only after lots of repetition. 67 00:04:15,211 --> 00:04:19,433 [crowd cheering] 68 00:04:20,347 --> 00:04:23,611 [Summoning Salt] And the human spirit keeps finding ways to push things further. 69 00:04:23,785 --> 00:04:27,832 [commentator 3] The barrier, once thought impossible, is now broken. 70 00:04:28,006 --> 00:04:32,881 Eliud Kipchoge is the first sub-two-hour marathoner, 71 00:04:34,404 --> 00:04:36,667 [Summoning Salt] It's an ongoing pursuit of perfection. 72 00:04:38,669 --> 00:04:41,759 [Mario Kart music playing] 73 00:04:43,413 --> 00:04:46,982 The same, believe it or not, holds true in speedrunning. 74 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:50,812 It's a select few who are able to master 75 00:04:50,986 --> 00:04:53,162 the mechanics and intricacies of these games. 76 00:04:53,336 --> 00:04:55,512 [commentator 4] Who's gonna get this first? 77 00:04:55,686 --> 00:04:57,471 [Summoning Salt] And it's getting pushed to a level 78 00:04:57,645 --> 00:04:59,342 that even just a few years ago, 79 00:04:59,516 --> 00:05:01,126 was unimaginable. 80 00:05:01,301 --> 00:05:02,606 [people cheering] 81 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:04,086 [man 2] I was right, baby! Damn right! 82 00:05:04,260 --> 00:05:05,479 Yes, that is right! 83 00:05:05,653 --> 00:05:08,090 [electronic music] 84 00:05:08,264 --> 00:05:10,919 [Summoning Salt] Speedrunning is the art of beating a video game, 85 00:05:11,093 --> 00:05:14,183 or a section of a video game as fast as you can. 86 00:05:14,357 --> 00:05:16,403 -Time. -[applause] 87 00:05:16,577 --> 00:05:18,753 Oh, yeah. [chuckles] 88 00:05:19,710 --> 00:05:22,147 [Summoning Salt] Numerous categories of world records are maintained 89 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:24,411 for even some of the most obscure titles. 90 00:05:26,674 --> 00:05:29,764 That is a new world record. That is a new world record. 91 00:05:29,938 --> 00:05:31,896 Let's go. 92 00:05:32,070 --> 00:05:34,638 Let's go, man. 93 00:05:35,422 --> 00:05:39,948 [Summoning Salt] But deep-rooted franchises likeMario, Zelda, Metroid 94 00:05:40,122 --> 00:05:42,298 andMega Man are most popular. 95 00:05:42,472 --> 00:05:44,909 -[commentator 5] And time. Real nice. Beautiful. -[commentator 6] Time. 96 00:05:45,083 --> 00:05:46,781 -[commentator 5] Thirty-three, dude. -[commentator 6] Thirty-three. 97 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:49,131 [commentator 5] Wow. What a beast. 98 00:05:49,784 --> 00:05:52,003 [Summoning Salt] Retro games, in particular, 99 00:05:52,177 --> 00:05:55,050 work well for speedrunning because of the intriguing opportunity 100 00:05:55,224 --> 00:05:56,704 to exploit their glitches. 101 00:05:56,878 --> 00:05:58,749 Every frame I press against the wall, 102 00:05:58,923 --> 00:06:01,926 It'll be, uh, changing my pixels by 50 and if I do it right, 103 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:06,017 I can sneak into the wall like that there and save quite a bit of time. 104 00:06:06,931 --> 00:06:08,977 [Summoning Salt] Glitches happen when players expose faults 105 00:06:09,151 --> 00:06:10,457 in the game's programming. 106 00:06:10,935 --> 00:06:12,328 This could mean finding spots 107 00:06:12,502 --> 00:06:13,851 where you can slide through walls. 108 00:06:14,025 --> 00:06:15,505 Or triggering the game to respond 109 00:06:15,679 --> 00:06:17,594 in ways it's not supposed to. 110 00:06:17,768 --> 00:06:20,641 [man 3] Air walking, it does exactly what the name implies. 111 00:06:20,815 --> 00:06:22,947 You walk on air... [chuckles softly] and you can use this 112 00:06:23,121 --> 00:06:25,994 to basically skip, like, 90% of the game. 113 00:06:27,517 --> 00:06:29,780 [Summoning Salt] When glitches are found in newer video games, 114 00:06:29,954 --> 00:06:34,829 developers issue patches or updates to fix the defects. 115 00:06:35,786 --> 00:06:37,484 That's not the case with older games. 116 00:06:37,658 --> 00:06:39,964 [Michelangelo] Pizza power. 117 00:06:41,226 --> 00:06:43,403 [Summoning Salt] The classics will always be the classics. 118 00:06:43,577 --> 00:06:45,361 -[silenced gunshots] -[groans] 119 00:06:45,535 --> 00:06:47,407 [Summoning Salt] Their brokenness is set in stone, 120 00:06:48,190 --> 00:06:50,235 And even after two decades, 121 00:06:50,410 --> 00:06:53,282 Speedrunners are still finding ways to go faster. 122 00:06:54,718 --> 00:06:57,286 [chuckles] 17:47, dude. 123 00:06:57,460 --> 00:06:59,723 [sobbing] 124 00:06:59,897 --> 00:07:03,466 So much hard work, so much hard work for this. 125 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:04,902 [sighs] 126 00:07:05,729 --> 00:07:08,471 I can't believe it, dude. How much time I've putten into this? 127 00:07:09,037 --> 00:07:10,386 The grind. 128 00:07:10,865 --> 00:07:14,259 Oh, my God, I'm so happy. I've finally got it. 129 00:07:14,434 --> 00:07:15,652 [upbeat electronic music] 130 00:07:15,826 --> 00:07:16,610 [Summoning Salt] I'm going to start 131 00:07:16,784 --> 00:07:17,654 by introducing you 132 00:07:17,828 --> 00:07:18,655 to a legendary runner 133 00:07:18,829 --> 00:07:20,135 named AndrewG. 134 00:07:20,309 --> 00:07:23,747 In 2010, he speedran Super Mario Bros. 135 00:07:23,921 --> 00:07:25,793 in front of Shigeru Miyamoto, 136 00:07:25,967 --> 00:07:28,143 Mario's renowned creator from Nintendo, 137 00:07:28,317 --> 00:07:30,537 [inaudible chatter] 138 00:07:36,456 --> 00:07:37,500 -[man 4] Yeah! -Woo! 139 00:07:37,674 --> 00:07:39,589 [indistinct chatter continues] 140 00:07:39,763 --> 00:07:41,286 [boy] Yeah, Andrew! 141 00:07:44,115 --> 00:07:46,944 [Summoning Salt] Mario is the most popular franchise in speedrunning. 142 00:07:47,554 --> 00:07:49,860 And AndrewG was a speedrunning standout 143 00:07:50,034 --> 00:07:51,427 before there were standouts. 144 00:07:58,129 --> 00:07:59,566 [Super Mario Bros. music playing] 145 00:08:15,016 --> 00:08:16,713 [AndrewG] There was a point in my life where I really wanted 146 00:08:16,887 --> 00:08:18,976 to get my hand-eye coordination 147 00:08:19,150 --> 00:08:21,370 and reflexes to be as perfect as possible. 148 00:08:21,544 --> 00:08:25,330 Just need to clear the gaps and we're clear to world four. 149 00:08:26,027 --> 00:08:26,854 Okay. 150 00:08:29,117 --> 00:08:29,987 There we go. 151 00:08:30,771 --> 00:08:33,208 One day I decided to try and combine my talents. 152 00:08:33,382 --> 00:08:37,821 I figured out that I could play Super Mario Bros. and juggle at the same time. 153 00:08:37,995 --> 00:08:40,563 [Super Mario Bros. music playing] 154 00:08:41,346 --> 00:08:45,437 I have a bachelor's degree in math and I've noticed 155 00:08:45,612 --> 00:08:47,962 among the Super Mario Bros. Speedrunners, 156 00:08:48,136 --> 00:08:51,618 we all kinda have similar personalities in some ways. 157 00:08:51,792 --> 00:08:54,403 You get to have a very technical kind of mindset. 158 00:08:55,839 --> 00:08:57,362 It's very mathematical. 159 00:08:57,537 --> 00:08:59,582 And it's not always so straightforward. 160 00:08:59,756 --> 00:09:02,454 You've got to kind of think outside the box, and I think 161 00:09:02,629 --> 00:09:05,936 the puzzle aspect of it drew me in, as well as the challenge aspect of it. 162 00:09:06,110 --> 00:09:09,070 [sighs] Uh-oh. Uh-oh. 163 00:09:09,940 --> 00:09:11,899 It's like condensing a math problem 164 00:09:12,073 --> 00:09:14,641 to its simplest form in a lot of ways. 165 00:09:15,729 --> 00:09:20,124 And there always seems to be a more improved version that exists. 166 00:09:23,693 --> 00:09:24,607 Ow! 167 00:09:25,956 --> 00:09:27,697 [snickers] 168 00:09:27,871 --> 00:09:30,178 -[Super Mario Bros. winning sequence playing] -Oh! 169 00:09:30,352 --> 00:09:31,353 I messed up the juggling. 170 00:09:33,485 --> 00:09:35,444 Super Mario Bros. is a pretty simple game. 171 00:09:35,618 --> 00:09:37,402 A lot of people are like, "You just hold right and jump 172 00:09:37,577 --> 00:09:39,448 and get to the flag." 173 00:09:39,622 --> 00:09:41,276 And that's that, you know. 174 00:09:41,450 --> 00:09:44,714 There's not much else to it, but the game is like, 175 00:09:44,888 --> 00:09:48,239 it's way more complex than we ever had thought. 176 00:09:49,850 --> 00:09:52,026 [Summoning Salt] Super Mario Bros. came bundled 177 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,071 with the Nintendo Entertainment System 178 00:09:54,245 --> 00:09:56,944 when it was released in America in 1985. 179 00:09:57,118 --> 00:10:00,904 The latest videogame craze to sweep the United States and Japan, 180 00:10:01,078 --> 00:10:03,472 it's called Nintendo. We have a report-- 181 00:10:04,125 --> 00:10:06,518 [Summoning Salt] It's hard to overstate how much they got right with this game. 182 00:10:07,215 --> 00:10:09,347 It had a massive cultural impact. 183 00:10:09,521 --> 00:10:12,524 [woman] Super Mario Bros. is the all-time best selling 184 00:10:12,699 --> 00:10:15,832 video game on the market under the Nintendo label. 185 00:10:16,006 --> 00:10:19,357 And it must be pretty good for someone to want to spend five days doing nothing 186 00:10:19,531 --> 00:10:22,839 but trying to rescue a princess from hundreds of bad guys. 187 00:10:23,579 --> 00:10:26,843 [Summoning Salt] Who would have guessed an Italian plumber named Mario, 188 00:10:27,017 --> 00:10:29,367 racing to rescue Princess Peach Toadstool 189 00:10:29,541 --> 00:10:30,891 would catch on the way it did. 190 00:10:31,718 --> 00:10:33,763 [AndrewG] 2007 was the year that 191 00:10:33,937 --> 00:10:37,593 I got the five-minute Mario, five minutes flat, 192 00:10:37,767 --> 00:10:38,986 and that was a huge deal. 193 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,684 [electronic music] 194 00:10:41,858 --> 00:10:43,381 [Summoning Salt] As speedrunning became a thing 195 00:10:43,555 --> 00:10:45,906 the Any% category ofSuper Mario Bros. 196 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,343 was certainly a holy grail. 197 00:10:48,517 --> 00:10:52,216 An Any% speedrun only requires the player to get to the end of the game. 198 00:10:52,390 --> 00:10:54,175 It's not about collecting coins 199 00:10:54,349 --> 00:10:55,959 or finding hidden mushrooms. 200 00:10:56,133 --> 00:10:59,267 It's just about getting to the end as fast as possible. 201 00:10:59,441 --> 00:11:01,486 This is called the 1-2-G. 202 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:05,665 Uh, G being in relations-- in reference to me. 203 00:11:05,839 --> 00:11:10,104 Um, and what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to clip right through this pipe here. 204 00:11:10,713 --> 00:11:12,672 [Summoning Salt] Andrew is using a safe state, which allows him 205 00:11:12,846 --> 00:11:15,413 to practice a trick from the same spot over and over. 206 00:11:16,632 --> 00:11:18,808 You have to slow down to walking speed, 207 00:11:19,722 --> 00:11:20,897 right as you jump. 208 00:11:22,029 --> 00:11:23,726 So it's, it's very precise. 209 00:11:25,336 --> 00:11:27,251 I'm, I'm overthinking, uh... 210 00:11:28,818 --> 00:11:30,080 I think I'm just-- 211 00:11:30,254 --> 00:11:32,387 Let me just clear my head for a second. 212 00:11:35,477 --> 00:11:36,347 [chimes] 213 00:11:38,523 --> 00:11:39,699 There we go. 214 00:11:41,701 --> 00:11:42,789 Perfect. 215 00:11:43,441 --> 00:11:45,530 [Summoning Salt] Over the years, Super Mario Bros. 216 00:11:45,705 --> 00:11:48,011 has been optimized down to the millisecond. 217 00:11:48,185 --> 00:11:51,536 Runners from all over the world have collaborated to uncover 218 00:11:51,711 --> 00:11:53,930 -countless glitches. -Yes! 219 00:11:54,539 --> 00:11:56,019 [Summoning Salt] Which can only be accomplished 220 00:11:56,193 --> 00:11:58,630 by performing intricate frame perfect tricks. 221 00:11:58,805 --> 00:12:00,241 Like the flag pole glitch. 222 00:12:01,372 --> 00:12:04,071 This requires runners to jump and land on the first pixel 223 00:12:04,245 --> 00:12:05,986 of the second stare from the top. 224 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,162 And you can't be holding B when you land. 225 00:12:08,815 --> 00:12:13,080 At this point, you press right and B for exactly two frames, 226 00:12:13,254 --> 00:12:17,214 do a full jump, and as soon as he hit the corner pixel of the flag pole base, 227 00:12:17,388 --> 00:12:20,348 you hold left for three frames and jump on the fourth. 228 00:12:21,392 --> 00:12:25,353 The result is that tricks the game into not dropping the flag down the pole, 229 00:12:25,527 --> 00:12:26,876 which saves time on the run. 230 00:12:27,050 --> 00:12:30,053 [Super Mario Bros. music playing] 231 00:12:36,930 --> 00:12:40,063 These are the milliseconds that make all the difference in speedrunning. 232 00:12:43,588 --> 00:12:46,983 Amazingly, from 2007 to 2014, 233 00:12:47,157 --> 00:12:49,986 despite many people knowing all the same secrets, 234 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,815 AndrewG was the sole world record holder. 235 00:12:52,989 --> 00:12:56,776 He continued the whittle his time down to 4:58.09. 236 00:12:57,385 --> 00:13:00,562 But by 2015, a select few finally caught up 237 00:13:01,084 --> 00:13:05,697 First, a runner named Blubbler, and then the ultra-consistent Darbian. 238 00:13:07,308 --> 00:13:08,352 Boom! 239 00:13:09,266 --> 00:13:10,137 That's it. 240 00:13:11,486 --> 00:13:14,663 [AndrewG] Eventually, it was a real race between me and Darbian. 241 00:13:15,142 --> 00:13:17,318 Every night, we were both streaming it. 242 00:13:17,492 --> 00:13:19,146 Now, this is the run. 243 00:13:19,842 --> 00:13:22,192 People in my chat would go, "Darbian is on, 244 00:13:22,366 --> 00:13:24,542 Darbian is on the last stage right now." 245 00:13:24,716 --> 00:13:26,631 You know? And then, and then he would get the same thing. 246 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:29,025 "AndrewG is on the last stage. You better watch out." 247 00:13:29,199 --> 00:13:31,898 You know? We, we both kind of had our viewers that would, 248 00:13:32,072 --> 00:13:34,204 you know, it's like a different fan base is, you know? 249 00:13:35,292 --> 00:13:36,119 No! 250 00:13:36,903 --> 00:13:37,947 No! 251 00:13:40,341 --> 00:13:42,256 [chuckling] Yeah. 252 00:13:43,387 --> 00:13:45,172 Woo-hoo-hoo! 253 00:13:45,781 --> 00:13:49,350 That was it. That was it. That was it. 254 00:13:50,177 --> 00:13:51,787 That was it. 255 00:13:51,961 --> 00:13:53,963 Did I break the camera? I kind of broke the camera. 256 00:13:54,137 --> 00:13:55,312 That was it. 257 00:13:55,486 --> 00:13:57,749 And then you had Kosmic come along, 258 00:13:57,924 --> 00:14:00,840 who was also at the same level. 259 00:14:04,017 --> 00:14:06,584 [gasps] Oh, my gosh, guys. [chuckles] 260 00:14:07,455 --> 00:14:09,936 [AndrewG] The three of us, we're all neck and neck, 261 00:14:10,110 --> 00:14:12,199 going for the world record every night. 262 00:14:12,373 --> 00:14:13,853 World record for you. 263 00:14:14,723 --> 00:14:16,029 Here we go. 264 00:14:16,725 --> 00:14:19,467 And you never knew when a new record was gonna pop up. 265 00:14:19,641 --> 00:14:22,252 [laughing] 266 00:14:22,426 --> 00:14:23,863 But you knew it was going to happen 267 00:14:24,037 --> 00:14:26,039 because with three guys at that level, 268 00:14:26,691 --> 00:14:27,823 it's gonna happen. 269 00:14:28,389 --> 00:14:30,043 Please finish. [sighs] 270 00:14:34,830 --> 00:14:36,310 I cannot believe it. 271 00:14:37,093 --> 00:14:39,487 [stammering] Okay. What? 272 00:14:39,661 --> 00:14:41,445 [stuttering] How? 273 00:14:41,924 --> 00:14:44,840 -[video game chiming] -[keys clacking] 274 00:14:45,014 --> 00:14:45,885 [smacks lips] 275 00:14:54,502 --> 00:14:57,418 [AndrewG] At this point, 4:55 is the limit, 276 00:14:57,592 --> 00:14:59,376 and Kosmic was the first person to get that. 277 00:15:00,334 --> 00:15:02,989 This isn't real life, dude, 278 00:15:06,035 --> 00:15:07,558 [AndrewG] Until something new comes along, 279 00:15:07,732 --> 00:15:10,692 it'd be very, very tough to beat that mark. 280 00:15:14,826 --> 00:15:17,090 I've been speedrunning this game for over ten years now. 281 00:15:17,655 --> 00:15:19,005 It's a five-minute run. 282 00:15:19,788 --> 00:15:21,485 How much more could there be? 283 00:15:21,659 --> 00:15:23,835 -[chiming continues] -[keys clacking continues] 284 00:15:28,579 --> 00:15:30,799 [upbeat music] 285 00:15:38,763 --> 00:15:41,331 [Summoning Salt] In the early 2000s, It wasn't realistic 286 00:15:41,505 --> 00:15:43,072 to earn a living from speedrunning. 287 00:15:43,246 --> 00:15:45,509 -Oh! -Ha-ha! Yeah! 288 00:15:45,683 --> 00:15:46,815 Get outta here! 289 00:15:48,121 --> 00:15:49,774 [Summoning Salt] But times have changed. 290 00:15:51,124 --> 00:15:54,997 Especially for the fastest Super Mario 3 player in the world. 291 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:58,566 [Mitch] I was born in 1988, so I can always remember 292 00:15:58,740 --> 00:16:00,437 there being a Nintendo in the house. 293 00:16:01,090 --> 00:16:03,527 I had an older brother who was more into sports. 294 00:16:04,311 --> 00:16:06,139 But, you know, I never really enjoyed that kind of thing. 295 00:16:06,313 --> 00:16:08,793 So to me, enjoying, like, a Saturday, not being in school 296 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,360 was honestly being inside 297 00:16:10,534 --> 00:16:12,145 just playing Super Mario, Super Mario 3. 298 00:16:12,319 --> 00:16:15,017 [commotion] 299 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,019 I enjoyed playing it with my parents 300 00:16:17,193 --> 00:16:18,542 whenever they had time and stuff. 301 00:16:19,369 --> 00:16:21,284 To me, I thought that was way more fun 302 00:16:21,458 --> 00:16:23,286 than going out and playing road hockey. 303 00:16:24,984 --> 00:16:26,115 [man 1] Oh! 304 00:16:26,289 --> 00:16:27,638 [Mitch] I'm from Canada. 305 00:16:27,812 --> 00:16:29,553 Canada. [chuckles] 306 00:16:29,727 --> 00:16:31,468 I've been in the Guinness Book of World Records for this. 307 00:16:31,642 --> 00:16:33,166 I've been on national television. 308 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:35,429 Uh, Late Night with Stephen Colbert. 309 00:16:35,603 --> 00:16:39,389 My next guest tonight is a video game Speedrunner 310 00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:42,566 with the world record for beating Super Mario Bros. 3. 311 00:16:42,740 --> 00:16:45,265 Please welcome Mitch Fowler. Mitch, thanks so much for being here. 312 00:16:45,439 --> 00:16:46,570 -Thank you. -[Stephen] All right. 313 00:16:47,267 --> 00:16:48,920 [Mitch] That's the most nervous I've ever been 314 00:16:49,095 --> 00:16:51,488 in my life, because it's one of the biggest opportunities 315 00:16:51,662 --> 00:16:53,360 I could have possibly been given. 316 00:16:53,534 --> 00:16:56,145 National television for playing Mario 3. 317 00:16:56,319 --> 00:16:58,843 How? [chuckles] When does something like that ever happen? 318 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:01,585 -It's over, baby. It's over. -[commentator] Incredible. 319 00:17:01,759 --> 00:17:04,110 Incredible display of the... 320 00:17:04,284 --> 00:17:07,722 [Mitch] I think that was the exact point in time 321 00:17:07,896 --> 00:17:11,421 where my family and friends and my parents finally understood 322 00:17:11,595 --> 00:17:13,989 that what I was doing was something. 323 00:17:14,163 --> 00:17:18,167 -[inaudible chatter] -Man, this is like my dream come true right here. 324 00:17:18,341 --> 00:17:19,951 We're playing Mario 3.I know. 325 00:17:20,126 --> 00:17:22,041 -Mine too. -With you, my man. How's it going? 326 00:17:22,215 --> 00:17:24,130 -Nice to meet you. Your name was? -Okay, Spencer, 327 00:17:24,304 --> 00:17:25,696 but, like, on the screen, I'm a lurker, 328 00:17:25,870 --> 00:17:27,176 so you're not even gonna know me. 329 00:17:27,350 --> 00:17:28,525 [Mitch] Oh, you've been to my channel? 330 00:17:28,699 --> 00:17:29,874 -[Spencer] Many times. -Damn. Nice 331 00:17:30,049 --> 00:17:31,615 It's a dream come true right now. 332 00:17:31,789 --> 00:17:33,139 Cross that off my bucket list. 333 00:17:34,488 --> 00:17:37,056 [Summoning Salt] Super Mario Bros. 3 was a huge success 334 00:17:37,230 --> 00:17:41,277 when Nintendo finally released it in North America in 1990. 335 00:17:42,148 --> 00:17:44,933 It had come out a year and a half earlier in Japan. 336 00:17:45,107 --> 00:17:47,501 [man 2 speaking in Japanese] 337 00:17:48,763 --> 00:17:50,678 [Summoning Salt] But, since we didn't have the Internet yet, 338 00:17:50,852 --> 00:17:53,115 most people in the US weren't aware 339 00:17:53,289 --> 00:17:55,378 thatMario 3 had even been developed. 340 00:17:56,379 --> 00:17:59,774 That was until it got featured in a major Hollywood movie 341 00:17:59,948 --> 00:18:01,297 calledThe Wizard. 342 00:18:01,471 --> 00:18:06,085 -Super Mario Bros. 3. -[crowd cheering] 343 00:18:08,304 --> 00:18:11,351 [Summoning Salt] This was the first time America got to see the new gameplay. 344 00:18:11,525 --> 00:18:13,570 And it quickly became one of the most 345 00:18:13,744 --> 00:18:16,704 highly anticipated video game releases ever. 346 00:18:17,487 --> 00:18:20,360 Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto had taken everything 347 00:18:20,534 --> 00:18:22,318 that was great about the first two Mario's 348 00:18:22,492 --> 00:18:24,059 and made it even better. 349 00:18:25,756 --> 00:18:27,280 There was P-speed, 350 00:18:27,454 --> 00:18:29,630 and the Super Leaf allowed Mario to fly. 351 00:18:31,545 --> 00:18:34,852 It's the Mario lots of '90s kids remember from their childhood. 352 00:18:37,203 --> 00:18:41,120 And Mitch has three of the four most prestigious world records for that game. 353 00:18:41,598 --> 00:18:42,860 -Can I get a picture with you really quick? -Sure. 354 00:18:43,034 --> 00:18:46,168 -One, two, three. -Thank you so much. 355 00:18:46,342 --> 00:18:49,215 Oh, I've been watching speedrunning for a long time, 356 00:18:49,389 --> 00:18:51,956 and in the community, he's just an All-Star, 357 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:54,394 like, it's crazy to actually to meet him in real life. 358 00:18:54,568 --> 00:18:56,700 Weeuuu! 359 00:18:56,874 --> 00:18:58,180 [chuckles] 360 00:19:00,748 --> 00:19:04,273 He gets so many people that wanna come and talk, and... 361 00:19:05,274 --> 00:19:08,582 It makes me happy to know that everyone loves Mitch as much as I love Mitch. 362 00:19:08,756 --> 00:19:10,061 [chuckles softly] 363 00:19:10,845 --> 00:19:12,238 [Summoning Salt] And there's no denying. 364 00:19:12,412 --> 00:19:15,284 Mario 3 is just a fun game to play. 365 00:19:15,458 --> 00:19:18,635 -Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! -This-- it's this level. 366 00:19:19,984 --> 00:19:21,595 There you go. Yeah. Hold the B button. 367 00:19:21,769 --> 00:19:22,813 [woman and Mitch exclaiming] 368 00:19:22,987 --> 00:19:24,728 [indistinct chatter] 369 00:19:26,774 --> 00:19:29,429 [soft upbeat music] 370 00:19:35,261 --> 00:19:37,393 I know we found it before. I know we did. 371 00:19:37,567 --> 00:19:39,961 -[Mitch] Are you sure? I don't think we did. -Yeah. No, we did. 372 00:19:40,788 --> 00:19:43,356 [Kailee] We met through Twitch, actually. 373 00:19:43,530 --> 00:19:45,401 I was a fan girl, 374 00:19:45,575 --> 00:19:48,099 -and... [chuckles] -[chuckles] Weeuu. 375 00:19:48,274 --> 00:19:49,797 ...just enjoyed watching Mitch. 376 00:19:49,971 --> 00:19:52,060 And we ended up talking, 377 00:19:52,234 --> 00:19:53,975 and getting to know each other really well, 378 00:19:54,149 --> 00:19:56,804 and decided to meet up in real life. [chuckles] 379 00:19:57,413 --> 00:20:00,895 I moved from Canada to Utah to be with her, 380 00:20:01,069 --> 00:20:02,244 and we pretty much have a family. 381 00:20:02,418 --> 00:20:03,724 We got our two cats, we got our home. 382 00:20:03,898 --> 00:20:05,421 -Ah, no! -[laughs] 383 00:20:05,595 --> 00:20:07,684 Oh, my God, please don't die. 384 00:20:07,858 --> 00:20:10,296 [Mitch] It's really like a full-on American family. 385 00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:11,471 It's like the whole thing. 386 00:20:12,254 --> 00:20:14,038 -No! -[chuckles] 387 00:20:14,691 --> 00:20:15,431 I love it. 388 00:20:15,605 --> 00:20:17,085 [grunts] 389 00:20:21,350 --> 00:20:23,918 [Summoning Salt] Mitch's favorite category ofSuper Mario 3, 390 00:20:24,092 --> 00:20:27,791 the one he plays the most is Any% Warpless. 391 00:20:29,140 --> 00:20:31,882 This means that you play through every world in the game 392 00:20:32,056 --> 00:20:34,450 without using warp whistles that skip ahead. 393 00:20:37,714 --> 00:20:40,848 Mitch's world record is 50 minutes and 36 seconds. 394 00:20:41,022 --> 00:20:43,938 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 395 00:20:44,112 --> 00:20:47,507 [Summoning Salt] The run takes extreme focus for almost an hour straight. 396 00:20:49,073 --> 00:20:51,075 And to add to its outrageousness, 397 00:20:51,598 --> 00:20:53,861 it also requires a lot of luck. 398 00:20:55,776 --> 00:20:58,474 I've been speedrunning this game for almost nine years now, 399 00:20:58,648 --> 00:21:01,216 and I still haven't pushed the game to its fullest potential. 400 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:04,959 And the reason for that being there is a lot of RNG. 401 00:21:05,133 --> 00:21:07,135 [suspenseful music] 402 00:21:07,309 --> 00:21:10,617 [Summoning Salt] RNG stands for random number generator. 403 00:21:10,791 --> 00:21:13,576 It's an algorithm that produces random numbers. 404 00:21:14,142 --> 00:21:18,842 In video games RNG is used to make events in the games act random, 405 00:21:19,016 --> 00:21:21,976 so the same things don't happen every time you play. 406 00:21:22,672 --> 00:21:26,067 Like the directions the Hammer Brothers move on the overworld map. 407 00:21:26,589 --> 00:21:29,113 They can be different each time you encounter them. 408 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:32,421 There's a very iconic component of RNG and Super Mario Bros. 3. 409 00:21:32,595 --> 00:21:33,814 It's called the Hands. 410 00:21:33,988 --> 00:21:35,424 So there's three levels right here. 411 00:21:35,598 --> 00:21:37,905 There's one level, two level, three level, 412 00:21:38,645 --> 00:21:40,690 and when you cross over the level, 413 00:21:40,864 --> 00:21:42,692 there's a 50-50 chance 414 00:21:42,866 --> 00:21:45,478 that The Hand will pull you in and you have to do the level, 415 00:21:45,652 --> 00:21:47,262 which means, in terms of speedrunning, 416 00:21:47,436 --> 00:21:49,438 you want to get lucky and not have to do the level. 417 00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:54,704 But there's three of them, so that's three 50-50s. 418 00:21:55,183 --> 00:21:58,795 So you have a 12.5% chance to get no hands at the end. 419 00:21:59,361 --> 00:22:01,885 We'll go ahead and give it a shot. I'll try and cross the Hands. 420 00:22:02,059 --> 00:22:04,061 Boom! Got pulled in. 421 00:22:04,714 --> 00:22:06,760 So essentially, I just lost the 50-50. 422 00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:08,631 And this is at the end of the game. 423 00:22:08,805 --> 00:22:10,807 So if you play perfectly for 45 minutes, 424 00:22:10,981 --> 00:22:13,288 you get to this point and all three of those hands pull you in, 425 00:22:13,462 --> 00:22:14,463 you're losing a minute and a half. 426 00:22:14,637 --> 00:22:16,683 [lively electronic music] 427 00:22:16,857 --> 00:22:18,772 [Lawso42] No, ho-ho-ho. 428 00:22:19,381 --> 00:22:22,471 [Summoning Salt] It's one of the most painful run killers in all of gaming. 429 00:22:22,645 --> 00:22:25,213 No, dang it 430 00:22:25,909 --> 00:22:28,782 [Summoning Salt] You can perform flawlessly for 45 minutes. 431 00:22:28,956 --> 00:22:30,392 But if you don't, then essentially, 432 00:22:30,566 --> 00:22:33,221 win three 50-50 coin flips in a row, 433 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:35,354 you're denied greatness. 434 00:22:36,833 --> 00:22:38,531 If I get pulled in by Hand, I can't get the record. 435 00:22:38,705 --> 00:22:39,575 It won't happen. 436 00:22:39,749 --> 00:22:41,751 [electronic music] 437 00:22:43,797 --> 00:22:47,148 [game over tone playing] 438 00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:50,281 [upbeat electronic music] 439 00:22:50,456 --> 00:22:53,894 [Mitch] Yo, 360chrism is raiding me with 213 people. 440 00:22:54,068 --> 00:22:55,156 Thank you guys so much. 441 00:22:55,330 --> 00:22:56,462 Welcome, Raiders. 442 00:22:56,636 --> 00:22:58,551 I am Mitch, the flower power. 443 00:22:58,725 --> 00:23:00,379 How are you guys doing? Welcome to my stream. 444 00:23:00,553 --> 00:23:02,381 I'm speedrunning right now. 445 00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:05,558 Grand Poo World 2 just released, like, a week ago. 446 00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:07,647 I've been able to make a living off of speedrunning, 447 00:23:07,821 --> 00:23:09,344 probably for about a full year now. 448 00:23:09,518 --> 00:23:11,520 Havoc, what's going on? Alex, how you doing? 449 00:23:11,694 --> 00:23:12,956 Am I trying for the world record? I'm trying 450 00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:15,176 for the world record in this game. Yes. 451 00:23:15,742 --> 00:23:19,049 [Summoning Salt] Mitch is live streaming on an internet platform called Twitch. 452 00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:24,141 Amazon bought Twitch for almost a billion dollars in 2014. 453 00:23:24,315 --> 00:23:28,668 Now, millions of people broadcast their game play here every month. 454 00:23:28,842 --> 00:23:31,061 And millions more tune in to watch. 455 00:23:31,627 --> 00:23:33,890 Yo, Lambry, what's going on? Vindem 3. 456 00:23:34,064 --> 00:23:35,892 Yo, future is wild. What's going on, guys? 457 00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:38,242 How are you guys doing on this beautiful, beautiful Sunday? 458 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,593 [tense electronic music] 459 00:23:40,767 --> 00:23:44,684 [Summoning Salt] Mitch has a Nintendo hooked up to an old-school CRT TV. 460 00:23:45,380 --> 00:23:47,861 These are a must when playing retro games. 461 00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:53,257 There's no input lag on a CRT, 462 00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:56,391 so when you push a button, the game responds right away. 463 00:23:57,523 --> 00:23:59,742 Everything is connected to Mitch's computer. 464 00:24:00,308 --> 00:24:02,353 A camera is pointed at his face. 465 00:24:02,963 --> 00:24:05,008 Input displays show the buttons he's pressing. 466 00:24:05,879 --> 00:24:07,489 These are the splits 467 00:24:07,663 --> 00:24:09,491 which can be used to keep track of his pace 468 00:24:09,665 --> 00:24:10,971 against the world record. 469 00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:12,886 And there's a chat, 470 00:24:13,060 --> 00:24:15,105 so viewers can interact while he plays. 471 00:24:17,586 --> 00:24:18,674 Nice. 472 00:24:19,370 --> 00:24:21,372 Yeah, that's not so bad. Still, still the sub two-minute. 473 00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:22,983 Yo, Winter Soldier. 474 00:24:23,157 --> 00:24:25,115 Tier three sub for 14 months in a row. 475 00:24:25,289 --> 00:24:26,769 Thank you so much, Winter Soldier. 476 00:24:27,814 --> 00:24:30,251 If people like my content, they can subscribe to me, 477 00:24:30,425 --> 00:24:32,993 just like anyone would subscribe to their local paper. 478 00:24:33,167 --> 00:24:35,735 Ten bucks a month, and you get papers every other day or something. 479 00:24:35,909 --> 00:24:38,259 It's the same with my channel on Twitch. 480 00:24:38,433 --> 00:24:39,608 If you like my content, 481 00:24:39,782 --> 00:24:42,350 you pay $4.99, 482 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:44,178 I get a portion of that every month. 483 00:24:44,352 --> 00:24:46,920 Oh my gosh! Move your ass, Mario. Let's go. Come on. 484 00:24:47,921 --> 00:24:49,357 Make it or break it. 485 00:24:50,140 --> 00:24:52,360 [Summoning Salt] Mitch streams five to six days a week 486 00:24:52,534 --> 00:24:54,493 for at least five hours at a time. 487 00:24:55,232 --> 00:24:56,103 No. 488 00:24:56,582 --> 00:24:58,497 [electronic music] 489 00:24:59,062 --> 00:25:00,760 [Summoning Salt] Tonight, the game he's playing 490 00:25:00,934 --> 00:25:02,979 is what's called a Kaizo ROM Hack. 491 00:25:03,153 --> 00:25:05,025 No way, dude. 492 00:25:05,199 --> 00:25:09,072 Oh, my God, I hate doors so much, dude. 493 00:25:09,856 --> 00:25:11,771 Oh, my god. 494 00:25:12,989 --> 00:25:15,296 [Summoning Salt] It's an unofficial variation ofMario 495 00:25:15,470 --> 00:25:16,993 with completely new levels 496 00:25:17,167 --> 00:25:20,170 reconstructed to be ridiculously difficult. 497 00:25:21,389 --> 00:25:23,173 Yeah, get in that door. [grunts] 498 00:25:23,783 --> 00:25:24,784 Finally. 499 00:25:25,393 --> 00:25:26,829 Yo, Starline, what's going on? 500 00:25:28,831 --> 00:25:30,224 Weee! 501 00:25:33,575 --> 00:25:35,403 Whoa! That fish almost got me. 502 00:25:36,404 --> 00:25:39,929 From the minute I go live, it almost is like a new form of television. 503 00:25:40,103 --> 00:25:42,149 Look at that juicy gold. 504 00:25:43,063 --> 00:25:44,368 More of an interactive television. 505 00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:46,457 You like that, Bowser? Hmm? 506 00:25:47,850 --> 00:25:51,550 [Summoning Salt] Mitch combines personality and world-class precision. 507 00:25:51,724 --> 00:25:53,595 It's a big part of why his fans tune in 508 00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:55,554 to watch him night after night. 509 00:25:58,339 --> 00:26:01,647 What? First try and I didn't even take damage. 510 00:26:01,821 --> 00:26:05,041 What? Oh, my God, dude. 511 00:26:06,739 --> 00:26:10,090 Yo, thank you guys so much. Chat is going wild right now. Thank you. 512 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:13,833 Now, let's get another run going. 513 00:26:14,007 --> 00:26:15,138 Thank you guys so much. 514 00:26:17,619 --> 00:26:18,664 Right on. 515 00:26:21,884 --> 00:26:24,278 [Summoning Salt] But as popular as Kaizo ROM Hacks are... 516 00:26:25,366 --> 00:26:26,759 ...Mitch always gets asked 517 00:26:26,933 --> 00:26:28,369 about lowering his Warpless record 518 00:26:28,543 --> 00:26:30,458 inSuper Mario Bros. 3. 519 00:26:30,632 --> 00:26:33,156 Am I ever going back to SMB 3 Warpless? 520 00:26:33,330 --> 00:26:37,770 Yes. We have to get the 49 in SMB 3 Warpless. 521 00:26:37,944 --> 00:26:41,121 I'm right on the brink of it. I'm right there. 522 00:26:41,295 --> 00:26:44,211 And that grind is gonna take a crap ton out of me. 523 00:26:44,385 --> 00:26:46,039 You guys remember the last grind I did? 524 00:26:46,213 --> 00:26:48,519 At the end, I was just zonked, man. 525 00:26:48,694 --> 00:26:51,044 Oh, my fingers can't go anymore. 526 00:26:52,436 --> 00:26:54,177 I want to get lower than 50 minutes. 527 00:26:55,222 --> 00:26:58,921 The game is in control of my full potential in that category. 528 00:26:59,095 --> 00:27:00,357 I could play for six months straight 529 00:27:00,531 --> 00:27:02,795 and not even be given the chance. 530 00:27:02,969 --> 00:27:04,753 That's how crazy something like this is. 531 00:27:04,927 --> 00:27:06,320 That's what it is, man. 532 00:27:06,494 --> 00:27:08,627 And it's way harder than it sounds. 533 00:27:09,236 --> 00:27:12,543 So I have to just keep grinding, and grinding, and grinding. 534 00:27:12,718 --> 00:27:14,894 And hopefully, it happens, but I'm going for it. 535 00:27:15,068 --> 00:27:16,635 I want to achieve that goal. 536 00:27:16,809 --> 00:27:19,072 That's one of the biggest goals I think in gaming. 537 00:27:20,290 --> 00:27:22,249 That was it, guys. [exhales sharply] 538 00:27:22,423 --> 00:27:23,685 [smacks lips] That is it. 539 00:27:24,817 --> 00:27:28,516 Uh, I am done for the night. I'm going to, uh, sit back, relax and rest. 540 00:27:28,690 --> 00:27:30,823 Get ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day. 541 00:27:30,997 --> 00:27:32,999 We're gonna grind this down. Hopefully, get the world record. 542 00:27:33,739 --> 00:27:35,131 Good night, guys. 543 00:27:41,616 --> 00:27:43,052 [groans] 544 00:27:43,226 --> 00:27:47,143 So I made probably a little over $500 today. 545 00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:51,147 Uh, something like that. So definitely a good day at the office. 546 00:27:55,499 --> 00:27:59,678 To be better than everyone in the world at, at least something 547 00:27:59,852 --> 00:28:03,072 at this point in time and where we are, that's so hard to do. 548 00:28:06,162 --> 00:28:07,468 I want to keep pushing. 549 00:28:11,254 --> 00:28:14,214 [suspenseful dramatic music] 550 00:28:26,052 --> 00:28:28,968 [Summoning Salt] Times have undoubtedly gotten more electronic. 551 00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:34,887 And human nature is to keep going faster. 552 00:28:36,802 --> 00:28:40,849 We can use computers to map the optimal routes through games. 553 00:28:41,023 --> 00:28:43,983 It's called a TAS. Or tool-assisted speedrun. 554 00:28:44,157 --> 00:28:46,637 [grunting] 555 00:28:46,812 --> 00:28:49,379 [Summoning Salt] And as speedrunning continues to advance, 556 00:28:49,553 --> 00:28:52,948 it's become an integral part of studying games 557 00:28:53,122 --> 00:28:55,559 to learn just how far they can be exploited. 558 00:28:57,170 --> 00:29:00,303 But to perform the runs in real-time is different 559 00:29:00,913 --> 00:29:03,045 and means different things to different people. 560 00:29:05,961 --> 00:29:07,571 [dance music] 561 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:11,358 Speedrunning is the logical endpoint 562 00:29:11,532 --> 00:29:14,317 of the desire to master video games. 563 00:29:14,491 --> 00:29:17,277 Speedrunning is the philosophy 564 00:29:17,451 --> 00:29:19,670 that says I can get a little bit better. 565 00:29:19,845 --> 00:29:24,501 The time, the run is almost just a metric that you can judge yourself by. 566 00:29:24,675 --> 00:29:29,158 I like to say that every world record is just a personal best. 567 00:29:29,332 --> 00:29:33,075 And sometimes you're competing. But often times, 568 00:29:33,249 --> 00:29:35,817 you're just trying to be a little bit better than you were yesterday. 569 00:29:35,991 --> 00:29:38,864 Speedrunning is a philosophy almost. 570 00:29:39,038 --> 00:29:40,126 I think, anyway. 571 00:29:41,692 --> 00:29:43,303 [Omnigamer] One of the things that I'd like to point to is 572 00:29:43,477 --> 00:29:45,435 that speedrunning is just choosing to optimize 573 00:29:45,609 --> 00:29:49,526 the particular narrow problem of a video game. 574 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:53,269 And even in daily life, people try and do this in all sorts of different ways. 575 00:29:53,966 --> 00:29:55,706 If you're going to the grocery store 576 00:29:55,881 --> 00:29:57,926 and you have a parking lot full of cars, 577 00:29:58,100 --> 00:29:59,885 you have to decide, "Okay, 578 00:30:00,059 --> 00:30:02,539 am I going to try and get a spot close to the entrance? 579 00:30:02,713 --> 00:30:05,716 Do I just say, 'Skip that' and park far away, 580 00:30:05,891 --> 00:30:07,806 and have more walking time?" 581 00:30:07,980 --> 00:30:10,634 For a speedrunner, you have to actually answer that question. 582 00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:14,116 Is it better if I'm going to try and look for somewhere closer? 583 00:30:14,856 --> 00:30:16,727 At what point do I lose out 584 00:30:16,902 --> 00:30:18,860 if I'm gonna park farther away 585 00:30:19,034 --> 00:30:22,081 if the probability of me finding somewhere close isn't great? 586 00:30:22,255 --> 00:30:25,388 And then carry on from that. Other things that you start to think about. 587 00:30:25,562 --> 00:30:26,955 Well, if I'm coming out with a cart, 588 00:30:27,129 --> 00:30:29,088 it depends how close I am to a cart return. 589 00:30:29,262 --> 00:30:31,438 And it just kind of goes further and further down the rabbit hole. 590 00:30:31,612 --> 00:30:33,222 That is a speedrunning problem. 591 00:30:33,396 --> 00:30:37,357 It's over. Ocarina Time is dead. Any% is done. 592 00:30:37,531 --> 00:30:39,489 That's it. That's it. 593 00:30:40,186 --> 00:30:41,796 [Narcissa] I think games end up 594 00:30:42,797 --> 00:30:45,234 very understood, mechanically. 595 00:30:45,408 --> 00:30:47,541 Speedrunning kind of breaks them down, 596 00:30:47,715 --> 00:30:49,673 and looks at all their little pieces, 597 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,458 and puts it back together again, 598 00:30:51,632 --> 00:30:53,155 and sees exactly what you can do with it. 599 00:30:53,329 --> 00:30:56,289 [upbeat electronic music] 600 00:30:56,463 --> 00:30:58,857 There's a difference between-- Yeah, it's big on Twitch. 601 00:30:59,031 --> 00:31:00,467 You're running Fortnite. 602 00:31:00,641 --> 00:31:03,035 World of Warcraft, League of Legends. 603 00:31:03,209 --> 00:31:05,733 These modern esports, like games. 604 00:31:05,907 --> 00:31:08,605 We're playing Super Mario Bros. 605 00:31:09,171 --> 00:31:12,522 We're playing stuff from '80s and '90s. 606 00:31:12,696 --> 00:31:15,047 And obviously modern games as well. 607 00:31:15,221 --> 00:31:17,571 But we're very much like our own rock over here. 608 00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:21,053 Maybe a planet at this point in the universe that is Twitch. 609 00:31:22,402 --> 00:31:25,796 At the same time, nostalgia is a powerful thing. 610 00:31:25,971 --> 00:31:27,973 Mariogames, Zeldagames, Mega Mangames, 611 00:31:28,147 --> 00:31:30,801 they ring true for so many people that 612 00:31:30,976 --> 00:31:32,586 that was their childhood. 613 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,327 Those are the games they grew up with. 614 00:31:34,501 --> 00:31:36,851 So to be able to go back and watch someone 615 00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:38,940 work really, really hard at that game 616 00:31:39,114 --> 00:31:40,724 and then present it to you in a way 617 00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:43,814 that you did not experience at all when you played it, 618 00:31:43,989 --> 00:31:47,035 and in this super play fashion, 619 00:31:47,209 --> 00:31:50,865 I think, as gamers, we love watching it. 620 00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,650 I'm glad people wanna watch it. I'm glad there are more people 621 00:31:53,824 --> 00:31:55,870 than just me and five other nerds. 622 00:31:56,958 --> 00:32:01,310 We're trying to send the message that not only is speedrunning a genuine creative craft, 623 00:32:01,963 --> 00:32:04,400 but also that it's more than just a source of entertainment or fun. 624 00:32:04,574 --> 00:32:06,228 It's a passion. It's a career choice. 625 00:32:06,402 --> 00:32:08,143 It's a lifestyle. It's a way of life. 626 00:32:08,317 --> 00:32:10,450 Three, two, one, go 627 00:32:10,624 --> 00:32:13,975 [cheering and applause] 628 00:32:14,149 --> 00:32:17,761 So this is a cooperative game, but it's an asymmetric cooperative game. 629 00:32:18,414 --> 00:32:21,113 [Skybilz] Speedrunning is probably as big of a thing 630 00:32:21,287 --> 00:32:23,289 in my life as anything else right now, 631 00:32:23,463 --> 00:32:25,726 and that's because I currently met my boyfriend through it. 632 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:28,120 All of my friends, also, speedrun. 633 00:32:28,294 --> 00:32:31,340 Linkdead and Kakusho, I think, are the first ones we ever saw run this, 634 00:32:31,514 --> 00:32:34,039 but also friends of ours, Tessleberry and BBQSauz, 635 00:32:34,213 --> 00:32:35,823 uh, have also run this. This is, actually, 636 00:32:35,997 --> 00:32:39,261 a relatively popular game for cooperative speedruns. 637 00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:42,699 [Skybilz] To speedrun, you're gonna fail 99% of the time. 638 00:32:42,873 --> 00:32:44,963 It's how you handle that as a person that determines 639 00:32:45,137 --> 00:32:46,312 what type of speedrunner you are. 640 00:32:46,486 --> 00:32:48,575 Yes! Thank you. 641 00:32:48,749 --> 00:32:51,099 And it really teaches you something about yourself 642 00:32:51,273 --> 00:32:53,362 that you may have never discovered otherwise. 643 00:32:53,536 --> 00:32:56,713 Oh! That's close. All right. Just don't get hit. Don't get hit. 644 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,282 -Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Come on! -Time. 645 00:33:00,456 --> 00:33:02,893 -Someone. Yes! -[applause] 646 00:33:03,068 --> 00:33:04,460 -Time. -All right. Nice. 647 00:33:04,634 --> 00:33:05,853 Nice run. 648 00:33:07,333 --> 00:33:08,987 [YellowKillerBee] Speedrunning is just a hobby for me. 649 00:33:09,161 --> 00:33:11,641 I actually own an advertising company. 650 00:33:11,815 --> 00:33:14,731 And that's my full-time job. I have a family. 651 00:33:14,905 --> 00:33:17,256 I have a lot of other responsibilities. 652 00:33:17,952 --> 00:33:20,085 Once I found out that speedrunning was a thing 653 00:33:20,259 --> 00:33:21,477 then I started watching more videos, 654 00:33:21,651 --> 00:33:23,001 I found out Twitch existed. 655 00:33:23,175 --> 00:33:25,046 Then I could watch videos any time 656 00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:27,570 and eventually I thought, 657 00:33:27,744 --> 00:33:30,182 "We-- Maybe, I should try it." 658 00:33:30,356 --> 00:33:33,315 I really am anxious to start giving these times, 659 00:33:33,489 --> 00:33:37,580 and so we're just gonna see how it goes. 660 00:33:37,754 --> 00:33:41,280 I found out even if you don't have the top time, 661 00:33:41,454 --> 00:33:42,716 it can still be really fun. 662 00:33:42,890 --> 00:33:44,152 Although the first game that I ran, 663 00:33:44,326 --> 00:33:45,632 Mickey Mania for Super Nintendo, 664 00:33:45,806 --> 00:33:47,503 I ended up getting the world record. 665 00:33:47,677 --> 00:33:49,418 Phew! That's it. 666 00:33:50,071 --> 00:33:51,333 This is new world record. 667 00:33:51,507 --> 00:33:53,422 So I did end up getting a top time. 668 00:33:53,596 --> 00:33:56,251 But even if you don't have a top time, it's still a lot of fun. 669 00:33:56,425 --> 00:33:58,427 [lighthearted music] 670 00:33:59,167 --> 00:34:01,735 [Summoning Salt] Appreciation of video games runs deep. 671 00:34:01,909 --> 00:34:04,781 And there are very few who rival GlitchCat. 672 00:34:04,955 --> 00:34:07,958 [GlitchCat7] I have been collecting games all my life. 673 00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:11,136 I really like Atari 2600. It's kind of the system I grew up with. 674 00:34:12,006 --> 00:34:15,053 This is Chase the Chuck Wagon. This was only available 675 00:34:15,227 --> 00:34:17,142 through the Purina Dog Food Corporation. 676 00:34:17,316 --> 00:34:19,970 You had to actually mail in to get this game. It's absurdly bad, 677 00:34:20,145 --> 00:34:21,711 like, don't play it. It's terrible. 678 00:34:21,885 --> 00:34:23,061 Uh, but I have it. [chuckles] 679 00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:24,845 It's-- And it's really rare. 680 00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:27,978 [beeping] 681 00:34:29,937 --> 00:34:32,113 [electronic music] 682 00:34:33,767 --> 00:34:35,595 Even when the internet started being a thing, 683 00:34:35,769 --> 00:34:37,684 it still wasn't really feasible 684 00:34:37,858 --> 00:34:39,990 that someone would watch you play video games. 685 00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:42,471 I mean, what? But then I think about it now and, like, 686 00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:45,561 if that were a thing when I was a kid, I would have been all about it. 687 00:34:45,735 --> 00:34:47,520 So I understand why the kids are all about it, 688 00:34:47,694 --> 00:34:49,304 to have your favorite player that you can watch 689 00:34:49,478 --> 00:34:51,741 and talk to them in real-time and get tips. 690 00:34:51,915 --> 00:34:53,047 I didn't know how to beat a level. 691 00:34:53,221 --> 00:34:54,266 I had to get the strategy guide 692 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:55,832 from the library and read it. 693 00:34:57,791 --> 00:35:00,228 There's an old cartoon in the newspaper, The Far Side, 694 00:35:00,402 --> 00:35:02,578 with Gary Larson, of a kid and he's sitting there, 695 00:35:02,752 --> 00:35:04,624 this little nerdy kid playing video games. 696 00:35:04,798 --> 00:35:06,495 His parents are so happy, and they're standing behind them, 697 00:35:06,669 --> 00:35:08,193 and they're thinking about the want ads 698 00:35:08,367 --> 00:35:09,629 from the future in the newspaper. 699 00:35:09,803 --> 00:35:11,370 And all the want ads in the future say, 700 00:35:11,544 --> 00:35:12,849 "Can you save the princess? 701 00:35:13,023 --> 00:35:14,373 We need skilled men and women. 702 00:35:14,547 --> 00:35:16,810 $10,000 a week, plus your own Ferrari." 703 00:35:17,419 --> 00:35:19,160 They're picturing that someday their kids will grow up 704 00:35:19,334 --> 00:35:20,857 to be a famous video game player. 705 00:35:21,031 --> 00:35:22,424 The joke at the time in the comic strip was, 706 00:35:22,598 --> 00:35:23,860 "That's not a real thing. 707 00:35:24,034 --> 00:35:25,514 That's silly." Ha-ha! Joke's on you. 708 00:35:25,688 --> 00:35:27,125 It actually kind of is. 709 00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:36,786 [Super Mario World music playing] 710 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,354 I have played Super Mario World 711 00:35:39,528 --> 00:35:42,836 since December 25th, 1991, 712 00:35:43,010 --> 00:35:44,577 when I got my Super Nintendo 713 00:35:44,751 --> 00:35:46,579 when I was four years old for Christmas, 714 00:35:46,753 --> 00:35:48,885 that was the hot new thing that year. 715 00:35:49,059 --> 00:35:53,890 Since that time, I have been pretty decently obsessed with being 716 00:35:54,064 --> 00:35:56,371 really, really good at Super Mario World. 717 00:35:56,545 --> 00:36:00,332 I have no idea why. I'm just a weird kid that read UFO books 718 00:36:00,506 --> 00:36:03,204 and wanted to be a great Marioplayer someday. 719 00:36:03,378 --> 00:36:06,773 And so, for the better part of my 31 years of life, 720 00:36:06,947 --> 00:36:09,776 I have trained myself to play this game 721 00:36:09,950 --> 00:36:11,995 to absurd degrees. 722 00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:15,651 And finally, the regular game got so easy and so boring 723 00:36:15,825 --> 00:36:18,654 that I had to start inventing hard stuff like this. 724 00:36:18,828 --> 00:36:21,266 [upbeat electronic music] 725 00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:27,402 I am a full-time streamer, 726 00:36:27,576 --> 00:36:29,404 and I have been streaming full-time 727 00:36:29,578 --> 00:36:31,232 for about three years now. 728 00:36:31,406 --> 00:36:32,233 There we go. 729 00:36:32,407 --> 00:36:34,192 On the stream, I speedrun 730 00:36:34,366 --> 00:36:37,107 different games, mostly Super Mario, ROM Hacks. 731 00:36:37,282 --> 00:36:40,198 That's kind of my main thing I play. We call it Kaizo. 732 00:36:40,372 --> 00:36:43,331 Kaizo's a Japanese word meaning rearranged, 733 00:36:43,505 --> 00:36:47,030 but it's come to be a colloquial term for very difficult Mario. 734 00:36:48,597 --> 00:36:54,429 A ROM Hack is a modified version of an original game. 735 00:36:54,603 --> 00:36:58,520 And someone with a computer can take all the code out of the game, 736 00:36:58,694 --> 00:36:59,565 put it onto their computer 737 00:36:59,739 --> 00:37:01,915 and then modify that code 738 00:37:02,089 --> 00:37:04,439 to behave in any way that you want. 739 00:37:04,613 --> 00:37:06,136 We're gonna pick up the shell. 740 00:37:06,311 --> 00:37:08,487 And actually jump and surf on it like that. 741 00:37:08,661 --> 00:37:11,620 And these hacks are really cool like that because they allow you to do things 742 00:37:11,794 --> 00:37:14,057 that the original game would have never let you do. 743 00:37:14,667 --> 00:37:17,147 Grabbed the red shell. Red shell goes under Yoshi's feet in the air. 744 00:37:17,322 --> 00:37:19,672 Eat the green Koopa out of the air. Eat the second green Koopa out of the air. 745 00:37:19,846 --> 00:37:21,543 Green shell off the pipe. This green shell 746 00:37:21,717 --> 00:37:23,197 goes back to the left, green shell forward. 747 00:37:23,371 --> 00:37:25,025 Bail off Yoshi to hit the on-off switch, 748 00:37:25,199 --> 00:37:26,418 slides along the bridge down there. 749 00:37:26,592 --> 00:37:27,680 Drop Yoshi in a pit. Come back up, 750 00:37:27,854 --> 00:37:28,811 grab the green shell, goes up, 751 00:37:28,985 --> 00:37:30,073 red shell goes forward. 752 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:31,118 Green shell goes into the pit 753 00:37:31,292 --> 00:37:31,901 and it has three hits there. 754 00:37:32,075 --> 00:37:33,033 It's all dead. 755 00:37:33,207 --> 00:37:34,426 Purple Yoshi grabs the shell 756 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,123 out of the nook here, spits it up, 757 00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:37,820 goes off the shell. Yellow Yoshi eats green shell, 758 00:37:37,994 --> 00:37:40,040 juggles the Galoomba because he can stomp sand clouds. 759 00:37:41,128 --> 00:37:43,348 ROM Hacking provides an avenue 760 00:37:43,522 --> 00:37:46,176 for players to get a new experience 761 00:37:46,351 --> 00:37:48,048 with the same old favorite game 762 00:37:48,222 --> 00:37:50,311 that they love in the same old physics. 763 00:37:50,485 --> 00:37:52,792 But with new twists in the level, 764 00:37:52,966 --> 00:37:55,751 and it also gives really experienced players 765 00:37:55,925 --> 00:37:58,972 a chance to see how good they really are. 766 00:37:59,146 --> 00:38:01,714 And now we got the purple Yoshi, so spit the shell out. 767 00:38:01,888 --> 00:38:04,064 The spring goes below his feet. Spring-- Ooh! 768 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,633 There are very, very few people on Earth 769 00:38:07,807 --> 00:38:10,200 that can play to this kind of level, 770 00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:13,987 um, just because of the sheer amount of precision involved. 771 00:38:14,161 --> 00:38:17,686 And the really, really, really solid control that you need to have 772 00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:20,036 over your character just being able to jump. 773 00:38:20,210 --> 00:38:22,778 For example, jump that high, jump a little jump, a big jump. 774 00:38:22,952 --> 00:38:25,041 Uh, having that kind of control over the character 775 00:38:25,215 --> 00:38:27,870 is something that takes years and years and years to master. 776 00:38:28,044 --> 00:38:29,742 [mellow music] 777 00:38:29,916 --> 00:38:33,354 I work dish at the restaurant. I was a line cook. 778 00:38:33,528 --> 00:38:35,487 I was a professional carpet cleaner, 779 00:38:35,661 --> 00:38:37,793 going to office buildings and cleaned the carpets at night. 780 00:38:37,967 --> 00:38:39,578 I worked at a Pizza Hut, 781 00:38:39,752 --> 00:38:43,712 I worked at a factory that processed hospital laundry. 782 00:38:43,886 --> 00:38:47,368 My job was to stand in front of a machine that folds laundry 783 00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:50,240 and feed it laundry to be folded all day. 784 00:38:50,415 --> 00:38:52,112 That was it. That was my job. 785 00:38:52,286 --> 00:38:54,070 And that was boring... 786 00:38:54,244 --> 00:38:55,420 [chuckles] and stupid. 787 00:38:55,594 --> 00:38:58,901 [distorted calm music] 788 00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:02,688 We had an agreement that, okay, I'm going to try this, and if it doesn't work, 789 00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:04,690 obviously, I'm gonna go back to the factory. 790 00:39:06,169 --> 00:39:08,346 I don't wanna fit into that world 791 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,652 where I just have a job and I just go in and do that. 792 00:39:11,218 --> 00:39:14,221 I want to be doing exactly what I'm doing. I can talk to people. 793 00:39:14,395 --> 00:39:16,266 I can share my life with them. I can hear their stories. 794 00:39:16,441 --> 00:39:19,095 I can play my games for people and teach them tricks and stuff. 795 00:39:19,269 --> 00:39:21,620 It's honestly is everything I could have ever wanted. 796 00:39:21,794 --> 00:39:23,796 [distorted calm music continues] 797 00:39:28,801 --> 00:39:31,630 [upbeat music] 798 00:39:34,589 --> 00:39:36,156 [Summoning Salt] Just north of Portland, 799 00:39:36,330 --> 00:39:38,288 a speedrunner named GrandPooBear 800 00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:40,116 recently got signed by Red Bull. 801 00:39:41,248 --> 00:39:45,295 He's the first speedrunner to achieve this level of mainstream sponsorship. 802 00:39:49,909 --> 00:39:52,564 Oh, buttmunch. Okay, I get this section now. 803 00:39:55,654 --> 00:39:56,568 There we go. 804 00:39:58,308 --> 00:39:59,875 Every time someone ask me how I got my name, 805 00:40:00,049 --> 00:40:01,747 I try to make up a different story. 806 00:40:02,443 --> 00:40:03,923 Oh, that was it. 807 00:40:04,706 --> 00:40:06,360 I'm GrandPooBear and that's my name. 808 00:40:06,534 --> 00:40:08,710 And that means-- It's just an internet name. 809 00:40:08,884 --> 00:40:10,103 All right, let's do this. 810 00:40:10,277 --> 00:40:13,367 [music increases] 811 00:40:20,461 --> 00:40:21,854 I think I need to hold jump. 812 00:40:23,812 --> 00:40:27,033 I started streaming because... I was a snowboarder before this. 813 00:40:27,207 --> 00:40:29,035 That's what I did for a living. I taught people snowboarding 814 00:40:29,209 --> 00:40:32,299 and tried to win competitions, and I got hurt. 815 00:40:32,473 --> 00:40:34,388 I got hit by an out-of-control skier. 816 00:40:34,562 --> 00:40:36,172 Was in the hospital for six months. 817 00:40:36,346 --> 00:40:37,739 Had a whole bunch of things. 818 00:40:37,913 --> 00:40:39,698 Almost died. Yada, yada, yada, 819 00:40:43,789 --> 00:40:45,791 It took like my favorite thing from me. 820 00:40:45,965 --> 00:40:48,228 My second favorite thing in the world always was video games. 821 00:40:48,402 --> 00:40:49,882 I had always played video games growing up. 822 00:40:51,013 --> 00:40:53,712 The next winter rolled around. I was really, really, really bored. 823 00:40:53,886 --> 00:40:56,236 One of my buddy was like, "Hey, watch me play Halo 824 00:40:56,410 --> 00:40:58,194 on this website called Twitch." 825 00:40:58,368 --> 00:40:59,935 And it just, like, clicked. 826 00:41:00,109 --> 00:41:01,720 I was like, "Holy God!" 827 00:41:01,894 --> 00:41:04,505 There's this whole community of people nerding out 828 00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:06,594 all the time that I didn't know about. 829 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,074 It was immediate. 830 00:41:08,248 --> 00:41:10,250 Oh, spin jump. Okay. 831 00:41:11,164 --> 00:41:13,819 Just more and more people who kept watching and joining the community. 832 00:41:13,993 --> 00:41:16,125 And then I sat down, and talked to my wife, 833 00:41:16,299 --> 00:41:19,259 and we decided even if it's only for six months, 834 00:41:19,433 --> 00:41:21,522 you got to give this a chance. 835 00:41:22,175 --> 00:41:23,916 Now, here we are three years later, 836 00:41:24,090 --> 00:41:25,613 and it's bigger than anything we could have ever thought. 837 00:41:25,787 --> 00:41:26,788 It's bought us a house. 838 00:41:27,789 --> 00:41:29,312 Video games has given me everything. 839 00:41:31,793 --> 00:41:34,230 We just bought this house like a month ago. So we're still moving in. 840 00:41:34,404 --> 00:41:36,189 We're still getting used to all the things in it. 841 00:41:36,363 --> 00:41:39,148 [mellow music] 842 00:41:39,322 --> 00:41:41,411 We can go walk. Go walk to the park. 843 00:41:42,064 --> 00:41:44,502 -Yeah. Yeah. -[baby cooing] 844 00:41:44,676 --> 00:41:47,548 I was never a corny dude. And then he came along, 845 00:41:47,722 --> 00:41:50,508 and I'm just one of those corny dads, 846 00:41:50,682 --> 00:41:52,074 I love it. 847 00:42:00,996 --> 00:42:03,085 [Gina] Red Bull surprised him to tell him, 848 00:42:03,259 --> 00:42:06,698 and I can't keep a secret from him or really anybody. 849 00:42:06,872 --> 00:42:08,830 [chuckles] And so, 850 00:42:09,004 --> 00:42:10,963 they had me looped in for, like, 851 00:42:11,137 --> 00:42:13,574 two weeks, and it was the hardest two weeks. 852 00:42:13,748 --> 00:42:15,271 I felt like I couldn't talk to him. 853 00:42:15,445 --> 00:42:17,230 -Yeah. -They didn't want to ruin the surprise. 854 00:42:17,404 --> 00:42:19,275 Right, guys. [shushes] 855 00:42:19,449 --> 00:42:21,582 We're outside of GrandPooBear's house right now. 856 00:42:24,063 --> 00:42:26,456 You know what this means? He's coming to the team. 857 00:42:26,631 --> 00:42:28,067 I get to give him this hat. 858 00:42:28,241 --> 00:42:31,549 They flew out my favorite snowboarder in the world. 859 00:42:31,723 --> 00:42:34,116 Like somebody I just utterly looked up to you. 860 00:42:34,290 --> 00:42:37,032 Uh, and had him surprise me 861 00:42:37,206 --> 00:42:39,382 in giving my Red Bull hat 'cause that's, like, what the thing is. 862 00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:43,256 They give you your, your hat. That's like when you officially, like, squaded up. 863 00:42:43,430 --> 00:42:44,387 [John] Hey, bro, 864 00:42:45,824 --> 00:42:48,348 -Whoa! -Looks like you need a new hat. 865 00:42:48,522 --> 00:42:49,392 Whoa! 866 00:42:51,177 --> 00:42:53,266 -Dude! Holy [beep], dude. -Where's my controller? 867 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,224 -Oh, my God. -Yeah, what's up, bro? 868 00:42:55,398 --> 00:42:58,140 -Oh, my golly, due. -Bro, yeah, welcome to the team. 869 00:42:58,314 --> 00:42:59,533 Oh, my God, dude! 870 00:42:59,707 --> 00:43:01,579 In walks John Jackson. 871 00:43:01,753 --> 00:43:03,972 Holding a Red Bull hat, and I knew what he was doing. 872 00:43:04,146 --> 00:43:08,586 But it was just like such a full-circle experience for me. 873 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,240 -Yo, look, look. -[John] Look at this. 874 00:43:11,414 --> 00:43:13,721 -Kid's got a new hat. -I got a new hat. 875 00:43:13,895 --> 00:43:15,375 -I got a new hat right now. -[John] Yeah. 876 00:43:15,549 --> 00:43:17,507 Yo, this is John Jackson, by the way. Hold on, Like, 877 00:43:17,682 --> 00:43:20,598 -get-- this is-- He's, he's like... -Hey. 878 00:43:20,772 --> 00:43:24,427 -...one of the greatest snowboarders of all time. -What's up? Oh, man, thank you. 879 00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,386 Oh, my God, like-- 880 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,344 Um, I'm nerding out right now. 881 00:43:28,518 --> 00:43:31,260 You guys have no idea. This is like a lot of... [chuckles] 882 00:43:31,913 --> 00:43:34,133 Sponsorship in speedrunning is very new in general. 883 00:43:34,916 --> 00:43:39,617 No company has ever gone all in, the way Red Bull is going all in. 884 00:43:42,881 --> 00:43:44,012 Right, I'm gonna go live. 885 00:43:45,753 --> 00:43:46,972 Hey, everybody. 886 00:43:47,146 --> 00:43:48,887 Chronic Quad. Thank you for 14 months. 887 00:43:49,061 --> 00:43:50,584 Hebrew Lantern, 23 months. 888 00:43:50,758 --> 00:43:52,717 Almost two years. That is a long ass time, man. 889 00:43:52,891 --> 00:43:54,327 Darnzee, thank you for 12 months. 890 00:43:56,024 --> 00:43:59,767 [Summoning Salt] Like GlitchCat, GrandPooBear plays a lot of Kaizo. 891 00:44:00,463 --> 00:44:03,945 Two of the most popular hacks are even named after him. 892 00:44:04,119 --> 00:44:05,643 You like my beard? It's gotta go. 893 00:44:05,817 --> 00:44:07,166 It's, it's-- You know what it is? 894 00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:09,603 It's a "I've been in Vegas for... 895 00:44:09,777 --> 00:44:13,476 [chuckling] for two days beard and haven't fully recovered yet." 896 00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:16,088 I, I went to Vegas clean shaven, and, 897 00:44:16,262 --> 00:44:21,049 and now I'm, I'm growing, like, the "I didn't sleep at all two days beard." 898 00:44:21,746 --> 00:44:24,531 Yo, I just wanna say thank you guys so much for coming out here. 899 00:44:24,705 --> 00:44:26,968 Hold on a minute. I'll get in the camera shot. Thank you, guys, so much 900 00:44:27,142 --> 00:44:29,014 for coming out here to GrandPooBear's Speedrun Sessions in Charlotte. 901 00:44:30,015 --> 00:44:31,538 I do a speedrun tour now 902 00:44:31,712 --> 00:44:32,887 called GrandPooBear Speedrun Sessions, 903 00:44:33,061 --> 00:44:34,454 where we go to different barcades 904 00:44:34,628 --> 00:44:36,456 which is like an arcade inside a bar. 905 00:44:36,630 --> 00:44:39,981 And we do speedrun demos and those have been going incredibly well, 906 00:44:40,155 --> 00:44:42,767 and I try to do at least one or two of those a month now. 907 00:44:42,941 --> 00:44:46,553 -Give it up for GrandPooBear. -Woo! Yeah! 908 00:44:47,293 --> 00:44:49,556 [GrandPooBear] We just did it in Las Vegas, Nevada. 909 00:44:49,730 --> 00:44:51,297 We had it at the MGM Grand. 910 00:44:51,471 --> 00:44:53,516 The number of people that said this was their first time 911 00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,301 seeing live speedrunning, like, that's what I wanna do. 912 00:44:55,475 --> 00:44:56,737 I wanna bring speedrunning to everybody. 913 00:44:56,911 --> 00:44:58,391 So you guys all to get to see a lot. 914 00:44:58,565 --> 00:44:59,827 So thank you guys again. Give yourselves a big round 915 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:01,481 of applause for being a dope-ass crowd. 916 00:45:02,047 --> 00:45:04,702 [lively electronic music] 917 00:45:08,444 --> 00:45:10,751 Streaming is everything in speedrunning. 918 00:45:10,925 --> 00:45:13,319 Oh, and then, then-- Okay. Okay. 919 00:45:15,321 --> 00:45:17,758 This five-six hour live stream will basically be broken down 920 00:45:17,932 --> 00:45:20,587 into two or three half-hour YouTube videos. 921 00:45:20,761 --> 00:45:22,807 Oh! Come on! 922 00:45:23,416 --> 00:45:25,070 My YouTube videos do anywhere 923 00:45:25,244 --> 00:45:28,464 between 50,000 to 200,000 views a day, 924 00:45:28,638 --> 00:45:29,944 depending on the game. 925 00:45:30,118 --> 00:45:32,599 They reach people in 79 countries 926 00:45:32,773 --> 00:45:33,905 or something wild like that. 927 00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:35,036 I really, really enjoyed that level. 928 00:45:35,210 --> 00:45:36,516 That was really, really great. 929 00:45:37,343 --> 00:45:40,433 I have almost 8000 paying Twitch subscribers right now. 930 00:45:40,607 --> 00:45:43,697 So they pay five bucks a month. Twitch takes a little cut, and I get the rest. 931 00:45:44,350 --> 00:45:47,919 So roundabouts like the worst month, it would probably be like 932 00:45:48,093 --> 00:45:51,270 10K now for me. And the best months are, 933 00:45:51,444 --> 00:45:53,838 I think I did 40 recently. 934 00:45:54,795 --> 00:45:57,972 I'm so grateful that I get to be comfortable. I've never been comfortable in my life. 935 00:45:58,146 --> 00:45:59,408 I really appreciate it. Hope you guys have a wonderful night. 936 00:45:59,582 --> 00:46:01,062 Peace. Bye. 937 00:46:08,983 --> 00:46:12,770 [tense electronic music] 938 00:46:17,383 --> 00:46:19,951 [Summoning Salt] Early game developers could never have imagined 939 00:46:20,125 --> 00:46:22,910 how far speedrunners would push their creations. 940 00:46:25,260 --> 00:46:27,872 It's given many games, an extended life, 941 00:46:28,698 --> 00:46:31,701 by creating a world that was never really intended. 942 00:46:36,576 --> 00:46:38,926 [birds chirping] 943 00:46:41,059 --> 00:46:42,843 -[baby cries] -[GrandPooBear] I like that one. 944 00:46:44,540 --> 00:46:46,847 -Are you tired? Yes, that's a good one. -That's a good one. 945 00:46:47,587 --> 00:46:49,110 -That's a good one of all three of us. -Are you tired? 946 00:46:51,852 --> 00:46:55,073 [Summoning Salt] Today, Poo's agent from Red Bull, is coming over to talk 947 00:46:55,247 --> 00:46:58,554 about last weekend speedrunning event in Las Vegas. 948 00:46:59,294 --> 00:47:01,819 -Hey, bud. How's it going? -[GrandPooBear] How's it going? 949 00:47:01,993 --> 00:47:04,299 So I see you got the controller already. Ready to go. 950 00:47:04,473 --> 00:47:06,824 [indistinct chatter] 951 00:47:06,998 --> 00:47:07,868 Okay. 952 00:47:08,869 --> 00:47:13,700 So, dude, within 24 hours we had a recap from MGM. 953 00:47:14,266 --> 00:47:15,963 Here, I'll read you the quote 'cause she emailed it to me. 954 00:47:16,137 --> 00:47:17,573 -She was like, by the way. -Oooh! 955 00:47:17,747 --> 00:47:20,359 -Oooh! I like that. -She said, 956 00:47:20,533 --> 00:47:22,491 "I spent the later part of the night chatting 957 00:47:22,665 --> 00:47:24,754 with the gentleman who's in charge of esports for the MGM. 958 00:47:24,929 --> 00:47:26,669 We had a really nice chat. But as he was leaving, 959 00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:28,628 he turned to one of his friends and said, 960 00:47:28,802 --> 00:47:31,413 'This is about ten times better than I expected it to be. 961 00:47:31,587 --> 00:47:33,546 And I came in with high expectations.'" 962 00:47:34,590 --> 00:47:36,549 I mean, okay. 963 00:47:36,723 --> 00:47:38,507 [soft tense music] 964 00:47:38,681 --> 00:47:39,639 He's like, "Man," he's like, "whoa, what is like 965 00:47:39,813 --> 00:47:41,162 the all-in budget? 966 00:47:41,336 --> 00:47:42,816 What would you guys spend?" I was like, 967 00:47:42,990 --> 00:47:45,166 "$12,100... [chuckles] 968 00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:47,734 and we flew in a dude from Poland," and he's like... [slaps table] 969 00:47:47,908 --> 00:47:49,649 "Get up, you know it." 970 00:47:49,823 --> 00:47:52,391 Okay. He, like, fully went in. 971 00:47:52,565 --> 00:47:54,523 -Oh, wow. -[Aaron] Like they have, 972 00:47:54,697 --> 00:47:56,569 how much revenue they made 973 00:47:56,743 --> 00:47:59,833 -against the reach. -[GrandPooBear] Nice. 974 00:48:00,007 --> 00:48:02,053 Three hundred people is more than I ever thought 975 00:48:02,227 --> 00:48:05,012 would ever come to any one of these when we first... 976 00:48:05,186 --> 00:48:08,537 Like, I always thought it would be, like, a 50 to 150 tops event. 977 00:48:08,711 --> 00:48:11,932 -So I'm really pumped. -[Aaron] I mean, it's kind of the average for all of them. 978 00:48:12,106 --> 00:48:13,281 [GrandPooBear] So far, yeah. 979 00:48:14,108 --> 00:48:16,981 -It makes me happy. -[Aaron] Not bad, not bad. 980 00:48:17,938 --> 00:48:20,941 [Aaron] I kind of think like, "Are we gonna stumble across 981 00:48:21,115 --> 00:48:23,813 some gigantic speedrunning community, like Texas, for example?" 982 00:48:24,684 --> 00:48:28,079 Is there really-- I mean, of like, rough ideas of where the speedrunners live 983 00:48:28,253 --> 00:48:30,211 or where there's a group of people. But, like, 984 00:48:30,385 --> 00:48:34,259 what if you go to Texas and there's like 2000 people 985 00:48:34,433 --> 00:48:36,087 -just cramming through. You know what I mean? -Sure, that'd be wild. Yeah. 986 00:48:36,261 --> 00:48:38,045 Like, where is the hidden speedrun community? 987 00:48:38,219 --> 00:48:40,830 Is there any way to know, other than just doing 988 00:48:41,005 --> 00:48:42,571 session after session to figure out like, 989 00:48:42,745 --> 00:48:44,965 "Whoa, we got a crazy response in, like, 990 00:48:45,139 --> 00:48:46,401 Minnesota or Chicago..." 991 00:48:46,575 --> 00:48:48,490 Or Germany, man. That's where it is. 992 00:48:48,664 --> 00:48:50,797 -Yeah? -[GrandPooBear] Yeah, seriously, Germany is the spot. 993 00:48:50,971 --> 00:48:52,886 Germany is obsessed with speedrunning. 994 00:48:53,060 --> 00:48:54,888 Even if you look at, like, my YouTube numbers 995 00:48:55,062 --> 00:48:59,023 it's like America, Germany, Canada, U.K. 996 00:48:59,197 --> 00:49:02,026 -Really? -Yeah, Germany's number two, like, easy. 997 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,333 -Yeah, it's, it's crazy. -We can make that happen. 998 00:49:11,296 --> 00:49:13,602 [upbeat music] 999 00:49:20,958 --> 00:49:25,397 [woman] What is up, Summer Games Done Quick? 1000 00:49:25,571 --> 00:49:27,268 [applause and cheering] 1001 00:49:33,535 --> 00:49:35,320 [man 1] Really scary room here, using the high frame, 1002 00:49:35,494 --> 00:49:36,930 -skip to the spikes. -[man 2] Really nice. 1003 00:49:37,104 --> 00:49:39,411 [commotion] 1004 00:49:39,585 --> 00:49:41,717 [GrandPooBear] Games on Quick is the pinnacle. 1005 00:49:41,891 --> 00:49:43,763 It's the biggest event we have. 1006 00:49:43,937 --> 00:49:45,765 [man 3] Who's doing All Forts? Is that-- 1007 00:49:45,939 --> 00:49:49,638 Me, Mitch, Haxor, and Lhasa. 1008 00:49:50,204 --> 00:49:52,119 [Summoning Salt] Games Done Quick is a biannual, 1009 00:49:52,293 --> 00:49:54,078 speedrunning charity marathon. 1010 00:49:54,643 --> 00:49:56,210 [commentator 1] Looking good. 1011 00:49:56,819 --> 00:49:58,865 -[commentator 1] Very nice. Nice fight. -[commentator 2] Yeah. 1012 00:49:59,039 --> 00:50:00,780 [Summoning Salt] Speedrunning happens around the clock 1013 00:50:00,954 --> 00:50:02,347 for seven days straight. 1014 00:50:03,130 --> 00:50:05,132 They broadcast themselves on Twitch, 1015 00:50:05,306 --> 00:50:07,700 and people from around the world tune in and donate. 1016 00:50:07,874 --> 00:50:10,790 [woman] We had a $500 donation for Colto, 1017 00:50:11,356 --> 00:50:12,966 says, "Shout out to the Mega Man community 1018 00:50:13,140 --> 00:50:15,360 being such an amazing group of people." 1019 00:50:16,056 --> 00:50:18,928 [GrandPooBear] As big as Fortniteis, as big as League of Legendsis, 1020 00:50:19,103 --> 00:50:21,061 as big as Dotais, 1021 00:50:21,235 --> 00:50:24,021 Games Done Quick, our viewership numbers rival at all. 1022 00:50:24,586 --> 00:50:26,284 It's our Super Bowl. There's really no other way to put it. 1023 00:50:26,458 --> 00:50:28,416 It's our Super Bowl. Twice a year. 1024 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,637 [indistinct chatter] 1025 00:50:35,162 --> 00:50:37,295 Today's a big day. Today is a big day for me. 1026 00:50:37,469 --> 00:50:39,166 I didn't know how blue it turned out. 1027 00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:41,342 It's supposed to be really blue, but it's actually kind of, like, 1028 00:50:41,516 --> 00:50:42,909 it's got a little turquoise-green, 1029 00:50:43,083 --> 00:50:45,346 lit the light on it and it's funny. 1030 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:46,565 It's fun. I like it. 1031 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,570 You spend a lot of time preparing for a day like this and... 1032 00:50:54,790 --> 00:50:56,618 I'm naturally someone with stage fright. 1033 00:50:56,792 --> 00:50:59,230 I, um, I'm not good with, um, 1034 00:50:59,404 --> 00:51:01,928 like presentations in school. I actually used to skip a lot of school 1035 00:51:02,102 --> 00:51:04,670 anytime I'd have to do, uh, a presentation in front of the class. 1036 00:51:04,844 --> 00:51:06,541 And video games are the only thing 1037 00:51:06,715 --> 00:51:09,370 that can get me in front of a large crowd 1038 00:51:09,544 --> 00:51:11,459 and, and allows me to perform. But every time I do it, 1039 00:51:11,633 --> 00:51:13,548 I get the same nerves. The heart's pumping. 1040 00:51:13,722 --> 00:51:15,376 It's hard to sleep at night before. 1041 00:51:15,550 --> 00:51:17,770 You go up there and Speedrunners 1042 00:51:17,944 --> 00:51:20,555 like the reset button a lot. But you don't get that. 1043 00:51:20,729 --> 00:51:22,862 You, you start it up and you get one run. 1044 00:51:23,036 --> 00:51:25,995 And however it goes is-- That's, that's all you get. 1045 00:51:26,170 --> 00:51:27,736 That's it. You get one chance. 1046 00:51:28,781 --> 00:51:32,480 [lively electronic music] 1047 00:51:34,134 --> 00:51:36,615 [Summoning Salt] GlitchCat is here for a highly anticipated 1048 00:51:36,789 --> 00:51:39,357 blind Kaizo relay race. 1049 00:51:40,706 --> 00:51:41,924 [GlitchCat7] This is the first time 1050 00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:44,188 that a race this big 1051 00:51:44,362 --> 00:51:46,886 on a Kaizo Mario Hack has been put on for people. 1052 00:51:47,582 --> 00:51:50,498 [Summoning Salt] Eight of the best Kaizo Mario players in the world 1053 00:51:50,672 --> 00:51:53,588 will race in custom made brand new levels 1054 00:51:53,762 --> 00:51:57,636 that they've never seen before and have to solve in real-time. 1055 00:51:57,810 --> 00:51:59,986 [GlitchCat7] Do you know the mechanics and physics well enough 1056 00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,031 to just look at a jump and do it. 1057 00:52:02,206 --> 00:52:05,078 And look at some kind of bounce, look at an angle and just do it. 1058 00:52:05,252 --> 00:52:09,387 So it's a lot like piano sight reading or musical sight reading, 1059 00:52:09,561 --> 00:52:11,911 and the instrument in this case is the game. 1060 00:52:14,783 --> 00:52:17,699 GDQ has the potential to just bring out the absolute best in people, 1061 00:52:17,873 --> 00:52:19,527 and I like that a lot. 1062 00:52:24,315 --> 00:52:27,492 [slow paced beats] 1063 00:52:32,323 --> 00:52:33,715 -[man 4] Okay, I got it. -[man 5] There we go. 1064 00:52:33,889 --> 00:52:35,543 [people cheering] 1065 00:52:35,717 --> 00:52:37,110 [Summoning Salt] But how did we get here? 1066 00:52:38,285 --> 00:52:39,939 And what does speedrunning have to do 1067 00:52:40,113 --> 00:52:42,463 with raising millions of dollars for charity? 1068 00:52:42,637 --> 00:52:44,726 We're missing Panga and ButchCat, so... 1069 00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:46,424 Hey, I'm Miss Kratic Eratic. 1070 00:52:46,598 --> 00:52:48,165 -I'm gonna be your donation cheerer. -Awesome. 1071 00:52:48,339 --> 00:52:49,992 -So nice to meet you. -It's really cool to meet you 1072 00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,038 in real life. You're like one of two streamers I watch. 1073 00:52:52,212 --> 00:52:54,867 Oh, thanks so much. I really appreciate it. 1074 00:52:56,129 --> 00:52:58,740 [Summoning Salt] The truth is that none of this would be happening 1075 00:52:58,914 --> 00:53:02,309 if it weren't for a gathering that took place ten years ago 1076 00:53:02,483 --> 00:53:04,877 in one kid's mom's basement. 1077 00:53:05,443 --> 00:53:08,054 That kid was Mike Uyama. 1078 00:53:08,228 --> 00:53:10,926 [Mike] When we first wanted to do a charity event, 1079 00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:12,972 streaming was not very commonplace, 1080 00:53:13,146 --> 00:53:15,583 and the place for Speedrunners to hang out online 1081 00:53:15,757 --> 00:53:16,758 was Speed Demos Archive. 1082 00:53:16,932 --> 00:53:18,717 [upbeat electronic music] 1083 00:53:18,891 --> 00:53:20,632 [Summoning Salt] Speed Demos Archive is a website 1084 00:53:20,806 --> 00:53:22,721 that originally began as an archive 1085 00:53:22,895 --> 00:53:25,332 of quick playthroughs in 1998. 1086 00:53:26,768 --> 00:53:29,031 To go back even further, no one can say 1087 00:53:29,206 --> 00:53:31,817 with absolute certainty when speedrunning started. 1088 00:53:32,818 --> 00:53:35,255 Since any time someone tried to race through a video game... 1089 00:53:35,429 --> 00:53:37,126 -[electronic voice] Get set... -[gunshot] 1090 00:53:37,301 --> 00:53:39,216 ...technically, you could say they were speedrunning. 1091 00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:42,262 But many points are in the early '90s, 1092 00:53:42,436 --> 00:53:46,092 when a game calledDoom came along and changed everything. 1093 00:53:46,919 --> 00:53:50,401 For speedrunning, it wasn't the gameplay that was so important. 1094 00:53:50,879 --> 00:53:55,754 It was the fact that it included a rudimentary way to record gameplay 1095 00:53:55,928 --> 00:53:58,322 through a system called demo files. 1096 00:54:00,933 --> 00:54:05,372 The way demo files work is the game records your inputs while you're playing 1097 00:54:05,546 --> 00:54:09,115 and then the game's engine can play them back after you finish. 1098 00:54:09,289 --> 00:54:11,291 Essentially recreating your run. 1099 00:54:13,728 --> 00:54:17,645 The demo files were small and could be shared quickly over the Internet. 1100 00:54:18,603 --> 00:54:22,563 So now players had a verifiable proof of their runs. 1101 00:54:23,695 --> 00:54:27,525 Leaderboard started popping up and speedrunning was on its way. 1102 00:54:28,787 --> 00:54:31,703 [electronic music] 1103 00:54:31,877 --> 00:54:34,575 By the mid 2000s, Speed Demos Archive 1104 00:54:34,749 --> 00:54:37,491 had expanded to include many more games. 1105 00:54:39,101 --> 00:54:43,671 Mike Uyama had taken over as the site's administrator, and, in 2010, 1106 00:54:43,845 --> 00:54:46,631 he organized their first live events, 1107 00:54:46,805 --> 00:54:48,850 called Classic Games Done Quick 1108 00:54:49,024 --> 00:54:50,896 to showcase Speedrunners. 1109 00:54:51,070 --> 00:54:53,464 He planned to live stream their runs 1110 00:54:53,638 --> 00:54:55,814 from a gaming convention called MAGFest. 1111 00:54:55,988 --> 00:54:58,469 [man 6 speaking inaudibly] 1112 00:54:58,643 --> 00:54:59,861 -[man 7] Yeah! -[man 6] We're having a blast! 1113 00:55:00,035 --> 00:55:01,776 -Woo! -[laughter] 1114 00:55:01,950 --> 00:55:03,300 [man 6] Enthusiasm. 1115 00:55:04,518 --> 00:55:06,912 [Summoning Salt] But when they tried to start streaming, 1116 00:55:07,086 --> 00:55:08,305 it didn't work. 1117 00:55:08,827 --> 00:55:12,004 We have to discuss this really badly right now. 1118 00:55:13,788 --> 00:55:16,922 [Mike] Their Internet was very bad DSL 1119 00:55:17,096 --> 00:55:19,794 that had about half a megabit of upload. 1120 00:55:19,968 --> 00:55:22,797 Yeah, well, this guy's working on a Linksys router 1121 00:55:22,971 --> 00:55:24,756 and this guy's working on a D-Link router. 1122 00:55:25,931 --> 00:55:29,891 So one would think that between the two of them, we could have, 1123 00:55:30,065 --> 00:55:33,330 you know, like that-- use that as an antenna to access the hotel's wireless network. 1124 00:55:33,504 --> 00:55:36,245 Run a long cable in here and then voilà, we have internet. 1125 00:55:36,420 --> 00:55:38,813 SDA, optimistic all the time. 1126 00:55:40,337 --> 00:55:44,558 [Mike] After a lot of deliberating and a lot of confusion 1127 00:55:44,732 --> 00:55:47,300 and being really unsure what to do, to be honest, 1128 00:55:47,474 --> 00:55:49,389 we decided to pack it up at MAGFest 1129 00:55:49,563 --> 00:55:54,525 and then go to my mom's basement to try and stream our event. 1130 00:55:54,699 --> 00:55:56,396 [man 8] Oh, why don't we try putting Kung Fu in there and see? 1131 00:55:56,570 --> 00:55:58,442 -[man 9] Yeah, can we put Kung Fu in there? -Yeah. 1132 00:55:58,616 --> 00:55:59,791 -[indistinct] Kung Fu in there. -Okay, you know, 1133 00:55:59,965 --> 00:56:01,401 I have rubbing alcohol and Q tips. 1134 00:56:01,575 --> 00:56:02,489 I can get those. 1135 00:56:03,142 --> 00:56:05,057 [Sinister1] Thankfully, the main organizer 1136 00:56:05,231 --> 00:56:07,189 of Classic Games Done Quick, Mike Uyama, 1137 00:56:07,364 --> 00:56:08,713 happened to live close by. 1138 00:56:08,887 --> 00:56:12,194 And we were able to transition the event to, 1139 00:56:12,369 --> 00:56:14,936 uh, the basement of... [chuckles] of his home. 1140 00:56:15,110 --> 00:56:17,069 Um... Oh! It's up. 1141 00:56:18,810 --> 00:56:21,943 -All right, here we go. -Let's see how, let's see how he does. 1142 00:56:23,380 --> 00:56:26,513 [Susan] When they told me that they were going to have this event, 1143 00:56:26,687 --> 00:56:30,430 I could understand wanting to meet the people that you have been 1144 00:56:30,604 --> 00:56:34,347 connected with online, but I could never figure out 1145 00:56:34,521 --> 00:56:38,830 why they thought people would pay money to charity. 1146 00:56:39,352 --> 00:56:42,877 Because they were having video games online. 1147 00:56:43,051 --> 00:56:45,097 -It just didn't compute. -[Mike chuckles] 1148 00:56:46,315 --> 00:56:48,709 [AndrewG] All the people that were there were really into it. 1149 00:56:49,362 --> 00:56:51,756 There were all the people who were really serious about it. 1150 00:56:51,930 --> 00:56:54,411 We decided that we wanted to raise money for charity, you know? 1151 00:56:54,585 --> 00:56:57,849 We didn't want to just do it just for the sake of doing it. 1152 00:56:59,677 --> 00:57:01,374 [Summoning Salt] They announced that all donations 1153 00:57:01,548 --> 00:57:04,072 would go towards a humanitarian organization 1154 00:57:04,246 --> 00:57:06,684 fighting global poverty called CARE. 1155 00:57:06,858 --> 00:57:08,163 [man 10] We have a good connection, 1156 00:57:08,337 --> 00:57:10,992 but we don't want too many people 1157 00:57:11,166 --> 00:57:12,690 -watching a stream from here. -[man 11] Yes. Yeah. 1158 00:57:12,864 --> 00:57:15,910 [Summoning Salt] And then the best gamers 1159 00:57:16,084 --> 00:57:17,390 at their respective games 1160 00:57:17,564 --> 00:57:19,174 started speedrunning. 1161 00:57:19,348 --> 00:57:21,829 -[man 12] That was sick. Good stuff, man. -[laughing] 1162 00:57:23,135 --> 00:57:24,528 [Summoning Salt] It's almost like they said, 1163 00:57:24,702 --> 00:57:26,747 look how much time and dedication 1164 00:57:26,921 --> 00:57:29,228 we've put into understanding these games. 1165 00:57:29,402 --> 00:57:31,317 BrownScales gonna try to pull the ladder glitch. 1166 00:57:31,491 --> 00:57:33,841 [cheering] 1167 00:57:35,930 --> 00:57:38,019 [Summoning Salt] They had done it with no hope for pay. 1168 00:57:38,672 --> 00:57:41,022 There was no money in speedrunning at the time. 1169 00:57:41,196 --> 00:57:46,245 -Awesome. Thank you, thank you. -[man 13] Nice. You got it. Right. 1170 00:57:46,419 --> 00:57:49,814 [Summoning Salt] It was purely passion, and something about that 1171 00:57:49,988 --> 00:57:52,773 resonated with a larger, untapped community. 1172 00:57:52,947 --> 00:57:55,950 [cheering and applause] 1173 00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:03,262 [Sinister1] That event was really the first time 1174 00:58:03,436 --> 00:58:06,439 that people kind of realized, "I think we have something here." 1175 00:58:06,613 --> 00:58:08,180 We raised over $10,000, 1176 00:58:08,354 --> 00:58:09,964 which was way beyond 1177 00:58:10,138 --> 00:58:11,879 what people thought was gonna be raised. 1178 00:58:12,489 --> 00:58:15,013 It was a no-brainer that, you know, this should be done again. 1179 00:58:15,187 --> 00:58:17,624 And that's all for now. Uyama out. 1180 00:58:17,798 --> 00:58:19,234 -[laughter] -Yeah. 1181 00:58:21,410 --> 00:58:22,803 [Summoning Salt] In winter of the following year, 1182 00:58:22,977 --> 00:58:25,676 they organized their second event. 1183 00:58:25,850 --> 00:58:27,852 They expanded to include newer games 1184 00:58:28,026 --> 00:58:30,463 and called it Awesome Games Done Quick. 1185 00:58:31,072 --> 00:58:32,596 This is insanely hard. 1186 00:58:33,901 --> 00:58:37,601 -Yes! -[cheering and applause] 1187 00:58:37,775 --> 00:58:40,386 [Summoning Salt] Enthusiasts from all over 1188 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,781 gathered together to show off intricate time saves 1189 00:58:43,955 --> 00:58:46,131 like the jump role inDonkey Kong Country. 1190 00:58:46,305 --> 00:58:49,003 [cheering and applause] 1191 00:58:49,177 --> 00:58:51,571 [man] What the beepwas that? 1192 00:58:52,616 --> 00:58:54,182 [Summoning Salt] To everyone's amazement, 1193 00:58:54,356 --> 00:58:57,795 this time, they raised over $52,000 1194 00:58:57,969 --> 00:58:59,623 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. 1195 00:58:59,797 --> 00:59:01,538 -Oh, no! -Oh, yes! 1196 00:59:01,712 --> 00:59:04,149 -[cheering and applause] -All right! 1197 00:59:04,976 --> 00:59:06,412 [Summoning Salt] From here on out, 1198 00:59:06,586 --> 00:59:09,023 they ran the marathon twice a year. 1199 00:59:09,197 --> 00:59:12,157 They called the next one Summer Games Done Quick. 1200 00:59:13,332 --> 00:59:17,118 [cheering and applause] 1201 00:59:17,728 --> 00:59:20,644 It was clear there were people all across the world 1202 00:59:20,818 --> 00:59:23,429 interested in the high level execution of these games. 1203 00:59:23,603 --> 00:59:26,301 Oh, you went too far. Oh, don't do it. Yes. 1204 00:59:26,475 --> 00:59:28,608 -Yes. -That was insane. 1205 00:59:28,782 --> 00:59:30,958 [applause] 1206 00:59:33,308 --> 00:59:35,528 [Summoning Salt] And the broader community started taking shape. 1207 00:59:35,702 --> 00:59:37,878 This guy is really hard to get in one hit. 1208 00:59:38,052 --> 00:59:39,837 It's like a one frame thing. 1209 00:59:41,752 --> 00:59:44,711 [cheering and applause] 1210 00:59:46,365 --> 00:59:49,890 And after that 2012 event, we're on Twitch at that time, 1211 00:59:50,064 --> 00:59:51,544 uh, which had been around for a year, 1212 00:59:51,718 --> 00:59:54,765 and, uh, the viewership had gone 1213 00:59:54,939 --> 00:59:56,505 significantly higher than ever before. 1214 00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,421 [upbeat music] 1215 00:59:59,596 --> 01:00:02,250 [Summoning Salt] Twitch was a game-changer for speedrunning. 1216 01:00:03,164 --> 01:00:07,560 One of the first to blow up was an avid runner named Narcissa Wright, 1217 01:00:07,734 --> 01:00:09,083 formerly known as Cosmo. 1218 01:00:09,257 --> 01:00:12,260 12:03. Really, really good time. 1219 01:00:13,871 --> 01:00:16,874 [Summoning Salt] Narcissa developed incredibly in-depth strategies 1220 01:00:17,048 --> 01:00:20,921 for beating what many considered to be the best video game ever made. 1221 01:00:21,530 --> 01:00:24,142 The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. 1222 01:00:29,147 --> 01:00:31,105 -Got it. -[crowd chuckles] 1223 01:00:31,279 --> 01:00:33,368 [applause] 1224 01:00:36,371 --> 01:00:40,027 [Summoning Salt] Another popular runner at this time named siglemic 1225 01:00:40,201 --> 01:00:43,335 started routinely drawing thousands of viewers 1226 01:00:43,509 --> 01:00:45,163 watching Live on Twitch. 1227 01:00:45,990 --> 01:00:48,949 He was one of the biggest stars on the platform. 1228 01:00:49,123 --> 01:00:51,169 But he never turned his camera on. 1229 01:00:52,170 --> 01:00:55,390 He would grind for hours and spoke very little. 1230 01:00:55,564 --> 01:00:59,351 But hisSuper Mario 64 gameplay was second to none. 1231 01:00:59,917 --> 01:01:02,049 [siglemic] Oh, my God. That was really the world record. 1232 01:01:02,876 --> 01:01:04,095 [chuckles] 1233 01:01:06,097 --> 01:01:07,968 Thank you, guys. Thank you. 1234 01:01:11,755 --> 01:01:14,409 [Summoning Salt] When siglemic showed up to perform live 1235 01:01:14,583 --> 01:01:17,499 on camera for the first time ever, 1236 01:01:17,674 --> 01:01:21,155 the intrigue was palpable as fans finally got to see 1237 01:01:21,329 --> 01:01:22,766 the wizard behind the curtain. 1238 01:01:22,940 --> 01:01:26,508 -Yeah. -[cheering and applause] 1239 01:01:28,293 --> 01:01:30,861 [Summoning Salt] Lots of people talk about 2013 1240 01:01:31,035 --> 01:01:34,125 and 2014 as being the golden years of speedrunning. 1241 01:01:34,299 --> 01:01:36,562 And time. 1242 01:01:39,130 --> 01:01:40,087 That's a new world record. 1243 01:01:40,261 --> 01:01:42,524 [cheering and applause] 1244 01:01:47,878 --> 01:01:50,358 [Summoning Salt] The community was big enough to be legit. 1245 01:01:50,532 --> 01:01:53,057 But small enough to still function like a family. 1246 01:01:54,232 --> 01:01:56,625 Then they hit a milestone. 1247 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:57,888 [man 14] Let's go. 1248 01:01:58,062 --> 01:02:00,064 -One million dollars. -Yeah! 1249 01:02:00,238 --> 01:02:02,327 [cheering and applause] 1250 01:02:04,764 --> 01:02:07,288 [Summoning Salt] It was the first time they raised a million dollars 1251 01:02:07,462 --> 01:02:08,855 at a single event. 1252 01:02:10,291 --> 01:02:12,511 [hooting] 1253 01:02:14,687 --> 01:02:19,474 Just like that, Games Done Quick had become a fundraising juggernaut. 1254 01:02:19,648 --> 01:02:21,738 [soft tense music] 1255 01:02:21,912 --> 01:02:23,478 [Sinister1] It's just grown, and grown, 1256 01:02:23,652 --> 01:02:25,742 and grown, and grown every year in terms of how much 1257 01:02:25,916 --> 01:02:28,309 money is raised, how many people are attending, 1258 01:02:28,483 --> 01:02:30,485 how many viewers are watching, 1259 01:02:30,659 --> 01:02:32,836 how many games are shown. 1260 01:02:33,619 --> 01:02:34,838 There's no end in sight. 1261 01:02:39,016 --> 01:02:41,932 [woman] We're almost there, guys. We got it. Come on! 1262 01:02:42,106 --> 01:02:44,282 -[cheering] -We did it! 1263 01:02:46,414 --> 01:02:48,895 Two million. 1264 01:02:51,028 --> 01:02:52,812 [Summoning Salt] By the end of 2018, 1265 01:02:52,986 --> 01:02:54,553 Games Done Quick had raised 1266 01:02:54,727 --> 01:02:57,208 more than sixteen million dollars 1267 01:02:57,382 --> 01:02:58,992 for Doctors Without Borders 1268 01:02:59,166 --> 01:03:00,907 and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. 1269 01:03:01,473 --> 01:03:04,693 [Susan] I just thank God that this is 1270 01:03:04,868 --> 01:03:09,176 such a boon to human kind. 1271 01:03:09,916 --> 01:03:11,744 -Excuse me. -[both chuckles] 1272 01:03:11,918 --> 01:03:13,659 -Sorry. -Okay, mom. 1273 01:03:16,314 --> 01:03:19,012 -Thanks, Mom. -You're welcome. You're Welcome. 1274 01:03:20,579 --> 01:03:23,495 [Summoning Salt] In addition of all the money raised for charity, 1275 01:03:23,669 --> 01:03:26,628 GDQ events have also become a launchpad 1276 01:03:26,803 --> 01:03:29,501 for runners trying to break into the scene full-time. 1277 01:03:29,675 --> 01:03:32,112 -Time. -[cheering and applause] 1278 01:03:32,286 --> 01:03:35,333 [lighthearted music] 1279 01:03:35,507 --> 01:03:37,770 [woman] That was a 48:42. 1280 01:03:37,944 --> 01:03:39,206 -Woo! -Nice. 1281 01:03:39,816 --> 01:03:41,600 [woman] Fantastic. 1282 01:03:42,862 --> 01:03:45,125 Give it up to this man here. 1283 01:03:46,648 --> 01:03:49,042 -The Mexican Runner. -Thank you everybody. 1284 01:03:49,216 --> 01:03:51,523 Thank you so much. Uh, I'm sorry. 1285 01:03:53,525 --> 01:03:55,832 [Kasumi] GDQ is an opportunity for the runners 1286 01:03:56,006 --> 01:03:58,878 to burst out of the gate with their own personality. 1287 01:03:59,052 --> 01:04:00,445 We've definitely had runners 1288 01:04:00,619 --> 01:04:04,318 that that may not have been known before GDQ. 1289 01:04:04,492 --> 01:04:06,930 But their commentary is fantastic. 1290 01:04:07,104 --> 01:04:08,192 I'm gonna get behind him. 1291 01:04:09,889 --> 01:04:12,413 That makes him take more time turning around before he goes phase two. 1292 01:04:12,587 --> 01:04:13,850 Just back out for the AOE. 1293 01:04:14,633 --> 01:04:15,982 [Kasumi] Their speedruns skills are sharp, 1294 01:04:16,156 --> 01:04:18,289 and they create this amazing content 1295 01:04:18,463 --> 01:04:20,465 that people are really excited to see. 1296 01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:23,642 [cheering] 1297 01:04:24,643 --> 01:04:26,688 [Summoning Salt] That brings us to 2019. 1298 01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:29,691 It's the fifth day of Summer Games Done Quick, 1299 01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:34,000 and they've already raised more than $800,000. 1300 01:04:34,174 --> 01:04:37,656 [woman] I have a $500 donation. 1301 01:04:38,135 --> 01:04:39,919 [Summoning Salt] It's the fastest the GDQ 1302 01:04:40,093 --> 01:04:42,704 -has ever raised this amount of money. -Ho! 1303 01:04:43,705 --> 01:04:45,707 [Summoning Salt] And in terms of what people wanna see, 1304 01:04:46,447 --> 01:04:49,407 Kaizo speedruns are at the top of many lists. 1305 01:04:49,581 --> 01:04:51,975 What format can we expect today from these runners? 1306 01:04:52,149 --> 01:04:55,456 Um, basically, it's gonna be just the Kaizo shenanigans all out. 1307 01:04:55,630 --> 01:04:57,719 There's some potential to struggle on some bits. 1308 01:04:57,894 --> 01:04:59,373 Uh, there's definitely some places 1309 01:04:59,547 --> 01:05:01,201 where it can play the different racer strengths. 1310 01:05:01,375 --> 01:05:03,377 Y'all can be ready for some crazy stuff. 1311 01:05:03,551 --> 01:05:04,465 I'll just leave it at that. 1312 01:05:05,423 --> 01:05:09,253 We're gonna count down from five, four, three, 1313 01:05:09,427 --> 01:05:12,865 two, one, go. 1314 01:05:14,388 --> 01:05:18,262 Again, this is a blind race. None of them have seen any of these levels before. 1315 01:05:18,436 --> 01:05:20,568 [lively music] 1316 01:05:20,742 --> 01:05:22,614 [crowd] Oh! 1317 01:05:23,223 --> 01:05:25,922 [Summoning Salt] The pace of a relay format is intense. 1318 01:05:26,574 --> 01:05:30,143 When runners die, they pass the controller to their teammate. 1319 01:05:30,317 --> 01:05:32,580 [crowd] Oh! 1320 01:05:32,754 --> 01:05:34,539 [Summoning Salt] The first team to get to the end 1321 01:05:34,713 --> 01:05:37,107 of the seventh level, wins the race. 1322 01:05:38,325 --> 01:05:40,849 GlitchCat is the first one to advance. 1323 01:05:41,415 --> 01:05:43,765 [commentator 1] Both teams still working on that first screen. 1324 01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:46,420 -As you can see, this is not-- -[commentator 2] Oh! 1325 01:05:46,594 --> 01:05:49,684 [cross talk] 1326 01:05:49,858 --> 01:05:51,512 [commentator 2] All right, GlitchCat. 1327 01:05:51,686 --> 01:05:53,819 [cheering] 1328 01:05:58,302 --> 01:06:01,653 [Summoning Salt] These levels were made by members of the Kaizo community. 1329 01:06:04,830 --> 01:06:07,876 They used the physics and mechanics ofSuper Mario World. 1330 01:06:08,051 --> 01:06:09,966 You see that hitbox? 1331 01:06:10,662 --> 01:06:13,578 [Summoning Salt] But they've coded in their own characters and challenges. 1332 01:06:13,752 --> 01:06:16,798 [commentator 1] This second screen is giving the players a lot of trouble right now. 1333 01:06:16,973 --> 01:06:19,540 [cheering and applauding] 1334 01:06:26,547 --> 01:06:28,680 Yeah! Yes! Yes! 1335 01:06:29,594 --> 01:06:30,943 Yes! Let's go. 1336 01:06:31,117 --> 01:06:32,640 [commentator 2] Such a close race. 1337 01:06:33,163 --> 01:06:35,861 [Summoning Salt] Kaizo is a combination of old and new. 1338 01:06:36,035 --> 01:06:38,168 Oh! 1339 01:06:38,951 --> 01:06:40,822 [Summoning Salt] And to watch these levels get conquered 1340 01:06:40,997 --> 01:06:43,521 by the world's best in real time... 1341 01:06:43,695 --> 01:06:46,654 You might be able to cycle and respawn that, but it'd would be slow. 1342 01:06:47,438 --> 01:06:49,396 [crowd] Oh! 1343 01:06:49,570 --> 01:06:52,095 ...it's at the cutting edge of speedrunning. 1344 01:06:52,269 --> 01:06:54,097 -[commentator 2] There we go, Glitch. -[commentator 1] Oh, Glitch. 1345 01:06:54,271 --> 01:06:56,534 [cross talk] 1346 01:06:56,708 --> 01:06:58,057 [commentator 2] He's in there. 1347 01:06:58,797 --> 01:07:00,103 All tied up here. 1348 01:07:04,716 --> 01:07:06,761 Who's making some moves here? There it is. 1349 01:07:06,935 --> 01:07:08,546 [commentator 1] Poo trying to tie it up for his team right now. 1350 01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:10,504 [commentator 2] And that's the checkpoint. 1351 01:07:13,681 --> 01:07:15,814 [Summoning Salt] All eight runners had their moments. 1352 01:07:17,903 --> 01:07:21,254 [commentator 1] Right now, basically tied up going here into this final level. 1353 01:07:21,428 --> 01:07:24,910 [cheering and applauding] 1354 01:07:25,519 --> 01:07:27,565 [Summoning Salt] But after almost an hour of racing... 1355 01:07:27,739 --> 01:07:30,133 [GlitchCat7] Oh, come on. 1356 01:07:30,698 --> 01:07:32,570 ...it all comes down to which team 1357 01:07:32,744 --> 01:07:35,399 can knock off four pink triceratops first, 1358 01:07:35,573 --> 01:07:37,618 [commentator 1] Who can count to four? 1359 01:07:37,792 --> 01:07:40,360 [commentator 2] I couldn't think of a better way to end the race. 1360 01:07:40,969 --> 01:07:43,450 -[commentator 1] Oh, Tofu! -[commentator 2] One more to go. 1361 01:07:44,016 --> 01:07:46,062 -Going to the-- -[commentator 1] Two more down for Juz. 1362 01:07:46,236 --> 01:07:49,195 -[commentator 2] Oh, and Tofu-- -[commentator 1] The first team out. 1363 01:07:49,369 --> 01:07:51,763 [exclaiming] 1364 01:07:53,678 --> 01:07:55,506 [commentator 1] Tofu pulls it off. 1365 01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,203 -[commentator 2] Wow. -[commentator 1] Let's give it up, 1366 01:07:57,377 --> 01:07:58,509 ladies and gentlemen. 1367 01:08:02,513 --> 01:08:03,688 [commentator 2] Wow. 1368 01:08:04,384 --> 01:08:06,212 What a race. What a race. 1369 01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,129 -[GlitchCat7] Good game. Yeah. -That was so much fun. 1370 01:08:10,303 --> 01:08:12,088 Yeah. That was-- The levels were insane. 1371 01:08:12,262 --> 01:08:14,438 -That was awesome. That was just-- -The levels were insane. 1372 01:08:15,047 --> 01:08:16,875 [GlitchCat7] And look at this crowd. Look at the energy. 1373 01:08:17,049 --> 01:08:18,790 Look at the money that we raised for charity. 1374 01:08:18,964 --> 01:08:21,227 Look at how the community came together to do this. 1375 01:08:21,401 --> 01:08:24,230 This is like one of the biggest Kaizo ROM Hack event that there ever has been. 1376 01:08:24,404 --> 01:08:26,493 And, like, the most people watching a race like this at once, 1377 01:08:26,667 --> 01:08:28,887 I honestly think this is the beginning of something really cool. 1378 01:08:29,453 --> 01:08:31,150 That was awesome. I played all right. 1379 01:08:31,324 --> 01:08:33,457 I made myself happy, and that's, that's good. 1380 01:08:33,631 --> 01:08:35,372 [crowd cheering and applauding] 1381 01:08:39,027 --> 01:08:42,248 [tense electronic music] 1382 01:08:44,468 --> 01:08:46,992 [Summoning Salt] In the practice room, Mitch is warming up 1383 01:08:47,166 --> 01:08:49,690 for aSuper Mario Brothers 3 race. 1384 01:08:49,864 --> 01:08:52,258 In a category called All Forts, 1385 01:08:52,432 --> 01:08:53,955 meaning runners have to complete 1386 01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:56,262 all the fortresses before beating the game. 1387 01:08:56,436 --> 01:08:57,959 Nice. 1388 01:09:00,484 --> 01:09:04,140 [Summong Salt] Mitch's world record is just over 45 minutes, 1389 01:09:04,314 --> 01:09:08,579 and his strategy revolves around his use of an item called the Hammer Suit. 1390 01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:12,322 In the All Forts, you get what's known as the hammer suit. 1391 01:09:12,496 --> 01:09:16,326 And you just have to make a lot of very precise shots with the hammers. 1392 01:09:16,500 --> 01:09:20,504 And if you don't, you'll either take damage or you'll die. 1393 01:09:20,678 --> 01:09:24,421 And if that happens, you only get one hammer suit. So once you get in world seven, 1394 01:09:24,595 --> 01:09:26,118 you have to keep it until the end of the game. 1395 01:09:26,292 --> 01:09:27,815 So if you lose it, you're, you're kind of screwed. 1396 01:09:27,989 --> 01:09:29,687 It's gonna be nerve racking. 1397 01:09:29,861 --> 01:09:33,169 One of the other racers is not gonna use the hammer suit. 1398 01:09:33,691 --> 01:09:35,693 Because it, it does take a long time to learn, 1399 01:09:35,867 --> 01:09:39,697 and you do have to change how you actually play some of the levels. 1400 01:09:45,746 --> 01:09:46,660 Yeah. 1401 01:09:47,183 --> 01:09:48,706 As long as it goes like that 1402 01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,361 in the race, I should be all right. 1403 01:09:54,668 --> 01:09:57,018 [commentator 2] We've got the world record holder of this category, 1404 01:09:57,193 --> 01:10:00,892 MitchFlowerPower coming in 45:25. 1405 01:10:01,066 --> 01:10:02,850 [cheering] 1406 01:10:03,024 --> 01:10:05,679 And finally on my right, the people's champ, 1407 01:10:05,853 --> 01:10:09,988 he's here to stomp out the competition, both literally and figuratively. 1408 01:10:10,162 --> 01:10:13,600 -Give it up for GrandPooBear, everybody. -[cheering] 1409 01:10:16,603 --> 01:10:20,999 GrandPooBear, is almost, in a way, the LeBron James 1410 01:10:21,173 --> 01:10:23,480 of the speedrunning community 1411 01:10:23,654 --> 01:10:26,700 from a streaming and a business standpoint. 1412 01:10:26,874 --> 01:10:29,442 He's got a massive fan base. 1413 01:10:29,616 --> 01:10:33,664 And, at the same time, he's a very humble person about the whole thing. 1414 01:10:34,404 --> 01:10:37,842 [Summoning Salt] In 2018, Poo and Mitch traded the world record 1415 01:10:38,016 --> 01:10:39,844 back and forth in this category. 1416 01:10:41,672 --> 01:10:44,022 [GrandPooBear] That is a new All Forts world record. 1417 01:10:44,979 --> 01:10:47,417 Mitch is gonna get it back soon. 1418 01:10:47,591 --> 01:10:50,855 Like, this is going to be fun. This is fun for me. 1419 01:10:51,029 --> 01:10:54,119 [Summoning Salt] But in a race with four world-class runners, 1420 01:10:54,989 --> 01:10:56,164 anything can happen. 1421 01:10:56,339 --> 01:10:59,559 [suspenseful electronic music] 1422 01:10:59,733 --> 01:11:01,387 [commentator 1] All right, Lawso is going for it. 1423 01:11:01,561 --> 01:11:04,390 Oh, he gets it! What a save! 1424 01:11:06,349 --> 01:11:08,699 -Such an easy trick. -Yeah! 1425 01:11:08,873 --> 01:11:11,919 [suspenseful music] 1426 01:11:13,181 --> 01:11:15,706 [Summoning Salt] GrandPooBear got out to an early lead. 1427 01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,796 [commentator 1] So we see Poo kind of hanging on the left for a second 1428 01:11:18,970 --> 01:11:20,624 to hopefully build the speed, does get it. 1429 01:11:22,495 --> 01:11:25,846 And now, let's see if these fish cooperate, they did, very nice. 1430 01:11:27,761 --> 01:11:30,373 [Summoning Salt] By World six, Mitch led the way. 1431 01:11:30,547 --> 01:11:32,897 But Haxor is right behind him. 1432 01:11:33,071 --> 01:11:35,726 And, at this point, it's still anyone's race. 1433 01:11:41,558 --> 01:11:44,082 [commentator 2] Haxor and Mitch both taking some intentional damage there. 1434 01:11:44,256 --> 01:11:46,345 Being small is very important for this trick. 1435 01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:49,957 [Summoning Salt] The trick coming up that he's referring to 1436 01:11:50,131 --> 01:11:54,310 was mentioned in Nintendo Power magazine back in 1990. 1437 01:11:58,139 --> 01:12:03,667 As small Mario, if runners can manage to hit a specific pixel on the wall 1438 01:12:03,841 --> 01:12:06,583 and jump again at just the right time, 1439 01:12:06,757 --> 01:12:09,803 they're able to get to the top of the blocks of ice. 1440 01:12:10,804 --> 01:12:13,329 This means they skip having to go down the pipe 1441 01:12:13,503 --> 01:12:15,418 to play through the entire level 1442 01:12:15,592 --> 01:12:18,682 and instead can move right to the end of the stage. 1443 01:12:19,422 --> 01:12:23,600 It's a trick that saves around 25 seconds in the speedrun, 1444 01:12:23,774 --> 01:12:26,733 but can be very difficult to pull off under pressure. 1445 01:12:30,607 --> 01:12:34,219 [commentator 1] And Mitch gets there in first try. Very nice. 1446 01:12:35,220 --> 01:12:38,092 -[commentator 2] He read-- -[commentator 1] Haxor gets there in first try as well. 1447 01:12:38,266 --> 01:12:40,617 [commentator 1] These guys had the lifetime Nintendo power subscription, 1448 01:12:40,791 --> 01:12:42,140 I guess. Holly molly. 1449 01:12:42,314 --> 01:12:44,272 -Unreal. -[commentator 2] Come on, Poo. 1450 01:12:44,447 --> 01:12:47,058 [commentator 1] See if Pooh can match. Oh, he hit the pixels. 1451 01:12:47,232 --> 01:12:49,147 Did you see that little stunner? That means he got it. 1452 01:12:49,321 --> 01:12:51,497 Oh, he's getting it. He's just gotta get that one frame. 1453 01:12:51,671 --> 01:12:52,977 [commentator 2] It's a very tough job. 1454 01:12:53,151 --> 01:12:54,718 [commentator 1] Yeah, very, very tough. 1455 01:12:54,892 --> 01:12:56,154 -[commentator 1] There it is. Very nice. -Yeah. 1456 01:12:56,328 --> 01:12:58,374 [cheerings and applauding] 1457 01:13:01,464 --> 01:13:03,466 [Summoning Salt] Mitch, Haxor, and Poo, 1458 01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,120 each picked up the hammer suit in World seven, 1459 01:13:06,773 --> 01:13:09,602 But as is often the case withMario 3 runs, 1460 01:13:09,776 --> 01:13:14,172 it all comes down to who gets lucky at the infamous Hands. 1461 01:13:14,346 --> 01:13:16,435 [music continues] 1462 01:13:21,092 --> 01:13:22,485 [commentator 1] Mitch getting out with just a Hand. 1463 01:13:22,659 --> 01:13:24,835 Haxor getting grabbed by the second one. 1464 01:13:25,009 --> 01:13:28,012 And so now, all of a sudden, Poo is was right behind Haxor. 1465 01:13:28,186 --> 01:13:30,275 So that's kind of exactly how it shows 1466 01:13:30,449 --> 01:13:32,538 of how these Hands can really have their say in this, in this run. 1467 01:13:32,712 --> 01:13:34,888 -[commentator 1] Oh, no. -[commentator 2] Oh, no. 1468 01:13:35,672 --> 01:13:38,326 [tense electronic music] 1469 01:13:38,501 --> 01:13:40,416 [Summoning Salt] With Poo losing a life 1470 01:13:40,590 --> 01:13:43,593 and Haxor getting pulled in by all three hands. 1471 01:13:44,245 --> 01:13:47,423 The rest of the race is smooth sailing for Mitch. 1472 01:13:47,988 --> 01:13:49,120 [commentator 1] Very nice. 1473 01:13:49,729 --> 01:13:50,687 Now, if you blink, you'll miss it. 1474 01:13:50,861 --> 01:13:52,863 This hammer kill is very quick, 1475 01:13:53,037 --> 01:13:54,255 and he's done it. 1476 01:13:54,908 --> 01:13:57,563 -[Mitch] Time. -[cheering and applauding] 1477 01:14:03,177 --> 01:14:06,354 You were doing so freaking good, man. 1478 01:14:06,529 --> 01:14:09,270 I just-- I don't know what happened. Like I did this full jump, 1479 01:14:09,445 --> 01:14:12,186 and it was just like I forgot what the hand was. It was... 1480 01:14:13,536 --> 01:14:17,844 [Summoning Salt] With almost a million dollars raised and still three days to go, 1481 01:14:18,018 --> 01:14:21,935 SGDQ is on pace to raise more than ever before. 1482 01:14:28,725 --> 01:14:31,467 [screams] 1483 01:14:33,556 --> 01:14:34,905 -[GrandPooBear] Hey, man. -[cross talk] 1484 01:14:35,079 --> 01:14:36,863 -You've basically got me. -Oh, thank you. 1485 01:14:37,037 --> 01:14:39,213 Yeah, I know that name, dude. Yeah, dude. 1486 01:14:40,780 --> 01:14:42,216 Got him, added to the collection. 1487 01:14:42,390 --> 01:14:44,001 Added to the collection. That's right. 1488 01:14:45,176 --> 01:14:46,786 -I love you, man. -[Mitch] Thanks, dude. 1489 01:14:47,613 --> 01:14:49,876 [Summoning Salt] It's hard not to get caught up in the idea 1490 01:14:50,050 --> 01:14:52,226 that something special is happening here. 1491 01:14:52,879 --> 01:14:54,925 That a strong community has formed 1492 01:14:55,099 --> 01:14:57,710 around a group of gamers who found their people. 1493 01:14:58,276 --> 01:14:59,625 [man] What an awesome day. 1494 01:14:59,799 --> 01:15:01,409 Way better than I anticipated. 1495 01:15:01,888 --> 01:15:02,802 -Thank you very much. -Right on. 1496 01:15:02,976 --> 01:15:06,414 [upbeat electronic music] 1497 01:15:07,285 --> 01:15:08,155 [Mitch] Hey. 1498 01:15:08,808 --> 01:15:10,375 -[Kailee] Hi. -[Mitch] How's it going? 1499 01:15:10,549 --> 01:15:12,333 [Kailee] Oh, my God, it was so fun to watch. 1500 01:15:12,508 --> 01:15:13,683 -Right? -You did so good. 1501 01:15:13,857 --> 01:15:15,249 Thank you. I definitely played 1502 01:15:15,423 --> 01:15:17,077 a lot better than I thought I was going to. 1503 01:15:18,644 --> 01:15:21,081 -[Kailee] It was so fun to watch. -Right? 1504 01:15:21,255 --> 01:15:22,909 I hope a lot of people were watching. 1505 01:15:23,083 --> 01:15:24,694 I d-- What was the view cap? 1506 01:15:25,303 --> 01:15:28,654 [Kailee] It was, uh, I think, 140,000. 1507 01:15:28,828 --> 01:15:30,917 [whispering] Wow! [normal voice] That's a lot. 1508 01:15:31,091 --> 01:15:33,224 -Um... -[Kailee] That was so awesome! 1509 01:15:37,707 --> 01:15:40,536 [birds chirping] 1510 01:15:58,945 --> 01:16:02,253 The past year has been a little bit different than usual. 1511 01:16:02,427 --> 01:16:05,517 I've actually had to kind of cut back a little bit on the gaming 1512 01:16:05,691 --> 01:16:08,085 just because I've had some different things going on. 1513 01:16:08,259 --> 01:16:10,653 [soft dramatic music] 1514 01:16:11,567 --> 01:16:14,004 I've got a job recently as a truck driver. 1515 01:16:15,309 --> 01:16:16,528 It doesn't leave a whole lot of time 1516 01:16:16,702 --> 01:16:18,617 for the gaming that I like to do. 1517 01:16:22,969 --> 01:16:24,884 Yeah, it's nice being married, finally. 1518 01:16:25,058 --> 01:16:27,191 Um, I've been, I've been with my wife. 1519 01:16:27,974 --> 01:16:31,195 We actually met freshman year of high school. 1520 01:16:36,504 --> 01:16:39,638 Sometimes I joke with people that I knew Andrew before he was famous, 1521 01:16:39,812 --> 01:16:41,640 uh, before he had any world records, 1522 01:16:41,814 --> 01:16:43,207 or things of that nature, 1523 01:16:43,381 --> 01:16:45,601 because, clearly, I married him for his fame. 1524 01:16:46,253 --> 01:16:48,734 My wife, Laura, she's very supportive of my gaming. 1525 01:16:49,866 --> 01:16:52,433 I don't think it would make sense for me to give up gaming 1526 01:16:52,608 --> 01:16:54,697 or give up speedrunning by any means. 1527 01:16:54,871 --> 01:16:56,655 But I do think there are times when 1528 01:16:57,221 --> 01:16:59,136 it needs to take a backseat to other things. 1529 01:17:00,224 --> 01:17:01,834 I'm in the process of buying a house, 1530 01:17:02,008 --> 01:17:03,706 and maybe when I get the house, 1531 01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,839 I'll have time to work on Super Mario Bros.again. 1532 01:17:07,797 --> 01:17:10,669 My work, it has-- had been a lot of hours. It's been... 1533 01:17:10,843 --> 01:17:14,325 It's been tricky to find time to do anything besides work. 1534 01:17:14,499 --> 01:17:17,720 I don't think this is my career, long-term, 1535 01:17:17,894 --> 01:17:19,243 uh, truck driving. 1536 01:17:22,507 --> 01:17:25,989 [sighs] I think there's probably something else out there for me. 1537 01:17:31,821 --> 01:17:34,650 [soft melancholic music] 1538 01:17:40,699 --> 01:17:44,703 [Summoning Salt] Another reason Andrew hasn't been able to devote as much time to gaming 1539 01:17:44,877 --> 01:17:49,186 is that six months ago, his family was struck by tragedy. 1540 01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:51,710 My dad was hit by a car, 1541 01:17:51,884 --> 01:17:55,322 and he suffered some really extensive injuries. 1542 01:17:56,019 --> 01:17:58,325 He's had a really rough recovery. 1543 01:17:58,499 --> 01:18:02,112 Um, he first few weeks, we still didn't know if he was really gonna make it. 1544 01:18:02,286 --> 01:18:05,289 Uh, you know, we didn't know if, for the first few months, 1545 01:18:05,463 --> 01:18:07,987 whether he was even gonna-- if-- whether he was gonna be paralyzed, 1546 01:18:08,161 --> 01:18:11,164 or what, what the real outcome was gonna be. 1547 01:18:14,777 --> 01:18:18,258 I took a break from speedrunning largely due to that. 1548 01:18:18,432 --> 01:18:20,173 I was able to be there for him. 1549 01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:25,613 It's only recently I've been in the snicker. 1550 01:18:25,788 --> 01:18:27,441 'Cause I started with the wheelchair, 1551 01:18:27,615 --> 01:18:29,922 then went to the walker, and then went to the cane. 1552 01:18:30,096 --> 01:18:32,229 This is the first week I've been able to put my foot 1553 01:18:32,403 --> 01:18:34,753 on the sneaker without support. 1554 01:18:35,406 --> 01:18:38,539 My foot will always be screwed up, but I'll be able to walk on it. 1555 01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:41,020 -So I'm happy about that. You know? -Yeah. 1556 01:18:42,065 --> 01:18:45,285 [Roger] I'm actually happier since the accident 1557 01:18:45,459 --> 01:18:47,940 just to sit around and kind of evaluate 1558 01:18:48,114 --> 01:18:49,550 -the important things in life. -Right. 1559 01:18:49,725 --> 01:18:51,465 You know, what's important to you? 1560 01:18:51,639 --> 01:18:53,032 Is it money? Is it a car? 1561 01:18:53,206 --> 01:18:54,686 Is it this? Is it that? 1562 01:18:54,860 --> 01:18:56,079 I find those are nice things, 1563 01:18:56,253 --> 01:18:58,908 but your family and your health, 1564 01:18:59,082 --> 01:19:02,781 and the things that you do, and how you treat people, and how you view life 1565 01:19:02,955 --> 01:19:06,306 is really the most important, you know? 1566 01:19:06,480 --> 01:19:09,527 And that you have a positive effect on people, like you do, you know? 1567 01:19:09,701 --> 01:19:12,051 You exude, you have that thing about you 1568 01:19:12,225 --> 01:19:14,314 that people wanna be around you. 1569 01:19:14,488 --> 01:19:16,621 -They wanna know more about you. -[AndrewG chuckles] 1570 01:19:16,795 --> 01:19:20,668 They wanna follow you on your gaming progress and stuff. 1571 01:19:20,843 --> 01:19:23,367 -That's great. That really is awesome. -[AndrewG] Yeah. 1572 01:19:25,108 --> 01:19:27,414 Definitely when I was little, like, I was pretty... 1573 01:19:27,588 --> 01:19:29,852 I don't know, a lot different than I am now, 1574 01:19:30,026 --> 01:19:32,202 -I guess is kind of, like... -[Roger] Oh. 1575 01:19:32,376 --> 01:19:35,683 -You were such an introvert. It's like... -[AndrewG] Yeah, I mean-- 1576 01:19:35,858 --> 01:19:37,903 ...people would say hi to you. I mean, you'd be civil and everything, 1577 01:19:38,077 --> 01:19:40,384 -but you'd be like "Oh, hi,", you know, and that would be it. -Yeah. 1578 01:19:40,558 --> 01:19:42,647 [Roger] It'd be the extent of the conversation. 1579 01:19:42,821 --> 01:19:45,084 But then you, you started coming here and talking, 1580 01:19:45,258 --> 01:19:48,305 like, really deep thoughts, and I'm like... 1581 01:19:49,175 --> 01:19:52,178 I started being a lot more social and... 1582 01:19:52,352 --> 01:19:53,876 -I don't know. I-- [chuckles] -'Cause he met me. 1583 01:19:54,050 --> 01:19:55,573 -Yes, exactly. -[Roger] Because he met you. 1584 01:19:55,747 --> 01:19:57,575 -Of course, Laura. We know. -No, I, I don't know. 1585 01:19:58,054 --> 01:20:00,534 I think gaming definitely contributed to me 1586 01:20:01,535 --> 01:20:04,756 becoming more extroverted, you know, a little bit. 1587 01:20:05,409 --> 01:20:08,455 I talked a lot on the forums, the Twin Galaxies 1588 01:20:08,629 --> 01:20:10,501 and Speed Demos archive forums. 1589 01:20:10,675 --> 01:20:12,590 And it was nice to meet a bunch of people 1590 01:20:12,764 --> 01:20:15,854 that were doing the same kind of thing that I was doing. 1591 01:20:16,028 --> 01:20:18,509 You know, I was mostly at work 'cause I worked off shifts, 1592 01:20:18,683 --> 01:20:21,599 but still, I remember you being up awake at late 1593 01:20:22,339 --> 01:20:23,949 on the nights that I was around and I'd be like... 1594 01:20:24,123 --> 01:20:25,429 -[AndrewG laughing] -..."Oh, my God, 1595 01:20:25,603 --> 01:20:27,518 is this kid ever gonna go to bed?" 1596 01:20:27,692 --> 01:20:30,216 And then you'd be fine the next day and acting normal. 1597 01:20:30,390 --> 01:20:32,479 I'm like, "Okay, he was up all day yesterday. 1598 01:20:32,653 --> 01:20:35,004 All night. And now he's up, and 'Hey, how you doing?'" 1599 01:20:35,178 --> 01:20:37,354 And I'm like, "I don't know. How are you doing?" 1600 01:20:37,528 --> 01:20:40,792 I played more than I'd like to admit I did. [chuckles] 1601 01:20:41,619 --> 01:20:44,404 I wanted to be the best. That was a lot of it when I first started. 1602 01:20:45,928 --> 01:20:48,234 [melancholic music] 1603 01:20:48,408 --> 01:20:50,889 I feel like I definitely did miss a lot of the... 1604 01:20:51,063 --> 01:20:52,630 You know, I did get into streaming, 1605 01:20:52,804 --> 01:20:56,068 but I felt like I'd already kind of done my stuff. 1606 01:20:56,242 --> 01:21:00,551 By 2010, 2011, which is when streaming really started taking off, 1607 01:21:00,725 --> 01:21:03,597 that was really when I felt like I had accomplished 1608 01:21:03,771 --> 01:21:06,426 kind of everything I wanted to do with speedrunning. 1609 01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:09,081 As far as like what my initial goals were, 1610 01:21:09,255 --> 01:21:11,779 I got the fastest time in Super Mario Bros. 1. 1611 01:21:12,302 --> 01:21:15,131 And then, I, I got the fastest time in Super Mario Bros. 2. 1612 01:21:15,783 --> 01:21:18,438 And then I got the fastest time in Super Mario World, 1613 01:21:18,612 --> 01:21:20,223 which is the Super Nintendo one. 1614 01:21:20,397 --> 01:21:22,094 Then Super Mario Bros. 3. 1615 01:21:22,703 --> 01:21:27,012 And then finally, I got the Japanese Mario, too, 1616 01:21:27,186 --> 01:21:28,622 -the last levels. And-- -Wow. 1617 01:21:28,796 --> 01:21:30,276 And that was, that was my goal. 1618 01:21:30,450 --> 01:21:33,062 -To get, to someday have gotten each one. -Yeah. 1619 01:21:33,236 --> 01:21:35,542 -Yeah. -And I'm the only person that's ever done that. 1620 01:21:35,716 --> 01:21:37,501 I mean, it's hard not to be jealous 1621 01:21:37,675 --> 01:21:42,201 of the 16-year-old kid that just won $3 million in Fortnite. 1622 01:21:42,375 --> 01:21:44,595 -I know. But you know what? -And, and, but then I think-- 1623 01:21:44,769 --> 01:21:46,379 And sometimes, I think to myself, 1624 01:21:46,553 --> 01:21:49,034 "Well, maybe, if, right when Fortnitestarted, 1625 01:21:49,208 --> 01:21:53,386 maybe if I had played it nonstop, nonstop, nonstop, maybe I'd be that guy." 1626 01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,302 But you know, I'm not really into, I'm not... 1627 01:21:56,476 --> 01:21:57,825 That's not a game I really care about. 1628 01:21:58,000 --> 01:21:59,566 -[Roger] Yeah. -It's not really... 1629 01:21:59,740 --> 01:22:01,655 You know, I didn't have any interest in it. 1630 01:22:04,136 --> 01:22:07,096 [Summoning Salt] AndrewGs fastest time atSuper Mario Bros. 1631 01:22:07,270 --> 01:22:10,360 is less than two seconds off the current world record. 1632 01:22:11,317 --> 01:22:13,754 But even if he never gets back to that place, 1633 01:22:14,277 --> 01:22:17,541 his legacy is cemented in time forever. 1634 01:22:17,715 --> 01:22:19,935 [AndrewG] You have different stages in your life. 1635 01:22:20,109 --> 01:22:22,938 This stage of my life, I need to be there for my family. 1636 01:22:24,113 --> 01:22:25,897 Speedrunning will always be there. 1637 01:22:26,071 --> 01:22:28,465 Anybody that knows you loves you. 1638 01:22:28,639 --> 01:22:31,555 That's true. I mean, really, 'cause you're a good kid. 1639 01:22:33,818 --> 01:22:36,125 [birds chirping] 1640 01:22:41,521 --> 01:22:45,308 [tense electronic music] 1641 01:22:45,482 --> 01:22:47,832 [indistinct chatter] 1642 01:22:48,702 --> 01:22:49,965 [Summoning Salt] Back in Minnesota, 1643 01:22:50,574 --> 01:22:52,576 it's the final night of the week-long 1644 01:22:52,750 --> 01:22:55,100 Summer Games Done Quick, 2019. 1645 01:22:56,014 --> 01:22:58,321 And lots of money is being raised. 1646 01:22:58,495 --> 01:23:00,192 [man shouting] Let's go! 1647 01:23:00,366 --> 01:23:03,979 [cheering] 1648 01:23:21,605 --> 01:23:23,607 Feels great. It's the earliest we've ever hit $2 million. 1649 01:23:23,781 --> 01:23:25,826 I'm, I'm pretty much speechless. 1650 01:23:26,001 --> 01:23:28,394 I, you know, I was expecting this marathon to do well, 1651 01:23:28,568 --> 01:23:31,093 but not this well. [laughs] 1652 01:23:32,833 --> 01:23:35,445 [fastattc] It's amazing that these games are still being improved 1653 01:23:35,619 --> 01:23:37,534 so long after they've been released. 1654 01:23:37,708 --> 01:23:40,102 [commotion] 1655 01:23:41,016 --> 01:23:42,930 Fresh set of eyes will come and look at a game 1656 01:23:43,105 --> 01:23:45,411 and, and find something that somehow got overlooked 1657 01:23:45,585 --> 01:23:47,196 by hundreds and hundreds of speedrunners. 1658 01:23:47,370 --> 01:23:48,675 [YellowKillerBee] Thank you for all of those 1659 01:23:48,849 --> 01:23:51,026 generous donations that keep pushing us. 1660 01:23:53,854 --> 01:23:58,250 [YellowKillerBee] I like to consider it like multiple levels of nerd culture, 1661 01:23:58,424 --> 01:24:00,426 because you have, like, people that play video games, 1662 01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:03,168 and then, people who watch other people play video games, 1663 01:24:03,342 --> 01:24:05,562 and then people who play video games really fast. 1664 01:24:05,736 --> 01:24:07,390 Awesome! 1665 01:24:07,564 --> 01:24:09,087 Come on! 1666 01:24:09,870 --> 01:24:12,830 [YellowKillerBee] Each game has its own community, 1667 01:24:13,004 --> 01:24:15,572 and sometimes there's even microcommunities within it, 1668 01:24:15,746 --> 01:24:18,836 like, people who run different categories of a certain game. 1669 01:24:19,010 --> 01:24:21,534 But, overall, when we come to an event like this, 1670 01:24:21,708 --> 01:24:23,710 I feel like the sense of community comes from, like, 1671 01:24:23,884 --> 01:24:26,409 we all have a common interest. 1672 01:24:26,583 --> 01:24:28,715 [woman] Now let's get that $3 million. 1673 01:24:28,889 --> 01:24:31,979 -Hype! -[audience chanting] Three! Three! Three! 1674 01:24:32,154 --> 01:24:36,332 Three! Three! Three! Three! Three! Three! Three! Three! 1675 01:24:37,420 --> 01:24:39,074 [all cheering] 1676 01:24:47,473 --> 01:24:50,737 [Summoning Salt] GDQ's record for money raised at one event 1677 01:24:50,911 --> 01:24:54,741 is $2,425,000. 1678 01:24:54,915 --> 01:24:57,788 But tonight, they're taking it to the next level. 1679 01:24:57,962 --> 01:25:03,359 [woman] Come on! Come on! 1680 01:25:03,533 --> 01:25:06,231 [cheering] 1681 01:25:09,930 --> 01:25:10,975 [woman] Oh, my God, guys! 1682 01:25:11,845 --> 01:25:13,108 You guys are so amazing. 1683 01:25:20,245 --> 01:25:22,987 [Kasumi] We're going to go ahead and read our grand total now, which is 1684 01:25:23,161 --> 01:25:29,211 $3,003,839 1685 01:25:29,385 --> 01:25:31,430 raised for Doctors Without Borders. 1686 01:25:33,476 --> 01:25:34,564 Thank you so much. 1687 01:25:34,738 --> 01:25:38,568 [all chanting] GDQ! GDQ! GDQ! 1688 01:25:38,742 --> 01:25:43,616 GDQ! GDQ! GDQ! GDQ... 1689 01:25:45,618 --> 01:25:48,360 [soft instrumental music] 1690 01:26:02,505 --> 01:26:04,159 [Summoning Salt] There's no doubt, 1691 01:26:04,333 --> 01:26:07,031 sometimes speedrunning can feel hopeless. 1692 01:26:09,468 --> 01:26:12,732 There's never any guarantee that you'll find what you're looking for. 1693 01:26:14,821 --> 01:26:17,694 Some people look for a while, but move on. 1694 01:26:19,261 --> 01:26:23,526 Maybe you can think of speedrunners as the ones who like to just keep looking. 1695 01:26:31,142 --> 01:26:33,449 [birds chirping] 1696 01:26:35,799 --> 01:26:37,322 Gotta warm the hands, man, 1697 01:26:37,496 --> 01:26:38,932 It's the most important thing. 1698 01:26:40,630 --> 01:26:45,112 They are our medium through which we play our video games. 1699 01:26:45,287 --> 01:26:48,203 If you don't take care of your hands, you can't speedrun well. 1700 01:26:49,726 --> 01:26:52,946 [video game chiming] 1701 01:26:58,604 --> 01:27:02,608 My name is Allan Alvarez. My Twitch name is Cheese. 1702 01:27:03,566 --> 01:27:05,002 I was born in Venezuela. 1703 01:27:05,568 --> 01:27:07,744 At three years old, I moved to Trinidad in the Caribbean. 1704 01:27:08,571 --> 01:27:09,572 Yeah, this is what... 1705 01:27:10,660 --> 01:27:12,488 ..."back home in Trinidad" looks like. 1706 01:27:12,966 --> 01:27:14,229 It's not bad. 1707 01:27:15,404 --> 01:27:19,321 Grew up there all my life from three-years old, all the way till 20. 1708 01:27:20,104 --> 01:27:23,412 I moved to Spain in February of 2016. 1709 01:27:24,239 --> 01:27:25,936 I live over there. 1710 01:27:27,851 --> 01:27:29,113 That's where I live. 1711 01:27:30,854 --> 01:27:33,770 I speedrun Super Mario 64 mainly. 1712 01:27:34,292 --> 01:27:38,035 I have no clue why I started speedrunning or why I did what I did. 1713 01:27:38,992 --> 01:27:40,646 And why I didn't stop doing it. 1714 01:27:41,908 --> 01:27:43,519 I just felt like I had to do it. 1715 01:27:44,911 --> 01:27:46,130 Because it was my passion. 1716 01:27:47,392 --> 01:27:49,220 I didn't, I didn't know if it was gonna work out, 1717 01:27:49,394 --> 01:27:51,004 I didn't, I had no clue what was gonna come. 1718 01:27:51,178 --> 01:27:53,398 But then... a year later, 1719 01:27:53,572 --> 01:27:56,096 I got world record in, in 120-star. 1720 01:27:56,271 --> 01:27:57,402 It worked out. 1721 01:27:58,447 --> 01:28:00,797 [Mario] It's me, Mario! 1722 01:28:02,146 --> 01:28:04,322 [Summoning Salt] Of all the different Mario games, 1723 01:28:04,496 --> 01:28:08,848 Super Mario 64 is the most popular with speedrunners. 1724 01:28:09,936 --> 01:28:12,896 Cheese's record in the 120-star category, 1725 01:28:13,070 --> 01:28:16,552 which means that runners need to collect every star in the game 1726 01:28:16,726 --> 01:28:18,336 before beating Bowser at the end, 1727 01:28:18,989 --> 01:28:22,819 is one hour thirty nine minutes and twenty seconds. 1728 01:28:24,124 --> 01:28:26,997 It's the game's most prestigious title. 1729 01:28:27,650 --> 01:28:30,914 His biggest rival is a runner named puncayshun. 1730 01:28:31,697 --> 01:28:34,483 And puncayshun has some bragging rights of his own. 1731 01:28:34,657 --> 01:28:37,094 I beat, uh, siglemic's 120 world record 1732 01:28:37,268 --> 01:28:40,227 who was dominant for, like, years. 1733 01:28:40,402 --> 01:28:42,229 And all these people were like... 1734 01:28:42,404 --> 01:28:44,275 It was a really big deal that I beat him because all these people 1735 01:28:44,449 --> 01:28:46,756 were like, "Oh, sig is unstoppable. 1736 01:28:46,930 --> 01:28:48,714 It's been so long since anybody beat him." 1737 01:28:49,585 --> 01:28:51,021 Um, I'm siglemic. 1738 01:28:51,195 --> 01:28:53,893 I'm the former 120-star world record holder 1739 01:28:54,067 --> 01:28:55,678 for Mario 64. 1740 01:28:55,852 --> 01:28:57,767 The record was recently taken from me. 1741 01:28:58,681 --> 01:29:00,073 Like two days ago, maybe. 1742 01:29:00,247 --> 01:29:02,162 So, pretty recent. 1743 01:29:03,468 --> 01:29:06,210 [Summoning Salt] siglemic was the original ambassador. 1744 01:29:06,863 --> 01:29:09,256 But then puncayshun was faster. 1745 01:29:10,083 --> 01:29:12,651 And Cheese was even faster than that. 1746 01:29:12,825 --> 01:29:17,177 My whole body is... shutting down right now. 1747 01:29:17,874 --> 01:29:20,224 I can't even think. [sighs] 1748 01:29:20,790 --> 01:29:24,402 [Summoning Salt] By 2016, siglemic had disappeared from the scene. 1749 01:29:25,229 --> 01:29:29,581 Cheese and puncayshun traded the record back and forth a number of times. 1750 01:29:30,147 --> 01:29:33,629 But Cheese has been on top for the past two years. 1751 01:29:35,718 --> 01:29:37,850 [dramatic music] 1752 01:29:40,157 --> 01:29:41,985 Another day, another race. 1753 01:29:42,681 --> 01:29:45,641 And I can't wait for it. So let's, let's go. 1754 01:29:47,947 --> 01:29:50,559 [Summoning Salt] Cheese and punayshun are both in Maryland 1755 01:29:50,733 --> 01:29:52,865 for a first-of-its-kind tournament. 1756 01:29:57,087 --> 01:29:59,306 It's a league being run by a new group 1757 01:29:59,481 --> 01:30:01,961 called the Global Speedrun Association. 1758 01:30:02,135 --> 01:30:06,966 Three! Two! One! Go! 1759 01:30:11,101 --> 01:30:13,669 [Cheese] We have arrived. The nerves are settling in. 1760 01:30:15,366 --> 01:30:18,108 [Summoning Salt] Mario 64 players all over the world 1761 01:30:18,282 --> 01:30:21,154 have been racing online for the past six months. 1762 01:30:22,242 --> 01:30:25,550 The Top-4 qualified for this first live event, 1763 01:30:26,203 --> 01:30:28,727 a four-day round-robin tournament. 1764 01:30:28,901 --> 01:30:30,903 [Mario grunting in game] 1765 01:30:31,469 --> 01:30:33,166 GDQs are amazing. 1766 01:30:33,906 --> 01:30:35,473 But they only happen twice a year. 1767 01:30:36,126 --> 01:30:38,911 So as more and more people get interested in speedrunning, 1768 01:30:39,085 --> 01:30:41,871 competitions are popping up to meet demand. 1769 01:30:42,045 --> 01:30:44,656 To get to a top level, just like anything, it's extremely difficult. 1770 01:30:44,830 --> 01:30:48,225 So, it'll be exciting, I think, to see the reaction 1771 01:30:48,399 --> 01:30:49,618 and the response to it. 1772 01:30:49,792 --> 01:30:51,750 -[cheering] -[commentator 1] 47:59 1773 01:30:51,924 --> 01:30:54,361 -[commentator 2] Let's go! -[commentator 1] Final posted time! 1774 01:30:56,059 --> 01:31:00,019 [Summoning Salt] Like GDQ, they're broadcasting the event on Twitch. 1775 01:31:00,193 --> 01:31:02,631 But instead of raising money for charity, 1776 01:31:02,805 --> 01:31:06,504 the tournament has a couple thousand dollars in prize pools 1777 01:31:06,678 --> 01:31:08,550 for the most popular games. 1778 01:31:08,724 --> 01:31:10,290 Coming at you live, 1779 01:31:10,465 --> 01:31:12,989 one of the first live competitive speedrunning events. 1780 01:31:13,163 --> 01:31:15,034 [Mario hollering] 1781 01:31:15,208 --> 01:31:17,646 [Summoning Salt] You can think of Super Mario 64 1782 01:31:17,820 --> 01:31:19,604 as a giant Easter egg hunt. 1783 01:31:20,475 --> 01:31:21,780 [exhales sharply] 1784 01:31:22,651 --> 01:31:25,262 [Summoning Salt] Runner's speed through on predetermined routes, 1785 01:31:25,436 --> 01:31:26,916 collecting power stars, 1786 01:31:27,090 --> 01:31:28,570 [Mario] Here we go! 1787 01:31:28,744 --> 01:31:30,963 [Summoning Salt] These are 70-star races, 1788 01:31:31,137 --> 01:31:34,576 so they're shorter than the full 120-star race. 1789 01:31:34,750 --> 01:31:37,448 [commentator 1] He's got a speed towel. Make sure that the hands are nice and dry. 1790 01:31:37,622 --> 01:31:39,972 You don't want any sweat getting on those handles. 1791 01:31:40,146 --> 01:31:42,627 [Summoning Salt] But they still require almost an hour 1792 01:31:42,801 --> 01:31:44,803 of precise, clean movement. 1793 01:31:45,412 --> 01:31:47,893 [commentator 2] Perfect, three for three from Cheese 1794 01:31:48,067 --> 01:31:51,157 and a 48 under his belt here at PACE. 1795 01:31:52,376 --> 01:31:53,812 -I was in Zen mode, dude. -Yeah. 1796 01:31:53,986 --> 01:31:55,553 -I don't know. I felt like... -In the zone. 1797 01:31:55,727 --> 01:31:57,381 -...a Zen mode. I felt confident. -Yeah. Right. 1798 01:31:57,555 --> 01:32:00,253 And I don't know where it came from, but it's good. 1799 01:32:01,037 --> 01:32:03,474 [Summoning Salt] After three days of head-to-head races... 1800 01:32:03,648 --> 01:32:05,476 -[Cheese] Love you. -[puncayshun] Good work. 1801 01:32:05,650 --> 01:32:09,175 ...Cheese and puncayshun have reached the finals, 1802 01:32:09,349 --> 01:32:13,310 and will face off in a best-of-three series to determine a winner. 1803 01:32:14,006 --> 01:32:17,270 A good thing to note is that puncay always tells me himself, 1804 01:32:17,793 --> 01:32:21,318 that the person he's always afraid to race most, is me. 1805 01:32:22,014 --> 01:32:25,104 So that means that he probably would be feeling more pressured. 1806 01:32:25,278 --> 01:32:26,889 And I could use that to my advantage. 1807 01:32:29,369 --> 01:32:31,807 [dramatic electronic music] 1808 01:32:31,981 --> 01:32:35,419 [Simply] Ladies and gentlemen, we're back once again 1809 01:32:35,593 --> 01:32:39,075 for the final event. Cheese versus puncayshun. 1810 01:32:40,729 --> 01:32:42,208 [puncayshun] I definitely think I can win. 1811 01:32:42,382 --> 01:32:43,558 I'm just, like, really consistent, 1812 01:32:43,732 --> 01:32:45,385 and that gives me an edge in races. 1813 01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:48,780 puncay has a better average time than Cheese. 1814 01:32:48,954 --> 01:32:50,608 But Cheese's is peaks... 1815 01:32:50,782 --> 01:32:52,697 I mean, he's been just running nonstop since my title. 1816 01:32:52,871 --> 01:32:55,134 Cheese doesn't normally run this good in races. 1817 01:32:55,308 --> 01:32:57,484 -Yeah. -But he's just been killing it. I... [stutters] 1818 01:32:57,659 --> 01:32:59,574 -He's just on right now. -He's really on point. 1819 01:32:59,748 --> 01:33:01,401 I don't know if anybody's gonna beat him. 1820 01:33:04,622 --> 01:33:07,190 Cheese is a weird specimen. I mean, just look at that man. 1821 01:33:07,364 --> 01:33:09,366 He's got the hot red glasses, looking fresh. 1822 01:33:09,540 --> 01:33:11,150 You got puncay with a bun. 1823 01:33:11,324 --> 01:33:13,196 It's finally coming to a head. Three big days. 1824 01:33:13,370 --> 01:33:15,459 -Yeah. -And the boys are here, they've been practicing, 1825 01:33:15,633 --> 01:33:17,722 putting their heart into it. It's gonna be lit. 1826 01:33:18,897 --> 01:33:24,511 -[man] Good luck, babe. -[all in unison] Five! Four! Three! Two! One! 1827 01:33:24,686 --> 01:33:26,165 Go! 1828 01:33:26,339 --> 01:33:28,385 [audience applauding] 1829 01:33:28,559 --> 01:33:29,647 [Summoning Salt] Earlier in the tournament, 1830 01:33:29,821 --> 01:33:31,693 during the round-robin stage, 1831 01:33:31,867 --> 01:33:33,738 Cheese beat puncayshun. 1832 01:33:34,652 --> 01:33:38,525 But then, in the first race at these best-of-three finals, 1833 01:33:38,700 --> 01:33:40,832 puncayshun beat Cheese. 1834 01:33:41,006 --> 01:33:42,965 [Simply] puncay takes it home. 1835 01:33:43,139 --> 01:33:46,142 Now one game away from first place. 1836 01:33:47,622 --> 01:33:49,972 Pressure's adding on. Both these players... 1837 01:33:50,146 --> 01:33:52,583 [commentator] puncay doing what he does best. 1838 01:33:53,628 --> 01:33:55,325 Putting his head down and just running. 1839 01:33:55,499 --> 01:33:57,980 [Simply] They know they can win. But they both said 1840 01:33:58,154 --> 01:33:59,764 that when they're racing against each other, 1841 01:33:59,938 --> 01:34:02,158 the nerves are like no other race. 1842 01:34:05,074 --> 01:34:07,424 -[gasps] The slip from Cheese not able... -[commentator] Oh, no. 1843 01:34:07,598 --> 01:34:10,209 ...to clear the gap. Oh, that's such a weird mistake. 1844 01:34:11,297 --> 01:34:14,170 [Summoning Salt] If Cheese loses this race, he's done. 1845 01:34:14,344 --> 01:34:16,651 [Simply] There's breezes on the table for puncay. He is going for it. 1846 01:34:16,825 --> 01:34:18,478 This is an opportunity to make up time over Cheese, 1847 01:34:18,653 --> 01:34:20,263 and he gets it. Very nice. 1848 01:34:21,481 --> 01:34:25,660 [Summoning Salt] Despite being down for most of the race, Cheese caught up. 1849 01:34:27,792 --> 01:34:30,969 [Simply] Oh, Cheese just looking butter. Looking, looking, super solid. 1850 01:34:31,578 --> 01:34:34,103 They're both performing so well that it's hard to appreciate 1851 01:34:34,277 --> 01:34:36,192 -how well they're doing. -[commentator] Agreed. 1852 01:34:37,236 --> 01:34:40,718 [Summoning Salt] Remarkably, after 48 minutes of racing, 1853 01:34:41,197 --> 01:34:44,330 -they had both collected the 70 stars needed. -[audience cheering] 1854 01:34:44,504 --> 01:34:48,813 Now, it's just a sprint to see who can get to Bowser the fastest. 1855 01:34:48,987 --> 01:34:51,250 [music continues] 1856 01:34:58,475 --> 01:35:01,478 -[commentator] Oh, no, Cheese falls! -[Simply] ...from Cheese. 1857 01:35:01,652 --> 01:35:03,785 -And that might be it! -Oh, no! 1858 01:35:04,350 --> 01:35:06,483 [Simply] puncay landing it, and now the throws 1859 01:35:06,657 --> 01:35:10,269 are in between him and first place at PACE. 1860 01:35:10,443 --> 01:35:11,618 [Mario] Yippee! 1861 01:35:12,097 --> 01:35:13,838 [Summoning Salt] With a slight lead, 1862 01:35:14,012 --> 01:35:16,145 puncayshun just needs to be the first to complete 1863 01:35:16,319 --> 01:35:19,104 three successful Bowser throws to win it all. 1864 01:35:19,714 --> 01:35:22,238 [Simply] I can't even begin to imagine the nerves. 1865 01:35:23,065 --> 01:35:24,762 Here comes the throws. 1866 01:35:26,155 --> 01:35:28,157 Ooh, there's one. 1867 01:35:32,422 --> 01:35:34,337 [commentator] Oh? And a miss from puncay! 1868 01:35:34,511 --> 01:35:36,121 [Simply] This is the beginning of something. 1869 01:35:36,295 --> 01:35:37,862 Cheese pushing the glasses up. 1870 01:35:38,341 --> 01:35:40,082 Full anime-mode commence. 1871 01:35:40,256 --> 01:35:41,474 Here we go. 1872 01:35:43,085 --> 01:35:44,521 That's the second one for puncay. 1873 01:35:44,695 --> 01:35:47,045 Just one more, and he's got it in the bag. 1874 01:35:47,219 --> 01:35:48,307 One, for Cheese. 1875 01:35:50,005 --> 01:35:53,182 -And winner is puncay! -[commentator] There it is. 1876 01:35:53,356 --> 01:35:59,101 [simply] He's your SM 64 70-star League first-place finisher. 1877 01:35:59,275 --> 01:36:00,624 [commentator] Insane. 1878 01:36:01,712 --> 01:36:03,975 -Oh, wow. -[Simply] You can see it in Cheese's face. 1879 01:36:04,149 --> 01:36:05,977 He knows it was a good race, but... 1880 01:36:06,151 --> 01:36:12,505 puncay! puncay! puncay! puncay! puncay! puncay! 1881 01:36:15,639 --> 01:36:18,250 [all] Cheese! 1882 01:36:18,424 --> 01:36:20,513 -puncay! -[camera shutter clicks] 1883 01:36:26,215 --> 01:36:28,826 [dramatic music] 1884 01:36:49,455 --> 01:36:51,544 [gunshots over video game] 1885 01:36:53,895 --> 01:36:57,899 [Summoning Salt] In 1994, an exceptional video game was released 1886 01:36:58,073 --> 01:37:00,379 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. 1887 01:37:01,206 --> 01:37:04,601 It's on many lists of top video games ever made. 1888 01:37:06,342 --> 01:37:08,692 Super Metroid is a masterpiece. 1889 01:37:09,301 --> 01:37:11,260 And one of the best to ever play it 1890 01:37:11,434 --> 01:37:13,001 is a runner named Zoast. 1891 01:37:13,175 --> 01:37:15,264 Getting the Any% world record in Super Metroid 1892 01:37:15,438 --> 01:37:17,875 is definitely one of the biggest achievements anybody could hope 1893 01:37:18,049 --> 01:37:19,355 to achieve in speedrunning. 1894 01:37:20,312 --> 01:37:22,227 Since, like, 2008, 1895 01:37:22,401 --> 01:37:24,577 there's only been five people since Hotarubi 1896 01:37:24,751 --> 01:37:26,144 that have gotten this record. 1897 01:37:26,318 --> 01:37:28,146 That's it. And a lot of people have tried. 1898 01:37:29,017 --> 01:37:31,062 [Summoning Salt] In the landscape of speedrunning, 1899 01:37:31,236 --> 01:37:33,586 theMetroid series has become synonymous 1900 01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:36,067 with something called sequence breaking. 1901 01:37:36,241 --> 01:37:40,376 And to understand why sequence breaking is so important to speedrunning, 1902 01:37:41,116 --> 01:37:42,508 we need to start at the beginning. 1903 01:37:42,987 --> 01:37:45,685 [dramatic music] 1904 01:37:45,860 --> 01:37:50,081 [man speaking Japanese] 1905 01:37:51,866 --> 01:37:53,868 [Summoning Salt] Metroid is a Japanese franchise 1906 01:37:54,042 --> 01:37:57,654 that came out on the original Nintendo in 1986. 1907 01:37:57,828 --> 01:38:00,483 [beeping] 1908 01:38:00,657 --> 01:38:03,181 It combined the platforming ofSuper Mario Bros. 1909 01:38:03,355 --> 01:38:06,184 with the exploration ofThe Legend of Zelda. 1910 01:38:07,098 --> 01:38:09,840 But it had a darker, more isolated feel. 1911 01:38:14,497 --> 01:38:17,152 Developers had speed in mind when they createdMetroid. 1912 01:38:18,849 --> 01:38:22,070 If players were able to beat the game in under an hour, 1913 01:38:22,244 --> 01:38:24,899 the protagonist, Samus, 1914 01:38:25,073 --> 01:38:27,597 revealed what was a surprise at the time. 1915 01:38:28,467 --> 01:38:31,906 Samus was a woman, who interestingly, was based 1916 01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:36,388 on the character played by actress Sigourney Weaver in the movieAlien. 1917 01:38:38,434 --> 01:38:41,959 Speed was also at the forefront when players began finding ways 1918 01:38:42,133 --> 01:38:45,006 to break the sequence ofMetroid's playthrough. 1919 01:38:46,311 --> 01:38:48,531 Sequence breaking is when you do something 1920 01:38:48,705 --> 01:38:50,533 that allows you to play a game 1921 01:38:50,707 --> 01:38:53,014 out of the order it was meant to be played. 1922 01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:56,931 And to even sometimes skip sections altogether. 1923 01:38:58,889 --> 01:39:01,805 The classic example of aMetroid sequence break 1924 01:39:02,501 --> 01:39:06,679 let players get to the end much quicker than was originally thought possible. 1925 01:39:07,811 --> 01:39:11,858 Normally, to unlock a bridge that gets you to the final boss, 1926 01:39:12,033 --> 01:39:15,775 you need to have beaten both mini bosses, Kraid and Ridley. 1927 01:39:15,950 --> 01:39:18,343 [beeping and chiming] 1928 01:39:21,651 --> 01:39:23,479 But instead of using the bridge, 1929 01:39:23,653 --> 01:39:26,090 players figured out a creative workaround 1930 01:39:26,264 --> 01:39:29,006 to bypass having to take on the mini bosses. 1931 01:39:29,833 --> 01:39:32,444 If you could lure an enemy through the door, 1932 01:39:32,967 --> 01:39:36,666 once inside, you can use Samus' ice beam to freeze it, 1933 01:39:37,493 --> 01:39:40,539 and then use it as a platform to get across the gap. 1934 01:39:44,761 --> 01:39:47,198 This little trick completely circumvented 1935 01:39:47,372 --> 01:39:49,679 howMetroid was intended to be played. 1936 01:39:54,684 --> 01:39:59,080 Now, players didn't need to make their way through large portions of the map, 1937 01:39:59,776 --> 01:40:02,300 and instead could proceed right to the end 1938 01:40:02,474 --> 01:40:03,910 to take on Mother Brain. 1939 01:40:05,042 --> 01:40:07,958 [beeping and chiming] 1940 01:40:08,698 --> 01:40:10,439 Sequence breaking opened the door 1941 01:40:10,613 --> 01:40:13,181 to a new way of playing games quickly. 1942 01:40:13,790 --> 01:40:16,097 And by the time Super Metroid came out, 1943 01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:21,711 sequence breaking was considered a discoverable feature, not a bug. 1944 01:40:22,190 --> 01:40:24,975 [Zoast] I can't tell you how many hours I've put into this game 1945 01:40:25,149 --> 01:40:27,325 The gimmicky thing is you're supposed to put 10,000 hours 1946 01:40:27,499 --> 01:40:28,892 into something before you master it. 1947 01:40:29,414 --> 01:40:31,677 I'd say I've put 10,000 hours into this, 1948 01:40:32,461 --> 01:40:34,028 which is kind of crazy. 1949 01:40:35,116 --> 01:40:37,074 I just love video games, you know. 1950 01:40:39,772 --> 01:40:41,861 I've been playing video games my whole life. 1951 01:40:42,427 --> 01:40:46,953 The first system we ever got was a ColecoVision when I was a very small kid. 1952 01:40:47,998 --> 01:40:50,044 One of the best things about Super Metroidis 1953 01:40:50,218 --> 01:40:51,523 the ability to sequence break the game, 1954 01:40:51,697 --> 01:40:53,482 and the fact that the game is so open-ended. 1955 01:40:54,222 --> 01:40:57,616 If you're good enough, or you can do some of the advanced techniques, 1956 01:40:57,790 --> 01:41:01,272 you're able to completely change the way you play the game. 1957 01:41:02,491 --> 01:41:05,102 There is a freedom to Super Metroidin that way 1958 01:41:05,276 --> 01:41:07,757 that is pretty rare in older games. 1959 01:41:08,323 --> 01:41:11,369 [Summoning Salt] For example, in a casual playthrough, 1960 01:41:11,543 --> 01:41:13,719 when Samus reaches this room, 1961 01:41:13,893 --> 01:41:16,896 she can't make it out of the lava to get to the upper landing. 1962 01:41:18,246 --> 01:41:20,030 But in a high-level speedrun, 1963 01:41:20,596 --> 01:41:23,468 Zoast performs an elaborate sequence break. 1964 01:41:23,990 --> 01:41:29,170 As he enters the lava, he intentionally runs into one of the skulls on the wall. 1965 01:41:30,519 --> 01:41:34,827 If you look closely, the skull is actually shooting a fireball, 1966 01:41:35,306 --> 01:41:38,483 and when it hits Samus, it causes a damage boost 1967 01:41:38,657 --> 01:41:40,442 that pushes her towards the floor. 1968 01:41:41,443 --> 01:41:45,142 Zoast then executes a perfectly timed Shine Spark, 1969 01:41:45,316 --> 01:41:48,711 which is a special move that skyrockets Samus to the ceiling. 1970 01:41:50,669 --> 01:41:52,497 That just scratches the surface 1971 01:41:52,671 --> 01:41:55,500 of all the inputs that Zoast needs to precisely control 1972 01:41:55,674 --> 01:41:57,241 to make this break happen. 1973 01:41:57,850 --> 01:42:01,419 But if you can pull it off, Samus can access an area 1974 01:42:01,593 --> 01:42:04,074 you are not supposed to be able to get to yet. 1975 01:42:05,641 --> 01:42:09,471 And over the years, as more breaks were discovered, 1976 01:42:09,645 --> 01:42:10,776 times got quicker. 1977 01:42:10,950 --> 01:42:13,649 [lively electronic music] 1978 01:42:14,476 --> 01:42:18,828 Super Metroid was one of the first console games with an in-game timer. 1979 01:42:19,742 --> 01:42:22,701 So there was added prestige in trying to beat it quickly. 1980 01:42:23,876 --> 01:42:27,532 And to do it at the highest level takes creativity. 1981 01:42:27,706 --> 01:42:30,187 I'm sort of known for changing my grip a lot. 1982 01:42:31,057 --> 01:42:33,973 When you try to run, and you accidentally switch over 1983 01:42:34,148 --> 01:42:35,453 to X-ray, it stops you. 1984 01:42:36,454 --> 01:42:38,717 And that's a big problem when you're speedrunning, obviously. 1985 01:42:38,891 --> 01:42:41,720 So what I do is, I do this thing I call the piano grip, 1986 01:42:42,373 --> 01:42:44,680 and I go like this, so I can use all four of these fingers 1987 01:42:44,854 --> 01:42:45,811 and then to hit Select. 1988 01:42:57,780 --> 01:43:00,348 It's obviously not easy, but... [chuckles] 1989 01:43:01,044 --> 01:43:03,699 It allows me to do these rooms as fast as I can do them. 1990 01:43:08,225 --> 01:43:11,968 [Summoning Salt] When Zoast first saw speedruns himself in the mid-2000s, 1991 01:43:12,447 --> 01:43:14,231 no one was better atSuper Metroid 1992 01:43:14,405 --> 01:43:18,279 than a mysterious runner from Japan named Hotarubi. 1993 01:43:19,149 --> 01:43:21,020 Very little was known about him, 1994 01:43:21,499 --> 01:43:24,285 but he held records in a number of different games. 1995 01:43:24,850 --> 01:43:26,765 Hotarubi is a legend, in a Super Metroidspeedrunning, 1996 01:43:26,939 --> 01:43:28,202 and speedrunning in general, really. 1997 01:43:29,333 --> 01:43:31,248 He just crushed everybody at the time. 1998 01:43:31,770 --> 01:43:33,598 When people first saw his runs, 1999 01:43:33,772 --> 01:43:35,948 they weren't sure whether it was real or not. 2000 01:43:36,122 --> 01:43:37,602 They thought that he had cheated to achieve those, 2001 01:43:37,776 --> 01:43:39,343 or spliced together the run. 2002 01:43:39,517 --> 01:43:42,520 [upbeat electronic music] 2003 01:43:53,227 --> 01:43:57,796 [Summoning Salt] Turns out, Hotarubi was a kid growing up outside of Tokyo, 2004 01:43:57,970 --> 01:43:59,711 who was particularly good at math 2005 01:43:59,885 --> 01:44:02,148 and patterned his play by studying runs 2006 01:44:02,323 --> 01:44:06,240 created optimally by humans and then played back by computers. 2007 01:44:06,936 --> 01:44:09,112 Or tool-assisted speedruns. 2008 01:44:32,222 --> 01:44:34,790 [video game music] 2009 01:44:34,964 --> 01:44:39,751 [Summoning Salt] When Hotarubi set theSuper Metroid Any% record in 2006, 2010 01:44:39,925 --> 01:44:45,279 he came out of nowhere, and was almost four minutes ahead of the next fastest time. 2011 01:44:47,019 --> 01:44:48,934 And to add to his lore, 2012 01:44:49,108 --> 01:44:51,807 towards the end of his world record run, 2013 01:44:51,981 --> 01:44:54,200 Hotarubi saved the animals. 2014 01:44:55,898 --> 01:44:57,856 After defeating Mother Brain, 2015 01:44:58,030 --> 01:45:01,382 Samus has to escape the planet before it explodes. 2016 01:45:02,121 --> 01:45:06,430 But there's a quick detour that leads to a room with trapped animals. 2017 01:45:07,083 --> 01:45:10,260 It's a fun side-challenge, but you don't need to do it. 2018 01:45:11,305 --> 01:45:15,831 So not only was Hotarubi's run so fast that people thought it was fake, 2019 01:45:16,397 --> 01:45:19,661 for good measure, he also saved the animals. 2020 01:45:23,273 --> 01:45:26,232 You have to go to this sort of alternate route 2021 01:45:26,755 --> 01:45:29,148 and you can blow the wall up and they, they escape. 2022 01:45:30,672 --> 01:45:32,413 And that allows you to leave the room. 2023 01:45:33,762 --> 01:45:35,807 When the planet explodes, right before it explodes, 2024 01:45:35,981 --> 01:45:39,202 you see, like a little blip, like one little pixel flying off. 2025 01:45:39,376 --> 01:45:41,160 That's the only change it makes in the ending. 2026 01:45:42,466 --> 01:45:44,163 Right here, you'll see the animals. 2027 01:45:45,426 --> 01:45:47,645 See that? [laughs] That's it. 2028 01:45:47,819 --> 01:45:48,994 That's the only change it makes in the game. 2029 01:45:49,168 --> 01:45:51,606 [upbeat electronic music] 2030 01:45:52,215 --> 01:45:55,218 [Summoning Salt] Hotarubi could have never imagined that, years later, 2031 01:45:55,392 --> 01:45:58,352 deciding whether or not to save the animals, 2032 01:45:58,526 --> 01:46:02,312 would become a focal point at Games Done Quick marathons. 2033 01:46:02,486 --> 01:46:05,489 [announcer] We have "save the animals" at $14,939 2034 01:46:05,663 --> 01:46:08,797 -and "kill the animals" at $16,440. -Oh. 2035 01:46:08,971 --> 01:46:10,625 Yes. Here we go. 2036 01:46:14,585 --> 01:46:16,718 [Summoning Salt] GDQ uses the decision to save, 2037 01:46:16,892 --> 01:46:20,722 or in essence, kill the animals by not helping them escape, 2038 01:46:20,896 --> 01:46:24,595 as a major incentive to raise money for their charities. 2039 01:46:24,769 --> 01:46:26,467 [commentator 1] I got $20 from Carrie. 2040 01:46:26,641 --> 01:46:29,121 "I send this money against cancer and towards the animals. 2041 01:46:29,295 --> 01:46:31,167 How can you not save them? 2042 01:46:31,341 --> 01:46:34,213 Let's show everyone what speedruns truly are capable of. 2043 01:46:34,388 --> 01:46:36,433 Let's save these animals." 2044 01:46:37,086 --> 01:46:41,264 [Summoning Salt] Viewers donate during the run to determine the runner's route. 2045 01:46:41,438 --> 01:46:47,401 [commentator 2] And with a final total of $128,152 2046 01:46:47,575 --> 01:46:51,840 to $126,711 2047 01:46:52,014 --> 01:46:54,495 at SGDQ 2017, 2048 01:46:54,669 --> 01:46:57,193 the animals will... 2049 01:46:58,150 --> 01:47:00,414 -...die! -[audience cheering and applauding] 2050 01:47:05,593 --> 01:47:08,291 [Summoning Salt] It's gone back and forth over the years. 2051 01:47:08,465 --> 01:47:10,511 But if it were up to Hotarubi... 2052 01:47:24,829 --> 01:47:27,441 [slow dramatic music] 2053 01:47:34,099 --> 01:47:36,275 [Summoning Salt] Every so often, someone comes around 2054 01:47:36,450 --> 01:47:38,843 who is light years ahead of the competition. 2055 01:47:41,106 --> 01:47:44,283 It's not always easy to put a finger on how they do it... 2056 01:47:45,850 --> 01:47:48,026 ...but it's fun to appreciate it when we see it. 2057 01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:50,246 [dramatic music] 2058 01:47:50,420 --> 01:47:53,945 Hotarubi held the world record for almost six full years, 2059 01:47:54,119 --> 01:47:56,426 and eventually moved on to other games. 2060 01:47:57,993 --> 01:48:00,474 That's when a new wave of runners caught up. 2061 01:48:01,605 --> 01:48:03,651 Zoast was part of that new wave. 2062 01:48:08,220 --> 01:48:11,615 [tense piano music playing] 2063 01:48:26,108 --> 01:48:31,156 [Summoning Salt] Since 2013, Zoast has traded theSuper Metroid Any% world record. 2064 01:48:31,330 --> 01:48:34,638 back and forth, with just three other runners, 2065 01:48:34,812 --> 01:48:37,511 as the speedrun continues to evolve. 2066 01:48:42,864 --> 01:48:45,388 [beeping and chiming] 2067 01:48:50,349 --> 01:48:54,223 To stay on top of a game as contested asSuper Metroid 2068 01:48:54,397 --> 01:48:55,572 takes dedication. 2069 01:48:57,922 --> 01:49:01,709 [Zoast] On average, I usually spend about 30 to 40 hours a week on speedruns. 2070 01:49:02,971 --> 01:49:05,060 Streaming is my primary job right now. 2071 01:49:06,409 --> 01:49:08,193 I have an electrician's license 2072 01:49:08,367 --> 01:49:10,326 I'm in the electricians union as a backup. 2073 01:49:10,979 --> 01:49:13,285 But my primary source of income is streaming. 2074 01:49:13,459 --> 01:49:15,418 [upbeat electronic music] 2075 01:49:23,687 --> 01:49:27,256 I've been around for so long, and I've accomplished so many things in Super Metroid 2076 01:49:27,430 --> 01:49:30,041 that I don't feel like I have to prove anything anymore, really, 2077 01:49:30,215 --> 01:49:31,521 but I still very much enjoy it. 2078 01:49:33,001 --> 01:49:35,046 As new generations come to watch games, 2079 01:49:35,220 --> 01:49:37,919 they definitely gravitate a little bit more towards the newer games. 2080 01:49:38,441 --> 01:49:41,879 But there's no shortage of people that still love the old games at all. 2081 01:49:42,053 --> 01:49:44,534 [dramatic music] 2082 01:49:51,933 --> 01:49:54,762 One thing about speedrunning is that it's a very 2083 01:49:54,936 --> 01:49:56,546 "do it yourself" sort of mentality. 2084 01:49:58,374 --> 01:50:01,420 There's not really many people that are sponsored by big companies. 2085 01:50:02,900 --> 01:50:04,902 But I think there's really a beauty to that. 2086 01:50:06,469 --> 01:50:07,818 That maybe the way of the future. 2087 01:50:07,992 --> 01:50:08,950 That's the way a lot of things are going. 2088 01:50:13,694 --> 01:50:15,347 I'm already older than most speedrunners, 2089 01:50:15,521 --> 01:50:17,785 so I'm not sure exactly how long 2090 01:50:17,959 --> 01:50:20,439 I'll be able to keep doing it, at least at the top level. 2091 01:50:20,614 --> 01:50:24,922 But I think in ten years I'll still be streaming and speedrunning, 2092 01:50:25,096 --> 01:50:26,271 at least in some sense. 2093 01:50:28,099 --> 01:50:32,234 You can't really judge how long people are gonna be interested in something. 2094 01:50:32,408 --> 01:50:33,844 And if you see a chance... 2095 01:50:35,237 --> 01:50:37,152 ...you just have to go for it sometimes. 2096 01:50:40,938 --> 01:50:43,288 [cheerful electronic music] 2097 01:50:45,900 --> 01:50:49,207 [Summoning Salt] The world of speedrunning is filled with interesting people. 2098 01:50:49,773 --> 01:50:51,557 From all walks of life. 2099 01:50:55,823 --> 01:50:58,826 But perhaps no one has been more influential... 2100 01:50:59,870 --> 01:51:02,481 ...controversial and famous 2101 01:51:03,352 --> 01:51:04,658 than Narcissisa Wright. 2102 01:51:06,224 --> 01:51:08,531 I never use this thing when it's not docked. 2103 01:51:16,278 --> 01:51:18,672 Some people think of video games as an escape 2104 01:51:19,150 --> 01:51:21,544 from reality or something, but I kind of feel like... 2105 01:51:23,720 --> 01:51:27,463 ...video games are this very hard reality of math and numbers 2106 01:51:27,637 --> 01:51:31,815 that is governed by this unchanging code that is very real. 2107 01:51:33,121 --> 01:51:34,775 It's not really an escape. 2108 01:51:38,387 --> 01:51:40,389 This is about the only speedrun I do right now. 2109 01:51:44,872 --> 01:51:47,483 Pokémon Shieldis my newest thing I'm really into. 2110 01:51:48,658 --> 01:51:50,704 I go on this thing called the Rotom Rally. 2111 01:51:51,705 --> 01:51:54,882 You ride your bike, and it's the speedrun challenge. 2112 01:51:55,839 --> 01:51:59,016 I'm quite sure no one's ever done this route faster than me. 2113 01:51:59,669 --> 01:52:01,236 Press B right now to get the boost, 2114 01:52:01,410 --> 01:52:03,151 then I immediately get the boost when it comes back 2115 01:52:03,325 --> 01:52:05,240 that way, it runs out the moment I hit the balloons, 2116 01:52:05,414 --> 01:52:06,632 then I get another boost charging. 2117 01:52:07,285 --> 01:52:09,897 Then here's the RNG section, I have to avoid the pokémon. 2118 01:52:10,071 --> 01:52:13,814 And then I found another exploit right here. 2119 01:52:13,988 --> 01:52:17,339 For this balloon, it actually keeps circling while you have this menu open 2120 01:52:17,513 --> 01:52:19,167 so you can wait until it's on top of you, 2121 01:52:19,341 --> 01:52:21,256 and then you can get a more direct line to the finish. 2122 01:52:21,952 --> 01:52:25,347 [chuckles] I just like ended up discovering all these little tricks to save time. 2123 01:52:26,522 --> 01:52:30,352 I know I can beat it by probably around two frames, if I get a really clean run. 2124 01:52:33,224 --> 01:52:34,486 There's stuff like the Rotom Rally 2125 01:52:34,660 --> 01:52:36,706 that, like, hooks me. [chuckles softly] 2126 01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:40,014 Even without a community or audience or anything, just... 2127 01:52:41,145 --> 01:52:43,495 ...you know, grinding this bike route or whatever. 2128 01:52:43,669 --> 01:52:45,019 It's just really fun. 2129 01:52:46,977 --> 01:52:49,197 [Summoning Salt] Long beforePokémon Shield, 2130 01:52:49,371 --> 01:52:51,025 Narcissa was a pioneer 2131 01:52:51,199 --> 01:52:53,767 at playing what is most commonly referred to 2132 01:52:53,941 --> 01:52:56,682 as the greatest video game ever made... 2133 01:52:57,596 --> 01:53:00,861 ...The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. 2134 01:53:01,035 --> 01:53:03,951 [The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time music playing] 2135 01:53:04,647 --> 01:53:08,259 Not only wasOcarina of Time a monumental accomplishment 2136 01:53:08,433 --> 01:53:11,523 -in 3D gaming for Nintendo... -Hello. 2137 01:53:11,697 --> 01:53:14,222 ...it was also really important for speedrunning. 2138 01:53:14,396 --> 01:53:16,006 [screams] 2139 01:53:16,180 --> 01:53:17,094 [Summoning Salt] Largely because it's 2140 01:53:17,268 --> 01:53:18,792 a very broken game. 2141 01:53:19,401 --> 01:53:21,316 Meaning there are lots of places 2142 01:53:21,490 --> 01:53:24,754 to exploit glitches and to perform sequence breaks. 2143 01:53:26,060 --> 01:53:27,975 In the early 2000s, 2144 01:53:28,149 --> 01:53:31,456 Internet forums were still a new way of collaborating. 2145 01:53:31,979 --> 01:53:33,850 And the obsession and intensity 2146 01:53:34,024 --> 01:53:37,375 on theOcarina of Time threads was unprecedented. 2147 01:53:37,549 --> 01:53:40,465 [Narcissa] The community of Ocarina of Timewas huge. 2148 01:53:40,639 --> 01:53:43,120 It was a really popular game. And then it was also 2149 01:53:43,294 --> 01:53:45,906 the most discussed game on Speed Demos Archive. 2150 01:53:46,080 --> 01:53:48,517 That led to a lot of collaboration within speedrunning 2151 01:53:49,126 --> 01:53:50,388 I started ZeldaSpeedRuns, 2152 01:53:50,562 --> 01:53:53,609 then we had more focused discussions, 2153 01:53:53,783 --> 01:53:56,612 and so it really got looked at. 2154 01:53:58,222 --> 01:54:00,007 [Summoning Salt] In a traditional playthrough, 2155 01:54:00,181 --> 01:54:03,837 the character Link ages as the game goes along. 2156 01:54:05,012 --> 01:54:08,754 Link needs to become an adult before he can save Zelda 2157 01:54:08,929 --> 01:54:11,496 and defeat the evil king, Ganondorf. 2158 01:54:12,584 --> 01:54:15,370 But speedrunners, after years of investigation, 2159 01:54:15,544 --> 01:54:20,114 figured out a way to beat Ganon while Link is still a child. 2160 01:54:20,288 --> 01:54:22,681 [Narcissa] So Ocarina of Time is a game all about time travel. 2161 01:54:22,856 --> 01:54:25,162 It's kind of ironic that the speedrun 2162 01:54:25,336 --> 01:54:27,164 not only doesn't go forward in time, 2163 01:54:27,338 --> 01:54:30,864 but ends up meeting adult Zelda as child Link 2164 01:54:31,429 --> 01:54:34,171 and completely messes up the timeline and everything. 2165 01:54:34,345 --> 01:54:35,912 It's kind of poetic. 2166 01:54:36,478 --> 01:54:39,002 [Summoning Salt] Of course, for this to happen requires 2167 01:54:39,176 --> 01:54:41,265 incredibly complex movements. 2168 01:54:41,875 --> 01:54:45,661 Figuring it out has spawned generations of devoted experts. 2169 01:54:45,835 --> 01:54:49,186 I've been speedrunning this game for basically 12 years now. 2170 01:54:50,318 --> 01:54:52,407 [Summoning Salt] Zfg is known for speedrunning 2171 01:54:52,581 --> 01:54:55,540 the 100% category ofOcarina of Time, 2172 01:54:55,714 --> 01:54:57,978 which takes hours to complete. 2173 01:54:58,152 --> 01:55:02,199 And means that he needs to get every single item in the game. 2174 01:55:02,373 --> 01:55:06,029 Casual players will almost never run into a single glitch in their entire playthrough, 2175 01:55:06,682 --> 01:55:07,988 but if you know what you're doing, 2176 01:55:08,162 --> 01:55:09,903 if you know how the game is working, 2177 01:55:10,077 --> 01:55:12,427 then you can start abusing that really fast. 2178 01:55:12,601 --> 01:55:15,125 While I'm in the basement here, there's a bunch of invisible water. 2179 01:55:15,299 --> 01:55:18,433 All the water in the game extends downwards infinitely. 2180 01:55:18,607 --> 01:55:21,175 And there's supposed to be just like shallow water around bottom of the well. 2181 01:55:21,349 --> 01:55:24,308 But this shallow water, you know, extends downwards all the time. 2182 01:55:24,787 --> 01:55:28,660 And I can swim through this water to get to this chest early and get Bombchus. 2183 01:55:30,619 --> 01:55:33,970 [Summoning Salt] Another notable Zelda runner named Torje, 2184 01:55:34,144 --> 01:55:38,670 is a phenom and has held the Any% world record several different times. 2185 01:55:38,844 --> 01:55:43,197 Start in three, two, one, go. 2186 01:55:43,371 --> 01:55:45,895 The first time I got the record, I was 16. 2187 01:55:46,069 --> 01:55:48,767 A lot of people called me a prodigy, which is really cool. [chuckles] 2188 01:55:48,942 --> 01:55:52,119 There's one trick in particular, sort of near the end of the run, called Wrong Warp. 2189 01:55:52,293 --> 01:55:54,556 With that, we sort of do everything before that 2190 01:55:54,730 --> 01:55:57,646 to build up to that trick, just to be able to do that trick as fast as possible. 2191 01:55:58,995 --> 01:56:02,346 I'm from Norway, and there's a lot of Zeldaspeedrunners, 2192 01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:03,608 specifically from Sweden. 2193 01:56:04,696 --> 01:56:06,481 The glitches are just so deep in the game. 2194 01:56:06,655 --> 01:56:09,179 Like, there's so much you can do, there's so much variance. 2195 01:56:09,353 --> 01:56:12,617 Anything less than 90 degrees, with high enough speed, you can go right through it. 2196 01:56:12,791 --> 01:56:14,445 It gives you a lot of freedom. 2197 01:56:14,619 --> 01:56:16,230 The act that Ganon knocks your sword out 2198 01:56:16,404 --> 01:56:17,927 and then re-equips it automatically, 2199 01:56:18,101 --> 01:56:20,147 even though you're child Link during the fight 2200 01:56:20,321 --> 01:56:22,714 is what makes the run possible to complete entirely as a child. 2201 01:56:23,541 --> 01:56:26,370 [Summoning Salt] But it was Narcissa who very early on 2202 01:56:26,544 --> 01:56:29,330 had a unique ability to both perform 2203 01:56:29,504 --> 01:56:32,072 and articulate these complexities. 2204 01:56:32,246 --> 01:56:34,161 This angle is really strange. 2205 01:56:34,335 --> 01:56:37,077 Still got the ruby. Okay, no problem. 2206 01:56:38,861 --> 01:56:41,037 [Summoning Salt] All the work that had gone intoOcarina of Time 2207 01:56:41,211 --> 01:56:43,605 was on display in a breakthrough run 2208 01:56:43,779 --> 01:56:48,827 that was responsible for introducing lots of people to speedrunning in 2013. 2209 01:56:51,613 --> 01:56:53,615 [Narcissa] Uh, right there, I did a Navi Dive to get out 2210 01:56:53,789 --> 01:56:56,357 of the forest early without beating the Deku Tree. 2211 01:56:56,531 --> 01:56:59,708 This run depends on me getting the bottle, 2212 01:56:59,882 --> 01:57:02,189 which is the reason I'm leaving the forest. 2213 01:57:02,363 --> 01:57:04,365 The frame Link's feet hit the ground, 2214 01:57:04,539 --> 01:57:06,628 which would trigger Ocarina Items, 2215 01:57:06,802 --> 01:57:10,371 is also the same frame that triggers the Blue Warp, carrying me up. 2216 01:57:12,329 --> 01:57:14,984 -Got it. -[audience laughing] 2217 01:57:19,032 --> 01:57:23,079 [Narcissa] It was really worthwhile. It felt like a lot of people who saw that 2218 01:57:23,253 --> 01:57:26,604 ended up kind of feeling really inspired or interested in speedrunning, 2219 01:57:26,778 --> 01:57:28,998 or thought it was like a, a marvelous story. 2220 01:57:30,130 --> 01:57:32,871 [Summoning Salt] By the end of that year, they had driven a run 2221 01:57:33,046 --> 01:57:36,701 that took the best players more than seven hours to complete, 2222 01:57:37,528 --> 01:57:39,922 down to almost 19 minutes. 2223 01:57:40,618 --> 01:57:43,926 Then, with 7000 people watching live... 2224 01:57:45,014 --> 01:57:47,451 ...Narcissa took the time even lower. 2225 01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:50,454 Oh, f#*#*#*. 2226 01:57:50,628 --> 01:57:52,804 It's over. Ocarina of Timeis dead. 2227 01:57:52,978 --> 01:57:54,328 Any% is done. 2228 01:57:54,502 --> 01:57:56,417 That's it. That's it. 2229 01:57:59,420 --> 01:58:02,031 It's over. It's f#*#*#*#*#*#* over. 2230 01:58:08,516 --> 01:58:09,995 I'm never playing Any% again, 2231 01:58:10,170 --> 01:58:11,910 unless some crazy new s#*#*#* 2232 01:58:12,085 --> 01:58:13,477 gets found, dude. That's it. 2233 01:58:15,349 --> 01:58:18,221 18:10, man. That's gonna stand for so long. 2234 01:58:19,353 --> 01:58:22,095 That's gonna seriously stand for a long-ass time. 2235 01:58:24,140 --> 01:58:25,924 I have no intention of improving it. 2236 01:58:26,447 --> 01:58:27,709 [sighs] 2237 01:58:28,753 --> 01:58:30,233 It's over. [chuckles softly] 2238 01:58:31,321 --> 01:58:33,193 [dramatic synth music] 2239 01:58:33,367 --> 01:58:36,935 [announcer] Welcome to the Nintendo World championships! 2240 01:58:38,372 --> 01:58:41,810 [Summoning Salt] The following year, Narcissa was one of just 16 gamers 2241 01:58:41,984 --> 01:58:44,029 to receive the Golden Ticket. 2242 01:58:44,204 --> 01:58:46,075 [announcer] How about Cosmo, everyone? 2243 01:58:46,249 --> 01:58:49,078 [audience cheering] 2244 01:58:49,252 --> 01:58:53,256 This is about our 16 competitors and their journey to be crowned 2245 01:58:53,430 --> 01:58:55,389 the Nintendo World Champion! 2246 01:58:55,563 --> 01:58:57,608 -[audience cheering] -[announcer] Yeah! 2247 01:58:59,741 --> 01:59:01,917 [Summoning Salt] Nintendo is iconic, 2248 01:59:02,091 --> 01:59:05,225 and this was the first time they were having their championship 2249 01:59:05,399 --> 01:59:07,140 in 25 years. 2250 01:59:09,054 --> 01:59:11,579 [announcer 2] Live from Universal Studios Hollywood. 2251 01:59:11,753 --> 01:59:15,583 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, Terry Lee Torok. 2252 01:59:16,758 --> 01:59:18,629 [Terry] Whoo! Yeah. You ready? 2253 01:59:19,108 --> 01:59:21,763 Whoo, thank you. I don't get this at home. 2254 01:59:22,285 --> 01:59:24,766 Welcome to Universal Studios Hollywood. 2255 01:59:24,940 --> 01:59:27,856 This is the playing field of the future. 2256 01:59:28,030 --> 01:59:32,513 The unprecedented 1990 Nintendo World Championships. 2257 01:59:32,687 --> 01:59:35,516 [audience cheering] 2258 01:59:36,169 --> 01:59:38,127 [Summoning Salt] After four stages of competition... 2259 01:59:39,084 --> 01:59:41,522 ...battling through games likeSplatoon, 2260 01:59:41,696 --> 01:59:44,481 Mario Kart 8, Balloon Fight 2261 01:59:44,655 --> 01:59:46,440 andSuper Smash Bros.... 2262 01:59:46,614 --> 01:59:48,268 [announcer 3] You guys ready for some Smash Bros.? 2263 01:59:48,442 --> 01:59:50,139 [audience cheering] 2264 01:59:51,096 --> 01:59:53,316 ...Narcissa made it to the finals. 2265 01:59:53,490 --> 01:59:57,364 This is it. This is the final round of gameplay. 2266 01:59:57,538 --> 01:59:59,888 One of these guys is going to be your next 2267 02:00:00,062 --> 02:00:02,978 Nintendo world Champion. 2268 02:00:03,152 --> 02:00:05,937 [audience cheering] 2269 02:00:06,634 --> 02:00:08,549 [Summoning Salt] The finals were custom levels 2270 02:00:08,723 --> 02:00:11,291 of a game that hadn't been released yet, 2271 02:00:11,465 --> 02:00:13,031 Super Mario Maker. 2272 02:00:13,206 --> 02:00:16,078 [Super Mario Maker music playing] 2273 02:00:16,252 --> 02:00:18,733 [commentator 1] Oh, my! What? Cosmo! 2274 02:00:18,907 --> 02:00:20,822 -[commentator 2] You're an animal! -[commentator 1 hollers] 2275 02:00:21,823 --> 02:00:23,216 [Summoning Salt] It started out okay. 2276 02:00:24,042 --> 02:00:26,044 But then, not so much. 2277 02:00:26,219 --> 02:00:28,046 [commentator 1] See if Cosmo get through here. 2278 02:00:29,700 --> 02:00:32,877 [commentator 2] Cosmo's still trying to make his way past the saw blades. 2279 02:00:34,705 --> 02:00:37,273 [Narcissa] I didn't know the new Super Mario Bros.physics at all. 2280 02:00:37,447 --> 02:00:39,928 And so the final round became a bit of a meme. 2281 02:00:41,538 --> 02:00:43,105 [commentator 2] Having trouble with the first set of jumps though. 2282 02:00:43,279 --> 02:00:45,368 -[commentator 1] Not quite there. -[commentator 2] No. 2283 02:00:47,588 --> 02:00:49,329 [commentator 1] John Numbers is blazing this right now. 2284 02:00:49,503 --> 02:00:50,678 [commentator 1] What's he gonna do right now? 2285 02:00:51,548 --> 02:00:53,071 [Narcissa] So I got second place. 2286 02:00:53,246 --> 02:00:54,856 But it was such a magical experience 2287 02:00:55,030 --> 02:00:56,466 [announcer 3] Let's hear it for Cosmo as well. 2288 02:00:56,640 --> 02:00:58,294 What an incredible fighter! 2289 02:00:59,034 --> 02:01:00,818 Man, you battled, man. Great job. 2290 02:01:00,992 --> 02:01:03,647 Great job, Cosmo. And John, congratulations. 2291 02:01:04,213 --> 02:01:07,956 [Summoning Salt] To cap off the evening, there was even a surprise guest. 2292 02:01:08,130 --> 02:01:10,219 Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto. 2293 02:01:10,393 --> 02:01:14,397 -[audience cheering] -[fanfare music] 2294 02:01:14,571 --> 02:01:16,094 [Miyamoto laughs] 2295 02:01:16,269 --> 02:01:18,271 Hello. Hi. 2296 02:01:20,925 --> 02:01:21,883 Hi. 2297 02:01:22,666 --> 02:01:24,059 Hello, everyone. 2298 02:01:24,233 --> 02:01:25,234 [chuckles] 2299 02:01:25,408 --> 02:01:27,280 [gentle music] 2300 02:01:27,454 --> 02:01:32,154 [Narcissa] Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Zelda, Mario. 2301 02:01:32,328 --> 02:01:37,333 Kind of this grand figure in gaming, an absolute legend. 2302 02:01:37,507 --> 02:01:41,250 It was really amazing to be able to meet him briefly, 2303 02:01:41,424 --> 02:01:43,296 and I'm really happy I was a part of it. 2304 02:01:50,433 --> 02:01:52,435 [in-game voice] All right! 2305 02:01:52,609 --> 02:01:55,482 [Summoning Salt] Around this time, Narcissa had withdrawn 2306 02:01:55,656 --> 02:01:59,224 from a graphics design program at a college in Chicago 2307 02:01:59,399 --> 02:02:02,576 and was making a living streaming full time. 2308 02:02:03,664 --> 02:02:05,666 Am I at 100K followers? 2309 02:02:06,275 --> 02:02:08,538 [chuckles] Am I at 100K followers? 2310 02:02:08,712 --> 02:02:10,801 Wow, Look at that. 2311 02:02:10,975 --> 02:02:14,457 [dramatic music] 2312 02:02:14,631 --> 02:02:18,287 I can't believe I was playing this game... 2313 02:02:18,896 --> 02:02:21,508 [chuckles softly] and I reach 100K followers. 2314 02:02:22,073 --> 02:02:24,162 [chuckles] And I'm doing, like, nonsense. 2315 02:02:24,337 --> 02:02:26,295 Look at what I'm doing in this game right now. 2316 02:02:27,165 --> 02:02:30,343 [Summoning Salt] But she wasn't playing Ocarina of Time anymore, 2317 02:02:31,169 --> 02:02:35,043 and in general, had become disillusioned to speedrunning. 2318 02:02:35,217 --> 02:02:37,132 [Narcissa] It kind of tore me apart, 2319 02:02:37,306 --> 02:02:39,700 but I decided I was done at that point. 2320 02:02:40,353 --> 02:02:42,267 I could kind of just see the void. 2321 02:02:43,051 --> 02:02:46,359 As you pour more time in, you get diminishing returns. 2322 02:02:46,968 --> 02:02:48,926 Like, most runs are not good. But then, like, 2323 02:02:49,100 --> 02:02:52,495 "Oh, one in 10 rounds is good. Oh, one in 100 runs is good. 2324 02:02:52,669 --> 02:02:55,193 One in a 1000 runs, one in 10,000 runs." 2325 02:02:56,020 --> 02:02:59,067 You start asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?" 2326 02:02:59,241 --> 02:03:01,286 [soft dramatic music] 2327 02:03:01,461 --> 02:03:05,334 This enormous time sink for no gains... 2328 02:03:06,422 --> 02:03:09,251 ...where it becomes meaningless. 2329 02:03:09,425 --> 02:03:11,601 Like, the meaning just disappears. 2330 02:03:13,255 --> 02:03:15,431 It wasn't so much about discovery, 2331 02:03:16,214 --> 02:03:19,217 and it didn't even feel like it was about story anymore. 2332 02:03:19,392 --> 02:03:21,872 It felt like it was the void. 2333 02:03:22,699 --> 02:03:24,614 So that's where I stopped. 2334 02:03:25,267 --> 02:03:26,137 And... 2335 02:03:28,488 --> 02:03:31,491 ...I went through some pretty big changes in my life shortly after that. 2336 02:03:33,014 --> 02:03:38,367 I was pivoting away from a lot of things that I had been deeply involved with before. 2337 02:03:38,541 --> 02:03:43,459 And I had also undergone the beginnings of hormone replacement therapy, 2338 02:03:44,068 --> 02:03:46,419 and that whole process. 2339 02:03:47,811 --> 02:03:49,509 Finally, it came to a point where... 2340 02:03:50,640 --> 02:03:52,860 ..."This is a step that I want to take. 2341 02:03:53,338 --> 02:03:56,167 I'm taking this step, And carpe diem." 2342 02:03:56,341 --> 02:03:57,691 So I just posted that. 2343 02:04:00,128 --> 02:04:03,784 I'm gonna be moving next month. I think it's gonna be okay. 2344 02:04:04,480 --> 02:04:08,658 I think once I get situated, I'll be able to be really comfy, 2345 02:04:08,832 --> 02:04:11,574 and do lots of good streams, and do lots of good stuff. 2346 02:04:11,748 --> 02:04:13,707 And thanks for watching this video, YouTube. 2347 02:04:13,881 --> 02:04:17,798 Even though my YouTube account is filled with tons of trolls. 2348 02:04:19,713 --> 02:04:22,455 Obviously, I'm gonna be awkward at first. 2349 02:04:24,369 --> 02:04:26,546 And I'm just, like, struggling. And you know what it really is? 2350 02:04:27,198 --> 02:04:29,200 Oh, my God. [chuckles nervously] 2351 02:04:29,374 --> 02:04:30,898 It's just like reading all the garbage. 2352 02:04:31,072 --> 02:04:33,335 I'm, like, addicted to reading garbage comments. 2353 02:04:35,598 --> 02:04:37,905 There's a lot of places where people talk about me. 2354 02:04:38,471 --> 02:04:40,603 And I read all of it. Like, everything anyone says about me, 2355 02:04:40,777 --> 02:04:41,778 I just read it. 2356 02:04:44,041 --> 02:04:46,566 Like, I was depressed before I started hormones... 2357 02:04:47,654 --> 02:04:48,568 [sniffs] 2358 02:04:49,873 --> 02:04:51,919 ...and then I started them, and I felt good about that, 2359 02:04:52,093 --> 02:04:53,573 and I still feel good about it. 2360 02:04:53,747 --> 02:04:56,140 But I still feel constrained and stuck. 2361 02:04:56,314 --> 02:04:57,533 I'm not free. 2362 02:04:58,055 --> 02:05:00,188 Everyone equates me to speedrunning, and, like, 2363 02:05:00,971 --> 02:05:03,060 speedrunning is, like, a dead end. Going for records, 2364 02:05:03,234 --> 02:05:05,976 it's just like this endless repetition 2365 02:05:06,150 --> 02:05:09,197 of this simple... It's, like, simple. It's so stupid. 2366 02:05:09,371 --> 02:05:12,200 [music continues] 2367 02:05:12,374 --> 02:05:15,203 [chuckles softly] My brain was, literally, like, addicted 2368 02:05:15,377 --> 02:05:19,642 to the dopamine of the past success. 2369 02:05:22,645 --> 02:05:24,473 I wasn't doing anything with speedrunning. 2370 02:05:24,647 --> 02:05:26,301 I was being abrasive, 2371 02:05:26,475 --> 02:05:29,043 and I was being kind of unpleasant. [chuckles] 2372 02:05:29,217 --> 02:05:33,264 So there was a, a kind of unpleasantness kind of back and forth, 2373 02:05:33,438 --> 02:05:34,396 that that was going on. 2374 02:05:34,570 --> 02:05:37,094 [sighs] I feel frustrated. 2375 02:05:37,268 --> 02:05:38,487 I feel frustrated. 2376 02:05:41,359 --> 02:05:43,536 During that process, I kind of lost 2377 02:05:44,493 --> 02:05:47,496 everything that I had built up over the last several years. 2378 02:05:48,453 --> 02:05:51,674 At the moment, I'm still sort of surviving off of... 2379 02:05:53,110 --> 02:05:55,548 Back when I was a Twitch superstar... 2380 02:05:56,679 --> 02:05:58,115 ...I saved up money, 2381 02:05:58,594 --> 02:06:00,944 and I'm still using it. 2382 02:06:01,989 --> 02:06:04,034 And it's like whittling down, but... 2383 02:06:04,992 --> 02:06:05,906 Um... 2384 02:06:07,603 --> 02:06:11,215 I hope that my stream can, like, be rebuilt up. 2385 02:06:12,434 --> 02:06:14,958 I was just in a horrible mood all the time. 2386 02:06:15,132 --> 02:06:18,353 [laughs] So streaming wasn't very good. 2387 02:06:18,527 --> 02:06:20,094 Yeah, that's true, actually. 2388 02:06:20,268 --> 02:06:22,313 The glasses make it harder to see the eye makeup. 2389 02:06:23,010 --> 02:06:25,534 I could do something like this, but that's like a little bit... 2390 02:06:27,667 --> 02:06:29,582 I don't know, isn't that kind of silly? 2391 02:06:30,191 --> 02:06:32,454 Those were the hardest years of my life, actually. 2392 02:06:33,629 --> 02:06:36,676 I kind of feel like it may have been better to really tone down 2393 02:06:36,850 --> 02:06:39,504 anything public around that time, 2394 02:06:40,157 --> 02:06:42,551 but I didn't. I had felt such, like, 2395 02:06:42,725 --> 02:06:44,727 unanimous love in the past. 2396 02:06:45,510 --> 02:06:48,731 So I, like, believed in the kindness of strangers. 2397 02:06:48,905 --> 02:06:51,386 But I underestimated the harshness. 2398 02:06:51,560 --> 02:06:55,085 ♪ I'm not here to start a fire ♪ 2399 02:06:55,259 --> 02:06:58,088 ♪ I'm here to keep you warm ♪ 2400 02:06:59,176 --> 02:07:02,397 [melancholic music] 2401 02:07:02,571 --> 02:07:04,965 [traffic humming] 2402 02:07:10,666 --> 02:07:12,059 [mechanical keyboard clacking] 2403 02:07:12,233 --> 02:07:15,323 I feel like, over the last couple of years, 2404 02:07:15,889 --> 02:07:20,850 I've been able to get past the harder parts of everything. 2405 02:07:22,939 --> 02:07:25,115 I kind of stopped being interested in speedrunning 2406 02:07:25,289 --> 02:07:27,944 and started developing interests and other things. 2407 02:07:28,815 --> 02:07:32,035 I'm not out trying to be a pro game dev. This is a hobby for me. 2408 02:07:32,209 --> 02:07:35,299 But I think I could be pretty good at this 2409 02:07:35,473 --> 02:07:36,953 if I'd spend more time on it. 2410 02:07:37,954 --> 02:07:42,045 I keep getting stuck on, like, what is the purpose of what I'm doing? 2411 02:07:42,219 --> 02:07:44,961 I keep, like, asking myself these really fundamental questions about it. 2412 02:07:46,223 --> 02:07:47,877 And sometimes I get in my own way. 2413 02:07:48,051 --> 02:07:49,531 A lot of times, I don't care so much, 2414 02:07:49,705 --> 02:07:51,272 and I just sort of, like, start building stuff, 2415 02:07:51,446 --> 02:07:53,187 which is probably healthier, honestly. 2416 02:07:53,361 --> 02:07:57,147 All right, so this is my main project. 2417 02:07:57,321 --> 02:07:59,541 I worked on this for, like, six months. 2418 02:08:00,107 --> 02:08:02,979 The eventual idea is to bring it into the game engine, 2419 02:08:03,545 --> 02:08:07,201 and then be able to control it with my pro controller. 2420 02:08:07,375 --> 02:08:09,682 I did write some cool scripts to, like, 2421 02:08:09,856 --> 02:08:11,901 make the dead zone on this feel really comfortable, 2422 02:08:12,075 --> 02:08:13,990 and, like make the camera feel really smooth. 2423 02:08:14,164 --> 02:08:16,645 [upbeat music] 2424 02:08:32,269 --> 02:08:34,097 Games are not infinites. 2425 02:08:34,271 --> 02:08:35,664 They are specific a size. 2426 02:08:35,838 --> 02:08:37,274 There's so many bytes. 2427 02:08:37,448 --> 02:08:38,798 [Link grunts] 2428 02:08:39,407 --> 02:08:40,669 [Narcissa] Part of the reason that Ocarina Of Time 2429 02:08:40,843 --> 02:08:42,453 and Mario 64, for example, 2430 02:08:42,627 --> 02:08:45,195 had such passionate communities 2431 02:08:45,369 --> 02:08:48,329 is because of nostalgia growing up with these games. 2432 02:08:48,503 --> 02:08:51,027 These games were magical experiences. 2433 02:08:52,420 --> 02:08:55,118 The kids of today are having different experiences. 2434 02:08:55,292 --> 02:08:57,904 -[kid squealing] -[man laughing] 2435 02:08:58,078 --> 02:08:59,862 It's Iron Man! 2436 02:09:00,036 --> 02:09:02,343 [man] You have the Iron man game in there too? 2437 02:09:02,517 --> 02:09:04,519 The nostalgia window is closing. 2438 02:09:10,568 --> 02:09:13,223 [upbeat electronic music] 2439 02:09:19,969 --> 02:09:22,972 [YellowKillerBee] We have $25 from Red Echidna, who says, 2440 02:09:23,146 --> 02:09:24,931 "Doing my part for the donation train." 2441 02:09:25,105 --> 02:09:26,367 Thank you so much. 2442 02:09:26,541 --> 02:09:29,239 We have $25 dollars from Turamitsu. 2443 02:09:29,413 --> 02:09:32,025 "Only a little over $25,000 to go, and I'm donating." 2444 02:09:32,199 --> 02:09:33,853 $1 million hype. 2445 02:09:34,027 --> 02:09:35,724 [crowd] Hype! 2446 02:09:37,334 --> 02:09:40,947 [Summoning Salt] The nostalgia window for older games may indeed be closing. 2447 02:09:42,513 --> 02:09:45,299 But it hasn't closed yet, especially 2448 02:09:45,473 --> 02:09:48,041 at the 10-year anniversary for Games Done Quick. 2449 02:09:48,606 --> 02:09:50,739 [YellowKillerBee] I know this is what you've all been waiting for. 2450 02:09:50,913 --> 02:09:53,350 Are you ready for some Destiny 2? 2451 02:09:53,524 --> 02:09:55,962 [crowd cheering] 2452 02:09:56,136 --> 02:09:58,355 I know I am. Take it away, guys. 2453 02:09:58,529 --> 02:10:01,010 [crowd applauding] 2454 02:10:01,184 --> 02:10:06,320 Right now, we are standing at Awesome Games Done Quick 2020. 2455 02:10:06,494 --> 02:10:10,454 And we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Games Done Quick. 2456 02:10:10,628 --> 02:10:13,718 It's special because it started off as such a small event 2457 02:10:13,893 --> 02:10:16,591 in somebody's basement, and it was just a few people 2458 02:10:16,765 --> 02:10:18,114 trying to raise money for charity. 2459 02:10:18,288 --> 02:10:20,160 And now, it's turned into this. 2460 02:10:20,334 --> 02:10:22,989 [lively electronic music] 2461 02:10:29,299 --> 02:10:34,478 This man is, basically, turning into like Jimi Hendrix right here, live on stage. 2462 02:10:34,652 --> 02:10:38,569 But he's playing Clone Hero, the likes of which I've never seen before. 2463 02:10:38,743 --> 02:10:40,833 And this hand movement... 2464 02:10:41,790 --> 02:10:42,878 ...it's just insane. 2465 02:10:43,487 --> 02:10:44,924 This is just blowing my mind. 2466 02:10:45,098 --> 02:10:46,708 [beeping fast] 2467 02:10:46,882 --> 02:10:48,841 The best player in the world, ladies and gentlemen. 2468 02:10:50,059 --> 02:10:52,409 [cheering] 2469 02:10:53,106 --> 02:10:55,760 [Summoning Salt] And leave it to speedrunners to keep finding ways 2470 02:10:55,935 --> 02:10:57,675 to push things to the extreme. 2471 02:10:59,808 --> 02:11:01,854 [soft tense music] 2472 02:11:04,247 --> 02:11:06,423 [Sinister1] I used to be in this after-school program, 2473 02:11:06,597 --> 02:11:09,165 and they would only let us play video games 2474 02:11:09,339 --> 02:11:11,733 if it was raining outside, 2475 02:11:11,907 --> 02:11:14,997 and the gymnasium had to be reserved for some other use. 2476 02:11:15,171 --> 02:11:16,651 Then they would get out the Nintendo. 2477 02:11:18,087 --> 02:11:21,874 And when they did that, I was the only kid that could beat Mike Tyson. 2478 02:11:22,048 --> 02:11:25,486 So all the other kids were, like, in awe, of like, "Whoa! You can beat Mike Tyson?" 2479 02:11:26,400 --> 02:11:28,184 [Zallard1] For me, in terms of world records, 2480 02:11:28,358 --> 02:11:32,319 I've held the record in every Punch-Out!!game at least once. 2481 02:11:34,408 --> 02:11:36,497 [Summoning Salt] These two are personal heroes of mine, 2482 02:11:36,671 --> 02:11:38,629 and major influences. 2483 02:11:39,804 --> 02:11:43,504 InPunch-Out!!, Mike Tyson, to this day, 2484 02:11:43,678 --> 02:11:47,160 is notorious for being one of the hardest end bosses to beat 2485 02:11:47,334 --> 02:11:48,813 in all video games. 2486 02:11:48,988 --> 02:11:51,207 [laughing menacingly] 2487 02:11:51,904 --> 02:11:56,299 [Sinister1] Matt Turk was the original world record holder in Punch-Out!! 2488 02:11:56,473 --> 02:11:58,301 He was the first person that did a speedrun 2489 02:11:58,475 --> 02:12:00,216 from the first fight to the last fight. 2490 02:12:00,390 --> 02:12:03,219 And he had all the records. 2491 02:12:03,393 --> 02:12:06,701 And I was the first person that ever beat Matt Turk. 2492 02:12:06,875 --> 02:12:09,486 And then, of course, Zallard came along. 2493 02:12:09,660 --> 02:12:12,359 He eventually beat me. We had some back-and-forth, 2494 02:12:12,533 --> 02:12:14,404 and then, Summoning Salt came along, 2495 02:12:14,578 --> 02:12:18,234 and he really was the one that started driving the time down, 2496 02:12:18,408 --> 02:12:21,194 incredibly low, to places 2497 02:12:21,368 --> 02:12:23,936 that we never had thought that it would go. 2498 02:12:24,110 --> 02:12:28,288 And his level of execution is just extremely, extremely high 2499 02:12:28,462 --> 02:12:30,594 and extremely, extremely consistent. 2500 02:12:30,768 --> 02:12:34,424 Which is what you need because in this game you need a lot of luck. 2501 02:12:34,598 --> 02:12:36,905 So when you finally get that luck, 2502 02:12:37,079 --> 02:12:38,863 you have to be able to execute in that moment. 2503 02:12:39,038 --> 02:12:40,430 And that's what he did. 2504 02:12:41,823 --> 02:12:46,393 You're trying for these really small percentage RNG luck things 2505 02:12:46,567 --> 02:12:49,787 that you need to all go right in a row for all 14 fights. 2506 02:12:51,746 --> 02:12:56,707 Like, Don Flamenco II. If you get two of these 1-in-16 star punches, 2507 02:12:56,881 --> 02:13:00,059 you have about nine chances to get them, and if you get two of those, 2508 02:13:00,233 --> 02:13:02,626 then you're able to save, a lot of times, about 20 seconds. 2509 02:13:02,800 --> 02:13:04,889 [video game music playing] 2510 02:13:05,064 --> 02:13:07,849 The fighters can get up with different amounts of health refill. 2511 02:13:08,023 --> 02:13:10,895 Like, Piston Honda II has a 50-50 chance of getting up with more health. 2512 02:13:12,375 --> 02:13:14,421 Mr. Sandman has a three quarters chance 2513 02:13:14,595 --> 02:13:17,815 of getting up with a smaller amount of health for the third time, 2514 02:13:17,990 --> 02:13:20,862 but a quarter of the time he'll get up with about 12 more HP, 2515 02:13:21,036 --> 02:13:23,343 and there's no reason they had to program that into the game, 2516 02:13:23,517 --> 02:13:25,562 But they did. And I have no idea why, 2517 02:13:25,736 --> 02:13:27,782 but it really makes a speedrun in this game interesting. 2518 02:13:27,956 --> 02:13:29,914 And it makes it really annoying 2519 02:13:30,089 --> 02:13:31,786 because he has to keep grinding for luck. 2520 02:13:32,613 --> 02:13:34,310 [soft tense music] 2521 02:13:34,484 --> 02:13:36,443 [Summoning Salt] But none of those fights compare 2522 02:13:36,617 --> 02:13:39,011 to the difficulty of facing Mike Tyson. 2523 02:13:40,838 --> 02:13:42,362 He's lightning-quick, 2524 02:13:42,536 --> 02:13:44,016 and his uppercuts will knock you down 2525 02:13:44,190 --> 02:13:45,452 in just one hit. 2526 02:13:45,626 --> 02:13:47,323 [defeat chime] 2527 02:13:48,020 --> 02:13:51,980 In a speedrun, it's all about landing frame-perfect punches. 2528 02:13:52,633 --> 02:13:54,591 You have 1-60th of a second 2529 02:13:54,765 --> 02:13:57,377 to throw a punch that delivers maximum damage. 2530 02:14:02,295 --> 02:14:04,210 And in April of 2018, 2531 02:14:05,037 --> 02:14:08,257 luck was on my side, and my gameplay was even better. 2532 02:14:11,434 --> 02:14:12,479 Yes! 2533 02:14:13,828 --> 02:14:16,744 I just beat the Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!world record. 2534 02:14:16,918 --> 02:14:18,006 I don't believe it. 2535 02:14:20,835 --> 02:14:24,230 [lively electronic music] 2536 02:14:24,404 --> 02:14:25,970 -Wow. Okay, good. -Nice. 2537 02:14:26,145 --> 02:14:27,494 So we're probably on five here, 2538 02:14:27,668 --> 02:14:29,104 so you're gonna get your two dodges again, 2539 02:14:29,278 --> 02:14:30,758 and then I'll drain. It'll be a quick drain. 2540 02:14:30,932 --> 02:14:32,107 Okay, cool. 2541 02:14:33,978 --> 02:14:37,460 [Summoning Salt] Sinister and Zallard aren't just trying to beat the game fast. 2542 02:14:38,113 --> 02:14:39,897 They are trying to do it blindfolded. 2543 02:14:40,072 --> 02:14:42,030 While sharing just one controller. 2544 02:14:42,204 --> 02:14:46,165 [video game beeping and chiming] 2545 02:14:48,428 --> 02:14:50,256 -[both groaning] -Ah, dang! 2546 02:14:51,344 --> 02:14:52,910 [Sinister1] All right, we'll start from the beginning, I guess. 2547 02:14:53,085 --> 02:14:55,174 [Zallard1] Yeah. That's round three in a nutshell. 2548 02:14:56,044 --> 02:14:58,612 [Summoning Salt] Punch-Out!! has a rich, blindfolded history. 2549 02:15:00,048 --> 02:15:02,572 Dating back to when Sinister1 was inspired 2550 02:15:02,746 --> 02:15:07,925 after seeing AndrewG try a blindfolded Mario run in Mike Uyama's basement 2551 02:15:08,100 --> 02:15:09,927 at the first Games Done Quick, 2552 02:15:10,102 --> 02:15:12,104 [all groaning and laughing] 2553 02:15:14,018 --> 02:15:16,847 Playing blindfolded requires encyclopedic knowledge 2554 02:15:17,021 --> 02:15:18,632 of different patterns in the game... 2555 02:15:19,937 --> 02:15:22,984 [all cheering] 2556 02:15:23,724 --> 02:15:25,160 ...mixed with lots of luck. 2557 02:15:26,335 --> 02:15:30,513 But no one has ever taken on Punch-Out!! quite like this. 2558 02:15:30,687 --> 02:15:33,473 Without any audio cues, we wouldn't be able to do this. Like... 2559 02:15:34,038 --> 02:15:35,692 Yeah, the audio cues are critical. 2560 02:15:35,866 --> 02:15:37,868 We really need them to know where we are in the fight, 2561 02:15:38,042 --> 02:15:39,914 what's happening, how to react, 2562 02:15:40,088 --> 02:15:41,611 what pattern we got. 2563 02:15:41,785 --> 02:15:43,787 It's all the information that you have 2564 02:15:43,961 --> 02:15:47,139 pretty much outside of our general knowledge of what's going on. 2565 02:15:47,313 --> 02:15:50,403 But, ultimately, you still need confirmation of your knowledge. 2566 02:15:50,577 --> 02:15:53,057 [video game beeping and chiming] 2567 02:15:53,232 --> 02:15:55,059 -[both laugh] -[Sinister1] I'm going to try it. 2568 02:15:55,234 --> 02:15:56,539 -Nine again. -[Zallard1] Yeah. 2569 02:15:56,713 --> 02:15:59,151 [cheering] 2570 02:15:59,890 --> 02:16:02,154 [beeps and chimes] 2571 02:16:11,859 --> 02:16:15,515 [Summoning Salt] Despite having never completed a full run of blindfolded, 2572 02:16:15,689 --> 02:16:17,995 two-player-one-controller Punch-Out!! 2573 02:16:18,170 --> 02:16:19,606 without the use of passwords... 2574 02:16:19,780 --> 02:16:21,651 [cheering] 2575 02:16:24,176 --> 02:16:26,613 ...after 14 masterful bouts, 2576 02:16:27,353 --> 02:16:29,355 on the biggest stage in speedrunning... 2577 02:16:29,529 --> 02:16:32,140 [cheering] 2578 02:16:32,923 --> 02:16:35,491 ...Sinister and Zallard did the unthinkable. 2579 02:16:36,231 --> 02:16:37,928 -[commentator 1] They didn't think they'd do it. -[commentator 2] They didn't-- 2580 02:16:38,102 --> 02:16:40,104 -[commentator 1] But they did. -[commentator 2] Give it up! 2581 02:16:40,279 --> 02:16:41,628 [cheering] 2582 02:16:53,161 --> 02:16:57,034 [Summoning Salt] It took years of perseverance to a wildest moment to happen. 2583 02:16:59,602 --> 02:17:01,996 It's the kind of thing speedrunners live for. 2584 02:17:03,040 --> 02:17:06,609 [upbeat techno music] 2585 02:17:08,220 --> 02:17:09,438 [man 1] Hands up! Hands up! 2586 02:17:09,612 --> 02:17:11,788 -Everybody, hands up. -Hands up! 2587 02:17:13,747 --> 02:17:16,663 [man 2] A force of skill and charisma. 2588 02:17:16,837 --> 02:17:21,668 The people's champion, GrandPooBear! 2589 02:17:21,842 --> 02:17:24,671 [cheering] 2590 02:17:25,759 --> 02:17:29,023 It's been a crazy year, very busy, busiest year of my life. 2591 02:17:29,197 --> 02:17:32,113 Guys, thank you all so much for coming. I greatly appreciate it. 2592 02:17:32,287 --> 02:17:34,637 I did ten tour stops this year, 2593 02:17:35,247 --> 02:17:39,076 It went so good that we're making it a lot bigger. 2594 02:17:39,251 --> 02:17:42,471 We're gonna go to more cities, more speedruns, more time, more everything. 2595 02:17:42,645 --> 02:17:46,214 [commentator 3] There is some serious communication. And blind readability. 2596 02:17:46,388 --> 02:17:49,478 Remember, these players have never seen this before, so they are reacting. 2597 02:17:49,652 --> 02:17:52,307 And you can think of these levels much more as a lexicon of skill 2598 02:17:52,481 --> 02:17:54,135 than an actual thing to play. Here we go. Oh! 2599 02:17:54,309 --> 02:17:55,789 Oh, that was close. 2600 02:17:55,963 --> 02:17:57,573 [groans] 2601 02:17:57,747 --> 02:18:00,097 [ambient electronic music] 2602 02:18:00,272 --> 02:18:04,276 [GrandPooBear] Making a five year plan right now in this industry 2603 02:18:04,450 --> 02:18:05,407 is really dumb. 2604 02:18:06,626 --> 02:18:10,717 Every year, it's changed and grown and evolved. 2605 02:18:10,891 --> 02:18:12,284 [commentator 1] Who is gonna get this first? 2606 02:18:12,458 --> 02:18:14,155 -Oh! -[commotion] 2607 02:18:14,721 --> 02:18:16,288 That's right, baby! That is right. 2608 02:18:16,462 --> 02:18:18,115 Yes! That is right! 2609 02:18:19,247 --> 02:18:22,163 If this is just a for-now thing, it's gonna be the coolest story 2610 02:18:22,337 --> 02:18:24,208 to tell to my grandkids. And if it's forever, 2611 02:18:24,383 --> 02:18:25,819 that's gonna be awesome as well. 2612 02:18:26,515 --> 02:18:28,038 I'm just gonna roll with whatever the future brings me 2613 02:18:28,212 --> 02:18:30,214 and take advantage of every opportunity that I can 2614 02:18:30,389 --> 02:18:32,695 and hope for the best, prepare for the worst, 2615 02:18:32,869 --> 02:18:34,741 and just have fun with my friends along the way. 2616 02:18:34,915 --> 02:18:36,569 -Yes! -[cheering] 2617 02:18:36,743 --> 02:18:38,179 [commentator 1] Buzzer beater finish. 2618 02:18:38,701 --> 02:18:40,007 -[commentator 2] OK, Boom-Boom... -[commentator 1] OK, 2619 02:18:40,181 --> 02:18:41,748 -Boom-Boom. -...has won the race. 2620 02:18:41,922 --> 02:18:43,663 -[cheering] -[commentator 1] The crowd is going 2621 02:18:43,837 --> 02:18:45,578 absolutely wild. 2622 02:18:45,752 --> 02:18:47,623 [GrandPooBear] Congrats. Congrats. 2623 02:18:47,797 --> 02:18:49,146 We would have popped off if we wanted. 2624 02:18:49,321 --> 02:18:50,626 You guys are so calm and demure about it. 2625 02:18:50,800 --> 02:18:52,019 You know what I mean? 2626 02:18:52,193 --> 02:18:54,238 [inaudible chatter] 2627 02:18:55,239 --> 02:18:57,677 [upbeat electronic music] 2628 02:19:00,288 --> 02:19:02,290 [indistinct chatter] 2629 02:19:04,423 --> 02:19:07,077 [Summoning Salt] As this week-long anniversary nears its end... 2630 02:19:07,251 --> 02:19:10,254 [indistinct chatter] 2631 02:19:12,605 --> 02:19:15,738 ...I can't help but reflect on how far we've come. 2632 02:19:25,139 --> 02:19:29,622 Over the past decade, speedrunning has grown to mean so much, 2633 02:19:30,274 --> 02:19:31,885 to so many different people 2634 02:19:32,059 --> 02:19:33,930 for a variety of reasons. 2635 02:19:38,848 --> 02:19:41,416 And the fact that it's helped raise millions of dollars 2636 02:19:41,590 --> 02:19:43,287 for doctors and to prevent cancer? 2637 02:19:44,680 --> 02:19:46,160 Who doesn't love that? 2638 02:19:46,334 --> 02:19:47,814 [Mike] I remember I was just researching 2639 02:19:47,988 --> 02:19:49,163 some charities and, you know, you were, like, 2640 02:19:49,337 --> 02:19:50,730 one of the three charities they contacted, 2641 02:19:50,904 --> 02:19:53,167 and the other two just never responded, and... 2642 02:19:53,341 --> 02:19:55,648 -They're kicking themselves now. -I'm sure they are. 2643 02:19:55,822 --> 02:19:57,650 -[laughter] -They sure are. 2644 02:19:58,607 --> 02:20:00,566 [Kasumi] We have had, for just this event 2645 02:20:00,740 --> 02:20:03,743 82 countries, participating 2646 02:20:03,917 --> 02:20:05,266 and donating to GDQ. 2647 02:20:05,440 --> 02:20:06,615 So thank you so much. 2648 02:20:06,789 --> 02:20:08,095 [audience applauding] 2649 02:20:08,269 --> 02:20:10,053 This truly is an international event. 2650 02:20:10,227 --> 02:20:12,752 [audience cheering] 2651 02:20:14,667 --> 02:20:17,104 [soft suspenseful music] 2652 02:20:19,280 --> 02:20:22,283 [Summoning Salt] That brings us to the final run of the marathon. 2653 02:20:24,894 --> 02:20:27,157 This is a runner named Oatsngoats. 2654 02:20:28,463 --> 02:20:31,161 He's an elite Super Metroid player, 2655 02:20:31,335 --> 02:20:33,686 and one of the five since Hotarubi 2656 02:20:34,513 --> 02:20:36,863 who has held the Any% world record. 2657 02:20:37,037 --> 02:20:39,518 [Oatsngoats] The moment I step foot into the door 2658 02:20:39,692 --> 02:20:42,564 and I see the crowd, the lights, the nerves kick in. 2659 02:20:42,738 --> 02:20:44,436 Always, instantly. 2660 02:20:44,610 --> 02:20:47,221 And now, it's really nerve-wracking, 2661 02:20:47,395 --> 02:20:49,963 because of the 10-year anniversary. 2662 02:20:50,137 --> 02:20:53,575 The finale. I feel like there's a lot of expectations 2663 02:20:53,749 --> 02:20:54,968 that hopefully I do meet with the run. 2664 02:20:55,142 --> 02:20:56,709 [commentator 2] It is now time 2665 02:20:56,883 --> 02:20:58,580 for Super Metroid Impossible 2666 02:20:58,754 --> 02:21:01,148 by Oatsngoats! 2667 02:21:01,322 --> 02:21:04,325 [audience cheering] 2668 02:21:04,499 --> 02:21:05,848 If I die, don't be mad at me. 2669 02:21:06,022 --> 02:21:07,633 I'm trying my best. This is hard. 2670 02:21:07,807 --> 02:21:09,417 [all laughing] 2671 02:21:09,591 --> 02:21:11,071 [Summoning Salt] He's playing a ROM Hack 2672 02:21:11,245 --> 02:21:12,681 of the originalSuper Metroid. 2673 02:21:13,552 --> 02:21:15,771 It was designed to be so difficult 2674 02:21:15,945 --> 02:21:18,861 that it was thought to be impossible to complete in real time. 2675 02:21:20,254 --> 02:21:22,996 But that's not the case for one of its best runners. 2676 02:21:23,170 --> 02:21:28,262 Oatsngoats! Oatsngoats! Oatsngoats! Oatsngoats! 2677 02:21:28,436 --> 02:21:30,264 [Summoning Salt] Less than 45 minutes 2678 02:21:30,438 --> 02:21:32,962 into this estimated 2.5 hour run, 2679 02:21:33,659 --> 02:21:36,226 Games Done Quick broke another record 2680 02:21:36,400 --> 02:21:38,228 for money raised at a single event. 2681 02:21:38,402 --> 02:21:43,538 [commentator 2] Ladies and gentlemen, $3.04 million 2682 02:21:44,017 --> 02:21:48,543 is a new GDQ record! 2683 02:21:48,717 --> 02:21:51,285 [melancholic music] 2684 02:21:52,982 --> 02:21:55,637 [Summoning Salt] There's no doubt that older games will continue to fade 2685 02:21:55,811 --> 02:21:58,074 as new generations come along. 2686 02:22:00,468 --> 02:22:02,557 But like with other kinds of art, 2687 02:22:03,297 --> 02:22:06,126 there's a certain appreciation for the classics, 2688 02:22:06,692 --> 02:22:08,824 and for the players who master them first. 2689 02:22:08,998 --> 02:22:11,044 [upbeat electronic music] 2690 02:22:11,218 --> 02:22:13,176 The speedrunners I've introduced you to 2691 02:22:13,350 --> 02:22:16,266 are just some of the vanguard who have paved the way 2692 02:22:16,440 --> 02:22:18,225 and set the tone for what it takes. 2693 02:22:19,618 --> 02:22:21,750 But if records are made to be broken, 2694 02:22:21,924 --> 02:22:23,970 then hopefully, there will always be 2695 02:22:24,144 --> 02:22:26,276 a tight knit, curiously determined group 2696 02:22:26,450 --> 02:22:28,757 working to get underneath games 2697 02:22:28,931 --> 02:22:30,890 in ways no one thought possible. 2698 02:22:33,283 --> 02:22:35,938 [commentator 2] "Save the animals" is winning by a very large margin, 2699 02:22:36,112 --> 02:22:38,985 $144,000, to kill, $107,000. 2700 02:22:39,551 --> 02:22:41,074 Stop, Mother Brain! 2701 02:22:42,945 --> 02:22:46,035 [Summoning Salt] And on this night, Hotarubi would be happy. 2702 02:22:46,993 --> 02:22:49,256 They voted to save the animals. 2703 02:22:50,039 --> 02:22:51,214 [commentator 1] Here it is. 2704 02:22:53,608 --> 02:22:55,697 [cheering] 2705 02:23:08,362 --> 02:23:11,191 [slow upbeat music] 2706 02:23:25,727 --> 02:23:28,164 [upbeat music] 2707 02:23:38,131 --> 02:23:39,001 [AndrewG] Oh! 2708 02:23:39,915 --> 02:23:41,613 World record! 2709 02:23:41,787 --> 02:23:43,615 [AndrewG laughs] 2710 02:23:44,964 --> 02:23:48,576 We can all play like crazy gods, so that helps too. 2711 02:24:05,593 --> 02:24:07,203 [Cheese] I just got world record again. 2712 02:24:08,552 --> 02:24:12,121 -This is not happening. -[triumphant fanfare music playing over video game] 2713 02:24:12,295 --> 02:24:13,557 [Mario hollers] 2714 02:24:13,732 --> 02:24:15,298 [excited breathing] 2715 02:24:15,472 --> 02:24:17,997 [screams] 2716 02:24:35,797 --> 02:24:37,059 -Yeah! -Let's go! 2717 02:24:37,233 --> 02:24:39,540 -We're doing it! -[crowd cheering] 2718 02:24:39,714 --> 02:24:41,760 More drinks. More drinks! 2719 02:24:49,550 --> 02:24:51,900 [Mitchflowerpower] No hands. Happening right now. 2720 02:24:52,074 --> 02:24:54,424 [beeping and chiming] 2721 02:24:54,598 --> 02:24:57,514 Ah, yeah! I told you guys! 2722 02:25:36,684 --> 02:25:39,034 [characters grunting] 2723 02:25:42,211 --> 02:25:43,299 [Summoning Salt gasps] 2724 02:25:44,431 --> 02:25:45,911 Oh, my God! 2725 02:25:46,085 --> 02:25:48,435 [laughs] 2726 02:25:48,609 --> 02:25:50,219 Oh, my God, dude. 2727 02:25:50,393 --> 02:25:52,744 [victory fanfare] 2728 02:25:53,701 --> 02:25:56,008 [solemn video game music]