I want to say the game was Gradius, but I don't remember.

Impressive as hell! The game is Lifeforce, the US sequel to Gradius on the NES. I believe it was Gradius 3 in Japan. I remember always wanting to play Gradius 2 but it was not brought over from Japan because the graphics used a very limited pallette to facilitate more and larger enemy sprites. At NES age I could never have completed Gradius or Lifeforce without the Konami code (up up down down left right left right a b a b start). I got better at shooters as an older teenager... my one friend used to watch me play and call me the "Dodge-it Man" so I am totally down with this little girl's playstyle.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

I'm not sure I buy into this. Looks too much like those chain-letters, "Buddy just wants you to forward this to 5 friends to get the message out". I'm not saying it's not from a 6-year old autistic girl - but I'm not saying it is.

I have to agree with Dag in this. For all I know it could be another tool-assisted speedrun. No vote from me.

Why can't we see her?
That's too easily bullshit.

I want to say fake too. That kind of stuff is _really_ easy to pull off with an emulator

Kotaku is agreeing with me on that one.

damn you Kotaku! bah...well...ummm...the thought did run across my mind about why there was no pic-in-pic of the girl playing it. Ok, I'll kill it before it goes to the front page. *discard

Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter InvaderSil)

even though it's fishy, i don't see why we have to pull it. there's no advertising for www.omgwtfbbqspeedruns.com or anything, and no 'send Ashley $1' either.

on the other hand the 'Loaded Gradius 3.000' does mean it was an emulator, and loading something that quickly into the action stinks of a recorded playback. but there's no bragging in the video, so i really don't know.

i don't believe it's possible ... now if you told me that it was a 16 y/o who had been playing nothing but video games for the past 5 years ... but a 6 y/o? nada!