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Zelda (NES) 'beaten' in 3 minutes, 8 seconds - AGDQ2016

submitted by artician

8 years 10 months 3 weeks ago

I discovered these guys last year during their summer fundraiser (where this video is from). Games Done Quick is an organization of speedrunners of classic (and modern) games. It is the *pinnacle* of nerd-joy. If you know of "Quake Done Quick", this will be familiar.

The fundraiser is for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The "runners" are people in the speed-run community who compete to beat specific games as quickly as possible. They dump huge amounts of time into exploiting classic games in the most ridiculous ways, and measure their 'strategies' and times on a per-frame basis.

There are different categories of running: some are done without exploiting any glitches (i.e. the 'normal' way), while one this afternoon had a guy play through the Turbo Tunnel section of Battletoads, blindfolded. (I'll let you google it to see if he made it or not).

At the time of this posting they're in the middle of the 2016 fundraiser, which streams 24 hours for the rest of the week. I highly suggest any gaming enthusiasts check it out immediately.

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*promote the currently streaming nerd-fest.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 3:54pm PST - promote requested by original submitter artician.

Somewhat related:

http://videosift.com/video/How-To-Beat-Zelda-in-22-minutes

I love watching these speedruns. Its like those kids you who get a new toy and within an hour they've broken it open to find out how it works. These runners are those kids but for videogames. Its fascinating.

ahh the irony of spending so much time figuring out how to beat a game the quickest.

I recently watched the first under 15 minute run of fallout 3, a game with potentially hundreds of hours of content.
Speedrunning is a great example of just how diverse the gaming community is.

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