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Watch every sub-5-minute Super Mario Bros. speedrun at once

The story of Super Mario Bros. speedrunning is one of dedicated players spending years shaving fractions of a second off completing the classic Nintendo game as quickly as possible. And nowhere has ...
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A new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record is just 12 frames away from glitchless perfection and the runner says "I do not plan on just stopping here"

The speedrunning scene for the original Super Mario Bros. is on fire, and there's a new world record that has taken human runners ever closer to machine-level perfection. Back in September, a runner ...
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"How do you even do this to a leaderboard of a popular game like Super Mario Bros?": Speedrunner beats the platformer's world record by 5 seconds, the biggest jump in over a decade

Super Mario Super Mario Bros speedrunner is now just 11 frames away from the absolute perfect playthrough of the 40-year-old classic, after beating the world record for the third time this year Super ...
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Super Mario World, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Mario Kart 8, and more return to Japan's biggest speedrun event after Nintendo cited "unauthorized use"

Earlier this year, Nintendo cried foul over RTA in Japan – the country's biggest speedrun event – publicly showing off the publisher's games. The charity speedrun event was forced to cut Nintendo ...