Polygon

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 ...
GamesRadar+

"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 ...
UPI

Gamer beats 'Super Mario Bros.' in 4 minutes, 54.565 seconds

March 11 (UPI) --A dedicated gamer broke a Guinness World Record by beating 1985's classic Super Mario Bros. with a time of 4 minutes and 54.565 seconds. Niftski, an American gamer with multiple ...
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For the first time in 4 years, there's a new Super Mario Bros speedrun world record holder: "We are now only 15 frames away from a perfect speedrun"

Since 2021, a single runner known as Niftski has absolutely dominated the Super Mario Bros. speedrun charts, inching the record step by step toward literal perfection while staying ahead of all other ...
GamesRadar+

After a 118-day grind, a blindfolded sub-20 minute Super Mario 64 speedrun is here and the community's in disbelief: "This seemed completely impossible a few years ago"

Super Mario New speedrun discovery "will change Super Mario 64 forever" by making "one of the hardest tricks in the entire game" completely trivial to pull off Super Mario For the first time in 4 ...
GameSpot

How AGDQ Pulled Off A 70-Person Super Mario 64 Speedrun

That meant a whole lot of training throughout the week leading up to the run. Several of the more experienced runners worked ...
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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 ...