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The Lives And Times of Speed Runners
1up.com has a feature looking into the high stress world of game speed running. Primarily a history of the sport, they start with Doom and Super Mario Bros. and walk us forward to sequence breaking runs through Metroid Prime. From the article: "While there are plenty of real-world time-based challenges, speed running stands apart thanks to its virtual nature. You'll never tune in to a track meet and see competitors taking shortcuts across the grass, but that's essentially the modus operandi of video game speed runners. Similarly, you'll never see athletes exploiting flaws in reality to jump further or to warp themselves ahead in the race. Again, that's something that can only be done via video games. While speed running has been acquiring a serious head of steam over the last few years, its origins can be traced back to one game in particular: id Software's late 1993 bombshell of an FPS, Doom. "
It all started with Quake Done Quick: http://www.planetquake.com/qdq/
Wallhugging, bunny hopping, rocket jumping, strafe jumping, quad damage jumping, grenade-rocket jumping, trapping a zombie under a closing gate so it reopens again, you name it, its all to get faster records.
Even did some speed running in Quake myself with another friend a long time ago, shooting each other to gain more velocity, launching rockets at each other to get even more height to get a certain key, etc, its very fun!! ;)
When I solo play a fast game of Classic Quake, I usually speed run episode 1 which I can run under 10 minutes
Damn this brings back good memories, im going to install Quake again :p
If playing a game to try and complete it as quick as possible is high stress I pity the submitter having to deal with real life.
Wow. At least 12 posts made it in front of your "frsit psot" and yet you want to post a demo of it. The speed you're involved with would seem to be the chemical type, not technological type.
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Go ahead and post your speed demo. Are there DEA workers on
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
I can't believe some buffoon modded this as a "Troll".
He was making a joke about "first posts" being the Slashdot speed-running sport! Hell, he even got "psot" down accurately!
Jesus H. Christ some people are stupid.
And no, this psot also is not a troll, as it is also about speedrunning.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.