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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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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 ...
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 ...
IGN

Miyamoto Explains How Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 Was Created

World 1-1. We’ve all run, jumped, and brick-bashed our way through that familiar first stage. It seems so simple and second-nature to us now, but in this modern age of iterative entertainment, it is ...