Follower of Jesus, Husband, Dad, Game Expert Twitch Partner, Juggler, Hobbyist, 1st person to beat Super Mario Bros under 5 minutes
Level 100 procrastinator
I hope this is the start of me actually documenting what I do in a productive way. I want to do more cool things and make better content. If you like this kind of thing, Like + subscribe to my Youtube channel in my bio.
Here's to a new era and better video organization:
Anyway, here's a clip of me speedrunning Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo World Championships (reproduction) cart for kicks.
If you get 50 coins, it goes to the next game (Rad Racer). Note the coin count:
@AMythicWitch
"Nintendo" emailed me. They wanted me to sign a legal document to attend an event. I immediately knew it was a scam and Googled the email address.
But it actually wasn't a scam. Nintendo personally invited me to play Mario in front of the creator of Mario: Shigeru Miyamoto.
In Super Mario Maker 2, if a Builder character hits a block a certain distance above a Twister with a hammer, the character will be trapped in a state of stumbling backwards. Player input has no effect and the character will only stop when walking into a wall or off a ledge.
@AMythicWitch
It wasn't the ideal setup to play Super Mario Bros for a number of reasons, but it was still such an insane experience to meet Miyamoto (and Reggie!) despite the issues.
I'll never forget halfway through the run when Miyamoto turned toward me, smiles, and said "break a leg!"
Congratulations
@Niftski
on breaking the SMB1 Any% record with a 4:54.631!!!
Niftski was **23%** with TAS 4-2 this stream, a level of consistency no one is matching for a fair while
It happened guys. It actually happened.
@Niftski
is a monster. This is HUGE! Big congratulations to the first ever 4:54 in Super Mario Bros, and the last ever second barrier to be broken.
For comparison: The TAS is 4:54.26*
*No Left+Right inputs [RTA ruleset]
Speedruns don't "ruin" games. In fact, they're sometimes the only thing keeping your childhood games alive/interesting for the next generation to play.
Attention Twitch streamers!!!
September 20th we are raiding streamer Area51. He mostly does Super Mario World speedruns and is a really cool guy! Everyone please make this happen!
@Area51Smw
BTW! I had a beautiful baby girl recently! Life has been really difficult for reasons beyond just having a new baby. It's been super tough, but I think we're over the biggest hurdles at this point (please).
I won't be streaming for a long time (maybe years), but will be around.
Once upon a time, I was invited by Nintendo to speedrun Super Mario Bros. I think sometimes we forget the good times in our lives when we're going through a rough patch. We just gotta keep going.
I look weird in both of these photos, but I think I was just super nervous Haha.
LOST MEDIA: an image has recently been found that has people puzzled, as no one can identify the game shown on the TV screen; it is assumed to be lost. it is assumed to have released in the mid 1980s. do you know what it is?
For those that haven't heard, I'm having a baby real soon. I might still do a few more Twitch streams, but I will soon be taking a break from video games for a while.
Today is my 2 year anniversary with my wife! Time is seriously flying by! We've been together since Freshman year of high school, and I couldn't be luckier.
My best speedruns were done before speedrunning was pretty popular, and people like to tell me that. I hear: "Of course you had WRs because the strats were easier you had no competition."
What they don't realize is that I had a really tough competitor all these years: myself.
@5quiddo
@tehmarom4n
As someone who has more speedrun experience than almost anyone let me tell you it's just way too linear like that and allows for hardly any creativity. Also, it's arbitrary to ban certain things. 100% categories let you play every stage and isn't necessarily too glitchy.
Happy Valentine's Day to my wife who has put up with my goofy hobbies for over 19 years now. She was even there for the first GDQ! I'm happy to have someone so supportive as my partner.
I was never sure whether I was imagining things or making timing mistakes, but this confirms what I always thought. My initial 5:00.71 is actually 5:00.35.
And my 5:00.4x is also 5:00.35.
Why? 5:00.71 was recorded with a VCR. It adds ~0.3 seconds per 5 minutes. 5:00.4 was DVD
So me and
@SimplisticMemes
went through old World Records for SMB1 and we found that a few runs by Andrewg1990 were not retimed properly. Using current retiming methods we discovered that both 5 flats performed by Andrew in 2007 & 2010 appear to be the same time down to be frame.
So my ultimate goal with Super Mario Bros was to some day hit all the frame rules. There were times when I hit all "humanly possible" frame rules at the time (though it's a much different game now), but it seemed probable that more would be found. Now,
@Niftski
literally did.
AndrewG (
@Andrewgspeedrun
) demonstrates how water levels in Super Mario Bros. only require pressing A to swim by juggling during a Warpless Speedrun at AGDQ (2014)
@_jimmyfranks
@KristerJohnson
Oh yeah! Billy Baker (article author) is a great guy. I witnessed Lori's Tetris performance first-hand at Funspot as well.
Shout-out to the SMB1 community. I definitely won't be the first 4:54. Younger me would have gone crazy trying to get a 4:54 if I knew it were possible back when, but I'm happy to pass the torch to the people who've put in so much work to get there.
10 years ago today I got invited by Nintendo to meet and speedrun for Miyamoto and Reggie at the Nintendo Store in NYC.
EASILY one of the coolest days of my life. I still can't believe that actually happened.
I'm taking a break from video games again until my life is the way I want it to be and I have the time and motivation to go back to it. This has been a very long time coming.
Much love and gratitude to my gaming friends, viewers, and competitors. Thanks everyone.
- AndrewG
$100 BOUNTY!!!
I will Paypal $100 to the highest score in Super Mario Bros done using only 1 life with no power-ups (mushrooms/fire)
- Game must be completed: 8-4 beaten
- Game must be streamed with full video proof
- Suspect runs = additional proof
- Deadline is 1/25 - 7pm ET
I wanna give a proper shout-out to
@Kosmicd12
for absolutely destroying Super Mario Bros any%! I believe this also had the fastest all-time ever 8-4 world record finish!
I also think the run has no actual frames of execution error which is astounding!
Speedruns: Beating games as fast as possible (unintended playthrough)
Glitchless runs: Beating games in the intended way.
Glitchless speedruns: Beating games in an unintended way in the intended way.