It's fun watching old speed runs, not only marveling at the obsessive-compulsiveness of it all, but noticing certain details of gameplay you never noticed before. For example, whenever I play a Mario-like game, I pretty much feel compelled to kill every enemy. But they don't even seem to realize you're there, just happily "Doo doo doo dee doo"ing along, like that anthropomorphic type writer on Sesame Street who liked to fiddle with himself. Florian Eckhardt

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