Kotaku: Speed Run

How Long Did It Take For Bethesda's Marathon Men To Finish Skyrim?

Mike Fahey — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:20:00 EDT

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You'd be amazed at how fast a game developer and a quality assurance tester can burn through The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when there's pie on the line. More »

Can a Controller Be Programmed to Speed-Run Super Mario Bros.?

Owen Good — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:00:00 EST

Long story short, this modder built a controller that, when plugged into a Nintendo Entertainment System, auto speedruns Super Mario Bros. in just a shade under 5 minutes. Naturally, commenters have shouted it down as a fake, but the Tool-Assisted Speedrun community is unanimous in calling the mod real. More »

How To Beat Demon's Souls In Under An Hour

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:40:00 EDT

It took me more than forty hours to play through From Software's dark dungeon crawler Demon's Souls, which now seems rather foolish, after having watched someone sprint through the role-playing game in less than an hour. More »

Portal 18 Minute Speed Run

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:20:59 EST

From start to finish, one proficient Portal player sped through Valve's first-person teleporter in a total of 18 minutes and 5 seconds, not including load times. There's plenty of sneaky shortcuts and wall-climbing buggery being taken advantage of, but the merits of this ADD-filled speed run stand on their own. More »

The Most Wacked Out Super Mario Speed Run Ever

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:51 EST

It's called Air and is simply a hacked Super Mario Bros. ROM. It makes no sense. At all. More »

Making Friends and Avoiding Cliffracers in Morrowind

egauger — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:40:00 EDT

Whenever I see one of these speedrun videos, I wonder if the developers of the game become deeply depressed at seeing their months of hellish slavery in thrall to Bethesda so skewered. More »

1:45 Ico Speed Run

brownlee — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:40:00 EDT

Over at Game Set Watch, we had our attention diverted from a series of posts we were going to do on why the Playstation 3 is not going to deliver on Ken Kutaragi's recent promise to be a fully functional time machine by this crazy speed-run of Ico for the Playstation 2. We had no idea you could swat the penumbric wraiths away from swarming about an ethereal princess so damn quickly. More »

Cave Story Hell Speedrun

brownlee — Thu, 18 May 2006 18:40:56 EDT

Cave Story is one of the greatest games ever made. Period, then exclamation point, then my hobnail boot imploding the obnoxious face of the fool who disagrees. So charming, frantic, ethereal... the creator, Pixel, is one of those quiet, imminently modest geniuses that just melts your heart. More »

Maniac Mansion in 7:18

brownlee — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:40:39 EDT

From the implausible speed run department, this tool-assisted speed run of the LucasArts adventure Maniac Mansion, completed in well under 8 minutes. What will those wacky speed freaks speed run next? More »

Even Faster Super Mario Speed Run Video!

brownlee — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:40:32 EDT

Late last year, we posted a pretty crazy 5:30 speedrun of Super Mario Bros. We were wondering if anyone had managed to top that, so we did a search, and came up with this speed run of five minutes. More »

Link to the Past in 3:48

brownlee — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:40:38 EDT

While tool-assisted demos are a hideous abomination to the speed runner's code of ethics, part of the steadfast moral weave that make this nation great, we couldn't resist posting this time attack of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past that exploits a programming error to make a run through the game in three minutes and forty-eight seconds. Or as the speed runner describes his film: "SNES Zelda completed in a very quick manner by traveling in an alternate dimension through the walls." More »

We Love Katamari Speed Runs

brownlee — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:40:14 EDT

We saw over at GameSetWatch that those speedy bastards over at the Speed Demo Archive have put together some truly crazy runs for We Love Katamari. More »

Emulator Free Zelda Finished in 33 Minutes

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:22:33 EDT

Yesterday, we featured a tool-enabled Zelda speed run. A Kotaku reader pointed us to another speed run, this one done by fella named Mike "TSA" Damiani without emulators and tools. After Mike finished his run, he had this to say, "However, honest to god - I am not doing this game again. I've had it with this game. I love playing it when I can max out Link early on and destroy levels like a joke. But the speed run of this game is just so demanding and stressing. I do not see myself having the desire to get this game out to try again." Sure, Mike's tool-free run might be slower, but he did it on skill alone. And he was cool enough to give a how-to, which is after the jump. More »

Nail-Biter Super Mario Race

brownlee — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:20:50 EST

We were riveted by this Google Video of two lightning-quick gamers speed-running through the anthropomorphical mushroom kingdom of Super Mario Bros. in less than seven minutes. More »

Gaming Faster than a Speeding Bullet

lsmith — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:42:36 EST

In December we linked to a video of a speed run through Super Mario Bros.. Gaming Steve links to Speed Demos Archive, a collection of incredibly speedy jaunts through video games. Someone raced through The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker in 6 hrs and 42 minutes. It took me that long to find the first whatevermacallit that you had to sail for hours around the world to find. More »

Super Mario Speed Run Video

Brian Crecente — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:13:58 EST

Five minutes and 30 seconds. If you were Luke you could use that time to have sex with a beautiful women and smoke a pack of cigarettes or if you're the guy in the linked video you could beat Super Mario Brothers. More »