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Portal 18 Minute Speed Run

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.

The second half of the speed run is included after the jump. The final confrontation at the end of the second segment speeds up the already impressive, already posted sub-minute dispatching of GlaDOS.

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7:20 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Michael McWhertor
11,374 views, 98 comments

Latest by N/A: Only part I probably couldn't figure out how to do (though it'd take me forever to figure out anything he's more »

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The Most Wacked Out Super Mario Speed Run Ever

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

10:00 PM on Thu Nov 9 2006
By Michael McWhertor
2,043 views, 42 comments

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1:45 Ico Speed Run

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 »

10:40 AM on Mon Jun 19 2006
By brownlee
580 views, 1 comment

Latest by amnn: yor_D_a, yorda. not yorga. i laugh at you :D more »

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Maniac Mansion in 7:18

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?

2:40 PM on Tue May 16 2006
By brownlee
402 views, 5 comments

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Even Faster Super Mario Speed Run Video!

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 »

2:40 PM on Wed May 3 2006
By brownlee
1,432 views, 16 comments

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Link to the Past in 3:48

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 »

3:40 PM on Mon May 1 2006
By brownlee
273 views, 5 comments

Latest by Adam Whisnant: Total Games Played: 000. Sounds about right. Either way, neat trick. =p more »

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We Love Katamari Speed Runs

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 »

1:40 PM on Tue Apr 11 2006
By brownlee
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Emulator Free Zelda Finished in 33 Minutes

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.
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1:22 PM on Tue Apr 4 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
3,734 views, 2 comments

Latest by ReverendTed: I'm a big fan of both the "tool-assisted" emulated speed runs and those done in real time on the actual more »

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Gaming Faster than a Speeding Bullet

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 »

10:42 AM on Wed Jan 18 2006
By lsmith
1,534 views, Comment

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Super Mario Speed Run Video

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 »

10:13 AM on Wed Dec 14 2005
By Brian Crecente
1,132 views, 8 comments

Latest by MasaMuneCyrus: I'm not sure if this is the real one or the fake one, but there was a speedrun done via more »