Your first speedrun?

2004-04-08 04:35:58 pm

What was the first game you ever tried to speedrun? It could be any game, even metroid games.

First ever speedrun attempt was Metroid Fusion cause I wanted the under 2 hours ending.

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Radix

2004-04-08 06:34:33 pm

Super Metroid I think.

GreenMamba

2004-04-08 07:04:01 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

Super Metroid, just because I wanted to get the best ending really badly and I could never get it.

Nowadays, however, getting that best ending is easy-shmeasy.

SABERinBLUE

2004-04-08 07:24:14 pm

Cook of the Sea

Every single Metroid game I play I always go through it once and get a time of 6:00 or over at the worst, and I always am like "How can anyone ever possibly beat this thing in 2:00? " It's crazy...

I've beaten ZM in 1:12, and II in 2:39. Haven't really speed-ran on any of the others.

chinchillax13514

2004-04-09 01:22:06 am

Fusion. Got 1:51, good for me. I tried Prime, 100%. Ended up with 8:45...

Wassup Dawgs

2004-04-09 01:50:12 am

Fusion. I don't recall many other games of mine that have an ending time.

Faust

2004-04-09 12:15:11 pm

There are two speedruns I did, I don't recall which came first though. One was Extreme G (the original): a little-regarded, insignificant racing title from Acclaim on the N64. For some weird reason, it is impossible for me to get sick of that game. There are various ways I speedran it, one was playing the highest difficulty, Expert-Meltdown, in which you go through all twelve tracks with the AI at its toughest. I can get it done in a little less than 1/2 an hour. I also tend to think that I hold records, maybe world records for lap times on that game as I pushed that sucker to its limits. Unfortunately, no one cares.

The other was Goldeneye on N64. I don't know if it counts, but I played every level as fast as possible, usually a requirement for obtaining the cheats, in a gaming marathon that lasted the entire summer after the game's release. I'd literally get up every day, and play Goldeneye all day, for three months straight. I suppose my speedrun time would be the sum of all my best times, only as a rough measure though. I tell ya, the subtle cymbals after beating a level letting you know you got a new cheat, that's just gaming heaven. I had more fun getting the cheats than I did using the cheats.

Anyway... don't know if those two count as speedruns, but if you'd call a speedrun the intention to play a game/level as fast as possible, I suppose they apply here. It's not like any sequence breaking was going down or anything.

There are two speedruns I did, I don't recall which came first though.  One was Extreme G (the original): a little-regarded, insignificant racing title from Acclaim on the N64.  For some weird reason, it is impossible for me to get sick of that game.  There are various ways I speedran it, one was playing the highest difficulty, Expert-Meltdown, in which you go through all twelve tracks with the AI at its toughest.  I can get it done in a little less than 1/2 an hour.  I also tend to think that I hold records, maybe world records for lap times on that game as I pushed that sucker to its limits.  Unfortunately, no one cares.

The other was Goldeneye on N64.  I don't know if it counts, but I played every level as fast as possible, usually a requirement for obtaining the cheats, in a gaming marathon that lasted the entire summer after the game's release.  I'd literally get up [i]every[/i] day, and play Goldeneye [i]all[/i] day, for three months straight.  I suppose my speedrun time would be the sum of all my best times, only as a rough measure though.  I tell ya, the subtle cymbals after beating a level letting you know you got a new cheat, that's just gaming heaven.  I had more fun getting the cheats than I did using the cheats.

Anyway... don't know if those two count as speedruns, but if you'd call a speedrun the intention to play a game/level as fast as possible, I suppose they apply here.  It's not like any sequence breaking was going down or anything.

KennyMan666

2004-04-13 08:43:29 am

Viking