super metroid

Games Done Quick returned once again last week, raising over $1.2 million for cancer research through the method of beating popular games as quickly as possible. Most of the marathon is now archived on the GDQ YouTube channel (as I write this the final day has yet to show up), and if you missed it, here are the best parts of the week in their entirety…. The highest point of joy in the entire marathon was the Super Mario Maker challenge, embedded above. Eight of the SMM community’s most notorious designers created previously unseen custom levels for two teams of four players to race through as fast as possible. If you have anything important to do right now, forget it and watch this instead — you won’t be sorry. Show starts at minute 26. The Metroid Prime speedrun was quite a sight to behold; the player found a shortcut in nearly every room. You wouldn’t believe the game could be broken like this if you hadn’t seen it. A new