HFS, Super Mario beaten in 11:02

[OneManArmy]

ah procreation with tiny, skinny women with really big eyes and colorful hair.

[Everay]

Originally Posted by Flammey

We are talking about the regular Super Mario, right? Mario 1? 11 minutes and 2 seconds is pretty good. I think my record is 18 minutes. I had gotten really good at it. Knew all the warp zone, which leveled to bypass, and where you could gain maximum 1up's. But that was years and years ago, back when I was a child, and nintendo and tv where my only means of entertainment. And my stepfather hated both. Probably still does.

no this is part 2, or 3, i dun remember.

[Flammey]

Ah, I can see it now. It's SM3. My record on that is 22 minutes. I have it on my computer at home and work.

[Aen]

That is crazy shit.

[OneManArmy]

all i can say is I've never wasted my life trying to get a time that low. losers... go outside more....

[Hamma]

I don't think it was a computer that did it, I believe it was actually the guy - I mean they eat sleep and breath vid games over in japan.

[JetRaiden]

BOW BEFORE THE PLATFORMER KING!!!


this is more proof that sometimes videogames can be like sports.

[Nimbus]

Mario Bros 3

I don't think it's a computer. If you watch there are a few times where he misses enemies he jumps at or misses with fireballs he throws. A bunch of friends of mine and I watched it and we figure it's a guy with a turbo controller that just memorized those levels. The levels play through exactly the same way every time so if you had memorized when things happen you can make it through perfectly with enough practice.

[Happy lil Elf]

Originally Posted by TheAngelOfWar

i have a feeling this was run by a computer. simply too precise for a human. look at how he sends those last minute fireballs in midair to take out that ONE guy about to fly off the screen just to keep the 1up combo going. then again, these are japanese we're talking about here...

Not a computer, I see people pull crap like that in games all the time. It looks super impresive to a relative novice but in fact it's pretty much just routine for people who have put that much time into a given game. A great example of this would be DDR/Stepmania. In Stepmania my little brother can get AAA (a, for the most part, perfect score) on songs with his off hand that I can't even finish with my good hand and he has friends who can do certain songs with their feet on a DDR machine that he can barely finish them in Stepmania.

The real question is how many runs did it take for him to get to that point. Once you play the same 15-20 minute seqence over and over a couple hundred times it starts to kinda just become habitual