Summer Games Done Quick July 25th-29th!

Giant Bomb community donation shout out!

'Sup duders, didn't think to come here until it was too late. Much love for all the donations in memory of Ryan Davis; I've been a massive fan of Giant Bomb for ages and every time I hear a donation made in his memory read it makes me smile on the inside knowing that so many people care about him.

I hope you're all enjoying SGDQ, and hopefully my run wasn't too choke-tastic. Make sure you guys watch the block starting with TMNT tomorrow, it's going to be insane.

@duke_bilgewater: Hey nice work on your run, and congrats on the free copy of Hotline Miami 2!

Why am I staying up late to watch someone break Final Fantasy V? I think that game is great, but I also think sleep is great. WHAT DO I DO?

I'm up so late... 6 AM and minutes from the end of FFV...

Fortunately, the fusion gave me the extra energy I needed! Fuuuuu~ssssiionn!!!

Puppet show!

BTW, Comix Zone is awesome :D

Comix Zone was a game I always wanted when it was first announced but just never got hold of. I should really look into getting it on ebay or something.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/34272

Unless, of course, you're really hellbent on having a physical copy.

Wooo! Baby Moses hype?

@beachthunder: Thanks. I may get that one as well but I would like a proper copy. I've been rebuilding my old Mega Drive collection since last year (which I stupidly sold when I was younger) on and off so it would be nice to get.

Ryan Davis for Dark Souls and naming Cid Taswell seem like locks at this point, awesome.

POKEMON LEAF GREEN TIME OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

@bane122: Yep. Man I really wanna watch the Dark Souls thing live but I also have to be at work at 9am. Dark Souls is 5am-ish local time for me. I've got some decisions to make tonight.....

@demoskinos: Sleep now, wake up at like 4am and screw your sleeping pattern up for days to come. You know it makes sense!

Pokemon x Science!

The Pokemon runner just got the twitch chat to spam a meme that caused the modbots to ban a whole lot of people for excessive use of symbols. Glorious.

this stream has pretty much consumed the entirety of my sunday. I can't even remember what the first game I watched was but it was great nonetheless.

Been hyped for this GTA run.

@superwristbands: The raise your dongers one?

@demoskinos: That's the one.

Any% OoT on the iQue sounds amazing. I watched Cosmo do some 100% (casual) on it. Silly little handwarmer.

Hyped for Adamak's vice city run. Dude is great at playing and doing great commentary.

Aw, Adam AK's ESA run was way better. There was a crowd of about 20-30 people singing along with all the radio songs and saying all the lines that the characters spoke. It was magical. Look it up if you didn't see it live.

@gunslingerpanda: That's karaoke% for ya xD

It's a shame Cypher quit. His run on that Famicom game at AGDQ was pretty amazing.

@bane122: Was that that weird ball bouncing platforming game no one heard of?

Gimmick! That run was insaneee! Why'd he quit? HE did quite a few runs for AGDQ.

@esrever: Yep, That was it.

Not sure why he quit, I just remember hearing maybe a month or so ago that the had.

The last thing I saw him playing was the Lolo games, then I think he just stopped.

Put $10 towards the Ryan Davis file name. Nice to see the GB community representing for a good cause.

@bane122: Yea I just looked up his twitter. He said he was pretty much burned out and felt too tied down by the hobby. He says he may attend the next AGDQ though, but he would probably not run anything.

First time watching this event and it's devoured my entire weekend. Haven't been able to keep up with GB stuff at all.

It's been great fun watching; I do love the unique and bizarre ways that people have managed to break these classics. It's almost making me want to take my hand at speedrunning myself; Yoshi's Island or Cave Story would be fun (though I have enough games to play already rather than to devote to one single title).

And it's pretty amazing to hear all the Ryan Davis shoutouts. I've heard his name mentioned in donation comments well over ten times during all the runs I've watched.

More people should be watching this, it's so amazing to watch how they kind of break these games.

Woo! They "met" the OoT iQue goal... by bringing down the servers!

Yeah Cosmo OoT! I'm very happy to see Ryan with a strong lead for the Dark Souls name and still the only choice for FFIV Cid. I really hope we get both of those!

Damn link got fat.

Cosmo hyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype! That was great. So glad I got off work in time for that. How was the TMNT block? I had to miss everything from Adams family through vice city today. =(

That OoT run was so damn good. Got me hyped for the rest of the evening.

@demoskinos: Feasel had some bad luck with TMNT, especially the Technodrome spawn, and finished a couple of minutes over the estimate. PJ and Mecha_Richter on TMNT 3 was something to see though. Those dudes worked together so damn well. I'm sure in reality it was no biggie for them but I loved watching it.

I loved when Cosmo was explaining the new OoT tricks that had been found and people just started laughing at how absurd they sound.

@demoskinos: Double dragon had the developers on skype, it was awesome. missed the tmnt block. Pokemon was okay, would have been better with Werster. Gta vice city was great. AdamAK is one of my favorites.

@bane122: Word. I'll have to go back and watch the TMNT and Comix Zone stuff. Sort of mildly intrigued at Bible Adventures because that sounds so fucking stupid too. Haha.

@demoskinos: bible Adventures was a little over two minutes and is right before TMNT so you may as well. It is pretty dumb.

And like NakAttack said, the Double Dragon Neon run was pretty good too. If you have any interest in that game it's worth watching just for the dev's reactions.

Zelda!

Whens Dark Souls again?

@connerthekewlkid: ~8 hours from now. 6AM Central. You can check it here http://marathon.speeddemosarchive.com/schedule

OH MAN I've missed a lot of the runs but the runs I did see have been super entertaining. Great stuff!

Nice Zelda LttP run!

LttP was dope! If I'm not sleeping during Dark Souls then I'm going to have a super shitty day. Can't wait to watch the archive though!

Edit: The Super Metroid animals choices are hilariously close. Killing them is so much faster.. but they're just friendly little animals!

Man, I watch Sinister run Super Metroid on his channel but Zoast puts him to shame. This dude's a beast!

Yeah, Zoast is great. Check out his twitch channel in future. He does a bunch of different run categories too. http://www.twitch.tv/zoasty