Well...for better or worse, that's certainly a person that worked on that game.

The VVVVVV stream was pretty fun to watch.

Terry: "Ok, you're about to come up on one of the hardest rooms in the game!"

(Runner skips entire room by warping in 0.2 seconds)

Terry: "Oh..."

It was actually rather interesting hearing some of his input, plus the sarcastic "you're welcome"s were funny.

Had a great time with you all and am super glad this thread exists so I can catch up on some of the runs I missed that people have been hyping. Looking forward to doing this with you all come summer! Until then, keep on keeping on with Pac-Swag!

@pepsiman: haha. Yeah, it was a pleasure to chat about these great runs and all the money being raised for a good cause. I'll see your smug-ass self at the next big stream! ( ≖‿≖)

Thanks for the links dude! I've been meaning to watch some of the archives from AGDQ, this helps me greatly!

So, they just finished playing the Legend of Zelda CD-i games on bonus stream, and I'm pretty sure the donations total for the marathon actually went down. :|

This event is so awesome, thanks for the links. SpikeVegeta's fro is too good for me. Really wish I could go there next year if I can muster up the money.

Coolio but I'll wait till the archives are avaibile on archive.org, as the twitch player is one of the most unoptimized video players on the web...

That Viewtiful Joe run is bananas crazy. No insane glitches or funny stuff - maybe a minor quirk of the combat or tiny exploit here or there (like when they jump through the bathtub and save 30 seconds or so) - just a man who knows that game like the back of his hand.

Hell of a game, I played it to death on the Gamecube.

I think I'm gonna check that run out next. I had the same experience with that game, just brute force, trying Very Hard levels over and over and over (and over) until I got them just right. Surprised I didn't destroy anything in frustration, cause that game is a motherfucker. Those were the days, when I had time for dumb stuff like that...*sigh*

Oh man, the Yoshi's Cookie run right now is hilarious.

It really is so, so bad. The CPU usage on the Twitch video player is absurd.

@mb: That's why it's so bad? It's just insane that they haven't done anything about the player yet.

Yeah, the Viewtiful Joe run was one of my favorites, and the F-Zero GX run was done by what amounts to a human TASbot. ha. That man is a machine, and he purposefully styles, showing an amazing mastery of the systems. Frankly, it's a tense delight to watch.

Anyone have an updated bonus stream schedule? I'm pretty sure they said that it stretched to Wednesday a little while ago, but the one I'm looking at only lists stuff up until tonight.

I don't know..... I don't think its that bad. I checked my CPU and memory usage just the other day while i was streaming AGDQ and it was only hitting around 16% of my CPU which is in the same ballpark that the HTML5 player here on GB does. I think the issue isn't the player but Twitch and its awful servers. Their solution for all the new user load they have is to fucking delay everything by 60 seconds because THAT'LL fix everything. Derp. Derp.

@pepsiman said:

Had a great time with you all and am super glad this thread exists so I can catch up on some of the runs I missed that people have been hyping. Looking forward to doing this with you all come summer! Until then, keep on keeping on with Pac-Swag!

You can bet I'll have a thread up as soon as I get info. It was good watching with you guys too.

The Bonus stream is still going strong. They're having a lot of fun with it!

Wow, you were not kidding about that GX run, the dude playing it was a maniac. The trick where he leaves the track for a frame and then comes back to boost (which just makes no sense, but I guess the physics in that game are super wonky, eh?) was nerve-wracking. And I recalled some frustrating memories when he played the "escape from the exploding reactors also watch out for all these walls level"; that was probably the hardest level for me to beat back in the day (and he had the cajones to skip one of the boosts, crazy!).

Quick, someone donate like $47.2k for a rusty Dark Souls run!

I've enjoyed this bonus stream so far. This Rayman run is crazy, and so was...SpikedVegetas? Spell that right?

SpikeVegeta

@demoskinos: Two letters off!

...didn't even know I put the S on the end.

I should stop watching these speedruns and go to bed. But they are so crazy I just can't stop!

I am partaking of this particular run at the moment. It certainly is...special. Turns out there are good uses for bad games besides quick looks :P

I feel like I should be surprised that such an obscure dumb game has been grabbed onto by speedrunners, but it's so shoddily put together that it's ripe for exploit.

ha. Yeah, a lot of games in the "Awful Games Done Quick" block are quite fun and/or interesting to watch.

I would recommend Prayer Warriors to have an out of body experience.

Thanks to these speedruns I finally saw the second level of Spiderman and X-men: Arcade's Revenge looks like. Can't say for sure if I ever actually got to it myself. I played the first level a fair amount, but as far as I remember always got confused/bored and stopped.

No thanks to these speedruns my nostalgia for Diddy Kong Racing is taking a serious hit.

I need to go back and check that out. I think the opening Spider-Man stage is the only level that I ever finished. I may have gotten through Cyclops a few times, and I recall getting toward the end of Wolverine on a consistent basis and not knowing how to finish it.

Yeah, that makes sense. Good thing for Twitch that the PS4 streaming hasn't really caught on in terms of a lot of new viewers, if it had they'd be fucked.

PJ is literally the best. Damned crime he doesn't have more followers. Also a shame we didn't get any battletoads shenanigans with him and mecharichter this year, that's always a highlight.

Everybody owes it to themselves to watch his torch run of super ghouls 'n ghosts. Also check out his bad kart run after, it's absolutely hilarious.

Sounds like somebody didn't stick around for bonus stream!

Wooo! I know what I'm doing when I get off work today. Thanks.

Oh man, that's awesome. I didn't think they would get around to that. It's fantastic to see so much PJ love. I think the first speedrun I watched was his AwfulGDQ run of Lagoon which was hilarious. The Super Ghouls and Ghosts and Rockman and Forte runs are also so much fun. And when he teams up with Mecharichter for TMNT 3 and Battletoads and Double Dragons - perfect. Those guys are great.

Great work compiling this dude! Muchos appreciated! Watched a few of these now and they're pretty fascinating all round, although the Castlevania Bloodlines one was a bit of a bummer, dude playing the game was a bit of an arse

that Barkley run, I was expecting funny jokes but when the runner started talking about how his father got diagnosed with cancer I choked up a bit.

Thank you! Didn't know they did this during the Bonus. Will watch straight away. :D

Yeah, that Barkley run had everything. Laughs and tears, plus success and crashing. It was something else. Definitely not to be missed. :)

The Barkley run was definitely my favourite, as was the Viewtiful Joe and Windwaker runs by Cosmo. I just watched the Half Life 1 run and it was pretty amazing to see somebody beat it in less than 40 minutes but I'm trying to figure out if Gunnar Optik's sponsored him? Hearing him go back to "I'm using these Gunnar's, they're really good" felt pretty skeezy.

hmmm... You know, it's possible he may be trying to get a sponsorship, but as far as I can tell, he is not officially sponsored by Gunnar Optiks. Some popular speedrunners are sponsored by companies like that; though, hey, maybe someone at the event let him borrow some and he genuinely liked them.

And yeah, that Viewtiful Joe run. Just beautiful.

Worms nights on PJ's stream are incredible. PJ, Mecha, Gildersneeze, and Seawolf1 + the fact that Worms is super broken = hilarity

I might post a list of Bonus stream runs. Do you think people would like that info added to this post or made as a separate blog post?

Might as well add it to the end of this to keep it all in one place. This did all come from the Reddit VOD thread didn't it? I appreciate having it posted here as well but in the meantime anyone interested can find timestamp links to all of the main and bonus stream content there.

Yeah, most of it is sourced from the work being done in that thread. I joined Reddit at a good time. ha.

If people think it would be nice just added onto this post; I could probably update it tonight to include everything.

@chaser324: @herbiebug: @sarumarine: @villainy: @amafi: @pyromagnestir: @capum15: @sonicfire: @gearsol:

UPDATE:

For those interested in the Bonus Stream, I have updated the post to include all Bonus Stream runs as well. Many are silly, but some are still quite impressive and/or entertaining.

Hope having it all in one easy place will be helpful! :)

@truthtellah: You are awesome. I missed a couple good ones and the Reddit post I kept looking at didn't seem to have all the Bonus Stream ones.

@truthtellah: That's fantastic thank you! The formatting is a lot nicer than scrolling through a Reddit post. So much to catch up on...

Fire Emblem 7 knowledge getting dropped on the bonus stream, and it sounds nuts.

Also you didn't watch all these, did you @truthtellah? It sounds like you've seen a lot... You do sleep, right?

@truthtellah: You are a god amongst men! ♥

I've seen a lot of these, yes. Not as much of the bonus stream, but here and there. I've seen at least a little of every run during official AGDQ 2014 though. :)

I was really sick during AGDQ; so, I was already not sleeping much. AGDQ was a nice thing to just have on.

FZero GX was definitely the highlight for me. Love that game, and it's crazy to see what insanity can be pulled off by an expert. Even on normal mode those missions were a bastard and a half to complete.

Still need to catch up on a lot though. Was really bummed to have missed the Super Metroid race; that sounded fantastic.

Developer Commentary

After seeing some requests, I have added a note next to the seven runs that I know had developer commentary.

They were:

• Banjo Kazooie
• Barkley Shut Up & Jam! Gaiden
• The Mask
• VVVVVV
• Surgeon Simulator 2013
• Borderlands 2
• Metroid Prime

@draxyle said:

Super Metroid race was seriously good. Definitely worth the watch. I can't believe those guys do that Samus arm pump over and over for a single pixel of gain each time.

F-Zero GX was a JOY to see as well. That guy is seriously insane in a way that people can enjoy having no knowledge of the game, but for those that played it it's on another level. I thought Yoshifan's run last year was good (and it was!) but good lord. I must have put a few hundred hours into GX back in the day. Finished very hard story, used to compete in the max speed ladder and was pretty good for a while (nearly broke the top 20 at one point.) I was in serious awe of CGN. There were no new techniques or anything that I hadn't seen from when I played, but the ability to pull them all off so easily and consistently is stunning. Cool to see that people are still setting new record times. Skipping energy in VH Chapter 5 is pure insanity and I can't believe he even took that guys bet on.

I miss F-Zero, I wish there was a new one..