This event is quickly becoming one of my favourite times of the year, right next to E3. Keep on being awesome GDQ.

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HIGHLIGHTS

Just want to watch the juiciest bits of the marathon?

Well I've done my best to give you just that!

Here is a list of what I would personally consider the highlights of the marathon, and I would recommend everyone to check them out.

I'll put no star for a good run, * for a great run, and ** + bold for an awfuckyeah run:

• Viewtiful Joe **
• The TAS Block **
• I Wanna Be the Guy w/ dev commentary*
• Hotline Miami **
• Sonic R *
• Yoshi's Island **
• Doom 1 vs 2 race
• Metal Gear Solid *
• Link's Awakening DX *
• Twilight Princess *
• Barkley Shut Up and Jam! Gaiden w/ dev commentary ***
• Donkey Kong 64
• Castlevania Bloodlines **
• Symphony of the Night *
• Mario Kart 64
• F-Zero **
• F-Zero GX Super Hard Mode *
• Sonic 2006broken% **
• Prayer Warriors w/ madness *
• Zoo Race *
• Pac-Man 2: The New Adventuresw/ smug pac-man **
• Shinobi Legions
• Contra
• Ninja Gaiden *
• Ninja Gaiden 2 **
• Ninja Five-0
• The Maskw/ dev commentary **
• Hitman: Blood Money *
• VVVVVV w/ dev commentary *
• Surgeon Simulator 2013 w/ dev commentary*
• Mike-Tyson's Punch-Out! - BLINDFOLDED - ***
• Super Punch-Out! - BLINDFOLDED - ***
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time *
• Super Metroid 4 person racew/ ESPN commentary ***
• Metroid Zero Mission *
• Goldeneye played by two people as one **
• Perfect Dark
• Super Mario 64 one-handed *
• Minecraft
• The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD *
• Chrono Trigger w/ million bucks ***

I hope you'll enjoy them, and if so, please consider donating even further to the Prevent Cancer Foundation here or here.

For reference, during which game was the million dollar total announced? I want to hear that cheer.

@truthtellah: Gonna convert the front page promo to link to this now that it's over.

@donchipotle: The million dollar total was actually reached during the final boss of the final game of the marathon, Chrono Trigger.

As the runner fought Lavos, donations were flooding in. Over $50,000 in less than a hour came in, and as he was striking the final blows on Lavos's final form, they hit $1,000,000.

He defeated Lavos and everyone looked over toward the announcer. He then shouted that they had indeed reached $1,000,000 and the room erupted into celebration!

Pac-Man is too smug to watch these awesome speedruns. Don't be like Pac-Man.

Sounds good, Marino. This ever-evolving table of information was helpful for me throughout the week, and I'm glad if more people here can get to easily find and watch the runs they want to see. :)

In the coming weeks, most of these runs will probably be put on Youtube, but for now, this seems like it should be helpful in navigating the Twitch archives of the marathon.

For anyone who missed it, I recommend checking out Shinobi Legions from the Awful Games Done Quickly block. FMV ninjas and a dinosaur boss that literally has to be seen to be believed.

That and the Hitman run were the stars of the event for me.

Wow, awesome work!

@truthtellah said:

@donchipotle: The million dollar total was actually reached during the final boss of the final game of the marathon, Chrono Trigger.

As the runner fought Lavos, donations were flooding in. Over $50,000 in less than a hour came in, and as he was striking the final blows on Lavos's final form, they hit $1,000,000.

He defeated Lavos and everyone looked over toward the announcer. He then shouted that they had indeed reached $1,000,000 and the room erupted into celebration!

Gah, I knew not staying up to finish watching Chrono Trigger would wind up being a bad idea! Ah well, guess I'll just have to watch all of it now.

This is cool! Thanks a lot for doing this.

@truthtellah: Thanks for the list of notable runs, I saw a few of those but missed most of them. Good to have points to start the archive diving with.

Damn glad I stayed up to watch the last like, 12 hours. Wondershot was a great way to end that fight, and RyanD was laser flaring dudes until the end.

One god damn million dollars.

Sweet, can't wait to see Sonic 2006.

I just watched the Super Metroid race. It was insanely good. If you don't want to watch too much, at least watch that, it's probably one of the best runs I've ever seen at GDQ. Now I need to go finish watching Chrono Trigger to see that clutch 1 mil.

I watched the Goldeneye one yesterday on youtube. Kind of crazy.

Best GDQ Marathon to date, looking forward to SGDQ '14 now!

Oh man, thanks so much for this. I had to work most of the week so I missed a lot of good stuff. There are a lot of great runs in there. I think my favorites at the time are the back-to-back Blindfolded Punch-Out runs. Those were amazing and super tense.

This is cool. This needs a like. Trying to find the like button. I can't find it so I guess I'll just flag it. That's what that's for right?

Oh my... thank you! I have been tuning in randomly and caught some stuff but this is helpful.

The Surgeon Simulator co-op speedrun was a highlight!

Thank you so much for doing this.

Man, Sonic '06 is so DUMB.

Yes, yes it is.

And if you are not a fan of it, I recommend watching the speedrun, as the runner tears Sonic '06 apart and tosses it into a bottomless void for your amusement.

I wish more of these were on YouTube. Watching VoD's on Twitch is a nightmare.

Yeah, right now, I guess they're being slammed with people wanting to watch the videos. I've found that going down to medium quality helps them work well enough. Just gotta stick with it. But, for the moment, it's all we've got. :)

@truthtellah: Yep. I'm sure they'll upload more on to YouTube in the coming weeks.

@demoskinos: have you tried medium quality? I usually struggle with Twitch, but the AGDQ VoDs Works great.

Such a great event and amazed at how much bigger it gets every year. Never would have thought they would hit $1,000,000. I figured in a couple of years as it continued to grow steadily, not exponentially. Happy I was wrong! =)

The one handed Mario 64 run was friggin awesome.

I'm pretty groggy from staying up last night to watch them reign in a cool million but man this was a hell of a charity stream. Brought a smile to my face seeing people react live to the 2poch. I'd definitely recommend watching the TASBlock "performed." I'm a sucker for those and to see it on real hardware was really mind blowing.

@dorkymohr: They're actually doing more TASbot right now on the bonus stream.

I just watched TASbot beat Zelda 1 like a maniac, and Zelda 2 is like a fever dream where TASbot has broken the speed limit on how fast Link can move, causing him to fly around like a jet through levels. Ha.

Definitely still more fun to be found in the bonus streams and I'll update the list of streams later to reflect what happens.

Holy shit man. Great job getting this stuff together. I was having a real hard time trying scrub through the videos to find a game I want to watch.

Wow, thanks. This is extremely helpful.

Thanks to this amazing list, I was able to watch the Zoo Race run. My life has been changed forever.

Wait it's done? Does that mean twitch is no longer dead?

Tomb Raider II was a lot of fun to watch. But Castlevania: Bloodlines, seems like half the time they were shitting on the game. So that was strange.

I dont know to either love your or hate you for this......and here i though i might get stuff done today

If you haven't watched the Barkley run, you should totally watch the Barkley run.

@arbitrarywater: Goddamn right it was.

Confirmed: Zoo Race changes lives.

The sword only Ninja Gaiden 2 run was a thing of pure beauty

For those who might have missed it, here is the moment when RyanD won the bidding war to become the name for Robo.

Zallard's blindfolded run of Super Punch-Out is mandatory viewing. MANDATORY. ♥

Just watched Duckfist's Ninja Gaiden 2 sword only run. So tense. So great.

If you enjoyed the marathon and want to see more speedrunning, check out Speed Runs Live. It's a central hub site for hundreds of speedrunners on twitch. Really slick interface that shows you who is live, what they're playing, and how many viewers they currently have. Also go to the list above and watch all of PJ's runs and then go to his channel and follow him. He's the best. Plays all sorts of very obscure and usually very difficult games with hilarious commentary. Also, i'm not certain but I think he may be the most highly educated person in the speedrunning community as well.

Man, F-Zero GX speed run is pretty magical, because I played that game a LOT in high school, and actually beat most of the game on Very Hard after hours of trying it. But certainly not with the crazy physics tricks those guys have figured out.

Oh man, the part where the guy speedruns VVVVVV while they have Terry Cavanagh on Skype is just adorable. Because Terry is such a nice man, and his reactions to some of the strats speedrunners have found are really adorable.

haha. Yeah, the runs with dev commentary were almost all great. As you said, it was fun to hear Terry go "aw man.." and "I didn't even know that was possible" as the game was run. Definitely a recommended highlight.

@truthtellah: Ahh, my bad, didn't realize there are several games where they got devs. My italics are for nothing! What other games had interesting dev commentary?

Metroid Prime had some super-interesting developer commentary. I highly recommend it.

EDIT: Oh right, they also had Grant Kirkhope on for a bit during Banjo-Kazooie, and that was also great.

They also had the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam! Gaiden in attendance for that run. A must see, by the way.

Thanks a lot for doing this! I've missed a lot of stuff and dreaded going through the archives looking for specific stuff.

Borderlands 2 they got Anthony Burch.