It may have been called the run (numerous times) but few people know that that it took many tries for Dan and Vinny to casually run through Contra on NES. Here's a short documentation of their struggles, abridged for your convenience.

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Awesome video! The ending gives me chills. Great job.

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Good video! I'm starting to think they don't actually know when they start the video if it's the run or not? Which is weird because they're elite pro gamers... =P

Wait. So all those practice runs were actual attempts? I feel lied to. Might have to cancel my subscription.

That was fantastic. Thank you for putting that together.

@ravenlock: It was a ton of fun to do.

Great video! This is definitely one of my favorite series on the site. GBEAST is killing it with the content