

Early on most of this was informal, just competitions between friends to see who had the fastest fingers.

This meant that originally, the most popular genre to speedrun was platformers, especially those from Nintendo, such as Super Mario 64, Super Mario Bros, and Super Mario World. Speedrunning has been around since the 1990s when Super Metroid became the first popular speedrunning game.

Speedrunners ignore all of this and have only one aim: to play through a game as quickly as possible. Sometimes there’s a slow-burning story to follow, a long mission that takes some careful planning or a quick burst of action.

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