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Running With Speed
''Running with Speed'' is a 2023 documentary film about speedrunning directed by Patrick Lope and Nicholas Mross. It was written by Lope, Mross, and Summoning Salt, the latter of which also narrated the documentary. Summary The documentary is split up into three main parts, first introducing Summoning Salt and then focusing on classic Mario games such as ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Bros 3''. It then covers the legacy and history of Games Done Quick and its charitable impact on the world and how it fosters the growth of professional careers for featured speedrunners, many of whom earn a living from streaming on Twitch (service), Twitch. It also covers the Nintendo World Championships and other speedrunning competitions, including Kaizo competitions. The documentary mostly focuses on Nintendo classics from the 1980s and 1990s, including ''Super Mario 64'', ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'', ''Punch-Out!! (NES), Punch-Out!!'', and ''Super Metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summoning Salt
Summoning Salt ("Salt" for short) is a pseudonymous American speedrunning, speedrunner and YouTuber known for his video documentaries about the history of speedrunning records. As of June 2025, his channel has over 2 million subscribers and more than 246 million views. Speedrunning career Summoning Salt is one of the leading speedrunners of the NES video game ''Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!'' (MTPO). As of November 2024, he holds the records for a variety of MTPO categories, including single-segment (playing through the entire game in one sitting), where his 14:46 time is over 13 seconds faster than the No. 2 speedrunner. In addition, Salt has held the record for the fastest Mike Tyson boss fight since 2017. The fight is highly optimized and requires a significant amount of Random number generation, random number luck (referred to in speedrunning as "RNG"), plus excellent execution, to lower any further. He is the first person to finish the fight in fewer than two in-game minut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo World Championships
The Nintendo World Championships (NWC) is a nationwide Electronic sports, video game competition series, organized by Nintendo of America at no particular interval. The first Nintendo World Championships was in 1990, touring 29 American cities, being hosted in Los Angeles, CA twice. The NWC was conceived by Steve Grossman and Jay Coleman, principals at EMCI, Nintendo's marketing agency. Greggory Vasquez-Vasquez was the inaugural champion defeating 48 others and dominating the NES championship event. The event won numerous marketing awards and was sponsored by Pepsi, Reebok, and Nabisco. It was based on a custom Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak, which would historically become one of the most Video game collecting, rare and valuable NES ROM cartridge, cartridges. The NWC is considered one of the first ever esports events. In 2014, Nintendo released ''NES Remix, NES Remix 2'', featuring the reminiscent ''Nintendo World Championships Remix'', which uses emulation and online l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Documentary Films
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Films About Video Games
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and Media studies, media analyst Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Research into information gathering, as a behavior, and the sharing of knowledge, as a concept, has noted how documentary movies were preceded by the notable practice of documentary photography. This has involved the use of singular Photograph, photographs to detail the complex attributes of History, historical events and continues to a certain degree to this day, with an example being the War photography, conflict-related photography achieved by popular figures such as Mathew Brady during the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheese (speedrunner)
Allan Alvarez (born February 26, 1995), more commonly known as cheese (originally cheese05 until 2018), is a Venezuelan-born Trinidadian-Spanish speedrunner and podcaster known for his ''Super Mario 64'' records. Personal life Allan Alvarez was born on February 26, 1995, in Venezuela. Alvarez moved to Trinidad when he was two years old. His parents divorced early in his life, which proved to be difficult for Alvarez in his speedrunning endeavors, as his step-father was not supportive at first. This has since changed. Alvarez now describes his step-father as someone he can recognize as his real father and someone who has taught him in life how to be persistent and disciplined at whichever craft he wants to pursue. He always was a very strict and tough figure towards Alvarez, but Alvarez said it helped him to be the strong person he is today. Alvarez is openly gay, and he grew aware of the anti-gay culture in Trinidad and Tobago and felt he could not live his true life in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Metroid
is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the third installment in the ''Metroid'' series, following the events of the Game Boy game '' Metroid II: Return of Samus'' (1991). The player controls bounty hunter Samus Aran, who travels to planet Zebes to retrieve an infant Metroid creature stolen by the Space Pirate leader Ridley. Following the established gameplay model of its predecessors, ''Super Metroid'' focuses on exploration, with the player searching for power-ups used to reach previously inaccessible areas. It introduced elements such as the inventory screen, an automap, and the ability to fire in 8 directions. The development staff from previous ''Metroid'' games—including Yoshio Sakamoto, Makoto Kano and Gunpei Yokoi—returned to develop ''Super Metroid'' over the course of two years. The developers wanted to make a true action game, and set the stage f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punch-Out!! (NES)
originally titled is a 1987 boxing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Part of the ''Punch-Out!!'' series, it is an adaptation of the arcade video games ''Punch-Out!! (arcade game), Punch-Out!!'' (1984) and ''Super Punch-Out!! (arcade game), Super Punch-Out!!'' (1984). Differences from the arcades include the addition of former Undisputed championship (boxing), undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson as the final boss. It received critical acclaim, and is retrospectively considered one of the List of video games considered the best, greatest video games of all time. Gameplay ''Punch-Out!!'' features Little Mac (Punch-Out!!), Little Mac, a young boxer fighting his way up through ranks of the World Video Boxing Association. After facing a series of colorful fictional opponents in three circuits and winning the championship in each, Little Mac enters a final "Dream Fight" against a highly skilled boxer. In the Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocarina Of Time
is a 1998 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The game was the first in the ''Legend of Zelda'' series with 3D graphics. It was released in Japan and North America in November 1998 and in PAL regions the following month. ''Ocarina of Time'' was developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development division. It was led by five directors, including Eiji Aonuma and Yoshiaki Koizumi, produced by series co-creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and written by Kensuke Tanabe. Series composer Koji Kondo wrote its soundtrack. The player controls Link (The Legend of Zelda), Link in the realm of Hyrule on a quest to stop the evil king Ganondorf by traveling through time and navigating dungeons and an overworld. The game introduced features such as a target-lock system and context-sensitive buttons, which have since become common in 3D adventure games. The player must play songs on an ocarina to progress. ''Ocarina of Time'' was acclaimed by critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
