Need For Speedrunning

You know the drill, we see how many of hundred and twenty or whatever games we can name in a single hour. Will we break our PB of 33.67 from the AGDQ 2023 Pit Stop? Well there's only one delicious way to find out. Come on in and celebrate our favorite time of the year: when the holidays are over and AGDQ can finally begin!

I go fast, you go fast, baby mario and chain chomp go fast.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's John Spooner-Man! Starring in a speedrun that was a world record when we first watched it but is still really cool. Picture this: Parker swings into a room and poses so hard the bad guys collapse. I know Dave, it's wild!

We also dig into some speedrun news including Mario, more Mario, GDQ, and even more GDQ! So snuggle up with your favorite arachnid and mash go on that podcast box!

We're continuing our series on mini episodes about speedrun terms! In the case of "Reverse Boss Order," the name is fairly self-explanatory, but the question is "how is that even possible???" Join us as we dive into the wild world of playing games in reverse order for maximum confusion!

…and you said you are here to see Samus? Well it might be a minute as she's currently running in place as she slowly moves through a wall. But maybe Rubie, Hobz, or Luigi can help you? After all, they watched and did a breakdown of the speedrun, AND they're obeying the laws of physics right now. Honestly that's probably the better option, considering Samus just shot through the ceiling while glowing purple.

It happens all the time. You're scrolling through GDQ vods, and you see a category with something crazy like Low% in the title. And it's like, you've seen that before and your friend explained it to you and it was very clear but also no it wasn't. Well we here at Need For Speedrunning feel your pain and want to help with our new series “Speedrun Glossary”. We've enlisted the help of Zelda speedrun extraordinare gymnast86 to help us define Low%, discuss some of the more ridiculous examples, and even brush up on some Max%. So join us as we embark on this journey, but please don't pick anything up.

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Look, we all know what our boy Sonic is all about: going fast and eating ass, and this week there is plenty of fast to go around. We sit down and take a look at eandis' Sonic 3 & Knuckles world record in the Sonic category, which starts with a bang and never lets up. Join us for all the screen and level wrapping goodness your heart desires and try not to push Tails off the sofa.

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In this episode, Rubie, Nichole, and Bathinjan start a three person Ghost Hunting Detective Agency and then go golfing, because golfing is something successful ghost hunting detectives do on the regular. So join us for some co-op speedrun discussions and let us know your favorite game to to speedrun with friends.

It’s that special time of year, when we all grab the comfiest jammies and pile onto the couch to watch some Christmas movie tie-in video game speedruns! The lovely spikevegeta and Rubie have brought some runs along, and hey! Two thirds of them were pretty great!

Runs watched during the break:

-How The Grinch Stole Christmas - https://youtu.be/VnXRHRxUbAQ 

-Gremlins 2: The New Batch - https://youtu.be/FcaX0ghjRQk 

-Batman Returns - https://youtu.be/Zo4RLYqw_YI

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We here at NFSR were very honored that industry legends Grant Kirkhope, Kevin Bayliss, and David Wise let us use their awesome @RetroFusionBand Christmas song for our silly episode about Christmas movie tie-in video games! Check out their song in the link below and hope your holidays are filled with new video games this year!

Need For Speedrunning: Like a dead Mudkip, we’ll always be by your side in case you need to surf on our corpse. Speedrunner extraordinaire Corvimae stops by the show to talk which gens are good, baseball stats, calculating IV spreads by hand, and dead Mudkips!

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Woah, an actually digestible Pit Stop??!?! Today we just wanted to promote some games and speedruns we think deserve more love... or hate. Join us with special guest Ethan King from the Procedurally Generated Show!

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Well howdy! Been quite a while since we got us a new deputy here in Raccoon City, especially one with a knife that seems to silently scream like yours does. I was busy listening to JHobz, Bradley, and Luigi talk all about the RE2 Remake with Bobby The Blacktastic, but it’s getting harder to hear over the low roar of your knife crying out for weird monster eyeball! Does it do that often? Cause the boss is usually hungover in the morning, fyi. C’mon, while you fill out these waivers, I’ll just put in my headphones in so I can hear the rest of Need For Speedrunning!

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On this episode of NFSR Pit Stops, Hobz and Luigi sit down with two runners from SGDQ 2022, RUBIE HART and Xem, to talk about being back in person, different runs, how they got their starts in speedrunning, and a whole lot more in our longest ever episode. Come hangout and listen!

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Hey so a tiny little unknown thing in speedrunning happened this month called SGDQ 2022! We talked about it! We also chilled and watched a bombastic and colorful speedrun of Solar Ash, Heart Machine's follow-up to the hit action game Hyper Light Drifter. So go watch 14 hours of speedruns, play Daytona! on loop, and spam some PogBones to get yourself back in the GDQ mindset and join us on our recap of the first on-site event in two and a half years!

Last month the cake was a lie, but something tells me this time it’s real. The one and only Keizaron joins us to discuss the one and only Super Mario 64. During the break we watch then return to discuss Weegee’s current 70 Star WR.  You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll bonk a few times, and we’ll all get some goddamn cake.