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New Super Mario Bros Wii speedrunner gets AGDQ's standing ovation by playing the entire soundtrack on piano while beating the game with controllers strapped to his body
By Dustin Bailey published
News Never change, speedrunners

Mario's iconic pipes only exist because Shigeru Miyamoto happened to see "a plastic pipe sticking out of a wall" while wandering the streets of Kyoto
By Catherine Lewis published
News The pipes offered a way to transport enemies back to the top of the screen

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto found it hard to watch his own kids playtest Super Mario 64: "Geez, does this kid have any brains?"
By Alex Raisbeck published
News Child's play

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto "very much" regretted making Super Mario Sunshine so hard as it should be something that even "Grandma and Grandpa" can pick up and play
By Kaan Serin published
News The Mario maker wanted to GameCube classic to be more playable for everyone

Legendary Super Mario 64 speedrunner tries to beat the game blindfolded on a dance pad and fails, but not as badly as you or I would
By Dustin Bailey published
"I knew it was a bad idea and it turned out to be an even worse idea than I initially thought"

Super Mario 64 speedrunning is "dead" after one runner claims all 5 major categories in what's being dubbed "the greatest speedrunning achievement of all time"
By Anna Koselke published
News He accomplished what "seemed completely impossible" before

It's been 10 years since Mario Kart 8 launched, and it still managed to outsell every single first-party new Nintendo Switch game in 2024
By Dustin Bailey published
News 9 new first-party Nintendo games couldn't manage to outdo Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

After killing almost every category in Super Mario 64, speedrunning legend completes his domination with a once-unthinkable record of the game's most grueling challenge
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Is this going to go down in history as one of the best WRs in all of speedrunning?"
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