The 120-star run category – the collection of all the tokens required to officially conclude the game - is said to be the most challenging by far. Super Mario 64 (SM64) is seen as the ‘holy grail’, one video speedrunning aficionado say s. With nearly 12 million copies sold, the game is among the global video-game bestsellers and continues to have a large following among young and old. Your correspondent knows the frustrations the game can cause. SM64 is famous for its level of difficulty and often ranked among the hardest to speedrun. Part of his success may be down to the game he chose. Today, 25 years later, Alvarez is the star on the international speedrunning horizon. When it came out Allan Alvarez, known as ‘Cheese’ in the scene and among the top international SM64 speedrunners today, was just a toddler. One of the most competitive and popular speedrunning games is still Super Mario 64 (SM64), released in 1996 for the Nintendo 64 console. Of the top ten games featured on, four were released before the millennium and six before 2010. Old games, maybe released decades ago, are the most popular.
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Watching a speedrunner set a new world record live in their living room on Twitch can be as exciting as the football world cup on TV – or just as full of drama and emotion when they muck up an hours-long speedrun in the last few minutes of the game. “Is it any different to watching a skilled athlete compete in a physical sport to be the best? These players have practised their games for years, some even for decades and they are up against other players who have done the same”, explains one enthusiast. Speedrunning also has its spectator audience. Google Trends data suggests that interest during the past year spiralled - more people searched for ‘speedrunning’ online ( see chart). At the time of writing, features more than 2 million runs in nearly 23,000 games. The number of runs uploaded to the platform reflects the area’s growing appeal. Some players cheat by stitching together runs played separately, which gets them kicked off the platform, but the community is learning to self-regulate and expose fraud. The site allows speedrunners to upload videos of their runs and customise leader boards. Speedrunning platform, launched in 2014, grew 21 per cent from 600,000 registered users last November to 728,000 in May, with expertise in Europe (Germany and Sweden) and across Asia. Speedrunning was big even before the pandemic thanks to game streaming platforms like Twitch, but it got a boost in 2020.
Many returned to the nostalgia of their childhood as Retro-games made a comeback, and speedrunners were playing these old classics in online gaming channels. Speedrunning took off during lockdown when in-person sports were banned and people were drawn to new forms of esports. The winner of a competition or world record holder “gets from point A, at the beginning of the game to point B, at the end of the game, in the shortest amount of time possible”, he explains. The name is the game, says Matt Harris at UK Speedrunning Marathon (UKSM), a not-for-profit organisation running competition events for charity. It’s called Speedrunning and it’s growing fast.
These online personalities attract hundreds of thousands of subscribers, but the price is spending years in front of their screens, practising the same old video games popular in the late 1990s, again and again. Some break world records, get famous and even make a living from it. For a new generation of gamers, it's no longer enough to make it through all the levels or to beat their best score. Now it’s about consistency, strategic planning and, above all, technical skill – mostly in the simpler, older games.
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