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07-10-2011, 10:40 AM
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You guys are still doing speed-runs? Psh, speed-runs are so 2005. These days, it's all about low-score runs; baffling attempts at calculated badness, wherein highly-skilled gamers do everything they can to do as little as possible.
No one does better at doing poorly than YouTube power-gamer NotEntirelySure (http://www.youtube.com/user/NotEntirelySure), who recently completed the lowest-scoring no-death game of Super Mario Bros. ever, finishing the entire game with a trifling 600 points. As a spectator sport, we think the low-score run has potential, although we're still not sure why our "average-score" runs never took off with the precision gaming community.
[Thanks Gishman!]http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Record for lowest-scoring Super Mario Bros. run ever broken (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/10/record-for-lowest-scoring-super-mario-bros-run-ever-broken/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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You guys are still doing speed-runs? Psh, speed-runs are so 2005. These days, it's all about low-score runs; baffling attempts at calculated badness, wherein highly-skilled gamers do everything they can to do as little as possible.
No one does better at doing poorly than YouTube power-gamer NotEntirelySure (http://www.youtube.com/user/NotEntirelySure), who recently completed the lowest-scoring no-death game of Super Mario Bros. ever, finishing the entire game with a trifling 600 points. As a spectator sport, we think the low-score run has potential, although we're still not sure why our "average-score" runs never took off with the precision gaming community.
[Thanks Gishman!]http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Record for lowest-scoring Super Mario Bros. run ever broken (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/10/record-for-lowest-scoring-super-mario-bros-run-ever-broken/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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