Hi folks, welcome to this episode of Canaan Rinn's Interview Extra, where we sit down for a chat with people doing interesting things in the world of gaming.

Today I'll be talking to, I can't say your name. Tell me what your username is.

Right, so the original pronunciation is Matako. If you're from America, quite a lot of people pronounce it Medico because of the way the syllables go together.

It's kind of got a bit more of a Japanese origin, but not the actual translation of it because if you put it into Japanese,

I'm pretty sure it's called Eye Octopus, which is interesting enough.

But no, it was literally just a collection of signs that i thought worked well

together and it was a nickname i had when i was about nine years old and when i came time to choose

an internet handle that's kind of how i went about it um so yeah that's that's how we go about it

cool um so today i'll be talking to matako who was just finished doing a 70-hour marathon of Final Fantasy Speed Runs.

Could you tell us more about it?

I'm dying to know how that marathon went.

I saw a little bit of it, but I didn't see all of it.

Pretty sure no one saw all of it.

True.

Yeah.

Right.

So the premise behind this was about four years ago, I was being running Final Fantasy games. That was just the thing that I'd been doing anyway. So the concept behind that is you beat the games as quickly as possible. There's something really interesting about beating longer games as quickly as possible because sometimes you can have just as much of the technology and strategy that goes

into it as you can get with shorter runs like 30 to 1, like 30 minutes to 1 hour. And we thought,

well, let's just do multiple games back to back. And people had already done relay races. I mean,

it's a thing like since time of memorial you go to the Olympics. People do a relay race or four people

run and they do the same kind of thing. And we've done done that before so there's like an ff relay where you'll have a different

runner for each game and then we'll have two or three different teams and you'll run a bunch of final

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