Nintendo Dares You to Become a Speedrunner

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Nintendo challenges the Besties to become elite speedrunners. Can they beat Mario in minutes? Will they transform into a morph ball in mere seconds? Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition helps the crew test the limits of their skills. Plus, Dungeons of Hinterberg blends Persona hangout session with Zelda’s dungeon-crawling combat. NOTE: This episode of the Besties was recorded before the announcement of the SAG-AFTRA strike against major video game publishers.

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0:00.0	I am going to use this episode to announce my retirement from podcasting.
0:09.6	Wow. That sucks for me. Yeah it, it is hard for you.
0:14.0	I have decided that I'm going to devote my life to
0:18.0	being a professional guy that helps Sammas get the morph ball as fast as possible guy.
0:23.8	Wow.
0:24.8	I have achieved an S-rank in getting the morph ball very fast and I feel like if I really
0:30.9	drill down by the fall I could be in worlds. I really
0:33.4	in worlds of helping Samis get the morph ball so fast.
0:37.8	Have you gotten to the kill screen yet?
0:39.8	I have it. I think I've shaved it down we've got it really low but there is some
0:46.5	fucking Russian guy who's getting in there edging out my times it's a Putin. It's Putin, man.
0:54.0	Putin Jr. his son is even worse in some ways because he's got a bad haircut and is good
1:01.7	at video games especially helping Samba's get the morph ball as fast as possible.
1:05.7	I was going to devote myself to getting all the coins from the warp screen of Super Mario 1.
1:12.4	When you go out of the pipe, I can get those coins in. screen of Super Mario 1-1.
1:12.5	When you go out of the pipe, I can get those coins
1:14.9	in an unreal amount of time.
1:17.0	Guys, shit, dude.
1:18.3	Yeah, like S-rank.
1:20.1	And was that just too competitive?
1:21.8	Like there was there too many players in that category?
1:24.4	Can I tell you, Russ, and don't laugh at me,
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