Retronauts Vol. III Episode 23: Speedruns

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The art of speedrunning is barely two decades old, but in that time we've seen our share of stupefying feats from game masters that would put Captain N himself to shame. Will this burgeoning subculture be the key to keeping love for classic games alive? Thanks to a generous donation from Kickstarter backer Nich Maragos, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Ray Barnholt, and guest Christian Nutt as the Retronauts explore the joys of breaking beloved games open like so many digital pinatas.

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0:00.0	This week on RetroNots.
0:01.0	Um, waiting!
0:02.0	Hello everybody!
0:27.3	Welcome to RetroNots episode 23 and today's topic is Speedruns and I am Bob McEy, your
0:33.9	host for this episode.
0:34.9	Let's find out who else is here.
0:35.9	Who we have on Skype.
0:37.9	Oh, that would be me, Jeremy Parish.
0:41.3	Jeremy Parish and who else do we have?
0:43.1	I'm Ray Bornhold and...
0:44.9	I'm Christian Nut.
0:45.9	And Christian, you're a special guest for today.
0:47.7	You've been here before but can you just remind our listeners who you are?
0:51.2	I am Gamasutra's blog director and notoriously annoying person online.
0:58.7	Uh oh.
0:59.7	Uh yeah.
1:00.7	Christian angered a few of our listeners last time.
1:02.9	I don't think that you were being too unreasonable.
1:06.2	It was our modern game chat.
1:08.0	Oh yeah.
1:09.0	But some people disagreed with us and people agreed with us.
1:10.8	Some people really liked what I had to say so.
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