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I been watching a lot of retro speed run videos on Youtube. Crazy when you see it on the screen like that, but check it out.
My favorite video games from when I was a kid. Played by people who fucking love those games more than most of us love anything. The kind of persistence and dedication these guys have is probably insane, to work for thousands of hours to shave seconds (or fractions of seconds) off the world record of a 40 year old video game.
Ok so if you think that’s nuts come with me to the next level. A Youtube charity hosts races through games. Races done by people in the speedrunning community. Want to watch two obsessed nerds race through the worst Zelda game?
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Guys, it’s oddly soothing.
The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!
The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
