Video Games Speed runner beat all 714 NES games in 3 years

**notorious** · 02-27-2017, 07:16 AM

http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/26/147...=yahoo&ref=yfp

In May 2014, Piotr Delgado “The Mexican Runner” Kusielczuk decided he would speedrun through the entire NES archive of games — 714 in total. Today, ending with Super Mario Bros. 3, Kusielczuk finally accomplished his goal, bringing an end to “NESMania.”

Kusielczuk spent more than 3,000 hours making his way through the library of titles — an endeavor that started after a friend jokingly suggested he take an “A-Z” approach to speedrunning each of the 714 games. Instead of only playing the games for a couple of minutes at a time, Kusielczuk’s friend from Chile challenged him to play through each of the titles from beginning to end.

On his blog, Kusielczuk said from the very beginning of the challenge, when he dove into Whomp ‘Em on May 28, 2014 to the drama that came around game #395 and the realization someone else was attempting a similar goal to finally finishing the challenge today, he’s very proud of what he was able to accomplish.

“Almost three years had passed and what had started as an impossible quest had become an achievable reality,” Kusielczuk wrote. “The list of unbeaten games had shrunk to only a few titles and the excitement for the last games had been growing. The closer I got to the end, the more nostalgia and responsibility I felt. I wanted to make sure this epic quest had a proper ending that could honor how big and how important it had been in my life.”

As part of his challenge, Kusielczuk played through every single NES game that was released in North America and 35 PAL-exclusive games. Kusielczuk has already made a name for himself with Battletoads and Contra, in which he holds records, but with the new feat under his belt, he’s the first person to accomplish speed-running all 714 games.

In total, Kusielczuk put in more than 200,000 minutes and upward of 900 days into finishing the project. You can see him finally cross the line in the stream below.

**Gonzo** · 02-27-2017, 10:20 AM

Amazing shit. Out of all those games, beating the original Ninja Gaiden takes some chops. It took me a week of playing that final level over and over again to get it right.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out some online commentary like AVGN. When you die, the ****er starts you back at the beginning and the final boss is nearly impossible.
That's one of my best moments in gaming when I beat that bastard.

**loochy** · 02-27-2017, 11:15 AM

Including Ghosts and Golbins?

Including all 52 games on Action52 (games that don't actually have an ending or that bug out so beating the game is impossible)?

**notorious** · 02-27-2017, 11:59 AM

Action 52.

Avgn loves that cartridge.

**loochy** · 02-27-2017, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by notorious

Action 52.

Avgn loves that cartridge.

..and now...the CHEETAHMEN

TLO · 02-27-2017, 07:46 PM

Now I'm gonna have to binge watch a bunch of AVGN episodes tonight

**notorious** · 02-27-2017, 08:08 PM

**notorious** · 02-27-2017, 08:09 PM

ShiftyEyedWaterboy · 02-27-2017, 08:21 PM

Here's his website:

http://themexicanrunner.com/

Looking at some of those games brings back some serious memories.

**notorious** · 02-27-2017, 08:30 PM

How in the **** do you beat Arkanoid?

He gave Jekyll and Hyde a 2 out of 5 difficulty...

AVGN doesn't agree.

kcfanXIII · 03-03-2017, 10:29 AM

So what did he do when he was done? He was sent back to the beginning to start the "second quest."

DJ's left nut · 03-03-2017, 10:53 AM

There are some minor shenanigans, but quibbling, for sure.

For instance, Silent Service was a fun little game and exactly as difficult as you made it for yourself. He set the difficulty level at its lowest and ran a 'convoy' mission where he ducked a couple of patrols, sunk a single destroyer and returned to base, then considered that a win and gave the game a low difficulty setting.

Well no shit, champ. You chickened out. Go take on a couple of enemy subs or an actual heavy convoy. Or set the difficulty level at something legit.

Dude's unquestionably better at these games than I am but I'm also not going to go in there and 'audit' each of his runs.

L.A. Chieffan · 03-03-2017, 12:34 PM

**** that ****ing back to the future 2 and 3 game.... im having nightmare visions just remembering that hell

**notorious** · 03-03-2017, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

**** that ****ing back to the future 2 and 3 game.... im having nightmare visions just remembering that hell

Silver

Surfer

I am surprised the dude didn't off himself when he played that pile of shit.

**Rausch** · 03-05-2017, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by notorious

Silver

Surfer

I am surprised the dude didn't off himself when he played that pile of shit.

You can't speed run that.

I call BS...

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