Yesterday's record was set by Darbian, a Twitch partner who beat the standing record by. The game has to played on its original console, a standard controller has to be used and it has to be streamed live in the interest of fairness and transparency. That means no cheats and no hacks in the game. Speedruns, in case the name didn't make it obvious, is clearing a game in the fastest time possible. Just yesterday, a new World Record was set for Super Mario Bros. What's more, it's still hugely popular in the speedrun community and records are still being set to this day. In fact, it's still being played and enjoyed by many, many players who were born long after the game was first released.

emulator for others to make note of, as a display of skill that will go down in history among the greats of gaming.For a game that's thirty years old this year, Super Mario Bros.

Once it is safe to travel again, the pair wishes to tackle the original Japanese version in person at a gaming expo or arcade, but for now, they have the footage of their blockbuster playthrough in the MAMEhub Mario Bros. It’s made all the more spectacular given how they were playing on an emulator over a great distance, battling lag and self-imposed handicaps to come together to achieve a score that doesn’t seem likely to be matched anytime soon. Luckily, it seems that Steven Kleisath and Stephen Boyer’s impressive performance in Mario Bros. Not all of these tales are success stories, however, as former Donkey Kongrecord holder and documentary antagonist Billy Mitchell was famously stripped of his status in 2018 after it was confirmed that he cheated. Such displays of gaming skill are well-documented among Nintendo’s classic titles, such as one speedrunner breaking the record for the fastest playthrough on Super Mario Bros by the length of a single animation frame back in 2016.

scores under their belts before their joined attempt, with the former landing up to 5,424,920 million points on the original arcade version and the latter holding a record of 4,260,210 in the WolfMame emulator. Both Kleisath and Boyer carried impressive Mario Bros.

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