![]() ![]() Nostalgia for the game that many consider the best ever in the franchise is holding strong. ![]() With this astounding speedrun recorded, he officially broke the Guinness World Records title for the fastest completion of Super Mario World (0 Exit). After years, the hype around it hasn’t faded. Matheus Furtado (Brazil), better known as 'FURiOUS', completed Super Mario World (1990) 0 Exit in just 41.022 seconds on 11 June 2020 in Garopaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Prepare to have your SMB skills put to shame. Updated: Jby Aaron Buck NOTE OMG / Super Mario Bros 3 might have been one of the most anticipated games of its time. ▼ It takes serious guts to get that close to a piranha flower Blubber powers through World 8-2’s Koopa Paratroopers ▼ I’m sure we’ve all died plenty of times trying to pull this off… In order to achieve his record-setting time of 4:57.69, Blubber pulls off pixel-perfect jumps, grazing piranha flowers’ jaws and bouncing off goombas and bullets like they were springboards intentionally left out for him. For two whole years, four minutes and 55 seconds ranked as the fastest that anyone could beat the original Super Mario Bros. You wouldn’t think that footage of an 8-bit game released nearly 30 years ago could elicit gasps from spectators, but this speed run had us flinching and squirming in our seats like we were back in short pants playing the game for the first time ourselves. All too often, recordings show players exploiting a game’s code to the point that it hardly seems like they’re playing the game any more, taking all the fun (and some would argue genuine skill) out of it.īut this new record performed by a gamer known only as ‘Blubber’ is nothing short of spectacular and deserves the attention of anyone who ever picked up an NES controller during their childhood. Truth be told, I’ve never been a huge fan of video game speed runs. ![]()
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