The Absurd History of Level 8-2

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[knghtbrd]

Imagine a bus that arrives every 21 frames. Except you've been waiting for this bus for over 24 minutes, so you run over the bus with a giant steamroller. That's 8-2.

[LendriMujina]

The idea of speedruns that involve an absurd amount of waiting is hilarious to me. Mario standing on the title screen for 24 minutes... Link staring at a blue rupee for 17 hours...

[circleo]

The number of times that people have said a trick is impossible only for someone to do it in SMB1 is absolutely insane. It happens all of the time in speedruning, but I've never seen it happen nearly as many times as in SMB1.

[PK_Miracle]

"DON'T YOU SEE!? THE PLANT DESPAWNED."


I didn't see, and I was shocked when he said that

[milesmartin]

Between fast acceleration and BLJ, "goes faster if he jumps backwards" should be one of Mario's canonical powers.

[BookwormKevin]

9:34 "This is MASSIVE, don't you see??"
me: oh yeah it says 8-E thats weird
kosmic: "the plant despawned!"
me: oh

[wraithofaces]

me watching a man repeatedly throw himself into walls and obstacles for 24 minutes in order to manipulate the universe so that a random cannon miles away fires at a slightly different time

[GRNKRBY]

"Let's take a trip back to 2019"

2019 was last year, right? Right?!

[javen]

Things that have happened since SMB1 was released:
- the Soviet Union fell
- digital cameras were invented
- the world population increased by 3 billion
- Eisenhower was elected
- Niel Armstrong landed on the moon
- the entire Tang dynasty

[fonkbadonk]

42y old dude here. I've played this game on the og NES on my parents' CRT TV, with my mom taking over every 4th round (family of 4) trying to make Mario jump by quickly raising the controller (bless her heart). We've been playing so many times and with such fun, but probably never ever even reached the middle of the 2nd world.
What I'm trying to say here: Young people these days are MAD! And in an impressive and appreciated way, most of the time, but especially in this realm. When I was young, there wasn't even a hint of pretty much any of the mechanics mentioned here. We just played the game, and when the dude fell through the bottom too often, we restarted. Often seeing the same thing happening sooner than before. Drank the last sip of cocoa and went to bed.

[kriller]

Really glad this story is able to be shared, I am super proud of all the work that I and the community have put into this level

[Bismuth]

Incredible video, I'm really impressed by how much the quality of your explanations and editing has improved in such a short time!

[drprofwallaby]

> named NobodyCallsMeTubby
>Continuously gets called Tubby

thats rough dude

[GTAce]

Hopefully my comment doesn't despawn.

[lasagnahog]

I love that Summoning Salt and Bismuth both get early shout outs. Together with Kosmic they are three of the channels I get most excited to see uploads from.

[hmklmro]

To save the 24 minutes on the title screen, have 24 games running at the same time, 1 minute apart. Came to me in a dream lol.

[yoguyslookatmypetlightsabe]

It’s ironic. Compared to other games super Mario bros is definitely the least flashy, but is arguably the most complicated since parallel universes.

[WikiHL]

Jesus, that intro threw my brain off for a second

[kepeli]

man kosmic, jobst, and pannen all dropping within a day or two has been epic

[yoshyfoods]

8-2 haunted me for non-speedrunner reasons… I played SMB1 for the first time as SMB deluxe on the gbc. The screen was crunched and the lakitu was agressive. The horrors of my first SMB playthrough mostly stem from retrying this one level due to gameboy related issues