History Was Just Made in Super Mario 64

Blindfolded Speedruns are some of the most truly amazing exhibitions to behold, and history was changed forever when Bubzia picked up his controller and donned his blindfold as he asked a simple question "can I beat every star in Super Mario 64 blindfolded?"

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Bubzia

Katun

Noburi

[Abyssoft]

Here are the runners and where to find them

[Bubzia]

Thanks for putting together this incredible video about the 120 journey! It sums up things perfectly and motivates me even more to try really hard for the 120 single segment run. Thank you so much!

[alexfernando]

“That was literally just muscle memory.”

[dan_trpdr]

Anyone not in the know, today (May 8 2022) Bubzia completed the first ever 120 star blindfold run in one sitting.

[FT]

everything is completely ridiculous. even for the "beginner strats", I close my eyes and immediately have no clue about anything anymore. I cannot imagine how much memorization and precision is necessary for lethal lava land and dire dire docks. great video

[gab_l]

At face value this is beyond incredible. Somehow it gets more unbelievable the deeper one analyzes what you've done here. During your run you perform hundreds upon hundreds of orientation movements, spacial placement maneuvers, and intricately exercise fine granular camera control based on whatever your current task requires. This is what I find to be the most impressive part of this achievement! All it would take is a small deviation from your planned route to become disoriented and potentially lose time or force a restart... But even when there was one of your very, very few minor missteps in this run, you immediately had a contingency in place and were able to reorient yourself to your desired spacial placement and direction.

This is beyond Super Mario 64. This is a vehicle on which you display a skill set that is something entirely difficult to comprehend from an outside perspective. I know I sure don't have the ability to commit to rote memory the kind of detail required to never miss a single step in something so insanely complex. On top of processing your exact coordinates and plane of view at nearly the rate of a computer, you still have to physically control the character and deal with the game mechanics...

This is amazing, and I congratulate you on your new personal best and of course the world record. Looking forward to more content sometime. You've set the bar really high, but I have no doubt you have the determination to succeed in something even more unbelievable.

[MAYOFORCE]

"It should come to no surprise that flying while blindfolded is no easy task."
What a quote

[Gelfling]

People who can play a game blindfolded can literally just lay down at night, close their eyes, and play the game

[seeibe]

Therapist: Low poly Mario isn't real, he can't hurt you
Low poly Mario: 15:56

[beincheekym]

Amazing video. Just the right amount of info to understand what's at stake, perfect pacing, good delivery. Keep up the amazing work

[liamsmith]

I am glad I found your channel, it has the essay-style format I love so much and it is delivered beautifully, I can't wait to go through all the other videos on your channel.

[christianvandegraaf]

BLindfolded comment: I just love how people manage to come up with solutions like this. Always impressive to hear about work that goes sorely underaoorecuated

[DavidWonn]

This gives some degree of hope for those of us who have unfortunately become visually impaired.

[AuraOfANobody]

"And with a heart rate you'd expect from someone running a five minute mile." "With a heart rate of 100, you can tell he's attentive to every action as he navigates the stage." Me, glancing at my Apple Watch and sweating: Okay, yeah, I guess I should stop putting off asking about that cardiologist referral-

Jokes aside, this is one hell of an accomplishment! Wishing Bubzia luck on the RTA run - Might stop in myself if I have the time.

[baconbankai]

31:32 "is it possible to beat 120 star blindfolded in one session?" Shit I thought he was already doing that the entire video. This really puts things into perspective lol. I mean I think I would just have anxiety from just being blind folded for that long.

[octooo.]

GUYS dont worry, all of this was just his muscle memory and gamer sense.

[Coolbreeze]

Im sure plenty of people have already commeneted this, but at 8:00 in the video, you refer to the wild blue star as chip off whomps block. Whomps block star is the one you get from beating him at the top of the level

[kariohki]

I just wanna say I really love your voice. it's so chill when explaining these complex things. Like the David Attenborough of speedrun videos.

[killedragonyt]

"lol this is so easy, i could do that blinfolded"
well that alredy stopped being a joke a while ago lmao
insane achievment

[henrytheanglerfish]

And I still can’t throw Bowser into the bombs without him falling off the platform 5 or so times