The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records

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[SummoningSalt]

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[RiccardoMargiotta]

I love the way Salt gradually builds up your knowledge of strats and glitches throughout the video. By the time you get to the final interview with Mitch and he's using specific terminology for techniques and level numbers, you're just nodding along knowing exactly what he's talking about.

[yusharider]

"He may have lost a minute and a half in one stage, but his run looked cool."

A man who I can truly respect

[MadMovieMakers]

Love the interviews where you not only show the runner's gameplay but dive into what was going on in their head at that moment. Thrilling as the audience to not know how a specific run will end while it's being examined step by step

[itskdog]

With the full graph at the end, to realise that it's just a 15 minute timesave compared to the first known run is insane.

[CarlSagan]

This stuff is SO nostalgic for me. I watched many of the older runs live on twitch a decade ago, or on SDA even before that. Shoutouts to David "Marshmallow" Gibbons being an absolute granddaddy of speedrunning for like a whole decade. I watched all his old stuff in high school.

[jcsrio]

For a 100% category, over an hour record, to go down only 17% over the course of almost 2 decades, the original record was an absolute masterpiece for its era.

[JohnnyMontilla]

Dear Summoning Salt,

In a world of click-bait nonsense, thank you so much for taking the time to make insanely high-quality content. As a happy Patreon supporter, I hope you continue to make these videos for a very long time!

Thanks,

JM

[jameskleinfunnyguy]

Listening to those two Hammer Bros running and just shuffling together for so long was literally way funnier than it needed to be

[urimkrasniqi]

Summoning Salt actually got Kirua to speak about THAT run. What a legend.

[mariaisabelg]

I'm loving that Summoning Salt has little interviews now. It's really cool to hear some of the runner's thoughts during their runs and it really hypes up to the climax.

[omgemojixd]

29:11 Thank you for including the ENTIRE 50 Hammer Bro movement clip. It really puts into perspective the crushing feeling that a speedrunner feels when it just keeps going.

[gartoll]

Kirua really is taking a decade of therapy from 8-1

[tjp]

<3 100% was such a fun run to practice and perform. I don't remember if I realized at the time that I had beaten the record in 2011. lol. When the Fire Mario strats started being refined and critical is when I started to lose interest, mainly due to the stress involved in keeping up with my practice. 47:05 -- I get to see Kirua's face for the first time! (I think)

[eshanfadi]

It's crazy how Kirua's record is still in the top 10 records for 100% 6 YEARS on.

[bmac]

I remember when Kirua got the 1:10:19, that run was so ahead of its time that even with the death basically everyone knew it would take some incredible grind to beat it.

[YuyuuChan]

It's so fascinating to think that Kirua, who singlehandedly dominated the World Record of this category for ages, only started running it because a friend (and fellow speedrunner) thought he'd be good at it.

[CJShrader]

I'm honestly really impressed that the first person to record this speed run was within 15 minutes of the world record 17 years later. Usually people don't do that well right out the gate.

[ripitthrough]

It's incredible that the record has only fallen ~15 minutes. That just shows that the original run was quite solid.

[ForumArcade]

I love how you've inspired a veritable armada of YouTubers doing Speedrun history videos in their respective favourite games. A whole genre exploded into popularity basically overnight.