World Record Progression: Pokemon Red/Blue speedruns

I absolutely love that the Pokemon speedrun strategy is exactly the same strategy you employed as a 7-year old: just use your starter for every fight

That bike text skip - game assumes you to buy a bike and glitches when you don’t. Pokémon RB is held together with duct tape and wishful thinking.

Amazing, he gets 18 encounters and still manages to get a world record

Imagine your son tells you he’s leaving to become the Pokémon champion and he’s back for lunch.

“The chat had no idea what was going on” the chat: “I found cocaine in my dorm last year lol”

Are you serious The whole time they thought you had to press A in 1/60th of a second When all you had to do was just hold it down? How did nobody else try that?

I don't know how this guy does it but I am enthralled by every one of these videos, even though I haven't played any of them.

TwitchPlaysPokemon is still my favorite pokemon speed runners

The fact any of these can be "glitchless" is hilarious considering how broken these games were.

"Wertster's general strategy was to make it through the game with the minimum that was required" - me at work

Kind of baffling that the ridiculously inaccurate in-game timer was not abandoned earlier.

But what fossil do they take?

10 Reasons why I won't speedrun Pokemon games: 1. RNG 2. RNG 3. RNG 4. RNG 5. RNG 6. RNG 7. RNG 8. RNG 9. RNG 10. 'Cause I suck

Me: why don’t I have a girlfriend Also me: *watches history documentary on Pokémon speed runs* Update: I forgot to update this - I have had a girlfriend for about 9 months now, and I think I’m going to ask her to marry me. And she watches these with me sometimes.

I'm not terribly interested in speedruns, but I always feel a pang of rage when I hear that a small rule change destroyed the previous records. It seems like this should be a 'new category' thing rather than a 'nope all of this didn't happen, retconning it.' thing.

based on my knowledge of Gen1, glitchless isnt actually possible

this could use a follow up after 7 years

Ooh!!! I can’t tell you how much I’ve been waiting for this! Although there were a few mistakes, like “1 hour and 57 seconds” and how DV actually stands for Determinant Value, the entire video was really great, as usual. I just need a video on Megaman X, and I’m good

For anyone curious, the current record for this category as of today is 1:45:21 held by pokeguy. Edit: Apparently it’s now Hwangbro with 1:45:05.

Anyone else get anxiety hearing the red health bar warning?