Since the SNES games don't have too many glitches, this is a harder topic to nominate for... I'll nominate Mega Man X by DeHackEd http://tasvideos.org/movies.cgi?id=300 Skipping a lot of Flame Mammoth's level by jumping into an enemy chute is great. I also like how he jumped around the trigger for Vile to start yakking.
Bisqwit's Rockman run. Probably my favorite run on this site. Morimoto and FinalFighter's Rockman 2 run. Sleepz's Super Mario Brothers 2 run.
I would say SNES Super Mario RPG (USA) in 2:57:34 by Spezzafer. Never expected someone to make a 3hours run and then redo it in such small time.
This must be my new favorite group! http://www.missouri.edu/~bah347/gprime/nintendothemesacappellax.wmv Damn it's great! All should watch that link. :)
^ And the thinking new game=bad (which I have seen) is equally close minded and born of nostalgia. I think the statement, "They didn't need awesome graphics back then," is a blurring of the past, if not a lie. Even back then, they had to push awesome graphics to be noticed. Heck, "excellent graphics" were the introduction to The Legend of Zelda's ad campaign ("Woah! Nice graphics!"). Every generation has had to rely upon technical superiority; simply because the bar is being raised doesn't mean the focus was any less than it was a decade ago. That being said, I find it hard to appreciate pre-Nintendo video games. Why? Because of the never-ending style of 99% of them. I like my games to finish, thank you.
Julianch forgot MMX4 in his list, one of my faves! I'm not quite up on the MMX series though. Of the 64+ bit games I prefer the Legends series.
