Collection of TASVideos and TASers in the media
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Multiple fame

GamesRadar+ - Popular games you can beat in 5 minutes or less
GamesRadar+ - 12 of the craziest Mario hacks
GamesRadar+ - 8 impressive speedruns where no bad guys get hurt
Gamespark - ファミコンの怪作『たけしの挑戦状』TASに新記録、ワープあり3分52秒・ワープなし15分42秒 - Japanese
Unrealitymag - Ten Ridiculous Video Game Speed Runs
Unrealitymag - 5 Pretty Impressive Super Mario Game Speed Runs
Red Bull - 10 breathtaking speedruns you need to see

Movies

[3680] A2600 Barnstorming by MrWint in 00:14.74

Kotaku - Player Crushes Atari Record Using A Glitch Thought Impossible

[3537] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time "No Doors, All Dungeons" by NEVERDOORS in 2:24:37.03

Kotaku - New Ocarina Of Time Speedrun Beats All Dungeons Without Opening Any Doors

[3430] A2600 Dragster by Omnigamer in 00:08.49

Slashdot - ongest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com)
Kotaku - Infamous Atari Player Disqualified From World Record After 35 Years
Kotaku - Doubt And Drama Still Haunt An Old, Seemingly Impossible Atari World Record

[3358] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by MrWint in 05:48.28

Kotaku - Player Finds Incredible Way To Push Pokémon Yellow To Game Boy's Limit

[3264] N64 Super Mario 64 "1 key" by Tyler Kehne, mkdasher, sonicpacker, snark, SilentSlayers, ToT, Plush, Gaehne D, Eru & sm64expert in 04:21.30

Kotaku - Speedrunners Finally Pull Off The 'Holy Grail' Of Mario 64 Glitches
JDG - [[Record]] Un nouveau tool-assisted speedrun permet de finir Super Mario 64 en 4’21” - French

[3243] N64 Mario Kart 64 by Weatherton in 20:33.32

Kotaku - The Secret Glitch Players Used To Break Mario Kart 64's Chocolate Mountain
Eurogamer - The amazing story behind The Weathertenko
GIGAZINE - あのマリオカート64でショートカットを追究し続けるゲーマーたちにより成功率2.5%・1周タイム約3秒という驚異のテクニックが誕生 - Auto translated from Japanese

SMB3 in 2 seconds by total_ & ais523 (Unsubmittable)

SGDQ 2016 footage
Engadget - How to beat 'Super Mario Bros. 3' in two seconds flat
Kotaku - Robot Finishes Super Mario Bros. 3 In Two Seconds
GIGAZINE - スーパーマリオ3を爆速2秒でクリア、毎秒6000回のボタン連打で一気にエンディングへ - Auto translated from Japanese

[2922] SNES Final Fantasy VI "game end glitch" by keylie & KadMony in 32:54.55

Siliconera - Final Fantasy VI Speedrun World Record Smashed Due To New Gameover Glitch
Kotaku - Speedrunners Discover Totally New Way To Break Final Fantasy VI

#2908: HappyLee's NES Super Mario Bros. "lowest score" in 14:32.80 (Rejected)

Kotaku - Guy Beats Super Mario Bros. With The Lowest Score Possible

[2835] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "all levels" by Lord_Tom & Tompa in 1:04:36.90

Nintendo Life - Random: Here's Every Level In Super Mario 3 Played Simultaneously

[2604] SNES Super Mario World "game end glitch" by Masterjun in 00:41.98

Hackaday - Reprogramming Super Mario World from Inside The Game
GIGAZINE - スーパーマリオワールドをクッパを倒さず謎のミニゲーム経由で爆速クリア - Auto translated from Japanese
JDG - [[TAS]] Il provoque volontairement un bug tellement énorme dans Super Mario World que c’est un autre jeu qui se lance - French

[2588] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "game end glitch" by Lord_Tom & Tompa in 02:54.98

Nintendo Life - Weirdness: Super Mario Bros. 3 Can Be Beaten in Under Three Minutes
Destructoid - This three-minute Super Mario Bros. 3 speedrun is impressive
Kotaku - Speedrunner Speculates About The Best Possible Super Mario Bros. 3 Time Humans Can Achieve
Kotaku - Super Mario Bros. 3, Beaten In Under Three Minutes
Gentside - Super Mario Bros 3, fini en moins de trois minutes ! - French

[2543] SNES Final Fantasy IV "warp glitch" by pirohiko in 1:42:03.71

Kotaku - How To Skip Half Of Final Fantasy IV By Climbing Stairs

[2513] SNES Super Mario World "arbitrary code execution" by Masterjun in 02:25.19

The Escapist - Super Mario World Exploited By Raspberry Pi Robot, Programs Pong
PCGames.de - Nintendo: Speedrunner spielt Pong und Snake in Super Mario World - German
Hackaday - Teaching Mario to Play Pong and Snake Through Innumerable Exploits
Ars Technica - How an emulator-fueled robot reprogrammed Super Mario World on the fly
Extremetech - Super Mario World speedrun hack takes up up down down left right left right B A to the next level
Engadget (formerly Joystiq) - Speedrunners make Super Mario World reprogram itself to play Pong, Snake
Polygon - Bizarre Super Mario World hack turns the game into Pong, Snake
Destructiod - Watch someone program Pong within Super Mario World
Tom's Guide - Watch 'Super Mario World' Get Hacked Into 'Pong'
Retronauts - Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak...on a Super Mario World cartridge
JDG - [[#LaDrogue]] Ce “TAS” de Super Mario World va vous déglinguer le cerveau - French

[2187] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by bortreb in 12:51.87

Hackaday - Programming a Game Boy while playing Pokemon

[2118] A2600 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial by adelikat & Cardboard in 00:25.25

Kotaku - The Atari 2600 E.T. Video Game Is Still Terrible, Even When It's Finished in Less than 30 Seconds

[2089] Wii World of Goo by STBM in 31:30.88

Kotaku - World Of Goo Tool-Assisted Speedrun Is Absolutely Mental To Watch

[1945] SNES Super Mario World "game end glitch" by Masterjun in 02:36.40

GIGAZINE - スーパーマリオワールドを2分36秒でクリア、完全に人間業の領域を突破 - Auto translated from Japanese

[1868] SNES Super Mario World "no powerups, maximum exits" by PangaeaPanga in 1:18:23.22

Muropkaetti - Speedrunit yhdistävät viihteen ja ennätysvimman - Finnish

[1894] SNES Mega Man X & Mega Man X2 & Mega Man X3 "300%" by agwawaf in 43:51.02

GamesRadar+ - 9 crazy speedruns you have to see to believe

[1778] NES Super Mario Bros., 2, The Lost Levels & 3 by agwawaf in 10:39.75

Kotaku - Two Major Features Every Retro Game Service Needs
Kotaku - Is This The Greatest Super Mario Bros. Playthrough Ever?
Muropaketti - Huikea video: neljä Super Mario -peliä läpi samaan aikaan - Finnish
JDG - Terminer simultanément 4 Mario avec un seul pad ! - French

[1715] NES Super Mario Bros. "warps" by HappyLee in 04:57.31

Red Bull - How to break the Super Mario Bros world record
Slashdot - Plumber Injection Attack In Bowser's Castle
Kotaku - Why The Super Mario Bros. World Record Has Been Broken So Many Times Recently
Kotaku - Super Mario Bros. World Record Beaten With Near-Perfect Run
Kotaku - Why It's Taking Years To Shave Seconds Off The World Record For Super Mario Bros.
Kotaku - Thank You, Shigeru Miyamoto, For These Awesome Games

[1689] N64 Super Mario 64 "0 stars" by SilentSlayers, sonicpacker, MoltovM, Kaylee, MICKEY_Vis11189 & Johannes in 05:04.57

Games Radar - Super Mario 64 zero-star speed run breaks all the rules
Engadget - Tool-assisted speedrun shows Super Mario 64 beaten in five minutes
PCGames.de - Super Mario 64: Rekord-Speedrun in 5 Minuten - mit Video - German
Nintendo Life - Super Mario 64 is a 5-Minute Adventure With the Right Tools
The Escapist - Five Guys and a Computer Beat Super Mario 64 in Five Minutes

[1596] NES Tetris "maximum score" by Acmlm in 03:11.78

GIGAZINE - テトリス・マスターたちが世界の頂点を目指す映画「Ecstasy of Order」 - Auto translated from Japanese

[1569] DS Brain Age "playaround" by Ryuto in 04:08.10

Engadget - Three plus eight equals Yoshi: How to cheat at Brain Age
The Escapist - Insane Brain Age Video Heralds End of Math As We Know It

[1558] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "warpless" by adelikat, andymac, Lord_Tom & Tompa in 47:04.70

Kotaku - Not the Fastest Super Mario Bros. 3 Speedrun. Surely the Prettiest.

#2211: alden's SegaCD Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors: Desert Bus "maximum score" in 41:17:15:05.68 (Rejected)

Kotaku - Ten Speedruns That Take Over Nine Hours To Finish

[871] NES Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 by Baxter & AngerFist in 39:06.92

Siliconera - Watch: Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 beaten simultaneously

[380] SNES Mega Man X & X2 by DeHackEd in 41:41.43

Destructoid - Playing 2 SNES games at the exact same time

[374] NES Super Mario Bros. "warps" by pom in 04:59.93

Engadget - Five-minute Mario a world record? Yes and no

[314] NES Super Mario Bros. "warps, walkathon" by Bisqwit in 07:02.25

GIGAZINE - Bボタンを押さずにマリオを7分2秒でクリアするムービー - Auto translated from Japanese

Bots

TASBot @ GamesDoneQuick/SGDQ2018

Polygon - Summer Games Done Quick 2018: what to watch on the sixth day
Ars Technica - The best, craziest speedruns from this year’s Summer Games Done Quick

TASBot @ GamesDoneQuick/AGDQ2017

GamesRadar+ - 10 things to know about SGDQ so you can get the most out of Twitch's biggest summer event
GIGAZINE - スーファミで「スーパーマリオ64」を起動して爆速エンディングを遂げるTASBotのプレイムービー - Auto translated from Japanese
JDG - Sans pression, ces bidouilleurs réussissent l’impossible et affichent Super Mario 64 (et Portal) sur une Super NES - French

TASBot @ GamesDoneQuick/SGDQ2016

Ars Technica - 11 speedruns to watch live at this week’s Games Done Quick marathon
Eurogamer - Watch highlights from Summer Games Done Quick
Polygon - Summer Games Done Quick 2016 roundup: The biggest surprises of the week

TASBot @ GamesDoneQuick/AGDQ2016

Polygon - What to watch on the last day of Awesome Games Done Quick 2016
Ars Technica - How a game-playing robot coded “Super Mario Maker” onto an SNES—live on stage
GIGAZINE - スーパーファミコンの実機で「スーパーマリオメーカー」を自作してコース制作＆実際にプレイするとこうなる - Auto translated from Japanese

TASBot @ GamesDoneQuick/AGDQ2015

Ars Technica - Pokémon plays Twitch: How a robot got IRC running on an unmodified SNES
Polygon - Watch a robot tear apart and rebuild Super Mario World and Pokémon
DailyDot - Twitch plays Pokémon? How about Pokémon plays Twitch
Silicon Era - Forget Twitch Plays Pokemon, Here’s Pokémon Plays Twitch
Destructoid - All hail TASbot: Twitch chat on a Super Nintendo, complete with emotes
PCGamesN - Pokémon Plays Twitch: speedrunners hack stream chat into Game Boy classic
Pocket Gamer - Twitch Plays Pokémon is getting old, so here's Pokémon Red playing Twitch
Eurogamer - Supersonic speedruns streamed at Awesome Games Done Quick 2015

micro500's NESBot

Nintendo Life - Watch an NES Complete Super Mario Bros. All By Itself
The Escapist - Modder Builds Super Mario Bros.-Completing Robot Controller
Slashdot - NESBot: Tool Assisted Speedrun On Real Hardware
Hackaday - NESBot video game automation
Kotaku - Can a Controller Be Programmed to Speed-Run Super Mario Bros.?

Other

RoccoSSBM

Kotaku - Melee Players Discover New Invincible Techniques For Peach

PracticalTAS

Kotaku - Why A Bunch Of Fighting Game Fans Are Trying To Do Exactly 310 Damage Combos

Somewhere else already listed

From WelcomeToTASVideos - As Fast as Impossible: 10 Insanely Thrilling Tool-Assisted Speedruns
(Not a real article but a presentation at EMF 2016) Philip Potter: Saving milliseconds and wasting hours: a survey of tool-assisted speedrunning

SNES Super Mario World cloud glitch

Eurogamer - After 23 years a new Super Mario World glitch is discovered

SNES Super Mario World Item Abuse

Kotaku - It Took Three Years To Beat The 'Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever'
Dot Esports - World’s hardest Super Mario World level obliterated
Nintendolife - Look On In Despair At The Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever Made
ReviewSTL - Watch this Insane “Item Abuse” Super Mario World Speedrun Video

TASVideos / NESVideos / Bisqwit

Red Bull - Szybka wycieczka po świecie Speedrunningu - Polish
TecMundo - Speedruns: zerando games como você nunca viu antes - Brazilian
The Escapist - Speed Thrills part 3
Blog - Speedruns, origen y evolución - Spanish

TASers

pannenkoek2012 Youtube

Red Bull - 9 of gaming’s greatest mysteries solved
Kotaku - Mario 64 Experts Discover An Even Shorter Way To Beat Level Without Jumping
Nintendo Life - Weirdness: Super Mario 64 Expert Collects a Star in 0.5 'A' Button Presses
Kotaku - The Super Mario 64 Coin That Took 18 Years To Collect
GIGAZINE - スーパーマリオ64で画面上に出てこない「隠れた5つ目のコイン」はなぜ生まれたのか？ - SM64 Impossible Coin. Auto translated from Japanese
Rock Paper Shotgun - How Tool-Assisted Speedrunning Reveals The Inner-Life Of Video Games
Kotaku - Famous Super Mario 64 Trick Involving Parallel Universes Finally Becomes Real
Kotaku - The Man Who Does The Impossible in Super Mario 64
JDG - Il vous offre 1 000 $ si vous arrivez à provoquer un bug dans Mario 64 - French
JDG - Cette nouvelle pièce impossible de Mario 64 semble, cette fois-ci, vraiment impossible à attraper - French
JDG - Vous ne savez RIEN à propos de Mario qui dort, RIEN DU TOUT - French
JDG - [[TAS]] Le fou qui finit le dernier niveau de Super Mario 64 sans sauter une seule fois - French
JDG - [[Vidéo]] Dans Mario 64, la pièce impossible à récupérer a finalement été récupérée - French
JDG - [[TAS]] Les stratégies pour ne pas sauter dans Super Mario 64 dépassent l’entendement - French

SethBling Youtube

Hackaday - Hacking Flappy Bird By Playing Mario
GIGAZINE - スーファミのスーパーマリオを人力でプレイしてFlappy Bird化した猛者が登場 - SMW to Flappy Bird. Auto translated from Japanese

Omnigamer

Kotaku - Why Speedrunners Use Glitches

bortreb

Hackaday - Pokemon Blue Becomes An IDE

PangaeaPanga

Eurogamer - An ultra hard Mario Maker level beaten - after over 11K failed attempts
JDG - Super Mario Maker : Ce génie du mal a créé le niveau le plus difficile du jeu… et l’a fini - French
Muropaketti - Nintendo ilkeilee: jaa teit speedrun-videon pelistämme? Mepä bannaamme sen! - Finnish
Nintendo Life - Weirdness: Man Finishes Super Mario World In 23 Minutes Whilst Blindfolded
Nintendo Life - Video: Is This The Hardest Super Mario Maker Level Ever Made?
Destructoid - Nintendo's cracking down on speedrunning and ROM hacking videos
The Escapist - Please Understand, Nintendo is the Bad Guy
Kotaku - Creator of 'Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever' Says Copyright Crackdown Gutted His YouTube Channel

Crystal_

JDG - Pokémon Rouge/Bleu est tellement buggé qu’il est possible d’effacer la sauvegarde de son adversaire en combat local - French

warabi

Gentside - Super Smash Bros Brawl : un combat épique entre Sonic et Pikachu - French

Nelson

Eurogamer - Street Fighter 5's Critical Arts look Super different without the cinematic camera angle

biospark

Kotaku - Newly Discovered Trick Transforms A Metroid Speedrunning Scene

TrogWW

Kotaku - Wind Waker Speedrunner Finds Glitch People Thought Was Impossible

Fusion Varia

Kotaku - New Glitch Upends SpongeBob Game's Speedrunning Community

switchpalacecorner

Kotaku - Player Beats Super Mario World With The Lowest Score Possible

KeiTakumi

Kotaku - Super Smash Bros. Match Reaches Dragon Ball Z-Level Insanity

塔士魔界

Kotaku - How To Beat A Final Fantasy Game In Under 2 Minutes

sva161620

Kotaku - 14 Years Later, Zelda Fans Discover New Way To Kill Wind Waker Boss

AlexxShadenk777

Kotaku - The Beauty Of Street Fighter's Parry

TOOLASSISTED

Kotaku - Street Fighter V Players Are Divided Over R. Mika’s Unusually Powerful Dash

RachelB

Kotaku - Nintendo Emulator Developer Passes Away
FS Gamer - EDITORIAL – Por el fin de la impunidad - French

Speedrunning

1UP - Smashing the Clock
Blog - Tool-Assisted - Console Emulation and Platform Plasticity
FS Gamer - Speedrun o cómo pasarte un videojuego en tiempo récord - Spanish

uTAS

Kotaku - Zelda Speedrunner's New 'World Record' Was Actually Done With Hacking Tools

TASes

PC Minecraft

Kotaku - After Two Years Minecraft Finally Gets A New World Record

PC Half-Life

Kotaku - Half-Life Speedrun Breaks World Record at Just Over 20 Minutes
Eurogamer - Half-Life speed run world record set at 20:41
The Escapist - Half-Life Speedrun Sets Amazing New Record

PC Half-Life 2

The Escapist - Half-Life 2 Speedrun Record Falls To Sub-90 Minute Game

N64 SM64 ABC

Kotaku - The Mario 64 Trick That Takes Three Days To Complete

PS2 Psyvariar 2

GIGAZINE - 12年ぶりに敵の弾幕をギリギリでよけると無敵モードになるサイヴァリア続編「サイヴァリア・リアセンブル」プレイムービー - Auto translated from Japanese

Flash Club Penguin Ban%

Dot Esports - Forget Zelda and Mario—getting banned from Club Penguin as fast as possible is the new craze
Engadget - How to get banned from Disney's Club Penguin in under 30 seconds
GIGAZINE - ディズニーの子供向け仮想世界サービス「Club Penguin」でいかに早くバンされるかの「スピードバン」がひそかなブーム - Auto translated from Japanese

SNES SMW Pit Of Doom

Gentside - Le niveau le plus difficile jamais créé sur Super Mario... peut quand même être terminé - French

Wii Mario Kart Wii

GIGAZINE - マリオカートWiiの周回タイムを超絶短縮できる「ウルトラショートカット」の歴史 - Auto translated from Japanese

Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy

GIGAZINE - 爆速49秒で壺男が登山する超難度ゲーム「Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy」をクリアするムービーがすごい - Auto translated from Japanese

Good to know

TODO

Nintendo Life - - new smb infinite lives glitch
Siliconera - Watch: Conquering Hard Relay Super Mario Brothers - Hard Relay Mario. But is it a TAS?
Siliconera - Ninja Gaiden 2 mastered - Which TAS?
https://www.dailydot.com/esports/item-abuse-beat-tas - Needs archive link https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/mega-man-two-games-same-controller-simultaneous-win - Is it a TAS? https://www.dailydot.com/esports/agdq-pokemon-twitch - Already listed at tasbot agdq 2015 but needs archive link https://dotesports.com/general/news/choose-your-own-adventure-smash-bros-tas-2807 - No video? Red Bull - Comment devenir un pro du speedrun ? - Half-Life, RealMyop - French
Unreality Mag - Why Tool-Assisted Speedruns Have a Right to Exist
AUTOMATON - チートと仕様の境界 - Japanese article about specifying the boundaries between cheating and a TAS
GameSpark (Japanese) - What is TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) and its charm?
MakeUseOf - 3 Sites To Find Awesome Gaming Speed Runs
EventHubs -Street Fighter pixel art, 3rd Strike TAS run & how to TAS
GamesRadar+ - Super Mario 64 zero-star speed run breaks all the rules
The Escapist - Animated GIFs Visually Explain Every Super Mario Bros. Glitch
Engadget - Mega Man X & X2 ... at the same time
MTV - Gamers Divided Over Freakish Feats Achieved With Tool-Assisted Speed Runs
Slashdot - 'Perfect' Zelda NES Speed Record Beaten
GIGAZINE - いまなお研究され続ける「スーパーマリオブラザーズ」のステージ4-2最速攻略の知られざる歴史とは？ - NES SMB 4-2. Auto translated from Japanese
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