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Niftski Shatters Human Limits on Super Mario Bros.
An American speedrunner just set a new world record on Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985) that challenges a deeply held assumption: the boundary between human performance and robotic execution. Niftski is closing in on the perfect run long held by a TAS — an automated assistance tool. What this record actually changes is the very definition of what a human being can accomplish on a game that's 41 years old.
Super Mario 64 at 30: Fans Made It Immortal, Not Nintendo
Thirty years after its 1996 release, Super Mario 64 never ended up in the graveyard of frozen icons. The community took it into their own hands: pixel-perfect speedruns, mods, unofficial ports, obsessive analysis of every vertex. What Nintendo didn't maintain, thousands of players built themselves. It may be the harshest lesson this game teaches its own publisher.