Awesome Games Done Quick, the charity fundraising speedrun tournament held at the start of every year, is ending on Sunday, January 10th with an all-dungeon run of Ocarina of Time. Before then, however, you can tune in to watch speedruns of Luigi's Mansion, Majora's Mask, Super Mario Sunshine - and a completely blindfolded run of Super Mario 64.
It won't be the first time that someone's done a blindfolded speedrun of a game at AGDQ. In 2019, a fantastic blind run of the Wii Punch-Out!! was based entirely on the noises the game made, and in 2020 it got even more impressive with a two-player, one-controller blindfolded speedrun of the original Punch-Out!!
This year, we won't get a Punch-Out!! speedrun, but instead we have a 16-star run of Super Mario 64 by Bubzia, who specialises in blindfolded speedruns on his YouTube channel. The stream will take place at 12:43am on Saturday, January 9th, and is estimated to take around 55 minutes in total - the speedrunners usually take a little less time than the estimates, though. You can watch the stream on their Twitch page.
Check out the full schedule on the GDQ website, and don't forget to donate to the chosen AGDQ charity, the Prevent Cancer Foundation!
Have you been tuning in to AGDQ? What's been your favourite speedrun so far? We watched the Hades one to take notes, and the only notes we managed to get were "wow, we're really bad at Hades." Ah well. Chat to us in the comments!
[source gamesdonequick.com]
Comments 14
Lug. I will probably watch the replay
We will see how long it takes to beat it. @Balladeer idk if your taking jab at the writer or the article's snapshot.
That pun was so painful, haha.
It needs to be pointed out. the blindfolded SM64 run is a donation incentive.
If they don't receive $250,000 in donations towards that goal, they won't do the run.
I'll watch it blindfolded
Sorry but charity aside, why the hell would you want to do a blindfolded speed run, to me that is completely stupid
@Bunkerneath
Speed runners come to learn the game so well, that they have to impose self-challenges.
Challenges could be grabbing as few items as possible, performing difficult strategies, or maybe even playing the game without looking at the screen.
The Punch-Out games are particularly renowned for their blindfolded runs because of how methodical each fight is. The runners have learned all of the cues and timings so well that they can play on that alone.
"What do you call Luigi with no eyes? Lug"
Get fired
That pun though
Just kidding, I'd come up with far worse if I was an editor.
A strapline for the ages.
Since the Punch Out blindfold run these other ones keep popping up. I saw the Symphony of the Night one and while it was a cool idea, there were several areas where the runner just got stuck and it was frustrating to watch. I can only imagine Mario 64 being equally as frustrating.
There was also that blindfolded run of the Battletoads speeder bike level. But I get the feeling that level is less hard when blindfolded.
@Bunkerneath Because it's impressive, obviously.
Speedrunning can be hit or miss for me but that run was amazing on so many levels. Jaw dropping.
Tap here to load 14 comments
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...