At this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) marathon gaming event, there were plenty of fantastic highlights, speedruns, races, and other events, hosted both live in Pittsburgh, PA and virtually. One of the biggest highlights of the event wasn’t directly about games but that, importantly, AGDQ 2025 helped raise over $2.5 million from their community for the cancer prevention cause.
Digging through the wealth of great runs and race for January 2025’s video of the month, we’re going to look at a longer YouTube video of a four-way Super Metroid race between four veteran Twitch speedrunners. Super Metroid is a highly-acclaimed Super Nintendo action-adventure game from 1994, which has fostered a community in recent years around running through different routes in the game to achieve the fastest possible time.
Another way to play super Metroid competitively is with a maps randomizer, also known as “rando” maps,” which shuffles rooms, items, and paths, thus making each game unique. And these four racers, Oatsngoats, Eddie, Andy, and Imyt showed their speed and improvisation skills competing with each other over the almost hour-and-a-half video from the live event at AGDQ. What can make a race like that even more challenging is the complex demands of fully controlling the character, Samus Aran. Especially in front of a large live in-person and online audience crackling with energy.
Check out the entire video of the race hosted on Oatsngoats’ YouTube channel. Of course, you who can watch this very rivalrous race and find out who comes out on top at the end of the race (no spoilers from us!), along with commentary.
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