4-2: The History of Super Mario Bros.’ Most Infamous Level




Thanks to andrewg1990 and kosmic for research help!
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76 Comments:

  1. 420 BLAZE IT FTW LETS FCKIN GOOOOO

  2. ArtifiShuL Instinct

    “The voices of a hundred Andrews that were active before…now didn’t say a word”

    I love that writing haha

  3. Only SummoningSalt could make a 20 minute video on a single level from Super Mario Bros

  4. I just spent 20 minutes watching the history of a niche hobby undertaking of one level of one game that’s like 30 years old.
    I regret nothing 😀

    • that’s not weird. people spend their lives studying bullshit from more than a hundred years ago
      and video games aren’t a “niche hobby”, video games are a bigger industry than movies nowadays

    • By niche hobby, i think GravitySloth means speedrunning.

    • Metr0politan92 mother???

    • And I only have convenient access to Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, haha. Heh, maybe I’ll end up doing a speedrun of all the challenges and VS. Boo levels some day!

      But knowing me, I’ll just huddle up in a corner and keep it all to myself.

  5. I just spent 20 minutes watching a video about a level 30 year old video game, and it was probably the most interesting thing I’ve done all week.

  6. I don’t think the introduction of TAS is correct in this video. Maybe there are misunderstandings, Summoning Salt? I don’t know anyone who “manually tolls the game which button will be pressed on each frame” to make a TAS, or using the way like you’ve used in the video. That would be INSANE. At least I don’t do that. We TASers also play the game, but not in real time, and that’s the biggest difference. Please introduce TAS the right way so that people wouldn’t misunderstand it.

  7. legendary video man. Good to see you take a chance with a more focused subject video and have it pay off

  8. xx_420_blazit_xx ……………… OK LOL what a god

  9. We gotta get David Attenborough in for an episode on the greatest documentary series known to man

  10. The Loneliest Rocket

    Of all the name to go down in history, xx420_blazit_xxx. Really.

  11. Remember guys, sometimes you just need to blaze it in order to find the best strats

  12. “Oh no my 5 minute speedrun was ruined”
    Werster: “You wanna talk about misery”

  13. leave it to someone with 420 in their name to perfect 4-2.

  14. It’s “seg-EEN”, not “Sagan”.

  15. Video games are so beautiful. They’re new worlds with new rules and we act as scientists as we try to break them and learn new things about them

  16. So glad I subbed, keep highlighting smaller speedrunning gems like this. 20 minutes of content over a 5 second period of a 5 minute speedrun.

  17. XX_420_blazit_XX

  18. StoneCole This has actually happened. A protein-structure problem had stumped scientists for years and was solved basically instantly by throwing it into a video game. The game was Foldit and it was an AIDS-like protein, solved in 3 weeks.

  19. #22 on Trending

  20. 4-2….0 blaze it

  21. StoneTheMason Music

    StoneCole lmao dude ?

  22. This was available on the PS3 called Folding @ Home IIRC. You’d let your PS3’s CPU run cycles on solving that protein and then it would send it’s data to the servers. If you have kids that would have played and left the game idle overnight, then have them save and run this instead.

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