i saw like 30 time where he should have died. and how do you jump and go backwards. cheats
Have you ever wondered if all the nerd feats have been accomplished? Don't. The answer is no, as long as the world still produced nerds like Not Entirely Sure, who decided to beat Super Mario Bros. with the lowest score possible. That score? 600 points, and that's only from the flagpoles at the end of the levels he had to finish -- and yes, that means he finished every single level with a time of 000. Furthermore, he did it without any any cheats, and more impressively, without any saves -- and watching him navigate the Hammer brothers in World 8 is a spectacle all by itself. Thanks to Fernin for the tip.
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ok i have to admit its been a long time but i thought you had to climb up the beanstalk to get to the warp zone that leads to level 6,7,8 not going down pipe ?????
The "Necessary Goomba"...poor little guy. He should live on in Internet perpetuity. Anyone want to create some t-shirts?
no. you can do that jump. maybe if you were even an eight of a master of the game as this guy is you wouldve known that
This is one of the most nerve wracking things I've ever seen....Seriously making me cringe and feel nervous! I CAN'T TAKE IT.
Prove to me that he was sitting in front of a TV with a NES plugged in and a game pad in his hand and I will be impressed. So many of those jumps and object avoidances are just too perfectly timed to be done without emulation.
Clearly this player, Not Entirely Sure, is some kind of master of reality manipulation. His reflexes... It's the only way to explain their supernatural like abilities!
You have to feel bad for that one Goomba. Everyone gets to live but him. On a different note how much footage do you think this guy have of his earlier attempts at this?
That goomba was headed over the ledge to certain death anyways. Mario just put him out of his misery.
Airjumping a Goomba for 100 points to avoid collecting one or two 10-point coins? What am I missing?
Congratulations. The men from Twin Galaxies will be arriving at your house momentarily to take apart your Nintendo.
It's a complete perversion of the reason we have scores.
But dammit, to see him practically dancing with the Hammer Bros...
Oh wow. This wasn't tool assisted? That's even more impressive. Plus that World 4-2 pipe to vine trick is blowing my mind.
...Except that one Goomba. Necessary casualty of a peace movement. Poor son of a bitch.
At least you guys didn't insult the speedrunning community in your first sentence. Take a hint Joystiq....
600 points might not be the lowest score possible. Someone in the comments said he might have been able to replace the Goomba-squash jump with a wall jump, which would have cut the score to 500. The run did take advantage of some other glitches, it just didn't use any wall jumps.
500 is definitely the lowest score possible, but the wall jump trick is nigh on impossible to do without either save stating like a bastard or slowing down the game to hit the exact perfect pixel.
It was the only part I had to rewind to watch again. I even called my wife in to watch it for my 4th time. She laughed and called me a douche bag. But seriously, how do you even figure that shit out? If that guy can beat the game with 600 points, I can find a good divorce lawyer for the same amount.
Truly this is some kind of... modern witchcraft.
As I'm watching this, I realize that no matter what any of our high scores were on this game back in the day, the SCORE NEVER MATTERED. We never got rewarded for scoring more points (only collecting more coins), so really.... this video has proved that we were ALL PLAYING THE GAME WRONG.
The object wasn't to score high, the object was to score low. That was the REAL challenge. And in this video, a master is at work. A skilled, terrifying master.
That was kind of the big transition of Mario - high scores really weren't important anymore.
Sure, you'd seen stuff like that in Adventure, but this was a game that awarded points for no reason whatsoever. Heck, the Mario team didn't even stick to that design philosophy - points trigger events in Mario 3, for instance.
that's what I thought! I never knew that trick.
... and I'm too lazy to try and find it.
I would say he has too much time on his hands but.... I just wasted my time watching the video of how he wasted his time. So he wins this round. Impressive video!
It takes a man of extreme skill & extreme genius to achieve such a spectacular feat of failure. XD
Didn't get any coins or items, was always out of time, fudged up the flagpoles?
Yeah, that's about how well I do.
the bit when he killed that goomba was inspired man, totally amazing. Lets get some perspective here
My point being Rob said he got the points solely on the flags. I know the goomba kill was necessary.
