You Think Your Favorite Video Game Is Hard? Try Speedrunning It

Chris Tomkinson — known online as ShinyZeni — streaming a speedrun of Super Metroid.

Speedrunning is the quirky subculture dedicated to playing through video games as fast as is humanly possible, exploiting glitches in game code and advanced techniques to barrel ahead.

(Image credit: Courtesy of Chris Tomkinson)

Speedrunning is the quirky subculture dedicated to playing through video games as fast as is humanly possible, exploiting glitches in game code and advanced techniques to barrel ahead.