Beating one of those previous , deceptively hard NES games is an impressive enough accomplishment for most people , but one fan had vainglorious aspiration than that . Muchbigger . Over the preceding three years , Piotr Delgado Kusielczuk — who belong by the Twitch handle " The Mexican Runner"—set out to complete all 714 game ever released on the NES . The journey started onKusielczuk ’s Twitch channelon May 28 , 2014 and came to an remainder nearly three years after on February 26 , 2017 .
The whole thing kicked off with the 1990 gameWhomp ' Em , which Kusielczuko finished in two hours and 11 minutes , and it ended with aSuper Mario Bros. 3run that he completed in an hour and 43 minutes ( Kusielczuk chose it because he says it’sthe good secret plan on the system ) .
watch over live video recording from TheMexicanRunner on www.twitch.tvIn between , Kusielczuk complete each and every game to ever be released on the system , admit the 679 titles release in the United States and the other 35 PAL exclusive , allot to Engadget . The whole endeavor clocked in at 3435 hours , but it was helped along by the fact that Kusielczuk is a known speed - runner .
Speed - running is a video game vogue where players essay to complete a game in criminal record metre , with no care paid to gameplay goals or other accomplishments . time are often aid through glitch found in the game , which can significantly cut down on the duration . The problem with NES games is that many of them — likeTetris — don’t have traditional endings ; they just keep going and going . For those title , Kusielczuk play until there was but nothing depart to do and the game started pop off in a cringle . That entail he could beat a game likeBattletoadsin less than a half hour , but something more nebulous likeMiracle Piano Teaching Systemtook an stupefying 91 hour .
Watch live video from TheMexicanRunner on www.twitch.tvIt ’s assumed that Kusielczuk is the first somebody to play and beat all 714 NES games , and he is definitely the first person to document it in such a public mode . Do n’t look for Kusielczuk to abide by suit with an SNES outpouring , though . On his site , he said , " NES has credibly the unvoiced game library of any other console , so it would n’t be that challenge to me . " That ’s the character of jactitation you garner after 3400 hour with a restrainer in your hand .
[ h / t : Engadget ]
