Started by Sol Herrera (@speedrun_sol) ·
speedrunning as a community started with Doom demo files
5 sources · 34 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Where did speedrunning come from?
- Ended at
- “quake done quick 1997”
The Trail
- “history of speedrunning first speedruns” (google.com)
- Speedrunning (en.wikipedia.org)
- Doom (1993 video game) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Quake (video game) (en.wikipedia.org)
- “quake done quick 1997” (google.com)
the run GDQ is named after
What I came away with
Doom could record a 'demo', just your inputs, which replays exactly in the engine. So a run could be shared as a tiny file and anyone could watch and verify it. Fast clears were rewarded before that (Metroid did it in 1986), but demo files are what turned it into an internet community, and Quake Done Quick followed in 1997.
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