Scott Kessler

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@summoningsalt @jay_the_wook I've got a video for the 5:11.XX set on 2/26/2004.

https://t.co/RBg4UK8VYq

I don't think I ever captured that first one, 5:14.XX, set on 2/18/2004. I might still have it on VHS.

I never officially got a 5:06.XX, but I did get times in that range days before I got the 5:05.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@jay_the_wook @summoningsalt Trevor Seguin also had the any% WR untied with video proof available.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@AndrewGspeedrun I remember the DKC1 time. I remember trying to get it fixed, but I think TG was reticent to admit mistakes. It's counter-intuitive, but admitting mistakes and fixing them is a better trust model than pretending you're perfect and sweeping errors under the rug.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@AndrewGspeedrun Yes, I think Rodrigo took advantage of Robert. Unfortunately we're all fallible. I was skeptical of Metroid Team from pretty early on. Rodrigo claimed to beat NES Ninja Gaiden with no damage. I pressed him, and he didn't know anything about animation cancel mashing. Bogus claim.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@AndrewGspeedrun I've always wondered if Carlos' time was legit. Rodrigo, the mouthpiece of Brazil's "Metroid Team", created a topic at TG announcing a 5:09 NWR which pre-dated Trevor's 5:09. I also remember Rodrigo being frustrated at a later point because the record had not been verified yet.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@AndrewGspeedrun Right after the NES was released, one of my friends had to explain the difference to me. I had played Mario Bros on the Atari 2600, and he was like, you have no idea how much better this "Super" game is. Months later, I got to play SMB at a Radio Shack kiosk and was blown away.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Andrewgspeedrun @frezy_man I have most of my own videos that were on Vortiginous on YouTube, but I submitted quite a bit to TG without capturing the videos for public, especially high score stuff. I kept VHS copies/originals for a lot of that. I may go thru the VHS tapes one day and digitize some stuff.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Andrewgspeedrun @frezy_man Yes, I noticed a while back that some of my speed runs are not on SRC. I have never submitted a run there myself although I am glad that somebody did. My Dr. Chaos run is on there too although it's not attached to my sdkess user name.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@jay_the_wook Looks like fun, but it's too far away for me. I'm also very out of practice.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@summoningsalt The World 8 hands are the main reason that I never ran this game.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Jabes_SSB @Kosmicd12 6 months later, I kill screened the Funspot machine at the tournament. Billy called Walter who handed his phone to me. We had a nice convo, but Billy made sure to mention that he had reached the KS on his first life. I'm not saying he didn't, but that was classic Billy.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Jabes_SSB @Kosmicd12 Billy Mitchell story time. At about 9:30 in Kosmic's video, you can see my name listed as a kill screener. I actually reached the kill screen on my first life in that game. TG's head ref said it was a first that had never been achieved before.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Kosmicd12 Sidebar: NES DK has some scoring glitches on the barrel board. I was able to get 2800 points by remaining stationary over a ladder and jumping a barrel as it went down the ladder. You also get 300 points (instead of 100) for jumping over a barrel moving in your direction.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Kosmicd12 Yes, Tom Votava was the first person that I know of to reach the NES DK KS. I also remember Corey Chambers talking about it. TG has John Heins at the top of the leaderboard.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@jay_the_wook @Andrewgspeedrun @creativeloafing Cool! I played a lot of GameCube in those days as well, and actually still do once in a while.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Andrewgspeedrun I can't keep everything straight either, especially as I continue to age. I do hope some footage is found because I didn't have access to G4 back then and only heard from others about seeing something on TV.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Andrewgspeedrun Here are 2 old runs that I kept and have unlisted on my channel with some comments from me.

https://t.co/bmtGho2E7C

https://t.co/0EgyTTGM4V

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Andrewgspeedrun It's possible that you saw a TAS for SMB1. Lots of videos were floating around in late 2003 and early 2004 that people didn't know were TAS. I had a slow 5:50-ish video up in December 2003. Someone told me that I "sucked" so it was then that I said, ok, WR or bust.

[Scott Kessler @sdkess]

@Andrewgspeedrun @jay_the_wook @creativeloafing I should probably do a memory dump sometime of everything that I can recall about those early days. I actually did a speed run of Super Mario Bros back in 2002-ish, but I didn't record. I was competing in Super Monkey Ball, and a friend suggested beating the other SMB in under 6m