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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

Duration: 38:59

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Read the description for a brief description of the video, links to all of the other videos that were referenced, and a few extra notes:

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

This video provides a brief introduction to speedrunning, all of the main history of speedrunning since the 1970s until April 2018, and a closing discussion about some modern issues in speedrunning. Of course, I don't go into strong detail on everything in the history of speedrunning, so don't consider this video to be extremely comprehensive. However, I do cover all of the key points.

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝:

Apollo Legend's video on Todd Rogers (mentioned at 4:59): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-H4sEHB54

RWhiteGoose's GoldenEye SpeedLore series (mentioned at 13:39): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpaXr5HvKOU&list=PLi4rQqOVIAuQkTdeWIsOfGgB055r9_qKt

My World Record Progression video on Ocarina of Time and Summoningsalt's series (mentioned at 16:22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmS9e7kzgS4
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMxPYcr2zEkWInMyvvxmN22gjrRR0x__u

My video and Apollo Legend's video on cheating in speedrunning (mentioned at 18:36):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvFSQFZfK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUplc7lDHZ8

Sonicpacker's video on tool-assisted speedruns (mentioned at 24:16):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3-ohYvi_fc

Glink's video on GamesDoneQuick (mentioned at 31:16):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TGFEoidEM
EDIT: Original video is no longer available for whatever reason. Archive available here: https://archive.org/details/GDQTheSafeSpaceForSpeedrunners

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫:

A few additional notes about the video:

At 26:55 I mention Cosmo Wright who has since transitioned and is now Narcissa Wright. I mention that I'll be using the name Cosmo for the purposes of this video because all of the relevant details are from before the transition. I just want to make clear that I chose this because I show video clips that are clearly from before the transition, including one with the name 'Cosmo' on the screen, so I felt it would be more appropriate. I had the same exact situation in my last video on Ocarina of Time and Narcissa said she was fine with how I handled it, so I just did the same thing with in video.

At 31:38 I made a joke about the NASA marathon and how many of their runners are banned from GamesDoneQuick. I want to make clear that this was just meant as a brief joke and I do not mean to undermine their marathon which they put a lot of time and effort into (and is more than just GDQ-banned runners).

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