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Just speedrunning a game is hard enough. So it’s wild that for his first speedrun, engineer and web developer Steve Wozniak decided to make the already-difficult task of finishing a game as quickly as possible even harder. The task he set for himself: Don’t just complete all the goals in Vicarious Visions’ remastered bundle of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, but to do each level in one combo. You gotta see it to believe it.
Wozniak—not the Apple co-founder, though they both share the same name—uploaded a 20-minute long video to YouTube showing off his feat. In it, he outlined some highly specific guidelines that not only adhere to the speedrunning spirit but also gave him a real challenge. In addition to finishing every level in just a single combo, these guidelines included things like filling the special meter before starting the main combo and not completing any goals—such as earning high scores or collecting the letters that spell S.K.A.T.E.—before starting the main combo.
Not all of THPS 1+2's 19 levels are here, as only 11 of them have completable goals and are part of the game’s built-in speedrun mode. Still, what Wozniak ended up with was a stellar finish time of almost 19 minutes. That’s wild for anyone to do, let alone to do it with the one-combo restriction. Sure, Games Done Quick showcased a 16-minute speedrun last year, but unlike Wozniak’s run, that one didn’t involve getting 100 percent completion on all 11 levels, nor were those levels completed in just one continuous, sustained combo.
Read the full article on Kotaku
