emulator for others to make note of, as a display of skill that will go down in history among the greats of gaming. Once it is safe to travel again, the pair wishes to tackle the original Japanese version in person at a gaming expo or arcade, but for now, they have the footage of their blockbuster playthrough in the MAMEhub Mario Bros. It’s made all the more spectacular given how they were playing on an emulator over a great distance, battling lag and self-imposed handicaps to come together to achieve a score that doesn’t seem likely to be matched anytime soon. is a video game released for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. Luckily, it seems that Steven Kleisath and Stephen Boyer’s impressive performance in Mario Bros. Not all of these tales are success stories, however, as former Donkey Kongrecord holder and documentary antagonist Billy Mitchell was famously stripped of his status in 2018 after it was confirmed that he cheated.

Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, as they traverse the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from King Koopa (later named Bowser ). Such displays of gaming skill are well-documented among Nintendo’s classic titles, such as one speedrunner breaking the record for the fastest playthrough on Super Mario Bros by the length of a single animation frame back in 2016. The NES version received a wide release in North America that year and in PAL regions in 1987.

scores under their belts before their joined attempt, with the former landing up to 5,424,920 million points on the original arcade version and the latter holding a record of 4,260,210 in the WolfMame emulator.

Both Kleisath and Boyer carried impressive Mario Bros.

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