Enjoy this surprisingly dramatic and gripping YouTube mini-documentary about one of gaming's strangest and most obsessive cults: racing around Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain track. Thanks to glitchy shortcuts, racers winnowed times down to just a few seconds. But getting the trick right for all three laps of a time trial? 20,000 attempts later...
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Jun 21, 2018
Mini-documentary about the race to conquer Mario Kart's Choco Mountain in seconds
This guy re-made a classic Nintendo home arcade video game console
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Save over 25% on this open source portable gaming console
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Save an extra $50 off DJI's answer to GoPro's 4K action cam
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