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'I remember looking up Super Metroid, as it was one of my favorite games back then, and seeing that someone had successfully completed the game with 100% of the items in under an hour,' he says. Tomkinson first started speedrunning in the early 2000s when he stumbled across SpeedDemosArchive, a large collection of video games and their respective runs.

Join The Game I Thought A Zoo: Simulated Games For Isolated Times When he's not studying for finals or working his 9-5, he's ShinyZeni, a gamer who spends more than 20 hours a week playing Super Metroid. His schedule is packed, but that doesn't mean he doesn't make time for his favorite hobby. He's finishing up his degree in Cyber Security and Information Assurance at Western Governors University.

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Speedrunning is a popular form of entertainment in the gaming community: Instead of puttering around, exploring game worlds, players try to break records by finishing games in as little time as possible, often using glitches in a game's code and advanced techniques to skip ahead.īy day, Chris Tominkson is a cyber security engineer with a wife and three kids. They're playing the game all wrong! Why is his character glitching out like that? Is she just smashing Mario into a wall? How did he just fly through the ceiling? Wait! She just skipped a crucial part of the game! But it's not silly - it's speedrunning. To an uninformed viewer, it might seem silly. Chris Tomkinson - known online as ShinyZeni - streaming a speedrun of Super Metroid.