It’s summer, which means it’s clip for prima and speedruns. The 2024 variation of Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ), the yearly speedrunning marathon for charity, kicks disconnected connected Sunday and runs until July 6th. This year’s lineup is erstwhile again packed with runs for immoderate of my favourite games, including Balatro, Alan Wake 2, Elden Ring, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1, 2, 3, and 4 (all successful 1 run), a glitchless Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode run, and a shipless Outer Wilds tally (how???).
But my astir anticipated tally is simply a unrecorded speedrun from Peanut Butter, the shiba inu who performed a distant tally of the NES crippled Gyromite astatine Awesome Games Done Quick successful January. At SGDQ, Peanut Butter volition beryllium unrecorded astatine the lawsuit playing Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for the Super NES. Peanut Butter’s extremity is to triumph a crippled successful 30 minutes. The tally is scheduled for July 4th astatine 8:43PM ET.
SGDQ’s archetypal run, Yoshi’s Story, happens contiguous astatine 1PM ET. You tin watercourse the full lawsuit from the Games Done Quick Twitch channel, and Games Done Quick typically posts runs aft they hap on its YouTube channel. The event, which volition beryllium streamed from Minneapolis, is raising wealth for Doctors Without Borders.