Never forget the greats. For speedlore reasons I wanna compile all important/interesting videos that we have from Hotline speedrunning. I don't wanna add any Online Marathons. If you wanna do it go ahead, it'll be a list long enough to fill its own list.

The first runs to get a sub whatever.

Duke_Bilgewater - 2 Nov 2013 - NG+ All Levels - 24:46 link This is the first sub25 in NG+ All Levels.

Dingodrole - 23 Jun 2014 - NG any% - 20:54 link This is the first sub21 in NG any%.

snowfats - 28 Apr 2015 - NG+ All Levels - 23:55 link This is the first sub24 in NG+ All Levels. Unbeaten WR for 340 days (beaten by cookie).

snowfats - 3 Sep 2015 - NG any% - 19:54 link This is the first sub20 in NG any%. Note that this run does not use the oob skips.

snowfats - 8 Mar 2017 - NG+ All Levels - 22:58 link This is the first sub23 in NG+ All Levels. Sub22 is humanly impossible.

jackRite - 24 Nov 2017 - NG any% - 15:58 link This is the first sub16 in NG any%. This was pretty soon after the new skips were found.

Sub15 is soon.

mightyjoey - 21 Feb 2021 - NG+ All Levels - 22:46 link This is the first sub-keyboard run, which is to say it's the first ever controller WR. Improved to a 22:34 two hours later. link

Runs that used to be the shit and exhaustive rerouting was required to beat them.

cfb - 27 Dec 2013 - NG+ All Levels - 24:32 link This was the last time a Tony run was WR. For years this was also the longest standing WR of the category having taken 392 days to be beaten (by snowfats of course).

Dingodrole - 3 Mar 2015 - NG any% - 20:07 link Laying down one of the best gameplay performances in Hotline history Dingo has become synonymous with being a beast, but also with not using good strats. This run was beaten by snowfats after a great amount of rerouting and also actually doing Neighbors skip, which Dingo didn't want to do. Still the best pre-snowfats speedrun.

prokchor - 19 Aug 2017 - NG any% - 19:10 link This is essentially Dingo's pb but in 2017. Some of the best gameplay to date. If anyone were to get the sub19 it would have been prokchor. But that train left the station when the new skips were found.

jackRite - 5 Aug 2017 - NG+ All Levels - 22:55 link Longest undefeated NG+ All Levels WR (1279 days - beaten by Urinstein)

SGDQ 13 - Duke_Bilgewater - NG+ All Levels - 29:08 link

AGDQ 14 - Duke_Bilgewater vs cfb - NG+ All Levels - 27:06 vs. 25:46 link Follow my boy Cyberdemon531 on Twitter

[FR] Stunfest 14 - Dingodrole - NG any% - 24:51 link

[FR] Stunfest 15 - [Dingodrole - HM2 NG+ any% - 41:29 link

SGDQ 15 - Duke_Bilgewater - HM2 NG any% - 46:51 link

Calithon 16 - snowfats vs Duke_Bilgewater - NG+ All Levels - 25:30 vs 27:00 link*

AGDQ 16 - snowfats - NG+ All Levels - 25:48 link Hotline Miami 15.

Speedcon 17 - Urinstein - NG+ All Levels - 27:41 link

ESA 17 - jackRite - NG+ All Levels - 25:05 link

ESA 17 - jackRite - HM2 NG+ any% - 36:15 link

Speedcon 18 - Urinstein - NG any% - 17:23 link In which Urinstein shares his deepest secret.

[GER] Dokomi 18 - Urinstein - NG+ All Levels - 24:36 link

[FR] Stunfest 18 - Dingodrole - HM2 NG+ any% - 40:23 link

WASD 19 - Cursed - NG+ any% - 19:39 link

Speedcon 19 - Urinstein - NG+ All Levels - 31:00 link

ESA 19 - jackRite - NG+ All Levels - 24:42 link

GDQ 20 - snowfats - All Masks - 24:42 link

ESA Winter 20 - Cursed - NG any% - 18:08 link

WASD 20 - Cursed - NG any% - 20:17 link

WASD 20 - Cursed - All Masks - 33:14 link

[PL] GSPS 21 - JACK4L - NG+ All Levels - 25:14 link

[PL] GSPSD 22 - JACK4L - NG any% - 19:13 link

ESA Summer 22 - jackRite - All Masks - 25:08 link

[PL] GSPS 22 - JACK4L - Richard's Revenge - 24:51 link

[TAS] Buffet Time - NG+ any% - 16:36 link This is a segmented TAS using cheat engine to slow down the game. The new skips aren't included, so this should could be 3 minutes faster nowadays. Back in the day this was almost 3 minutes faster than WR. You should definitely watch the whole thing but if you only have one minute left to live then skip forward to H&H3.

NG any% Tutorial - by Duke_Bilgewater link This is an ancient Tutorial from July 2013. The current tutorials are probably better but it's fun to see that most of the important knowledge can be traced back to Duke (no locking onto the boss and hooker spin).

[Discussion] Sum of Best link A video produced by Moofin wherein Duke, cfb, cookie and snowfats review and discuss their pbs next to each other. This is from Dec 2015, so right about when cookie was going to beat snowy's 23:55 WR.

[FR] [Discussion] NES Blog / Speed Game A French Youtube Channel that interviewed Dingo three times to talk about his speedruns.

• (12 Jul 2013) link RealMyop and Lestat Vampire give commentary on Duke's 26:50 NG+ All Levels run, back then WR and still called NG+ any%.

• (5 Mar 2015) link Dingo gives commentary on his 20:07 Ng any% (WR at the time).

• (13 Jul 2015) link Dingo talks about HM2 speedrunning, which was 4 months old at the time.

[Knowledge Dump] NASA 16 - cfb - Fortified Zone link Draculantern reads snowfats' "why hm2 is objectively worse than hm1" pastebin during cfb's Fortified Zone run at NASA. The doc is so long, that cfb has to go 5 minutes over estimate to get through the whole thing.

[Oldest recorded run] Lazerlong - NG+ All Levels - 44:33 link This run is from 19 Nov 2012, not even a month after release. It shows, but people submit worse times even today.

[FR] [Discussion] Mach 1 link A French Youtube channel commentates Pochtron's any% WR and interviews him about his Hotline exploits, hopes and dreams.