Hello guys!

Fascinated by the work of Summoning Salt on YouTube, I was frustrated to see him focusing only on NES games. It's be quite rad to start delving into the archives and trace the history of the any% category (and the 120% for that matter, though we should focus on one at first).

By no means am I a Spyro the Dragon speedrunning history expert. I have followed SSBMStuff, ChrisLBC for many years, and more recently Touval and AlexDest. But I am pretty sure there is far more things to it than what I am aware of.

So the idea is to brainstorm here about the history of the speedrun. Things we should focus on:

• find the historical first and legit run submitted
• list the tricks that made the run faster and when they were discovered
• find the speedrun associated to above tricks that would first introduce them
• for all above items, always cite the runner / trick hunter

Of course I'd like to gauge the interest of the community first. Please comment / augment the idea at will.

PS: the World Record Progression series from Summoning Salt in case you don't know about it yet https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMxPYcr2zEkWInMyvvxmN22gjrRR0x__u