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[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

Summoning Salt · 5.4M views · 2018-06-04 · 29:54

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Overview

Summoning Salt traces the speedrunning history of Mario Kart 64's Choco Mountain track and its famous shortcut, through the successive record holders and discoveries. It carries an epilepsy warning for flickering lights.

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HN recommends it as a gripping entry point into speedrunning and as a model of a well-made history video.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2018

Topics

Speedrunning, glitches & game hackingGame history & retro gaming
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What people said

nayuki · 2018-10 · Strong recommendation

Along the same topic, this YouTuber made a fantastic video explaining the Mario Kart 64 Choco Mountain shortcut: [VIDEO]

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msla · 2018-09 · Strong recommendation

Summoning Salt makes great videos. The SMB1 video has already been linked, but I also love his video on the Choco Mountain track in Mario Kart 64. It has some great livestream captures which show records being broken, and contextualizes them well enough to give them some pathos: [VIDEO]

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mcast · 2018-08 · Recommendation

I didn't realize I cared about speed-running until I saw this YouTube video from Summoning Salt about N64's Mario Kart level: [VIDEO]

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