OverBoost

Retro game collector and speedrunner Pete Dorr joins pmc to discuss the experiences he's had with speedrunning covering a wide variety of genres, consoles, and communities.

Find Pete Dorr:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/petedorr

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PeteDorr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeteDorr

Runs of Pete's that pmc studied:

Bubsy 3D Any% PB: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/158769777

Sonic R Any% (No OoB) Gamecube PB: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/528730572

ICO Any% PS2 PAL PB: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/559938476?t=01h36m10s

Club Drive Any% PB/WR: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/276453686

Club Drive @ SGDQ 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFqLg0fWTw

Ephemeral Fantasia Any% PB: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/358735799

OutRun 2 Any% [Route A][Automatic] PB: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/427775337

Videos of Pete's that pmc referenced:

How I Became a Retro Game Collector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUuheqhrbJA

*CHEAP* PS2 RPG's Under $20 Worth Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NruicTPR9nM

My Original Xbox Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTsmui42YE

Find pmc where you need him:

Twitch: http://twitch.tv/pmctrilogy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmctrilogy

Discord: http://discord.gg/aBcwsmN

Prolific horror speedrunner Ecdycis joins OverBoost to talk a wide variety of games from his start in Clock Tower to mods in Dead Rising and bringing NightCry to the GDQ stage. Yes, of course, pmc does ask him about The Ring: Terror's Realm, don't worry!

Find Ecdycis at these links:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ecdycis

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecdycis_Twitch

The runs I studied for this podcast:

Ecdycis's PB for Clock Tower S-Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLK6FrXGUFg

Ecdycis's PB for Dead Rising NG TimeSkip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Q3LH1Tsh8

Ecdycis's PB for Silent Hill 2 Hard Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBE3GGnLnqs

NightCry at AGDQ 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmSzlOtlSE

Find me where you want me:

Twitch: http://twitch.tv/pmctrilogy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmctrilogy

Discord: http://discord.gg/aBcwsmN

Makkebakke is here! He brings wonderful tales about speedrunning a wide variety of games including a personal favorite (Brütal Legend), a game made by someone he's followed online (Preflight Panic), and a game he dumpster dived (RoboCop (2003)).

Find Makkebakke at these links:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/makkebakke

Twitter: https://twitter.com/makkebakke

The runs I studied:

Brutal Legend by Makkebakke in 1:21:09: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqTvDzc86RU

RoboCop (2003) at ESA Winter 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdEzH7Pg4w

Preflight Panic Tournament at ESA Summer 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQIKb9yu20

Soph drops in to talk about her favorite video game and favorite speedrun, Final Fantasy 8, as well as throw down about Serious Sam 2 and her time with Resident Evil games. Further revelations include being raised in a Sega household and the ancient family Mega Drive being sold in a "car booting" sale. pmc also tries to use a French phrase and it does NOT work.

Please find Soph at these links:

https://www.twitch.tv/soph

https://twitter.com/sophLUL

Here are the runs pmc studied in preparation for the interview:

FF8 @ Frost Fatales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtxgKlcDcag

Serious Sam 2: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/553082896

Find me where you want me:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pmctrilogy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmctrilogy

Discord: http://discord.gg/aBcwsmN

KZ_FREW helps bring in a new era of OverBoost, branching beyond its mecha roots. With years of high-level GTA Vice City speedrunning experience, Frew connects the dots from the playground to Kreedz climbing to StarCraft II to Vice City to Miami Vice.

OverBoost is a podcast interview series covering the personal story of speedrunners and featuring in-depth discussion on some of their favorite speedgames.

Please find KZ_FREW at these links:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kz_frew

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KZ_Frew

Links to videos that pmc mentioned:

Vice City Any% No SSU at AGDQ 2019: https://youtu.be/bO3hhp_EH5w

Vice City All Missions at Shots Fired VII: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/523165433

Miami Vice at Shots Fired VII: https://youtu.be/Y7QpFXHHNzU

Vice City WR Progression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHgBcSidQw

Veteran speedrunner PEACHES guides pmc on a journey deep into speedrun history, a voyage which leads through each of Twin Galaxies, CyberScore, Speed Demos Archive, and Speedruns Live. In particular, there are deep dives on how PEACHES affected both Blast Corps and Armored Core speedrunning.

Originally published on May 24, 2020

Links:

PEACHES on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/peaches

The Fast from the Past Blast Corps video: https://youtu.be/sllfIa2U-Io?t=9260

In this next round of Overboost, Plywood drops in to tell us about his journey into various speedgames, including Steel Battalion, Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and more. pmc even learns what ZXE-D: Legend of Plasmatlite is and, folks, it's wild.

Originally published on May 6, 2020

Links:

Plywood on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/plywood_

Plywood on Twitter: https://twitter.com/plywoodgaming

Plywood on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TycoontheLAM

Metal Gear Speedrunners: https://www.metalgearspeedrunners.com/

On the latest Overboost, PilotPanda joins us to discuss Gundam speedruns, in particular Seed: Battle Assault and Seed: Never Ending Tomorrow. A few other mech titles make appearances including the 1999 JP-exclusive PS1 game Love & Destroy.

Originally published on March 29, 2020.

Links:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pandadotrar

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhCrFyke5OAuWRtCskf8dg

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PilotPandaYT

Gundam Speedruns Discord: https://discord.gg/UzCBcn4

Pythonicus joins pmc for another round of Overboost, providing lots of insight into his own personal history with speedrunning as well as information on Metal Gear speedruns, especially Portable Ops and Peace Walker. He also casually drops that Sahelanthropus's nickname is Sally, something from which pmc is still recovering.

Originally published February 16, 2020.

Links:

Pythonicus on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pythonicus

Pythonicus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pythonicuss

Portable Ops in ESA Movember: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_row9la41A

Peace Walker in GDQ Hotfix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS7kYu-NsuY

Metal Gear Speedrunners: https://www.metalgearspeedrunners.com/

Welcome to OverBoost, where pmcTRILOGY interviews the people who do the speedruns about their history. OverBoost started out as a side project of Mechinations, a mecha anime podcast and so the first five episodes focus on mech anime runners in particular.

For the inaugural epsiode, pmc interviews Tapioca fresh off his recent AGDQ 2020 appearance about Tapioca's time with the Zone of the Enders series. Tapioca currently hold the top times for a number of categories in both ZOE and ZOE2, including Any% Easy and Any% Normal in both games.

Originally published on January 26, 2020.

Links:

Tapioca's twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/tapioca

Tapioca's twitter: https://twitter.com/tapioca2k

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner at AGDQ2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=560&v=S7vpJ6WFIX8

Zone of the Enders leaderboards on speedrun (dot) com: https://www.speedrun.com/zone_of_the_enders