The next GDQ event, Awesome Games Done Quick 2017, will take place in Herndon, VA from January 8-15, 2017.This year’s SGDQ began on July 3 with Super Mario Sunshine and ended with tonight’s finale of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, as well as a surprise four-way Super Mario 64 race. Other games played during the marathon included The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metroid Prime, Fallout 3 and 4, BioShock, Pokemon Red, and many, many more. You can find the full list of runs on Games Done Quick’s official site.
For an idea of what took place at SGDQ, be sure to watch the Pokemon Blue speedrun above. You can also check out runs of Super Mario Land 2 beaten in seven minutes and A Boy and His Blob beaten in under four minutes by Games Done Quick’s Chris Grant, who recently stopped by the IGN office. Andrew is IGN’s executive editor of news and really hopes Spelunky ends up at another GDQ event. You can find him rambling about Persona and cute animals on Twitter.