I don’t really like hearing my voice, but over time you get used to it.
While Summoning Salt doesn’t reveal his name or face for the sake of privacy, his voice has become synonymous with speed for so many people-an accolade he accepts with humility: “It’s not something I expected.” Tha. Summoning Salt is shown playing ‘Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out’ in Running With Speed.Īs Summoning Salt explained to me in a recent interview, speedrunning’s widespread appeal is part awe and part nostalgia for the sport: “Even if you’re not interested in speedrunning - you can fight the world record.” Or might appreciate a good story about how people broke a record…and also the idea of a game you’re familiar with, played casually and with a lot of glitches or really Wiped out and destroyed by a clean glitch-free playthrough It can be fascinating to watch the game you love play on a level you couldn’t even imagine. By turning them into brilliantly engaging stories.Įach video in his World Record Progressive series features speed runners completing video games as fast as possible in world record time, and his commitment to storytelling has earned him an audience of millions that outnumber the speed runners themselves. As a video game speedrunning historian, Summoning Salt has amassed over 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube by documenting not only speedrun world records, but the innovations of the characters, competition, and strategy behind world records.
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