Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In 2004, a former GoldenEye champion and world record holder turned his attention to Donkey Kong 64, aiming to become the first person to ever perform a speedrun of the game. This resulted in one of the strangest episodes in speedrun history, which was widely called the worst speedrun ever performed. This is the truly deep lore of an early speedrun oddity called "Wouter Goes Bananas".
In this video, we go over the history of Wouter's speedrunning career, the convoluted process of submitting speedruns to Speed Demos Archive in the early days, the difficulty in uploading and performing long speedruns two decades ago, and delve into other aspects of internet culture around the time, including exploring LUELinks, the SDA forums, and other influential characters in speedrunning at the time.
The Deep Lore of Wouter Goes Bananas (2006)
Original movie release thread on SDA by Marsh: forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/movie_released_wouter_goes_bananas.html
Archived version of WGB on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=_FBGO6Lm6O8
Wouter's full run on archive.org archive.org/details/DonkeyKong64_101p/DonkeyKong64_101p_part01.wmv
00:00 Intro
01:30 A Refresher on Wouter
03:20 Before the First DK64 Speedrun
05:17 History of Submitting to SDA
10:40 A Brief History of Marsh
12:17 Wouter Goes Bananas is Released
15:00 Initial Response and Comments
19:09 WGB Goes VIRAL on LUELinks
22:41 WGB's Lasting Legacy
25:15 Final Thoughts & Extro
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In 2004, a former GoldenEye champion and world record holder turned his attention to Donkey Kong 64, aiming to become the first person to ever perform a speedrun of the game. This resulted in one of the strangest episodes in speedrun history, which was widely called the worst speedrun ever performed. This is the truly deep lore of an early speedrun oddity called "Wouter Goes Bananas".
In this video, we go over the history of Wouter's speedrunning career, the convoluted process of submitting speedruns to Speed Demos Archive in the early days, the difficulty in uploading and performing long speedruns two decades ago, and delve into other aspects of internet culture around the time, including exploring LUELinks, the SDA forums, and other influential characters in speedrunning at the time.
The Deep Lore of Wouter Goes Bananas (2006)
Original movie release thread on SDA by Marsh: forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/movie_released_wouter_goes_bananas.html
Archived version of WGB on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=_FBGO6Lm6O8
Wouter's full run on archive.org archive.org/details/DonkeyKong64_101p/DonkeyKong64_101p_part01.wmv
00:00 Intro
01:30 A Refresher on Wouter
03:20 Before the First DK64 Speedrun
05:17 History of Submitting to SDA
10:40 A Brief History of Marsh
12:17 Wouter Goes Bananas is Released
15:00 Initial Response and Comments
19:09 WGB Goes VIRAL on LUELinks
22:41 WGB's Lasting Legacy
25:15 Final Thoughts & Extro
--
Music used in my videos is made and produced specifically for this channel by Carathorn: youtube.com/user/Carathorn
--
Please consider supporting SpeedLore on Patreon! patreon.com/speedlore
➤ EMAIL ➤ gamerfolklore at gmail dot com
➤ SUPPORT ➤ PATREON ➤ patreon.com/speedlore
➤ WATCH ➤ TWITCH ➤ twitch.tv/rwhitegoose
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Feel free to contact me for any purpose; business, video ideas, any questions are welcome!
Thanks for watching, and until next time, stay true!
