The final tally was $3,021,310.49, all of which will be donated to Doctors Without Borders/Doctors Without Borders. When you add that to the $3.4 million raised by Awesome Games Done Quick earlier this year, which went to the Prevent Cancer Foundation, that’s a lot of money for people to part with to see racers do really cool things with video games. SGDQ 2022 was the first in-person GDQ event since the pandemic started in early 2020, so it was great to see a live crowd on hand to support/react to all the action taking place. If you didn’t catch any of the action yourself, here are some of the highlights. We’ll start with this incredible Ocarina of Time streak, which wins the game quickly, sure, but it also does so much more: Ocarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 – Summer Games Gone Fast 2022 And here’s a Pokémon Emerald series that featured four-player co-op, along with a randomizer that meant every time their Pokémon leveled up, it would randomly change into a different Pokémon. The result was utter chaos: Pokémon Emerald by Keizaron, 360Chrism, Shenanagans, adef in 3:14:04 – Summer Games Done Quick 2022 This is a Super Mario Sunshine run that has ups and downs and then ups again before ending: Super Mario Sunshine by SB_runs in 2:59:24 – Summer Games Done Fast 2022 And finally, here’s a Yakuza: Like a Dragon run that completed the entire game in less time than it took me to complete some of the toughest boss battles: Yakuza: Like a Dragon by Froob at 4:09:52 – Summer Games Done Quick 2022 If you want to see more routes or just pick one of a game that you’re particularly interested in, the organizers have recordings of each of them on their YouTube page.
