Nintendo doesn't even acknowledge the speedrunning community, which is a damn shame since their games are some of the most popular. Speedrunners are some of the

Nintendo doesn't even acknowledge the speedrunning community, which is a damn shame since their games are some of the most popular. Speedrunners are some of the most devoted fans, which you have to be to spend thousands of hours grinding a single game. The original Mario speedrun is so optimized that every level except the final one is played perfectly. For Mario 64 there's a single guy that has the world record in 3 of the 4 major speedrunning categories. Nintendo could celebrate these incredible achievements by their most devoted fans. There's also a definite interest in this kind of thing, consider the vitality of speedrunning content on YouTube.