Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror was one game that has a bit of an interesting history for speed running. I originally started doing this around September 2006 and found it to be a lot of fun to speed run. Shortly after getting a few versions done, I met some competition, a man named "Gigafrost", who I knew from TAS Videos.
And he posted a time that was several minutes faster then me. Try as I might, couldn't beat it. I started to get close, but then he pulled out way ahead of me - to which I admitted defeat.
But something had always bugged me about his run, and finally about a year and a half later, I worked up enough skill again and managed to successfully beat his time. This is the first (and only time, presently) that I've had some competition on a run. I've had another run beaten, but it wasn't like this - head to head competition.
9 versions of this run have been completed.
v1 - 1:31:25
v2 - 1:04:13
v3 - 1:02:11
v4 - 0:57:05
v5 - 0:54:11
v6 - 0:50:09
v7 - 0:46:14
v8 - 0:41:08
v9 (FINAL) - 0:40:35 (Official Time - 0:40:34)