The Time Attackers: A Secret Gaming Subculture
The time attack (i.e., speed run) has become a cultural phenomenon. These people are to gaming as Michael Phelps is to swimming; they take a sport and trivialize all your hopes of accomplishing even a fragment of that greatness in such a short time. If you’ve been sleeping under your Intellivision, time attacks are when gamers take classic games (time attacks among contemporary games have become more prominent) and destroy them in times you never thought possible. They create shock and awe in the press of a b button, and make your gaming accomplishments shrivel. Are there Steve Wiebes and Billy Mitchells among us?
