Once people realized the scene was on the rise again, Wii Sports Golf became more popular than ever. This surge in popularity occurred after Alaska broke a record that went unbeaten for several months. “Back when I was really speedrunning in 2018, there were five or six active runners who were all pretty much equally skilled,” Alaska says. Alongside this, Danny also has world records in 18 Hole Golf and “a bunch of the 3 Hole categories.” I managed to obtain world records in the 9 Hole Golf and 3 Hole Golf categories which still remain unbeaten.” Danny’s current time sits at 4:36:70, roughly 43.3 seconds faster than the record Alaska originally set out to beat in August 2018.
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“I found the Wii Series speedrunning Discord server and met a bunch of other people speedrunning golf. “After timing a 9 Hole run at 5:20, I discovered that the world record was 5:18 on ,” Danny says. He revisited it in 2018 out of nostalgia and immediately realized that he could storm through 9 Hole quickly and accurately, despite only playing for fun. Danny always enjoyed Wii Sports Golf the most, possessing an adroitness for the game since he was nine years old. “ Wii Sports is the game I first played on the Nintendo Wii because it came with it,” says current world record holder Danny, a 21-year-old from England. “That’s when I started to get worried, and the community began to center around 9 Hole, making for several new runners and a lot of strategy development.”
“A top Super Mario Maker creator named DannyH09 came into the community and found his game really quickly,” they say. However, after several months as top dog, Alaska lost their spot to a new kid on the block. “I grinded out a couple hundred attempts and beat it by less than a second on August 19th,” Alaska says. Since then, the record has been surpassed by almost an entire minute. In their words, it wasn’t “optimized,” meaning that it didn’t represent a perfect run with zero mistakes. However, Alaska quickly realized that the world record at the time was beatable. All Sports is another category in the Wii Sports speedrunning scene in which runners attempt to finish every game in the Wii Sports oeuvre as quickly as possible. “I started to speedrun ‘Golf 9 Hole’ in Wii Sports so I could practice specific things for my ‘All Sports’ runs,” Alaska, a 15-year-old from North Carolina, tells me. In this category, players who go by the handles Dannyh09 and Alaskaxp2 hold world records for first and second place, respectively. That’s why it’s strange to consider the bizarre speedrunning scene attached to Wii Sports Golf where players compete to finish a round as quickly as possible using a variety of different techniques.
Wii Sports is generally remembered as a fun-oriented game, something light to play with friends and family. The Wii has even become a valuable asset in nursing homes, where elderly people can hit home runs in baseball, score strikes in bowling, and, sink holes-in-one in the hugely popular Wii Sports Golf. Wii Sports and the complementary Wii Fit functioned as a riposte against the generational stigma attached to games, largely dismantling the idea that video games were exclusively tied to a younger demographic. Of those millions of consoles, 82 million came equipped with one specific game: Wii Sports.
The Wii is Nintendo’s most popular home console, selling upwards of 100 million units since its launch in 2006.
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