Trivia / Games Done Quick

• Adored by the Network: With the exception of only a few marathons, the Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda series receive many runs scattered about each marathon, averaging roughly 5 to 8 runs for the Mario series and 4 to 6 runs for the Zelda series. Of the themed blocks (bunching games in the same series or same style together), most marathons include blocks for Sonic the Hedgehog, Castlevania, and, on occasion, the Mega Man series.
• Colbert Bump: About as literal as it gets, with Stephen Colbert himself bumping it on The Late Show.
  • The speedrunning tutorial for Strider at AGDQ 2018 quickly made the game one of the most popular titles on Speedrun.com.
• The Merch:
  • Every event, Games Done Quick's partners Fangamer and The Yetee offer merchandising based on the event, including T-Shirts based on runs of the current marathon and collectable pins of the event's final run (or one of the final runs, as was the case of SGDQ 2022).
  • Prize segments are a tradition of GDQ and are used to show donation prizes that are then raffled off to donators after the event is over. They include homemade crafts (usually) based on the games featured in the marathon, as well as officially licensed merchandise.
• Missing Episode: A few runs that happened during GDQ aren't viewable on the official channel anymore.
  • The Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back run during SGDQ 2015, where the runner took the jokes about killing himself (as he was doing a category where the optimal strategy was to die over and over rather than finish certain levels) too far, then said he would "become a psychopath and murder everyone one day". This is still the only run GDQ had never uploaded to their channel or the Archive after it had happened, unlike the following examples that were re-uploaded then removed afterward.
  • Dr Fatbody's Sonic the Hedgehog run during AGDQ 2019, due to accusations of harassment against the runner.
  • The Mega Man X relay race (also at AGDQ 2019), likely due to it featuring Caleb Hart. All of Caleb Hart's runs were removed after his transphobic comments.
  • ConnorAce's Clustertruck run at SGDQ 2019, after it was found the video he sent to GDQ for submission purposes was faked/spliced.
  • NES_'s run of CHUNITHM PARADISE LOST, an arcade-exclusive game, at GDQHotfix's Juneteenth Celebration 2022 featured a bootleg setup (using an unofficial home controller and home PC using reverse-engineered game data^note A common practice in the underground sects of the Western rhythm game community, due to many rhythm games being Asia- and arcade-exclusive.) as opposed to an actual arcade cabinet. Due to miscommunication it was greenlit for broadcast anyway, with many Rhythm Game players expressing concern over the run being illegal (as such a run puts NES_ and the entire GDQ organization in danger of legal action from Sega), and chat moderators insisting otherwise.^note While similar concerns could be raised regarding Starrodkirby86's maimai FiNALE run from SGDQ 2021, that run is on an actual cabinet that he purchased and owns, and classic (non-Deluxe) maimai can be made to run in offline mode, so even if he was using bootleg data, he could more easily claim Plausible Deniability. The run's VOD was later pulled.
  • Mekarazium's run of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at SGDQ 2022 was removed after it was discovered that, instead of playing the Bladewolf DLC campaign live, Meka played a recorded run spliced together in a video editor^note Compared to GDQHotfix's Victory Lap shows which are pre-recorded runs that have set world records—they differ in that they are all completed in one go with no editing or manipulation. Mekarazium himself admitted this later on to the community and to GDQ staff in a document he shared with them that revealed it was intentionally planned in advance. Because Mekarazium was one of the few runners not to attend in-person, this initially went unchecked, and once the word got out, the VOD was swiftly taken off of YouTube, and reuploads of the run have been hit with DMCA takedowns.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Since GDQ moved to a corporate friendly image in 2014, they've taken their image seriously, and banned people from the events for doing things that can harm the brand's reputation.
  • Some examples on stream include someone joking about going on a killing spree after failing his run, a commentator telling an overly excited crowd that if they wanted "to prevent cancer"^note The beneficiary of that event was Prevent Cancer Foundation they'd step infront of a bus, and a stunt where a runner and his couch brought out political merch and started passing it around during the run.
  • The event will also ban people for holding bigoted views regardless of if they're hidden at the events, as runners have been banned for transphobic or white supremacist views in their social media or their fan discord servers,
  • If a runner is caught cheating either at the event or in their submissions by using spliced runs, they will be banned, and their run will also be stricken from the event uploads.

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