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Revision as of 14:26, 1 June 2008
David "marshmallow" Gibbons is one of the most famous personalities in competitive gaming history.
Early Gaming
Marsh first rose to prominence all the way back in December of 1998, when his incredible Ocarina of Time walkthrough took the GameFAQs world by storm. He continued churning out great FAQs for top Nintendo 64 games, quickly becoming the most popular writer on the entire site (he's a 6-time Contributor of the Month winner). Marsh soon began speedrunning for fun, tackling Super Metroid Prime as his first game.
The Elite
It was his Goldeneye 00 Agent guide that first got him involved with The Elite, and when Perfect Dark was released he became one of the Founding Fathers of the Perfect Dark Elite. He was the original Perfect Agent master, grabbing all but a handful of World Records before finally being knocked from the top spot by Paragon on September 15th 2000.
Speed Demos Archive
Marsh moved on to become one of, if not THE biggest contributor to the Speed Demos Archive, with insane, original runs in countless different games. His final contribution to SDA was the 100% World Record in Super Mario Bros. 3 in 2005.
Complete-Game Speedruns
Marsh holds the current complete-game speedrun World Records at the [http:/wwwspeeddemosarchive.com/ Speed Demos Archive] for the follwing:
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Body Harvest
- Bomberman 64
- Bomberman Hero
- Castlevania 64
- Chameleon Twist
- Chrono Trigger (100%)
- Chrono Trigger (New Game+)
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
- Diablo II
- Donkey Kong Country 3
- Jet Force Gemini
- Mission: Impossible
- Quest 64
- Shadow Man
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (100%)
- Super Mario RPG
- Turok 1
- Turok 2
Former Records
Marsh formerly held complete-game WR speedruns for the following:
- Chrono Trigger (Complete)
- Goldeneye
- Super Mario 64
- Half-Life 2
- Diablo
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Yoshi's Island
Current Gaming
Nowadays Marsh is mainly found playing CS 1.6 in CAL-IM with fellow Elite members Randy, Cyber and PDO. He also playes a Diablo 2 mod called Median and every once in a while messes around with Starcraft.
Marsh finally started work on his long awaited CS movie in April 2008. It'll be done when its done.
Wouter goes Bananas
Reflections
Of his many gaming feats, Marsh considers his greatest to be either the Jet Force Gemini or Banjo-Kazooie runs.
His favourite time gaming was when Perfect Dark was first released and no one knew anything about any of the levels.
For Marsh the most of the joy he got from speedrunning was working on a game by himself and seeing what he could do. Once other people started to refine it down to an exact science it became tedious for him, although he considers the results of these endeavours to be impressive nonetheless.
He eventually stopped speedrunning because he had basically done a run of nearly every game he owned and to defend his times would have required an insane amount of effort which he didn't consider fun.