The Quest to Beat Matt Turk

Shoutouts to Matt Turk for setting the bar so high before speedruns were even really a thing. If he didn’t I promise this game would not be close to where it is today. Respect.

Salt revealing he has the Mike Tyson record by 12 seconds is like when the old man is telling you an epic tale by a fire and as he walks away into the darkness you realize the story was about him

"I just beat the TAS" is one of the most powerful sentences in any human language

For those wondering, as of 2022 Summoning Salt completely dominates Mike Tyson's Punch Out holding the number 1 record in all 6 categories of the game, including blindfolded. What a Chad.

"I beat a Matt Turk time" almost as powerful and legendary a sentence as "I just beat the TAS"

You ever heard about Fermat's Last Theorem? The guy wrote a note in a book's margin claiming he'd found a great proof for this math theorem but didn't have room to write it there. For hundreds of years, other mathematicians tried to find a proof, while many doubted that Fermat ever had proven it, thinking maybe he was just trolling all along. But at last, in the 1990s, someone did find a proof, and developed all kinds of innovative new techniques to do so. Maybe it never mattered whether Fermat really had a proof, maybe the important thing was how he inspired others to strive for something. When you talked about Turk's records that had no video evidence, it reminded me of that story.

For those who don’t wanna check the dates, Salt got the World Record after creating this masterpiece of a video. He documented the history of this game & then beat everyone anyways…absolute legend

I love how salt doesn’t even acknowledge the fact that he has the world record time in this game

Everyone gangsta till Summoning Salt goes out of cryostasis.

UPDATE 3: Summoning Salt got a 39.97 on Piston Honda 2, and that is the world record as of today (58:33)

I love Khananaphone's reaction to beating a Matt Turk time. This guy who barely speed runs the game, grinding attempts on a fight no one wants to do because it is all luck, no skill, gets the record by a fraction of a second after hundreds of attempts, and all he says is "Hey I beat Don 2."

fun fact: about 2 years ago, when this video first came out, i watched it and was inspired. after a bit of practice, i officially became the world record holder for the blindfolded speedrun of the first don flamenco fight. it's a bit of a freebee but it's still nice to be a record holder :)

"Matt Turk only had 3 records remaining to his name." 25 MINUTES LEFT IN THE VIDEO THE PACING GODLIKE

Salt doesn’t even mention his own WR, he only shows it at the end of the video at 59:03.

The programmers of Mike Tyson's Punch Out really deserve some credit for their great work. This game is from the 1980's.

That ending hit me like a fucking truck dude. Not only do you see how even more insane improvements have been made to beat these seemingly "impossible" times, but it caps off with the creator of the fucking video itself completely blasting apart Mike Tyson by 12 in-game seconds. My jaw was on the floor. Absolute king shit. What an emotional rollercoaster, and a fantastic video.

I love how Summoning Salt, the current world record holder for Mike Tyson, never lets his own participation in the speedrunning community get in the way or steal the limelight away from the overall narrative of everyone coming together to push these games to their absolute limit. One of the reason why this is the number 1 channel I go to for videos about speedrunning

Really great retelling of how brutally difficult it was to improve Turk's records. I'm so glad Turk pushed the game so hard so early when speedrunning as a whole was in its infancy. It really was significant to have been able to get close to any of his legendary records, let alone tie or break any of them. Shoutouts to everyone for pushing this game to the limit!

Just realized, this is the only Summoning Salt video that has a Speed Runner's name in it. Just goes to show how dominant Matt Turk really was.

If all 14 slayers of Matt Turk have themselves been beaten, you should make a video about it called The Quest to Avenge Matt Turk.