The History of Rainbow Road World Records

My apologies to people who are sick of seeing Mario Kart videos from my channel, but I really enjoy making them. They're pretty easy to work with since I already have a decent amount of knowledge on the series. I probably won't do another one for a while, but I just wanted to let you all know why you've seen so many in the last year or so. This video was quite the project! I started it nearly 4 months ago, and it's really crazy how many people were able to help. I really appreciate all of you who did- you can see who they are in the intro of the video. The Mario Kart community is extremely helpful, and there's no way I'd have been able to make this without them. It was funny looking back at the start of this video in this last week I was finishing it up. The stuff from Super Mario Kart was finished all the way back in March/April, while Mario Kart 8 was just finished earlier today. Thanks so much for watching and supporting me! I can't wait to make more videos, and can't believe how far this channel has come.

21:40 "Wow my WR has been standing for 8 years. Better beat it again just to keep it secure." [Beats his own WR] [Someone else beats it next week] ".__."

Summoning Salt is like a solar eclipse. You don't see it very often, but when you do you know it's going to be something special.

Hearing about Mattias in this video being "one of the best", to nearly dominating the entire game it's just like wow... what a character arc

The history is WAY more interesting than the actual speedruns

There's no feeling like seeing a new Summoning Salt video, opening it up, and hearing HOME - We're Finally Landing.

Imagine holding a world record for almost 3 years just to be beaten by a guy named Bob

I love how focused on the community your videos are, and how you frame world records as the product of communal effort and not just individual skill.

I love the fact he mentions the Bob emergency in 32:25. Probably not many understood this but I really appreciated this one!

The length of this video is my actual record of N64 Rainbow Road.

Person: I have a world recor... Abney: NO

This video was the one to get me into speedrunning three years ago. I'm not crazy good in any way, but it's been a blast so far. Thanks summoning salt ^^

I just realized something. I technically "discovered" R Tech on my own way back when I played Double Dash. It wasn't cause I was any good though, just the opposite. I didn't know how to get mini turbos, but I noticed that I could drift tighter if I spammed the shoulder button. I'd use it on the corkscrew in Wario Stadium. If I was better at the game, I'd probably have never used it or even found it, cause I'd be able to actually use mini turbos.

I feel like i am watching a documentary, but a fun one.

Can we all give props to summoning salt for making a 47 minute long video and not putting an midroll ads

"VAJ is back yall" is such an iconic line at this point

Every time I hear your intro music I get Goosebumps. You're the man who got me started speedrunning. Your passion is infectious! You + Karl Jobst = the GOATs of the speedrunning community.

Mario Kart 64: "By using this trick, you can avoid going into the air at the giant ramp section and save time" Mario Kart Wii: "By using this trick, you can propel yourself into the air at the giant ramp section and save time"

karts: ok bikes: fast funky kong: probably faster than light I cant see

I'm just proud that I as a child, 20 years ago, discovered the shortcut on rainbow road on my own. I was playing with the jump button and thought it was funny how you could hover the entire downhill section right after the start. And then I just tried to jump over it, to the left. I didn't make it the first time, but I came close to a piece of road and then I kept trying until I made it and beat all my friends on that track :D