Bananasaurus Rex

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Bananasaurus Rex
Born
Aaron James Loder

(1991-09-04) September 4, 1991 (age 34) [1] [2]
Stephenville, Newfoundland
Occupations Livestreamer, Speedrunner
Website www.b-rex.tv

Aaron James Loder, professionally known as Bananasaurus Rex, is a Canadian Twitch streamer and a video game speedrunner. [3]

Loder was the first to successfully perform a solo eggplant run in Derek Yu's roguelike platformer Spelunky . [4] An eggplant run is a luck-based and challenging endeavor originally meant for co-op play only. It was thought impossible to do solo. [5]

Loder started his speedrunning career with Portal 2 . He was able to simultaneously hold world records for 48 of the 51 levels at once. [6] Since summer 2013, Loder has been streaming regularly on Twitch. [7] At first, he mainly streamed speedruns of Spelunky, though after building up a large enough fan base to obtain a Twitch partnership, he was able to quit his main job and continue livestreaming on a full-time basis. He found his niche as a variety streamer, streaming a wide range of games ranging from indie to triple A. [8]

Besides Portal 2, Loder has also done speedruns of Dustforce , Paranautical Activity, Risk of Rain , Spelunky , Dark Souls II , 1001 Spikes and Wings of Vi. He has held speedrunning world records in all of these games. [9] [10] [11]

In September 2015, he became the first person to beat PangaeaPanga's infamously difficult Super Mario Maker level "Bomb Voyage", succeeding after a collective effort of over 11,000 failed attempts. [12]

References

  1. ↑ @bananarex (September 4, 2014). "birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved December 29, 2017– via Twitter.
  2. ↑ "Twitch".
  3. ↑ Klepek, Patrick (September 1, 2009). "Some World Records Happen at 3 A.M." Giant Bomb. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Matulef, Jeffrey (November 12, 2013). "Man makes Spelunky history by recording the first successful solo eggplant run". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ "A breakdown of 2013's most fascinating video game moment". Polygon. 23 December 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Keene, Bradley (June 4, 2014). "Interview: Video Game Speedrunner Bananasaurus Rex | What's Your Tag?". Whatsyourtagblog.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Twitch". Twitch. August 15, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Bananasaurus Rex on Twitter: "Come join me for my first stream as a FULL TIME STREAMER! Spelunky speed runnin' and Dark Souls 2 shield runnin'!"". Twitter. May 14, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ "PBs And World Records". B-rex.tv. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Leaderboards: High score". mosstier.com. Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Steve Marinconz (5 June 2014). "Dark Souls 2 World Record Speedrun 17:51:67". Watchlist.kotaku.com. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  12. ↑ "It Took 11,000 Tries To Beat This Brilliantly Evil Mario Maker Level | Kotaku UK". Kotaku.co.uk. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
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