An elusive and nearly impossible 'Super Mario 64' record just got smashed

After years of whittling down the Super Mario 64 120-star speedrun time to under 1 hour and 41 minutes — a feat achieved in August 2015 — the race was on to take another 60 seconds off the clock.
Speedrunner Allan “Cheese05" Alvarez managed to set an astounding new world record last night with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes and 57 seconds, breaking his own world record of 1:40:05 he set in April. He hit the elusive 1:39 time with a jaw-dropping run through the game, utilizing an