


For example, Starter Pack meme posted by Redditor Camwood7 in /r/speedrun on September 15th, 2019, received over 1,800 upvotes in six months (shown below). Warpless category progression that received over 1.5 million views in six months (shown below, right).ĭue to its excessive use on YouTube and Twitch, the Bus Analogy gained popularity as a meme in the speedrunning community, being referenced in comments and memes.

On September 9th, 2019, Summoning Salt again used the analogy in its video on Super Mario Bros. any% video, with the video accumulating over 1.8 million views in three years (shown below, left). speedrunning community in the following years, used by darbian and other speedrunners to clarify the "frame rule." For example, on January 18th, 2017, speedrunning history YouTube channel Summoning Salt used the analogy in its Super Mario Bros. The analogy saw extensive used in Super Mario Bros. On April 7th, 2016, Kotaku quoted the analogy in its article about the Super Mario Bros. When it comes to speedrunning this game, the frame rule means that you don't have to play each level perfectly to get a perfect time, you just need to play each level fast enough to get on the same bus as someone who did play it perfectly. When Mario reaches the end of a stage, he must wait for the next bus to depart. In the Mushroom Kingdom, buses operate on an oddly specific schedule, such that every 0.35 seconds a bus departs. Imagine that the castle Mario walks into at the end of each stage is a bus station, and that Mario must take a bus to the next stage. In the video, darbian uses an analogy to explain the rule. speedrunner darbian uploaded a YouTube tutorial for any% category speedrun of the game. 35 seconds even if they only were late by a single frame. If the player fails to finish a level within any given increment, his level completion time will increase by. In Super Mario Bros, the timing system of the game measures whether the player has completed a given level in 21-frame (.35 second) increments.
