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See also his four part series (course, really) on wall, ceiling, and floor interactions:

It's amazing how engrossing they are.

I just watched this entirely for the first time. It's incredible that someone would deconstruct a video game so completely just to avoid pressing the A button. Makes me wonder how many other things in the world are possible with the right information and determination.

This video is legendary. It's like sitting in on a university course on the technical details of the physics and programming in Mario 64.

I tend to skip around videos.

When it went from "exploit this glitch" to a graph of "registering p-q alignment", I knew I would have to slow down and watch the entire thing.

Boy am I glad I did.

Ditto! pannenkoek2012 is operating at a level that every hacker should aspire to. Piecing together that solution for that star in 0.5 A presses is a thing of beauty.

I wonder how often he has to deal with "Dr. Mario" jokes.