Bananasaurus Rex Explained

Bananasaurus Rex
Birth Name:Aaron James Loder
Birth Date:4 September 1991[1] [2]
Birth Place:Stephenville, Newfoundland
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:Livestreamer, Speedrunner

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 very 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]

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Notes and References

  1. bananarex. 507563867388776448. September 4, 2014. birthday. December 29, 2017.
  2. Web site: Twitch.
  3. Web site: Klepek . Patrick . Some World Records Happen at 3 A.M.. Giant Bomb . September 1, 2009. December 20, 2015.
  4. Web site: Matulef . Jeffrey . Man makes Spelunky history by recording the first successful solo eggplant run . Eurogamer.net. November 12, 2013. December 20, 2015.
  5. Web site: A breakdown of 2013's most fascinating video game moment . Polygon . 23 December 2013. December 20, 2015.
  6. Web site: Keene . Bradley . Interview: Video Game Speedrunner Bananasaurus Rex | What's Your Tag? . Whatsyourtagblog.com . June 4, 2014 . December 20, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151020101646/http://whatsyourtagblog.com/2014/06/04/interview-video-game-speedrunner-bananasaurus-rex/ . October 20, 2015 . dead.
  7. Web site: Twitch . Twitch . August 15, 2015. December 20, 2015.
  8. Web site: 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. December 20, 2015.
  9. Web site: PBs And World Records . B-rex.tv . December 20, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222103835/http://www.b-rex.tv/pbs/ . December 22, 2015 . dead.
  10. Web site: Leaderboards: High score . mosstier.com . August 3, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141229094437/http://mosstier.com/category/1/ . December 29, 2014.
  11. Web site: Steve Marinconz . Dark Souls 2 World Record Speedrun 17:51:67 . Watchlist.kotaku.com . 5 June 2014. December 20, 2015.
  12. Web site: It Took 11,000 Tries To Beat This Brilliantly Evil Mario Maker Level | Kotaku UK . Kotaku.co.uk . December 20, 2015.

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