Spikevegeta

He has two older brothers, an older sister and a younger brother.

Spikevegeta was introduced to video games when he was around three years old, when he would watch his older brothers playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on their Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). However, the first video game that he remembers playing was Duck Hunt.

When he was older, he would play Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo, which he would play as a co-op with one of his brothers. They also owned the Sega Genesis and would often rent various video games from the video store to play on their consoles over the weekend.

He feels that because he only had a few game titles, he would experiment with them in order to increase the replayablity of those games. Part of this included his timing his playthroughs each time he played a title, in order to try beat that time during the next session.

In 2004, Spikevegeta read an article in a gaming magazine that discussed a speedrunning website called ‘http://speeddemosarchive.com/.’ He realized that this was very similar to what he used to do as a child, and so he looked up the website. He decided to watch a playthrough of Linked to the Past’, as it was one of the games that he had played before. He watched some of the hacks that other gamers would use to speed up a run, and he thought that the concept was really fun. He continued watching videos on the site even when he started attending college for a degree in Theatre.

The first game that he attempted as a real speedrun was Kingdom Hearts II in 2006. He found that enjoyed the experience, especially when other community members began providing feedback and tips to further improve a run. He has continued to so with many other titles since then.

Spikevegeta discovered streaming in 2010 when a small group of speedrunners collaborated to stream a speedrunning event in someone’s basement. This was the first time that he was able to watch a speedrun with audio commentary, which he felt really gave him greater understanding of how other speedrunners pulled off some of the tricks that he hadn’t been able to work out before.

In mid-2011, he decided to participate in the ‘Summer Games Done Quick’ event that was being held in another speedrunners house in Salt Lake City. He tried to be as entertaining and informative as possible during his run. He received a lot of positive feedback from others.

In 2012, he was encouraged to join Twitch, which he did. For the first seven months, he only had a handful of viewers. It was only in 2013, when he participated in the AGG speedrunning event that he gained wider renown among the speedrunning community, and he was able to both begin making real networking connections, as well as gain more viewers and followers on his channel.

He felt that he preferred to entertain his viewers through Twitch than stage acting.

His channel’s content isn’t appropriate for children.

He has a girlfriend.

Spikevegeta is estimated to have ~2,600 subscribers. This should net him at least $6,500 USD per month, excluding additional revenue from other sources such as tips, tiered subscriptions, Twitch cheer bit contributions, sponsorships, shoutcasting and advertisements.

While he doesn’t have a set schedule, he tends to stream almost daily for between 4 – 9 hours per session.