Bananasaurus Rex
Born
Aaron James Loder

(1991-09-04) September 4, 1991[1][2]
Stephenville, Newfoundland
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Livestreamer, Speedrunner
Websitewww.b-rex.tv

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]

References

  1. ↑ @bananarex (September 4, 2014). "birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved December 29, 2017 – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ "Twitch".
  3. ↑ Klepek, Patrick (September 1, 2009). "Some World Records Happen at 3 A.M." Giant Bomb. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Matulef, Jeffrey (November 12, 2013). "Man makes Spelunky history by recording the first successful solo eggplant run". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ "A breakdown of 2013's most fascinating video game moment". Polygon. 23 December 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Keene, Bradley (June 4, 2014). "Interview: Video Game Speedrunner Bananasaurus Rex | What's Your Tag?". Whatsyourtagblog.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Twitch". Twitch. August 15, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  8. ↑ "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. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ "PBs And World Records". B-rex.tv. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Leaderboards: High score". mosstier.com. Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Steve Marinconz (5 June 2014). "Dark Souls 2 World Record Speedrun 17:51:67". Watchlist.kotaku.com. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  12. ↑ "It Took 11,000 Tries To Beat This Brilliantly Evil Mario Maker Level | Kotaku UK". Kotaku.co.uk. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
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