Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 will include Crazy Taxi with a live backing band

It’s nearly time once more for Superior Video games Accomplished Fast (AGDQ), the zany speedrun-fest for a superb trigger. The hook for this 12 months’s occasion is a run of the Dreamcast traditional Loopy Taxi with a stay backing band. Funds raised from this 12 months’s showcase will profit the nonprofit Stop Most cancers Basis. AGDQ 2025 runs from January 5 to 12 in Pittsburgh.

The stay instrumental band rocking out throughout a Loopy Taxi run feels like a enjoyable centerpiece. You possibly can try a preview within the video beneath, which confirmed the identical band rocking out to a recorded run of the sport at Summer Games Done Quick (SGDC) 2024. On Saturday, January 11 at 4:48PM ET, you may catch a completely stay model.

Different highlights on the agenda embrace a run of the instant PlayStation classic Astro Bot on Sunday, January 5 at 6:30PM ET, a speedrun of Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire for 3DS on January 11 at 8:18AM ET and a play-through of the Wii port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the identical day at 4PM ET. You possibly can try the full schedule for extra.

Final 12 months’s AGDQ (additionally in Pittsburgh) raised $2.5 million for the Stop Most cancers Basis. Amongst its finest bits have been a no-hit run of Resident Evil 2 (2019), Tremendous Mario 64 accomplished on an electrical drum package and a pup named Peanut Butter lending a paw to assist his particular person beat the NES traditional Gyromite. The Video games Accomplished Fast Group has raised $51.8 million for numerous charities all through its 15 years.

You possibly can stream AGDQ 2025 on Twitch. Or, if you wish to attend stay on the Wyndham Grand in downtown Pittsburgh, you may register now.