It also crashes at random (several times on World Record pace), and there are bizarre glitches I haven’t seen talked about in non-speedrun circles. “It’s this furious test of will and patience. “ Harvester is rife with issues,” Tsimberov explains. A Harvester speedrun features the constant loud clicking of dialogue being skipped, and the game barely seems capable of keeping up. That connection doesn’t get mentioned much, but as a game developer I find it fascinating.” To ‘win’ as fast as possible demonstrates an intimate connection with the game - knowledge of its inner-workings and mastery of its mechanics. The bad rap these old adventure games often get is because people took them too much at face-value without attempting to feel around for their weird, off-kilter underbelly.
“I’m huge on obscure avant-garde film, and this interest extends into games. “I would liken it to so-bad-it’s-good shlock,” Tsimberov tells me. Why speedrun in a slow and contemplative genre, and why choose a game that, when remembered at all, is recalled for its surreal violence? Harvester Diving Into Obscurity She also held the Harvester record for two years but, over the past two months, she and another runner dubbed CaptainBreadbox have traded it back and forth, shaving seconds off here and there. Petra Tsimberov owns the world records for ‘90s adventures Dark Seed, Noctropolis, and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. Only four have run 1996’s bizarre point-and-click adventure Harvester. The latter is one of countless obscure games obsessed over by as few as one fan, but the drive to master them can be no less studied and intense than what’s seen with beloved classics.
At, over 1,000 players are on the Super Mario Bros.
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