Awesome Games Done Quick 2025, the annual charity speed racing event, has been especially musical this year, and to keep the streak going, a live rock band played along with a Crazy Taxi speed race.
A classically trained opera singer capped his Ratchet and Clank speedrun with a belt, a pianist played the entire New Super Mario Bros. Wii soundtrack while racing through the platformer, and another speedrunner had a no-hit run in Elden Ring with a saxophone, making AGDQ 2025 a more musical event than most years.
But the award for most creative musical speedrun has to go to the 19-minute Crazy Taxi, included below, which had a live rock band playing in sync with the game. Speedrunner chuckles825 tackled all 16 levels included in the arcade classic's Crazy Box mode, all while riding a bike in the game, and the band behind him played on stage, restarting a song every time the speedrunner failed or finished a level. Obviously, this meant that there was considerably less commentary than usual about the speedrunning techniques and glitches used, but the sick tunes and irritated crowd more than made up for it.
Crazy Taxi with Live Backing Band by chuckles825 at 18:59 – Amazing Games Made Quickly 2025 – YouTube
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All of the musical performances contributed to another huge haul of cash for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, as AGDQ 2025 viewers raised more than $2.5 million during the week-long event, bringing the total to 15 years of life. from Games Done Quick to $54 million raised for various charities. You can catch up on this year's best speedruns on the Games Done Quick YouTube channel. And of course, speedruns for charity return with Summer Games Done Quick 2025 in July, this time to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.
This AGDQ icon had a fun speed date in Fallout: New Vegas, romanced all 12 characters, and still beat the RPG in 40 minutes.