https://www.polygon.com/2018/11/3/18059604/goldeneye-speedrun-runway-agent-21-karl-jobs-impossible

About a year ago — 11 months, more precisely — Karl Jobst took down a 15-year-old speedrunning record long thought to be unassailable: GoldenEye 007’s Dam stage, Agent Difficulty, in 53 seconds. Jobst did it in 52.

“Dam Agent 53” was one of four GoldenEye 007 speedrun records set between 2002 and 2004. Jobst has picked off three: Dam Agent (52 seconds) on Dec. 2, 2017, Archives Agent (15 seconds on Dec. 17, 2017, since tied by Gus Riolo in October) and Bunker 1 Agent (16 seconds on Sept. 3, 2018). That leaves Runway Agent, in 22 seconds, first achieved by Bryan Bosshardt on March 9, 2004 and tied 118 times since (including by Jobst on Sept. 11, 2013) but never surpassed. It is the oldest standing record in one of speedrunning’s gold standard games.