Speed Demos Archive
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Gaming website |
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| Available in | English |
| Website | speeddemosarchive |
| Alexa rank |
 79,678 (March 2015[update]) |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | April 1998 |
| Current status | Active |
Speed Demos Archive (commonly known as simply SDA) is a website dedicated to video game speedruns. SDA's primary focus is hosting downloadable, high-quality speedrun videos, and currently has runs of over eleven hundred games, with more being added on a regular basis. SDA also hosts two annual speedrunning charity marathons, Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick. It has so far hosted thirteen marathons, and has raised over $10 million for various charities, with the most successful so far being Awesome Games Done Quick 2017, which raised over $2.2 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
The site originally began as a demo archive of Quake playthroughs. SDA was formed initially by Nolan "Radix" Pflug of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by merging with a site created by Gunnar and Jesse in April 1998. In 2004 after the success of his own 100% Metroid Prime run, Radix expanded SDA to include demos of other games. Mike Uyama took over in 2006 as the site's administrator. In January 2010, SDA ran its first charity marathon, Classic Games Done Quick, raising over $10,000 for CARE.
As of January 2015, SDA hosts speedrun videos of almost eleven hundred games. All of these runs are available for download, and almost all are available in multiple video qualities. The site includes videos of popular games as Mega Man, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog. The site has been featured numerous times in publications such as Electronic Gaming Monthly and G4tv's Attack of the Show!. Some of the runs also appeared in an episode of Pure Pwnage.
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