I guess I've been looking for someway to bring this up or share it, and with the ER up and running it seems a good a time as any. But one of my favorite discoveries from the likes of AGDQ and SGDQ would be puri_puri's Shenmue Showdown where he speedruns Shenmue I and II at the same time.

He explains it in the video but it's his attempt to somehow involve Shenmue I in a marathon setting since there is no way to skip time ahead and optimum strategies involve waiting for time to pass to reach the next event... which as you can guess isn't very interesting to watch.

Shenmue Showdown

Fair warning the video runs 8 and a half hours, but I found it really entertaining to see him juggle the two games and how their events run together. It's also nicely narrated with lots of explanations since the video was intended as a pitch for the RPG Limit Break marathon. There are some rough spots when the games don't like to cooperate with some battles, but I enjoyed it.

So if you'd like to see Shenmue I and II in the showdown, or you have a lot of time and nothing else to do, I recommend it.

Shenmue is not a good video game to watch or play.

Hey, thanks. I might watch that, but I have to say Vinny, Alex and Dan's endurance run is prompting me to pull out my old Dreamcast to play the game myself again.

That's pretty neat, I like "gimmicky" speed runs like this. At one of the Games Done Quick events a while ago, two guys speedran Goldeneye with the two controllers control scheme. It was also super neat.

On the one hand, I was saying to myself, I dunno if I want to spoil the ER by seeing how Shenmue ends like that. On the other hand... I have yet to see anything about Shenmue that I'd care if it were spoiled.

So the east guys got only 20min out of 8 hours done...? This is not going to end well.

Ah cool, thanks man. It's a game I enjoyed as a teenager and to this day but you've shown me the light. Fuck Shenmue.

@mrcraggle: Glad to help you see the error in your ways.