500 point Super Mario speed run...

[mjr]

This guy goes through the NES game, and doesn't collect anything. He jumps on every flagpole with 0 time left, and gets 100 points each time.

This is supposedly the lowest score you can get while completing the game...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kvT0dywaF8

[Kagato]

Hmmm, sounds about right. Sure as hell wouldn't be easy to avoid everything, esp. in 8-1 to 8-3

1-1 - get flagpole (100 points)
1-2 - warp to 4-1 (no points)
4-1 - get flagpole (100 points)
4-2 - warp to 8-1 (no points)
8-1 - get flagpole (100 points)
8-2 - get flagpole (100 points)
8-3 - get flagpole (100 points)
8-4 - finish game