Steven Zwartjes

Steven Zwartjes photographed with Jonathan Sifleet during a meeting in London (08 October 2006)

Steven Zwartjes (born August 4th 1979) is one of the most famous Nintendo 64 speedrunners from his era, being crowned champions on numerous games such as GoldenEye 007, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, and other games.

He was active from 1997 to ~2003 and achieved numerous World Records and Untieds across multiple games.

Zwartjes first started speedrunning GoldenEye 007 probably in early 1998 (in between March and May), submitting his times on René Elsässer's "REX's GoldenEye World Rankings"

Later that year in ~May 1998 he also joined Glen McDiarmid's rankings and got one of his earliest known untieds, Surface 2 Agent 0:57

Steven Zwartjes Vs Sterling Neblett (1998)

Zwartjes is the earliest known speedruner to have been crowned as the GoldenEye 007 champion, it is unkown if anyone was ranked 1st before he joined the rankings because we don't know when he joined exactly.

By the summer of 1998 Sterling Neblett, an american, player was catching up on Zwartjes while he was on a break from GoldenEye.

According to Sterling, Zwartjes lost the #1 spot in ~June 1998, he would come back later in the year in ~August - September, and would play the game intensively to get back to 1st place, and as seen in this rankings snapshot, by September 12th 1998 Zwartjes was back and far ahead at 1st place, sitting at 37 World Records held simultaniously, including 23 Untieds, Sterling only being at 22 (13).

Sterling would again answer by achieving numerous World Records and Untieds and passing Zwartjes again in ~November 1998.

Zwartjes continued to play GoldenEye after that but didn't remained as active for the next few months.

Quiet era (1999)

Sterling's domination on GoldenEye would be too much for Zwartjes to keep up with, and he would even fall down from 2nd to 4th place by the end of 1999. But he was still active and achieved a few World Records during that period, including a few Liscence to Kill Untied World Records.

Aztec Agent 1:31 scandal (2002)

In ~March 2002, Zwartjes claimed an Aztec Agent 1:31, claiming that he had finally managed to make the guards open the glass door on Aztec.

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