Submission #5382: StarvinStruthers's A2600 Barnstorming "Difficulty 1" in 00:32.69

Atari 2600
Difficulty 1
BizHawk 1.11.9.1
1959
59.9227510135505
733
Unknown
Barnstorming (1982) (Activision, Steve Cartwright) (AX-013).bin
Submitted by StarvinStruthers on 2/3/2017 7:17:51 AM
Submission Comments

FINAL INPUT FRAME: 1,958


GAME OBJECTIVES:

  • fly through 10 barns (easiest difficulty)
  • dodge birds and windmills

EMULATOR USED:

  • bizhawk 1.11.9.1

MOVIE OBJECTIVES:

  • fast

FLIGHT:

  • ascending causes speed decrease
  • descending causes speed increase

CAN THIS TAS BE IMPROVED?:

  • THIS IS THE END OF BARNSTORMING AS WE KNOW IT

THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW?:

  • i lied.. hero wasn't my first completed tas.. this was

feos: This game looks really simplistic, and when you're watching a speedrun, it looks like a complete auto-scroller that's too trivial to TAS. But once you actually touch it, it starts getting annoyingly odd due to its mechanics, where your height affects your speed, and the obstacles affect your height.
And it's true that in-game time for this game is more sound as a goal, because it accurately tells how fast you were going, how well you optimized your speed, and displays that as a clear reference.
Yet it's still a basic A2600 game with not much to look at, considering the above note on how it looks to a layperson, accepting to Vault.
Fog: Processing.
Last Edited by on 1/1/2022 6:13 PM
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