Revenge of Cyon (Compute's Gazette)

Save Earth from the invading Cyon ships! This is an action game where you try to save Earth from the invading empire, as they try various maneuvers to evade your weapons.
The article for this game can be found on page 56 of Compute's Gazette Issue 12 (February 1985)

Why TAS This Game?

The continuation of TASing games from my all-time favorite magazine, Compute's Gazette. This makes my 49th TAS from this series.
I avoid this game in my youth. Later on, I did go back to type it in, but I didn't play it very long. This was another example of how I didn't read the article to find out that there was an end to this game. Know that, I would have tried to beat it...because there is no way that I was going to shoot down and endless barrage of aliens ships for a high score in this game. Today I have a new appreciation for this game now. Since it is written in BASIC, it was extremely hard to TAS. The controls are sluggish, the programming for the movement of the cross-hairs and alien ships is awful...as they blind a lot.
Previous Compute's Gazette submissions include (In order of submission):
1Astro-Panic!2Royal Rescue
3Miami Ice4Chopper 1
5Spike6Heat Seeker
7Omicron8Alien Armada
9Star Dragon10White Water
11Space Gallery12Bagdad
13Race Ace14Quolerus
15Trap16Maze-Mania
17Balloon Blitz18Bowling Champ
19Circuits20Going Up?
21Space Dock22Saloon Shootout
23Sno-Cat24Queens' Quarrel
25Stronghold26Lincoln Green
27Disc Blitz28SuperSprite
29Dunk30Basketball Sam & Ed
31Bee Zone32Q-Bird
33Space Worms34Powerball
35Castle Dungeon36Pool
37Snake Pit38RADs
39Spy Defense40The Forbidden Crypt
41Cosmic Combat42Canyon Cruiser
43Cell Runner44Sky Diver
45Snake Escape46The Viper
47Root Race48Cypher

Game Difficulty and Ending

As with all my other TASes, I usually like to play a game on the hardest level. This time, there are 6 levels of difficulty to choose from. I play this on Level 6, which is absolutely impossible for a human to play. The movement and appearances of the alien ships are so erratic, that its is just not feasible to understand the attack patterns.
As for the ending, its very simple. Beat 11 rounds and win!

Effort In TASing

The effort was not easy at all...even though the game looks very simple. The hardest level is so erratic that a TAS is the only way to go here. So it became very rewarding and I'm happy to present this very interesting game that was created with PETSCII characters only. Terrible by today's standard, but it did have a slight appeal back then.
RNG is like it is with BASIC written games. Even though you will not see my apply a "Seed" before running this game, I did try that several time to find faster routes. I never did and reverted back to this version...which was the first attempt. Imagine that!

Human Comparison

This gamer plays the game on the easiest level.

feos: Claiming for judging.
feos: I had to play this game myself to understand what's going on and to feel how bad it is, but yeah, accepting.
fsvgm777: Processing.


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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5743] C64 Revenge of Cyon by nymx in 02:16.18