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Published on 3/10/2020
Miniature Golf for Atari was one of the first golf video games. The sport, a spin-off of golf, is also known as minigolf or putt-putt. The goal is normally to putt your golf ball into the cup at the other end, in as few hits as you can.
But Wipeoutjack7 and ThunderAxe31 are in a hurry, so they sacrifice their score to get their yellow square ball into the nine square purple cups as quickly as possible. While they frequently achieve hole-in-ones anyway, taking two shots turns out to be faster on some holes.
Game:
Miniature Golf

Genres:
Sport
Game Version:
Miniature Golf
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.2

Published on 12/17/2023
Crime City is a 1989 beat 'em up game that was developed by Taito for the arcades. The game involves police officers Tony Gibson and Raymond Broady, who receive a call during their day off that a huge amount of prisoners have broken out of prison and committed a number of large crimes within a very short timespan. They have managed to occupy a shipping port, rob a bank, and kidnap the mayor, among other things. It's up to the two of them to solve the problem as police officers by doing a very '80s move, killing all of them.
This was the game used in TASVideos's Dream Team Contest 11, where groups of tool-assisted speedrunners compete to produce the fastest tool-assisted speedrun within a given deadline. This movie is the combined result of all those efforts. Here, you can witness Raymond Broady die and get shot multiple times in the speedrunners' quest to beat the game as fast as possible.
For more information on Dream Team Contest 11, you can visit this link. For more details how the run was ultimately constructed, you can read the authors' notes here.

Published on 7/3/2017
Contra: The Alien Wars is the third entry in the Contra series. Like its predecessors, it is a predominantly side-scrolling shooter with a heavy emphasis on action. The protagonist can fire in eight directions when standing still. New abilities include climbing on walls, grabbing poles and navigating tanks. Parts of scenery can be destroyed. Originally released on the SNES, this version of the game was released on the Game Boy in 1994.
ThunderAxe31 makes quick work of this game, jumping and shooting his way through aliens as fast as possible.

Published on 5/31/2020
Contra: The Alien Wars is the third entry in the Contra series. Like its predecessors, it is a predominantly side-scrolling shooter with a heavy emphasis on action. The protagonist can fire in eight directions when standing still. New abilities include climbing on walls, grabbing poles and navigating tanks. Parts of scenery can be destroyed. Originally released on the SNES, this version of the game was released on the Game Boy in 1994.
ThunderAxe31 makes quick work of this game, while refusing to kill any enemies. Well, he accidentally stomped on a couple of them, watched one fall into the abyss, wasn't careful enough and enabled some landmines... Some enemies even exploded by themselves. But it was never his intention, okay? It's a pacifist completion.

Published on 10/11/2021
The Game Boy Camera is a peripheral for the Game Boy by Nintendo that allows you to shoot photos with it. However, there are also mini-games included in the cart itself, namely Space Fever II (a shoot-em-up), DJ (a music creation tool), Ball (a juggling game similar to the G&W games) and Run! Run! Run! (a sports game where you race against the clock, which needs to be unlocked first).
CasualPokePlayer improves on ThunderAxe31's previous run of Space Fever II and Run! Run! Run! by optimizing the end of the running level with a jump.
Game:
Game Boy Camera

Genres:
Shooter
Sport
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.3

Published on 11/29/2017
Go! Go! Tank is an action game released exclusively for the Game Boy. Developed by Copya System, it was released in Japan in 1990, and in North America in 1991.
In the game, a peaceful nation has been invaded by an enemy army, and you must help clear the way for your own forces by plane. You must guide your tank to the end of each stage by arranging boxes with a hook attached to the bottom of your plane, as well as by shooting enemy planes and batteries that threaten it.
ThunderAxe31 beats the game in just 10 minutes and 47 seconds, dropping boxes all over the place like crazy. This is done not just to guide the tank to the end of each level as quickly as possible, but also to mess around while waiting.
Game:
Go! Go! Tank

Genres:
Action
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.12.2

Published on 3/9/2022
Rolan's Curse is like a simplified version of the NES Legend of Zelda with slower gameplay and more restricted game world, resulting in a primitive hack-and-slash experience. Nevertheless, there exists an interesting storyline: The kingdom of Rolan has been invaded by the forces of some evil being called Barius. However, in this movie the final boss is never actually seen. Instead of meeting Barius face to face, the hero dies while defeating the first level boss. The game then decides to freak out and end right there, declaring the rest of the story unnecessary.
While this run appears to be slower than the previously published movie due to more accurate emulation, it is in fact faster by 16 frames if emulation differences are not accounted for.

Published on 7/15/2022
Rolan's Curse is an action-adventure game that's very similar to The Legend of Zelda, right down to the plot. The people of Rolan are being terrorized by the evil rule King Barius, who escaped from his imprisonment, and monsters have run amuck thanks to him. It's now up to you, with your trusty sword and subweapons you can collect, to stop him and save Rolan.
In this run, not only does ThunderAxe31 end the game early by glitching the first boss into letting him win the entire game, he also uses a password to give his character maxed stats so he can beat the game even quicker.

Published on 4/12/2018
Super Mario 4 (also known as Super Mario Land 4) is an unlicensed bootleg game, which is a hack of the Game Boy game Crayon Shin-Chan 4, originally by Bandai. The hack changes a large amount of content. The level design is completely different and is the main subject of the game's criticism due to the borderline unfair increase in difficulty when compared to Crayon Shin-Chan 4. The game has four levels, and each of them is incredibly lengthy.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.2

Published on 3/31/2019
Tobu Tobu Girl was originally part of the third GBJam game jam and was later fleshed out to this arcade platformer you see here.
Your cat is floating into space and you must jump, dash and flap against the clock to retrieve your pet before it's too late.

Published on 12/9/2018
The Cabbage Patch Kids adopted puppies but forgot to close the holding pen while they went out for lunch. Now they need to find the puppies that are wandering around town.
EZGames69 and ThunderAxe31 use one child's energetic jumping to find the wayward pups in record time while also helping some of her friends with various tasks.

Published on 4/17/2018
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure is the first Crash Bandicoot game on a handheld console. In this game, Crash is off to save the world as Doctor Neo Cortex has shrunk the Earth using his "Planetary Minimizer".
Join ThunderAxe31 as he slides, jumps, flies, swims and spins through 4 Warp Rooms, gathers Crystals and fights Doctor Neo Cortex and his minions to return the world to normal again!

Published on 4/27/2022
Pac-Man World is a 1999 video game for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. It was released to coincide with the 20th anniversary, with the character Pac-Man going to a birthday party. A Game Boy Advance version would be released in 2004, with many features removed.
Pac-Man World is a platform game played in 3D graphics that plays heavily into the history of the character; every non-boss level features a maze that plays by the rules of Pac-Man. Every level is littered with Pac-Dots, fruits and ghosts, much of the music is modified from early entries into the series.
This is a 337 frame improvement over the previous publication.
Game:
Pac-Man World

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/5/2022
Pac-Man World is a 1999 video game for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. It was released to coincide with the 20th anniversary, with the character Pac-Man going to a birthday party. A Game Boy Advance version would be released in 2004, with many features removed.
Pac-Man World is a platform game played in 3D graphics that plays heavily into the history of the character; every non-boss level features a maze that plays by the rules of Pac-Man. Every level is littered with Pac-Dots, fruits and ghosts, much of the music is modified from early entries into the series.
This TAS by ThunderAxe31 completes the game at 100% completion in record time.
Game:
Pac-Man World

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/19/2017
Zook Man ZX4 (路克人ZX4) is a Game Boy Advance game by Vast Fame and the third known game in their Zook series. It is based loosely on the Rockman X games.
The game spans eight levels including an intro stage and a final boss rush. Several enemies are taken from Rockman X and Rockman 8, with the bosses being either recycled from previous Zook Hero games or being edits from other official Megaman games. The main character's design is based off of X.
This game was run as part of TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 6, and this TAS was built on a combination of multiple submissions of said contest - hence the high number of authors.

Published on 7/6/2017
Bomberman Quest is a GBC game that adds RPG elements to Bomberman typical gameplay, appearing similar to Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
In this movie ThunderAxe31 abuses a glitch that allows to reach places that are not supposed to be accessible, skipping about half of the game.

Published on 10/8/2020
Devil Island, also known as Emo Dao (惡魔島), is an action role-playing bootleg game for the Game Boy Color developed by Vast Fame. It copies Konami's Japan-exclusive NES game, Getsu Fuuma Den, with its gameplay. The game's aesthetics are styled after the Castlevania franchise, also by Konami. Much like Castlevania, the player's default weapon is a whip, except it can be held down for rapid fire.
This run beats the predecessor movie by 00:14.01 seconds by using new save glitches.

Published on 4/30/2020
Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, originally released in Japan as Pokemon de Panepon (ポケモンでパネポン), is a video game for the Game Boy Color. It is based on Panel de Pon (known as Tetris Attack in the West), only with characters from the Pokémon franchise.

WARNING: There are flashing lights throughout the run which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.

Published on 3/29/2018
Toki Tori is a puzzle game made by Two Tribes for the GBC in which you must use the skills available to you to advance through 60 levels, seperated into 4 worlds of 15 levels. Skills include building ladders to cross gaps that your jump can't make, warping to other areas of the level or building gaps for enemies to fall through.
ThunderAxe31 completes all levels, including the Hard levels, in record time, while improving his previous movie by 00:11.65 seconds, not counting the time lost due to the introduction of the GBC BIOS sequence.

Published on 10/8/2024
Toki Tori is a puzzle game made by Two Tribes for the GBC in which you must use the skills available to you to advance through 60 levels, separated into 4 worlds of 15 levels. Skills include building ladders to cross gaps that your jump can't make, warping to other areas of the level and building gaps for enemies to fall through.
ThunderAxe31 completes all the main levels in record time.

We also have a run that does all levels, including the harder ones, which you can find here.
Game:
Toki Tori

Genres:
Puzzle
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.1/BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 6/6/2018
Wendy: Every Witch Way is an action platform video game published by TDK Mediactive and developed by WayForward Technologies for the Game Boy Color in 2001.
The game centers on Wendy the Good Little Witch from the Casper the Friendly Ghost series. After accidentally opening her "aunties" chest containing magical stones, they upset the gravity of a floating castle that crashes on her house.
The player controls Wendy through three worlds with twelve levels and a horizontal shooter stage in each world. Inserting the game in the Game Boy Advance unlocked a new world exclusive to the console - Advance World.

Published on 9/13/2018
Golden Axe is a side-scrolling, beat 'em up, arcade video game released in 1989 by Sega for the System 16-B arcade hardware. It is the first game in the Golden Axe series. The game was ported to the Sega Genesis and Master System consoles, among many other systems.
The game puts players in the shoes of one of three heroes, each with his own reason for trying to overthrow the evil rule of Death-Adder, who - along with his forces of darkness - kidnapped and imprisoned the King and his daughter and stole the legendary Golden Axe.
This movie plays through The Duel mode, a survival mode type game that pitted players against increasingly powerful foes in consecutive rounds of play. We also have a TAS of the main game mode.
Game:
Golden Axe

Genres:
Fighting
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.1

Published on 5/1/2020
Angry Birds is a series of games in which players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs. This NES version, as opposed to the version developed by Nice Code, is a bootleg made by an unknown developer. This one is notable for having all of the music and background noise and most of the sound effects stored as DPCM samples.
ThunderAxe31 plays through all of the levels in record time.
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 4/30/2020
Angry Birds is a series of games in which players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs. This NES version is a bootleg made by the Chinese company Nice Code, and was included on some portable Famicom clones. It is not related to the other NES port made by an unknown developer.
In this run, ThunderAxe31 eliminates the pigs as quickly as possible while also maximizing the score.

Published on 1/10/2023
BlobQuest is a homebrew platformer for the NES. The premise involves the player character being turned into a blob by an evil wizard. You must now find the eight mystic rubies in order to return back to normal. Along the way, you can find special powerups for your blob form that allow you to traverse the hazardous world.
Cephla, Samsara, ThunderAxe31, and Alyosha collaborate to complete the game in record time, making liberal use of a zipping glitch in the second half of the run.
You can get the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
BlobQuest

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 4/12/2020
Pocket Monsters: White Jade Version is a bootleg game which backports Pokémon Gold/Silver onto the NES.

The encodes of this run include the author's commentary as soft subtitles.

Published on 10/3/2022
Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure is an NES game that's derived from the Famicom game Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshū 80 Nichi Dai Bōken (長靴をはいた猫 世界一周80日大冒険). Both games are loosely based off of the 1976 anime film Puss 'n Boots Travels Around the World (長靴をはいた猫 80日間世界一周), which is part of a small series of anime films starring Toei's old mascot Pero. Watch as Pero visits various places and rides various vehicles to get to them, all while fighting monsters and random bad guys along the way.
For this run, a collaboration of various authors have come together to complete this game as fast as possible.

Published on 12/4/2022
Tiger Jenny is an unfinished NES homebrew game that serves as a prequel to Ittle Dew. Taking place 1000 years before Ittle Dew, you play as Jenny Tiger, a legendary warrior who unfortunately met her demise in a toothbrush incident. She must fight and defeat the Lichious Turnip, the leader of the Turnip race that threatens Jenny's race. Jenny initially starts out with a very short ball and chain for a weapon, but it can be upgraded to be longer, making it resemble the Vampire Killer from Castlevania.
The game doesn't actually have a proper ending as the final boss, the Lichious Turnip, didn't have a battle encounter programmed for him. Nevertheless, Cephla and ThunderAxe31 reach the Lichious Turnip in record time.

Published on 12/31/2022
Tiger-Heli is an vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up that was released for the arcades in 1985 and was ported to the NES in the same year. You control an attack helicopter that's out to destroy stuff that wants to destroy you. Why they want to destroy you is unknown. It is one of the first shoot 'em ups to implement the usage of smart bombs, which in this game destroy everything around you within a large radius. There are also drone attack helicopters that you can pick up that can fight right beside you.
adelikat and ThunderAxe31 decide to play one loop of the game, which is after landing on the 4th helipad, and do so in record time by ending input early enough for the game to still be won.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Tiger-Heli

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/2/2022
Driver 2 (subtitled The Wheelman Is Back in North America and Back on the Streets in Europe) is an action driving game where you get to play a variety of scenarios involving driving, ranging from trailing witnesses to escaping from the police. A new feature in Driver 2 compared to Driver is the ability to step out of the car and commandeer other vehicles.
ThunderAxe31 plays the Survival mode on the Havana level and manages to create a 4:29 (in input time) long run that completely exhausts the stopwatch timer for the mode. This is done by tricking all of the police cars into driving off of the docks and into the water, making the player safe for as long as the PlayStation itself can run the game.
Game:
Driver 2

Genres:
Action
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.7

Published on 6/21/2022
Driver 2 (subtitled The Wheelman Is Back in North America and Back on the Streets in Europe) is an action driving game where you get to play a variety of scenarios involving driving, ranging from trailing witnesses to escaping from the police. A new feature in Driver 2 compared to Driver is the ability to step out of the car and commandeer other vehicles.
ThunderAxe31 plays the Survival mode on the Chicago level and manages to create a 2:14 (in input time) long run that completely exhausts the stopwatch timer for the mode. This is done by exploiting a flaw in the map where there are zones where the police do not spawn at all, allowing the car to idle right next to a building without being harassed by the cops.
Game:
Driver 2

Genres:
Action
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 10/13/2022
Time Crisis is a Light Gun title that needs almost no introduction. Receiving a home release in 1997, you are Richard Miller, the One Man Army set to run into Garo Castle to rescue the president daughter Rachel MacPherson from a kidnapping.
Join ThunderAxe31 as they shoot their way through the castle and rescue Rachel to prevent Sercia from falling into anarchy in just 8'24"90 on the in-game timer.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Due to the high amount of flashing throughout the movie, if you are prone to epileptic seizures due to flashing lights, it is highly recommended to watch the reduced flashing encode instead.
Game:
Time Crisis

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/27/2022
Time Crisis is a Light Gun title that needs almost no introduction. Receiving a home release in 1997, you are Richard Miller, the One Man Army set to run into a hotel which is a front for Kantaris headquarters who have been Wild Dog's arms supplier.
Join ThunderAxe31 as they shoot their way through the hotel and stop Kantaris and their Mechanoids, taking the easy route in just 4'18"86 on the in-game timer.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Due to the high amount of flashing throughout the movie, if you are prone to epileptic seizures due to flashing lights, it is highly recommended to watch the reduced flashing encode instead.
Game:
Time Crisis

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/27/2022
Time Crisis is a Light Gun title that needs almost no introduction. Receiving a home release in 1997, you are Richard Miller, the One Man Army set to run into a hotel which is a front for Kantaris headquarters who have been Wild Dog's arms supplier.
Join ThunderAxe31 as they shoot their way through the hotel and stop Kantaris and their Antlion, taking the middle route in just 5'29"43 on the in-game timer.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Due to the high amount of flashing throughout the movie, if you are prone to epileptic seizures due to flashing lights, it is highly recommended to watch the reduced flashing encode instead.
Game:
Time Crisis

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/30/2022
Time Crisis is a Light Gun title that needs almost no introduction. Receiving a home release in 1997, you are Richard Miller, the One Man Army set to run into a hotel which is a front for Kantaris headquarters who have been Wild Dog's arms supplier.
Join ThunderAxe31 as they shoot their way through the hotel and stop Kantaris and their Lepoediatra, taking the hard route in just 6'57"46 on the in-game timer.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Due to the high amount of flashing throughout the movie, if you are prone to epileptic seizures due to flashing lights, it is highly recommended to watch the reduced flashing encode instead.
Game:
Time Crisis

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/23/2022
My Hero, known as Seishun Scandal (青春スキャンダル) in Japan, is a beat 'em up arcade game that was released in 1985 and later ported to the Sega Master System in 1986. You play as a guy named Steven (Takeshi in Japan), whose girlfriend Remy (Mari in Japan) suddenly gets kidnapped by some gang leader. Steven must now go across town to save Remy, beating up any thugs that try to stop him, and defeat the gang leader.
Unique to the arcade version is the inclusion of a hostage that can be rescued mid-stage and fight for you until they are defeated. It also has extra stages that change the setting and enemies, with the second stage involving ninjas in Edo period Japan and the third stage involving ape-beings in a far-off future a la Planet of the Apes.
In this run, enderpal7 and ThunderAxe31 both complete a single loop of the game in record time, kicking everything off the screen.
Game:
My Hero

Genres:
Fighting
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 4/29/2020
Tetris Attack is a 1995 puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The blocks steadily rise towards the top of the playfield, with new blocks being added at the bottom. Several game modes are present, including a time attack and multiplayer mode.
This movie plays through the Puzzle mode, which presents Bluely, ThunderAxe31 & mathgrant with a number of puzzles where they clear all of the blocks in a set number of moves — the blocks here do not rise towards the top. The Extra levels are included: they are accessed by entering a password that is normally obtained by beating the regular levels of the Puzzle mode.

WARNING: There are flashing lights throughout the movie which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.

#5317: ThunderAxe31's Windows Pause Ahead in 00:59.42
Rejected because the TASing tool used (Hourglass) is unable to dump this game's sound effects.
#5453: ThunderAxe31's GBC 2003 Crash II Advance in 15:10.92
Submitted as an April Fools' joke for anyone who could have expected my TAS of GBA Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. Rejected because the run itself was actually just a sloppy playthrough.
#5854: ThunderAxe31's GBC Toki Tori in 42:20.21
Rejected due to completely redaundant content to the full completion movie.
#5895: ThunderAxe31's NES Super Mario Bros. "standless%" in 05:13.95
Submitted as an April Fools' joke. Rejected because of goal and suboptimality.
#5901: ThunderAxe31, WarHippy, xy2_, MUGG & ruadath's GBC Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure in 13:15.73
Submitted as an April Fools' joke for anyone who could have expected the TAS of GBA Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure... Does it sound familiar?
#6092: ThunderAxe31's GB Rolan's Curse "hardest password, game end glitch" in 04:36.89
While desperately trying to improve the current publication, I came to the idea of exploiting the password system in order to make the game harder. The problem here is that the password system in Rolan's Curse is not used for accessing an actual difficulty option, but as a mean of storing game progress data, which makes this concept arbitrary and thus unapplicable for Vault tier. The relative movie rule was soon clarified in order to exclude this possible loophole.
#6326: ThunderAxe31's PSX Crash Bash "arbitrary code execution" in 02:25.81
Submitted as an April Fools' joke. The movie does actually sync on emulator... You may be wondering how. I'll just quote myself: "How can exploits be real if games aren't real?"
#6396: ThunderAxe31's PSX Tekken 3 "Tekken Force, 1 loop" in 03:18.72
I wanted to see if Tekken Force could have been entertaining if I avoided the repeating part, and this is the result. I have no regrets.
#6692: ThunderAxe31's PSX Tekken "Galaga Challenging Stages" in 03:20.63
That's the minigame accessed while Tekken loads at the beginning. Rejected because it's too similar to its standalone version counterparts.
#7074: ThunderAxe31's GB Game Boy Camera "Ball, maximum score" in 2:22:19.12
Blame feos if this was submitted, and blame him again if this was rejected!
On day 2017-12-6 I did become a judge. Here are my statistics:
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