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Apparently, the team of adelikat, Deign, Cardboard and JXQ had been working some time on this movie, which improves the previous movie by some 5.5 seconds (no small feat at this point), due to a wide variety of different improvements discussed in the submission message.

And of course, a wadload of extra lives are again achieved in the mandatorily slow autoscrolling levels.

For those that still prefer to see 99+ lives, the authors have also put together an alternate run that sacrifices time in order to gain those extra lives.

This run played on a real NES

mamuuuut, lapogne36 and adelikat improve the previous movie by 41.96 seconds, thanks to improved lag reduction and overall better optimization.

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Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid of various items such as the hammers.

This is an improvement of about 24.2 seconds over the previous movie.

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This new version by adelikat is 14 seconds faster than his previous effort. Most of the improvement came from a new shortcut in level 6.

If you're more a fan of runs where one macho man defeats an entire gang alone, there is also a one-player run available.

The author has used a built in subtitle feature of FCEUX to include some commentary on the movie. An AVI that includes these subtitles has been added.

This is probably one of the best illustrations on how to create art out of a simplistic and otherwise uninteresting game to watch.

What is also different about this movie is an extra warp which significantly shortens the game, and the use of a new tool (input macro) as described in the submission text. Bots are occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death.

Also be sure to check out this movie being played back on an actual NES.

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Although this movie doesn't use the magic whistles, it does skip stages, and actually skips them quite a lot, with the aid of various items such as the hammers.

Note: This movie no longer uses death as a shortcut.

This is an improvement of about 56 seconds over the previous movie.

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It is about a 2.5 second improvement over the previous movie by Happy Lee. Most of the improvement comes from a new "vine glitch" that was used in 2-1, 3-1, and 6-2.

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There is also a one-player run of this game.

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The improvements were due a new strategy (which was used in Nick Bruiser) and better optimized luck manipulation.

The record times are:

   Gabby Jay 06.26                  Bear Hugger 13.49
   Piston Hurricane 05.50           Bald Bull 08.64

   Bob Charlie 05.50                Dragon Chan 07.49
   Masked Muscle 06.33              Mr. Sandman 13.13

   Aran Ryan 08.45                  Heiki Kagero 10.60
   Mad Clown 09.22 - 0.02 faster    Super Macho Man 09.43

   Narcis Prince 08.47 - 0.03       Hoy Quarlow 8.35
   Rick Bruiser 10.71               Nick Bruiser 07.54 - 0.87

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adelikat improves his previous run by 3:07.03 minutes using new tricks and glitches and some better optimization. Read the submission text for more information.

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This run beats the previous run by 33.46 due to a new method of going through World 8-Tower 2 as well as various in-stage improvements.

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Record times in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (several fights were played a little faster than in the previous version):

   Glass Joe 0:42.00          Von Kaiser 0:35.95
   Piston Honda 0:40.25
   
   Don Flamenco 0:14.97       King Hippo 0:37.25
   Great Tiger 0:47.48        Bald Bull 0:57.82
   
   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski 0:45.25
   Bald Bull II 1:08.97       Don Flamenco II 0:58.61
   Mr. Sandman 2:19.00        Super Macho Man 0:45.25
   
   Mike Tyson 1:58.XX

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Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems.

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Record times in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out:

   Glass Joe 0:42.00          Von Kaiser 0:35.97
   Piston Honda 0:40.25

   Don Flamenco 0:14.97       King Hippo 0:37.61
   Great Tiger 0:47.48        Bald Bull 0:57.82

   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski 0:47.00
   Bald Bull II 1:08.97       Don Flamenco II 0:58.99
   Mr. Sandman 2:19.00        Super Macho Man 0:45.25

   Mike Tyson 1:58.XX

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Most of the tricks are however the same ― tricks which were discovered by various authors, such as Zaku, Sleepz, Genisto, Phil and DonamerDragon.

If you are wondering how some of the tricks in this video work, see the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page.

This run played on a real NES

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Here, Mario beats Luigi's old record by 3:18.46, due largely to the use of a new version of the emulator which doesn't lag on the map screens as well as various in-stage improvements.

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For more information about some of the tricks used in this movie, check the Super Mario Bros. 2 tricks page.

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adelikat uses various tricks, glitches and damage boosts to beat the game in record pace.

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This is a joint project between AngerFist, who played the levels, and adelikat, who played the bosses.

In Mega Man 6 Capcom has weeded out almost all of the bugs abused in the previous Mega Man incarnations while introducing new ones which were unfortunately unable to contribute significant time-saving techniques.

Kyrsimys played his run quite well making use of what glitches are available, so there wasn't much to optimize in jumps and tricks, but there was room for improvement in optimizing weapon selection and minimize weapon switches (which are very slow).

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This is another joint project between AngerFist and adelikat.

In Mega Man 6 Capcom has weeded out almost all of the bugs abused in the previous Mega Man incarnations while introducing new ones which were unfortunately unable to contribute significant time-saving techniques.

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Clock Times:

   Glass Joe       0:42.00    Von Kaiser      0:35.95
   Piston Honda    0:40.25
   
   Don Flamenco    0:14.97    King Hippo      0:37.25
   Great Tiger     0:47.48    Bald Bull       0:57.82
   
   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski   0:45.61
   Bald Bull II    1:08.97    Don Flamenco II 0:58.61
   Mr. Sandman     2:18.00    Super Macho Man 0:45.25
   
   Mike Tyson      1:58.XX

This is the 5th published version of this game. This run improves the Mr. Sandman fight by 1 game clock second.

All right now, play friendly!

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This is the fourth movie by adelikat which improves on the previous versions. Much improvement comes from better lag reduction and discovery of a new trick involving conveyor belts.

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Clock Times:

   Glass Joe       0:42.00    Von Kaiser      0:35.95
   Piston Honda    0:40.25
   
   Don Flamenco    0:14.97    King Hippo      0:37.25
   Great Tiger     0:47.48    Bald Bull       0:57.82
   
   Piston Honda II 0:50.25    Soda Popinski   0:45.25
   Bald Bull II    1:08.97    Don Flamenco II 0:58.00
   Mr. Sandman     2:18.00    Super Macho Man 0:45.25
   
   Mike Tyson      1:58.XX

This is the 6th published version of this game. This run manages to improve four fights, totaling to a 0.97 second clock time improvement, and 32 frames of real time improvement.

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This new version by adelikat is 26.7 seconds faster than his previous effort. Most of the improvement became possible thanks to discovering an awesome new law of videogame physics: if two athletic guys kick each other in mid-air at the same time, both can fly over a huge distance at breakneck speed. We wish it worked like that in real life!

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The record times are:

   Gabby Jay 06.26                 Bear Hugger 13.49
   Piston Hurricane 05.49 *        Bald Bull 08.24 *

   Bob Charlie 05.50               Dragon Chan 07.30 *
   Masked Muscle 06.33             Mr. Sandman 13.13

   Aran Ryan 08.45                 Heiki Kagero 10.60
   Mad Clown 09.05 *               Super Macho Man 09.43

   Narcis Prince 08.43 *           Hoy Quarlow 8.35
   Rick Bruiser 10.67  *           Nick Bruiser 07.52 *

Note: The actual movie is longer than the previous. This is due to Snes9x 1.51 adding extra fadeout lag during emulation, where Snes9x 1.43 does not.

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This is the fourth TAS of Duck Tales. This time, due to a bug in the Moon level found by HHS, it is almost a minute shorter! Other minor tricks here and there contributed an additional few seconds of improvement.

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The hero shows the ultimate display of pacifism by sacrificing his own life in order to not harm the Level 5 tanks.

This movie is about 4 seconds faster than the preceding version due to better boss fights and one more use of the level 3 "jump glitch".

Note: This game was released under different names, such as 魂斗羅 (kontora) in Japan, and Probotector in Europe. GryZor is also used in Europe on some other systems.

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This is a 65 frame improvement over the previous movie by adelikat.

In this run, adelikat gets through the game's 15 required missions as quickly as possible via extremely difficult optimization.

This game was run as part of TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 5, and this TAS was built on a combination of multiple submissions of said contest - hence the high number of authors.

In this TAS, the authors make expansive use of the weapons and the various boosts in order to beat the game in 13 minutes and 9.6 seconds.

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This is the third movie by adelikat which improved greatly on the previous versions. In the precedent movie, time was saved with a glitch which allows Raphael to pick up items through walls, and figuring out how to get shurikens more often. In this, time is saved by changing the turtles less often and some scattered optimizations, including more effective luck manipulation.

Despite her prepubescent age, Maria is faster and stronger than Richter, and one can only guess how she managed to fall a victim to kidnappers in the first place. Unfortunately, all of her speed advantages become nullified by a lengthy cutscene following her release, making this TAS slightly longer than the Richter mode.

This is a 2.5 second improvement to the previous movie.

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This is the second of two movies by adelikat which improved greatly on the previous versions. In the precedent movie, time was saved with a glitch that places weapon sprites in unexpected locations, and by clever use of damage to avoid two cut-scenes. In this one, time was saved with a glitch which allows Raphael to pick up items through walls, and figuring out how to get shurikens more often.

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This time around, adelikat utilizes damage boosting and a few other movement-based tricks to save over a full minute compared to the previous run.

Although it may not seem like it, this game is somewhat similar to Mega Man in idea. There are multiple stages you can visit in any order and you gain new abilities from winning each level. Like Mega Man games, the new abilities include platform generating items which the author uses to create many shortcuts.

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Despite her prepubescent age, Maria is faster and stronger than Richter, and one can only guess how she managed to fall a victim to kidnappers in the first place. Unfortunately, all of her speed advantages become nullified by a lengthy cutscene following her release, making this TAS slightly longer than the Richter mode.

Note: As of 12 Aug 2009 the torrent has been replaced to fix the framerate and aspect ratio. Please redownload if you've acquired the file prior to that date.

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This movie shows the true value of teamwork. Despite sibling rivalry, Billy and Jimmy help expedite their common goal with well-timed knees to each other's faces.

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This game has four completely different final stages, each with a different ending, depending on the choices you make earlier.

The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying.

Fang is used due to a glitch that allows him to deliver fully charged D weapon shots, without taking time to charge it.

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This is a 64 frame improvement over the author's previous movie.

This Contra game combines elements from the original Contra and Super C while adding some elements into one action packed game. Watch our hero cruise through 5 levels of steadily increasing difficulty yet still crushing those aliens in record time.

This movie is a 12 second improvement over the previous movie. Improvements come from use of the homing gun and from a bug that allows horizontal screen wrapping.

If you want to see a shorter run through the game, we suggest watching these: Richter any% in 23:18, Maria any% in 24:22.

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The author improves on the previous publication by 21.89 seconds from a new glitch that allows Fred to move through the ice level at an astonishing rate.

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This improvement by Adelikat is 1.5 seconds faster than Sprintgod's previous version.

This game is one of those grappling hook games, with which Batman can just swing through areas quickly. Much of the improvement comes from bunnybathopping Batman's way through levels and somewhat improved boss fights.

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This movie is 46.95 seconds faster than the preceding version due to better boss fights, a jumping glitch in lv 3, and the use of the spread gun. The ROM change counts for about 27 seconds of the improvement. Also, the author better achieves the pacifist goal by not killing the level 5 tanks costing about 9 seconds.

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The concept for this run originated long ago because Princess was the only character not used in the normal run aiming for fastest overall time. Since then, improvements have removed Mario from that run as well. (In fact, Princess is the only character not used in the fastest warpless run either.)

This run played on a real NES

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In this movie the author takes the secret "fifth ending", thereby skipping most of the game. If you want to see runs which play more of the game, then you should see this run (with the quickest "normal" ending) or this run (with the "best" ending).

The Japanese version was chosen because, for some reason, it gives the players a health bar, allowing them to take some damage without dying.

This is a 2.19 second improvement over the previous movie.

Selected Quote from the authors:

We looked at previous submissions and demonstrations of this game and tried to include the most entertaining parts of what was available, and add in a few ideas of our own along the way. Hopefully you'll get a kick out of it.

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This movie is more than a minute faster than the previous version. Besides from being more precise in movements and minimizing lag, time was saved with a glitch that places weapon sprites in unexpected locations, and by clever use of damage to avoid two cut-scenes.

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Virtual Boy Wario Land was a platformer released for the Virtual Boy system in 1995. The main objective of the game is to traverse the 14 levels. Each level has a key you must find in order to open up the next level. There are treasures hidden along the way. This TAS gets no treasures and thus achieves the "bad ending".

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This is an improvement of 40 seconds to the previous movie, due mainly to obtaining a powerup much earlier in the run.

See also the 100% run which collects all treasures to get the best ending.

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Quote from Exim (the author of the first Duck Tales 2 TAS):
This one has the "bad" end. (not the worst)
There are 3 endings: no money earned; earned some money and found all 7 map pieces. I'm thinking about doing the best end but I don't know if this would be interesting because I'd have to visit some places twice and it would be a lot longer.

Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to enable stage select to warp to the final (12th) level. This results in an unusually long gray screen at the start of the movie. Starting on the final level with 3 lives and only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game near impossible to win.

This is the author's 4th iteration of this movie. It improves on the previous publication by almost 10 seconds by utilizing a hidden fairy and by better boss optimization.

This movie features one... no, wait, six players controlling two characters simultaneously while smashing the previous time by 2 minutes and 41 seconds. However, this publication chooses to use warps.

This run by adelikat is an improvement of over 11 minutes to his prior run thanks to better luck manipulation and routing.

It originally started with Mothrayas's winning run of the SGDQ 2015 speed TAS competition organized by dwangoAC, which resulted in some interesting top-10 comparison encodes. Later, adelikat, Aglar, Really_Tall and Samsara joined the party after finding many improvements throughout the run as described in the submission comments.

There is also a run that completes the game in "Superb Joe" mode by MESHUGGAH.

There is also a Game Boy sequel that is known as Kid Dracula.

This is a 50+ second improvement over the previous movie by Phil and Genisto.

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The author, adelikat, completes this game a little more than 5 seconds faster than the previous movie by himself and Brushy. The biggest time-saver was skipping a cutscene in level 1. Expect a lot of pogo action, jumping from ropes and hooks and across spikes unharmed, and quick beatdown of bosses.

This movie does not get the best (100%) ending, but also does not get the worst (no money).

This is an improvement of 50.17 seconds over the previous movie, thanks to better optimisation and better strategies on the bosses. Please read the authors' comments for more details.

This game was released for the SuperGrafx, a slight modification of the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine meant to enhance the graphical capabilities of the console.

We also have a run that forgoes hunting for treasure and simply gets to the end as fast as possible.

This is the author's second publication of Dragon Egg!, this time using the new BizHawk emulator.

Most of the 24.61 second improvement comes through a new trick that allows the heroine to simply fly through the auto-scroller level, ignoring the slow paced log.

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The key to a TAS of this game is special weapon maintenance. Bosses receive double the damage when hit with special weapons, so managing the weapons used and conserving force are critical to optimizing this game.

The game retells the legend of a muscular fire-spitting man called Karnov, employed by Scottish villagers to eat gypsies' babies and pillage their settlements. Except in this particular case, Karnov's full name is Jinborov Karnovski, he looks like an old-school Ukrainian, turns blue when hit, and his goal here is to take some kind of treasures from feeble, unsuspecting enemies. Later in the game he also grows a pair of wings and flies. In doing so, he strongly defies laws of physics, common sense, and notions of subtle Kid Icarus mockery.

The developers of this game, Data East, probably decided it would be a good idea to only let the screen scroll in one direction at once, and pretty slowly at that. It's not particularly surprising, though, considering the previous paragraph.

This new version of Karnov TAS by adelikat is a ~5 second improvement over the previous movie by Arc. The time was saved thanks to taking damage in a different part of the run, as well as various small optimizations scattered around.

This is a 9.83 second improvement over the previous movie. Much of the improvement comes from new shortcuts and tricks.

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The author intentionally kills off his party in order to save some travel time.

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This is a 26.5 second improvement over the previous movie. Details can be found in the author's comments. A password is used to access the hardest difficulty level.

This playaround by adelikat shows off ridiculous plays, bizarre glitches, and other wild antics.

You can see this played on a real NES by clicking here.

Transformers - Convoy no Nazo (トランスフォーマー コンボイの謎) is about the Autobot Ultra Magnus cruising a very frustrating and difficult journey to discover who killed Optimus Prime. No, I'm serious.

Angry Video Game Nerd covered this game recently. Quoting adelikat: "As he describes in the video, this game notoriously difficult to play. Poor hit detection, 1 hit and you are dead, awkward controls, and very little in the way of power-ups make this game frustrating for the average player."

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Well now, TASVideos does have them! In Dragon Egg, the heroine carries around a portable dragon which, after many power-ups, becomes a lot less portable to the point where the heroine is portable instead.

The author uses the game's quirky physics to move faster and create some interesting shortcuts that are normally not possible during real-time play.

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Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the author uses the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) in order to warp to the last level. This results in an unsually long grey screen at the start of the movie as the author mashes 'Reset'. Starting on the final level with only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game impossible to win.

Selected quotes from the author:
Story: an evil enemy kidnaps the hero's family. The hero is pleased, as this gives him a reason to wear a tight sleeveless shirt and blow up stuff with big guns.

The author takes many shortcuts, specifically the kind that were not intended to be used. Read the author's submission for more information about the bugs used.

This movie is over 4 minutes faster than the author's previous movie.

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Whereas the previous movie's goals went for both speed and points, this movie's primary goal is speed, and only gets as many points as possible when it doesn't waste time. For example, targets and swimmers are deliberately missed to reduce score-counting at the end of levels. Altogether, this is 54 seconds faster than the previous version.

Stray shots are used to manipulate luck.

In Speedy Gonzales: Aztec Adventure, Sylvester the cat has kidnapped all the mice from Speedy's village, and our super fast hero races to rescue them. There are weapons he can pick up to fight enemies along the way, as well as speed boosts to help him jump over dangerous obstacles like spike pits.

If you're looking for more Speedy Gonzales action, we also have a run of Speedy's SNES game.

This movie is a 3 second improvement in the "pool" room of the last level. The first 14 minutes of the movie are identical.

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This is a 262 frame improvement over its predecessor.

Note: This movie was created using FCEUX 2.0.0, and desyncs at the second-last boss on any other FCEUX version. You can find FCEUX 2.0.0 here.

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Due to the highly repetitive nature of this game, the hidden 9th input button (the console's Reset button) is used to enable stage select to warp to the final (12th) level. This results in an unusually long gray screen at the start of the movie. Starting on the final level with 3 lives and only the initial pea-shooter for a weapon normally makes the game near impossible to win.

The author takes advantage of frame perfect timing to upgrade rapid fire to the maximum in a single level; this allows for an improvement of 3 seconds during the boss fight.

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Gameplay of this game is very similiar to Castlevania and some textures and the last boss are similar to Contra's. This game is also known to be nearly impossible to complete on a real console.

This is a 1 minute 36 second improvement over the previous movie due to the use of new tricks, weapon selection, and some new shortcuts.

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adelikat, in the site's first ColecoVision run ever, completes this game in 4:48.58 by jumping through walls, abusing deaths, and moving very fast.

Note: The character should not be confused with Mario, who was originally named Jumpman. Interestingly enough, Glover cited Donkey Kong as inspiration for this game. It is not known whether the naming is a coincidence or not.

Because the game was new at the time of submission, the author had no other runs and almost no walkthroughs to rely on.

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The syndicate turns out to be selling drugs, but the Black Manta sets them straight: Drugs kill you think you're cool but you're not. Yeah!

This version is 20 seconds faster than the previous version by Walker Boh. We recommend reading the author's comments for this movie.

This game has a crazy main music theme.

This run improves the previous movie by over 30 seconds.

We also have a movie of the arcade version.

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