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NES 8 Eyes (USA) in 16:40.28 by Josh S. (aka. Slotermeyer).
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Rating: 6.1 (12 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Platform
8 Eyes is a Castlevania clone, and probably the best known game made by the obscure NES game company Taxan. It features two characters, the human Orin and his falcon Cutrus, in either 1 or 2 player mode. Cutrus can attack enemies, hit switches, collect items, and generally do all sorts of useful things.

The game also allows you to attack levels in whatever order you like, and much like the Mega Man games, there's a certain sequence that makes the bosses easier.


NES "2p warpless" Battletoads (USA) in 24:57.47 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA).
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Obsoletes movie #291 (15:29.03)
Rating: 7.8 (36 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Uses no warps
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
This run has two players and does not use warps.

As always, a bug on level 11 prevents player 2 from moving, so he gets a game over for that level. Player 1 plays level 11 alone and player 2 comes back for level 12. This is a bug in Battletoads itself.


NES Bubble Bobble (USA) in 27:18.38 by Mattias Berggren (aka. Tarzan).
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Rating: 4.8 (31 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Best ending
- One player controls two characters
- Uses no warps
- Uses no passwords
- Genre: Action
In Bubble Bobble, two magical, bubble-blowing dinosaurs (Bub and Bob) fight through an evil, deep forest in order to rescue their kidnapped dinosaur friends.

This movie features one player controlling two characters simultaneously.

Despite the movie's being so long, it's nearly the fastest possible warpless time through Bubble Bobble. There are 113 levels, and each level ends with 10.75 seconds of unskippable time.


NES Chip 'n Dale – Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) in 11:04.65 by 修昱坤 (aka. dragonxyk).
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Rating: 7.1 (18.5 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2 is quite an improvement over the original Chip 'n Dale in terms of graphics and a whole lot of other things. Thankfully, the original game's solid controls haven't been changed. The plot of this game is that Fat Cat has stolen the Pharaoh's Urn and wants to use its power (for evil purposes, of course).

Like the first movie, a two-player run makes for some interesting things, like Chip and Dale carrying each other around, and heavy abuse of death to take advantage of balloons. By killing off one character, he respawns on a floating balloon, thus going ahead of the other character. Unlike the first, however, this run frequently destroys bosses by using one of the characters as a weapon. Only in the Chip 'n Dale series can such apparently irrational action be justified.

This movie, the second submission for this game by dragonxyk, is a 18.55-second improvement over the previous movie.


NES "2-player" Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) in 09:25.73 by 修昱坤 (aka. dragonxyk).
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Rating: 7.3 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Platform
This run illustrates very well the advantage of using two-player mode. Much faster than the single-player version, Chip and Dale carry each other, throw each other, abuse balloons and zip as they once again go after Fat Cat.

The improvement by dragonxyk comes now with Chip and Dale zipping on each other.


NES Contra (JPN) in 08:57.98 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Rating: 8.1 (28 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
Looks like the bare-chested man decided to bring his friend along for the ride this time. Using two players at once, adelikat brings us one step closer to perfecting Contra. This run displays many new time savers, including spread gun manipulation and 2P death skips. More details can be found in the submission text.


Trivia: This game was released as Probotector in Europe with slightly modified graphics. It is also known as GryZor on some other systems.


NES Double Dragon 2 (USA) in 08:54.05 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #778 (09:21.65)
Rating: 8.0 (13 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Fighting
- Genre: Platform
Double Dragon 2 (1989) is a beat'em-up game that 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.

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!


NES Guerrilla War (USA) in 13:02.35 by 陈卓 (aka. x2poet).
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Obsoletes movie #771 (13:33.13)
Rating: 6.6 (11 votes)
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
x2poet seeks to quell the revolution in record time! This movie not only plays on the hardest setting, but it manages to do so almost 30 seconds faster than the previous movie. This is accomplished by controlling two players at once which finished boss battles quicker.

NES Ice Climber (USA) in 19:12.6 by Hans Olsson (aka. Walker Boh).
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Rating: 4.7 (27 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses no warps
- Genre: Platform
This movie completes the 32 mountains of Ice Climber as fast as the author could do. It catches the bird in every bonus stage, which almost doubles the movie length.

It's not a very exciting movie as whole, but due to how hard the character is control, the game is difficult to beat by normal playing. This fact might make the movie a bit more interesting.

This movie is 2.5 minutes faster than the previous version by the same author.


NES Ninja Crusaders (USA) in 04:08.45 by Андрей Стребков (aka. AnS) & Johan Södling (aka. Randil).
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Rating: 7.4 (15 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Genre: Platform
The story is about a mysterious robotic force which attacked the world and drove the ninjas out of Japan. Two of the ninjas set out to reclaim the land, but not only did they abuse the powers given by the ninja-obsessed video game industry, they did it in style.

The teamwork of the two ninjas is remarkable. One of the ninjas often transforms into a tiger on which the other ninja can ride.


NES Quarth (JPN) in 01:01.45 by Jean-François Lapointe (aka. Acmlm).
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Rating: 5.3 (24 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Puzzle
- Genre: Shooter
Selected quotes from the author:
Quarth might be best described as a mix of a shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves horizontally at the bottom, and shoot incoming blocks or groups of blocks (adding tiles to them) to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you reach the end, and you lose if a block reaches the line floating above the ship.

NES River City Ransom (USA) in 12:55.38 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat) & JXQ (?).
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Rating: 6.7 (35 votes)
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at "easy" level
- Genre: Fighting
River City Ransom is a goofy game that deserves a goofy TAS. This movie showcases cool tricks and some glitches that don't necessarily result in the fastest completion. Click here to see our other movie which aims more for speed.

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.

NES River City Ransom (USA) in 06:53.42 by Alexandre Lamoureux (aka. Chamale).
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Rating: 6.1 (25 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes no damage
- Plays at "easy" level
- Genre: Fighting
In River City Ransom, Alex and Ryan face off against gangs of students and evil bosses to win their town back and rescue their girlfriends.

A glitch is used often in this run when left and right are pressed at the same time, which causes the player to do all sorts of crazy things, and usually lose all of his power. This is done to reduce lag during running segments. The boss battles are fought with style in mind, using a variety of attack methods throughout.

For a River City Ransom movie which, instead of aiming purely for speed, concentrates more on goofing around, click here.


NES Rush'n Attack (USA) in 09:37.27 by Jeff C (aka. Arc).
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Rating: 5.8 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
In this game, two jovial brightly-colored soliders infiltrate enemy forces. Everyone here runs around menacingly, and bullets are a bit slower than a housecat.

This movie is about a 4 second improvement to the previous version.

Note: The name of this game is Rush’n Attack. The 'n does not stand alone as a contraction of and, unlike Ghosts ’n Goblins. Given the theme of the game, the pun on “Russian Attack” is quite obvious.


NES Snake Rattle'n Roll (USA) in 07:27.87 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
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Obsoletes movie #445 (08:56.98)
Rating: 7.7 (24 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses no warps
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Snake Rattle 'n Roll is a 3D game mostly about collecting the "nibble bibbles" or something like that. The biggest part of the game is the tricky maneuvers required to complete the big mountain levels.

This movie is a 1.5 minute improvement to the previous author's movie, due to better maneuvers, luck manipulation and other tricks such as controlling two snakes at the same time.
No warps are used.


NES Snow Bros (USA) in 13:56.85 by Johan Södling (aka. Randil).
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Obsoletes movie #45 (16:45.05)
Rating: 5.1 (16 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses no warps
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
This game is a little similar to Bubble Bobble.

This is a 2 minute 48 second improvement over the previous movie. Like the previous movie it uses 2 players and does not take warps.

Note: The avi of this movie was encoded using a 95 frame slower version of the movie by the same author although the subtitles misreported it as this version. If you downloaded the avi prior to 12/22/07, you have the wrong version.


NES Super C (USA) in 12:20.02 by Lennart W. (aka. Baxter) & Andrés Delikat (aka. Adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #105 (12:39.42)
Rating: 8.3 (21 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
This game, aka. Probotector II Return of the Evil Forces, is, implicitly, Contra 2.

The guy who has an infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back!

This movie is a 19-second improvement over the previous version by Genisto.


NES Track & Field (USA) in 12:55.43 by Phil Côté.
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Obsoletes movie #36 (08:56.48)
Rating: 6.3 (23 votes)
- Aims for maximum score
- One player controls two characters
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
- Genre: Sport
This movie of Track and Field plays with two players: One of them aims for a maximum score, and the other aims to demonstrate clumsiness, quirks and other humor.

NES Wai Wai World (JPN) in 30:58.67 by F. Y. (aka. fuzi2).
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Obsoletes movie #200 (34:24.33)
Rating: 6.6 (18 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Wai Wai World is a strange game created by Konami.
They have mixed together components from many of their previous games, such as Castlevania, Goonies and Twin Bees - components such as characters, enemies, levels and theme musics.

Wai wai is Japanese and means "ruckus".

This movie by Fuzi2 is a couple of minutes faster than the previous author's movie, due to some new tricks involving the usage of two characters simultaneously.

Ps: The vertically scrolling level has some anomaly in scrolling. Probably caused by a bug in FCEU or a broken ROM.


Genesis Altered Beast (Japan/USA,r2) in 05:53.3 by Mário de Almeida Azevedo Junior (aka. FODA).
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Obsoletes movie #96 (06:21.57)
Rating: 6.1 (25 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
Altered Beast is originally an arcade game. In each level, the player must collect 3 powerups in order to transform into a powerful beast and fight the boss of that level. This game was one of the first games of the Sega Genesis system, and was first bundled with it.

This might look like it's an auto-scrolling game, but in fact the scroll speed depends on the number of enemies on screen. The player tries to kill all enemies as soon as possible to increase the scroll speed, using 2 characters to maximize this process. Almost 30 seconds were saved compared to the previous version.


Genesis Beavis and Butt-head (USA) in 09:27.03 by Andrés Delikat (aka. adelikat).
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Obsoletes movie #226 (10:14.42)
Rating: 5.6 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
A game where you must assemble your shredded-up ticket to go to a heavy metal concert.

This movie is a 47.4 second improvements over the previous movie. Much of the improvements are a result of using the 2-player option where the player can control both characters simultaneously rather than one at a time.


Genesis Bonanza Bros. (any,r1) in 09:03.02 by Gavin Ward (aka. SprintGod).
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Rating: 5.2 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Genre: Action
A technically unusually simple game for the Genesis completed as fast as possible with two characters played by one player.

Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA) in 35:28.92 by Andrew Araki (aka. arkiandruski).
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Obsoletes movie #133 (32:59.0)
Rating: 7.7 (25 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
Gunstar Heroes (1993) is widely considered to be one of the best action games on the Sega Genesis — ironically, being comercially unsuccessful due to poor promotion. It features a variety of melee attacks, as well as 4 basic weapons which you can combine in pairs (making a total of 14 combinations) — all densely packed in a swift and explosion-heavy gameplay spanning over seven uniquely designed stages. The author takes special care to showcase all the moves the game is capable of, using every possible attack and having lots of fun playing around in autoscrolling sections.

This movie is 3 minutes longer than the previous one due to playing on hardest difficulty and using both Gunstars at the same time. See the author's comments for more details.

The AVI for this movie is also slightly larger than usual — this is due to an amount of colors and on-screen motion even the best codecs have problems coping with.


Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles in 33:05.78 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja) & JJN (aka. Upthorn).
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Obsoletes movie #826 (34:22.02)
Rating: 9.1 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
Ludicrous-speed bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with both Sonic and Tails controlled by the player.

This run takes everything you know about Sonic and Knuckles and turns it upside-down. It extensively uses the "scroll objects offscreen to pass through them" trick to zip and warp to places that shouldn't be reached, break bosses, and effectively skip entire stages.

It is worth noting that nitsuja did not directly participate in the creation of this movie; instead, Upthorn incorporated newly discovered tricks in several stages and spliced them in for a total improvement of 49 seconds.


Genesis Sonic The Hedgehog 2 in 19:55.43 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
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Obsoletes movie #335 (21:39.53)
Rating: 9.0 (64 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Platform
Super fast bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with Sonic and Tails (both controlled by the player).

Genesis Streets of Rage in 19:45.45 by AKA & Mukki.
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Obsoletes movie #130 (29:55.07)
Rating: 6.4 (17 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
A typical streetfighting game which spawned the popular Streets of Rage trilogy. This game is rumored to have used the same engine as Golden Axe, which is why the A button summons magic (sort of) to damage all enemies on screen, instead of doing some sort of roundhouse, like almost all other beat'em ups.

Completed on the hardest difficulty.

Compared to the previous movie this is over 10 minutes faster. Primarily due to the use of 2-players and a glitch that skips most of the last level.

Details can be found in the authors' comments.


Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) in 10:00.47 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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Obsoletes movie #511 (10:27.15)
Rating: 6.2 (13 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
- Genre: Shooter
An action-packed wild-west shooting game converted from the arcades. It doesn't have all the levels and characters of the original, but makes for an interesting movie nonetheless.

In this run enemies blindly spray bullets at the main characters, naturally missing every shot as bad guys generally do. (Heroes, no matter where or when, can be assumed to have plasma shields.)

This version by zggzdydp is about 27 seconds faster than the previous movie due to various scattered improvements, most notably the 3-2 boss fight.


SNES "2 players" Contra 3: The Alien Wars () in 13:03.32 by Ryan Foley (aka. hero of the day).
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Obsoletes movie #586 (13:14.7)
Rating: 7.9 (20 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- No death
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Action
The guy who has infinite supply of ammo and who destroys worlds bare-chested is back again! And this time he has a friend and a shirt with him.

A very colourful movie, with the author playing both characters at the same time (which is far from trivial to do).

This version improves the previous run by approximately 12 seconds.


SNES Goof Troop (USA) in 16:36.57 by Johan Södling (aka. Randil) & Nick Mong (aka. mmbossman).
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Obsoletes movie #152 (20:29.08)
Rating: 7.6 (25 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes no damage
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Adventure
- Genre: Puzzle
Goof Troop (1993) is a cheerful puzzle game based on Disney show of the same name. The gameplay is somewhat similar to NES Legend of Zelda with its maze-like map filled with one-screen rooms, except this time the emphasis on puzzles is stronger, and you can play in co-op.

In this movie the authors control two characters (Goofy and Max) simultaneously. This allows for a good deal of team work as one character can go get an item while the other heads for the exit. When there is no multi-tasking to do, the authors do a good job performing antics with one or both of the characters.

This is a nearly 4 minute improvement over Frenom's previous movie. Improvements come from new tricks, better teamwork, luck manipulation and optimized movements.


SNES Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey and Minnie, The (USA) in 19:03.97 by Jason L.b. (aka. Jaysmad).
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Rating: 5.5 (11 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Uses death as shortcut
- Takes damage to save time
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Platform
The Great Circus Mystery is another side-scrolling Disney platformer involving Mickey & Minnie Mouse. The author controls both characters simultaneously.

SNES Kirby Super Star (USA) in 41:56.17 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
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Obsoletes movie #198 (51:02.1)
Rating: 7.4 (35 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Genre: Platform
It's a long (short) movie of this ridiculous game. Enjoy.

The author controls both players when applicable rather than letting the CPU operate the helper.

For those interested, the obsoleted movie uses only one controller. This accounts for the large time difference between the two movies.


SNES Legend of The Mystical Ninja, The (USA) in 24:52.37 by Deng Peng (aka. zggzdydp).
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Obsoletes movie #205 (32:11.15)
Rating: 6.9 (11 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
- Genre: Platform
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja is the first Super Nintendo game in the Ganbare Goemon series, based on a noble thief in Japanese folklore.

This run improves on the previous run using new tricks and glitches such as the scroll abuse glitch, which saves a large amount of time.


SNES Mortal Kombat II (USA v1.0) in 22:43.68 by M.S.M. (aka. Samhain-Grim, aka. VANDAL).
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Obsoletes movie #789 (17:54.45)
Rating: 7.3 (21 votes)
- Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
- Is a demonstration
- One player controls two characters
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Fighting
Like all of the Mortal Kombat games, MKII is about warriors fighting in a tournament for inspecific power and fame. Shang Tsung is chosen for his ability to transform into other characters.

This movie aims to demonstrate as many quirks and fatalities of the game as possible. Examples include two Shang Tsungs with a Raiden child, a headless Reptile eating Kitana's head and a bloody clone of Jax. The AI is also humiliated.

The author's comments page is a definitely recommended reading for this movie.

Note: The movie contains semi-realistic violence to be expected with the Mortal Kombat series.


SNES Super Bomberman (USA) in 13:37.32 by JSP (aka. Nitsuja).
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Rating: 6.7 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Action
A run of the first Super Bomberman game. The player controls two characters alone and manages to complete the game very quickly due to exploiting the very long invulnerability periods at the beginning of every stage. Actually, the only places where you can see the characters becoming vulnerable are the boss battles!

SNES Super Smash TV (USA) in 28:48.68 by JXQ (?).
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Rating: 6.8 (33 votes)
- One player controls two characters
- Manipulates luck
- Plays at hardest level
- Genre: Shooter
In the future (and by future, we mean 1999), game shows take on a whole new meaning. Mostly it involves using heavy artillery.

This run is played in two-player mode with the author controlling both characters. It aims for showing off and being entertaining while still being reasonably fast. A code is used to access the highest difficulty level.


SNES Wild Guns (USA) in 19:07.55 by Nick Mong (aka. mmbossman).
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Obsoletes movie #188 (25:05.18)
Rating: 6.8 (19 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- Kills: 100%
- One player controls two characters
- Manipulates luck
- Genre: Shooter
A science-fiction/western game. One peculiar feature is that the character's movement and aim are controlled simultaneously.

This is nearly a 6 minute improvement over the previous movie due to the use of 2 players, more accuracy, and some nice tricks. The author has also embedded a few subliminal message throughout the movie. Details can be found in the author's comments.


SNES Zombies Ate My Neighbors (USA) in 59:14.87 by Hans Olsson (aka. Walker Boh).
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Rating: 5.6 (23 votes)
- Aims for fastest time
- One player controls two characters
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Manipulates luck
Zombie slaying in the Zelda perspective. Reminds a bit of Fester's Quest, but is much more fun.

Walker Boh controls the both characters simultaneously, which should make the hard game even harder. Naturally, luck and glitches are abused in this run.

We recommend reading the author's comments; he wrote quite a detailed article of this movie.

Added [1179] NES Double Dragon 2 (USA) by adelikat in 08:54.05 (2008-08-17)
- obsoletes [778] NES Double Dragon 2 (USA) by adelikat in 09:21.65 (2007-01-25)
- - obsoletes [267] NES Double Dragon 2 (USA) by Qbob in 10:21.9 (2004-12-18)
- - obsoletes [347] NES "2-player" Double Dragon 2 (USA) by Phil in 09:52.98 (2005-05-25)
- - - obsoletes [53] NES Double Dragon 2 (USA) by Phil in 13:26.95 (2004-04-09)
Added [1158] NES 8 Eyes (USA) by Slotermeyer in 16:40.28 (2008-08-09)
Added [1140] Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) by zggzdydp in 10:00.47 (2008-07-06)
- obsoletes [511] Genesis Sunset Riders (USA) by Highness in 10:27.15 (2006-03-25)
Added [1128] NES "2-player" Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by dragonxyk in 09:25.73 (2008-06-17)
- obsoletes [1026] NES "2-player" Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by dragonxyk in 09:29.22 (2007-12-17)
- - obsoletes [433] NES "2-player" Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by Genisto in 09:38.03 (2005-11-12)
- - - obsoletes [28] NES Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by Sleepz in 10:56.95 (2004-03-11)
Added [1112] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any) by Nitsuja & Upthorn in 33:05.78 (2008-05-19)
- obsoletes [826] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any) by Nitsuja in 34:22.02 (2007-04-08)
- - obsoletes [712] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any) by Nitsuja in 35:19.62 (2006-11-03)
- - - obsoletes [331] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any) by SprintGod in 45:55.82 (2005-05-05)
- - - - obsoletes [156] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any) by SprintGod in 49:31.67 (2004-08-09)
Added [1099] SNES Legend of The Mystical Ninja, The (USA) by zggzdydp in 24:52.37 (2008-04-23)
- obsoletes [205] SNES Legend of the Mystical Ninja (USA) by JuanValdez in 32:11.15 (2004-10-08)
Added [1071] NES Ninja Crusaders (USA) by AnS & Randil in 04:08.45 (2008-02-28)
- obsoletes [1006] NES Ninja Crusaders (USA) by Randil in 04:10.38 (2007-11-26)
Added [1069] NES Guerrilla War (USA) by x2poet in 13:02.35 (2008-02-21)
- obsoletes [771] NES Guerrilla War (USA) by Randil in 13:33.13 (2007-01-15)
- - obsoletes [123] NES Guerrilla War (USA) by lithven in 14:39.18 (2004-07-16)
Added [1064] Genesis Streets of Rage (any) by AKA & Mukki in 19:45.45 (2008-02-19)
- obsoletes [130] Genesis Streets of Rage (any) by SprintGod in 29:55.07 (2004-07-20)
Added [1055] SNES "glitched" Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Dark Cloud in 03:32.13 (2008-02-18)
Added [1047] SNES Wild Guns (USA) by mmbossman in 19:07.55 (2008-01-23)
- obsoletes [188] SNES Wild Guns (USA) by Nightcom in 25:05.18 (2004-09-13)
Added [1038] SNES Goof Troop (USA) by Randil & mmbossman in 16:36.57 (2008-01-09)
- obsoletes [152] SNES Goof Troop (USA) by Frenom in 20:29.08 (2004-08-08)
Added [1028] NES Chip 'n Dale – Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) by dragonxyk in 11:04.65 (2007-12-17)
- obsoletes [918] NES Chip 'n Dale – Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) by dragonxyk in 11:23.2 (2007-07-17)
- - obsoletes [492] NES Chip 'n Dale – Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) by Walker Boh in 11:36.42 (2006-03-02)
- - - obsoletes [30] NES Chip 'n Dale – Rescue Rangers 2 (USA) by Walker Boh in 14:39.17 (2004-05-26)
Added [1025] Genesis Beavis and Butt-head (USA) by adelikat in 09:27.03 (2007-12-17)
- obsoletes [226] Genesis Beavis and Butt-Head (USA) by DudicalRat in 10:14.42 (2004-10-30)
Added [1013] NES River City Ransom (USA) by adelikat & JXQ in 12:55.38 (2007-12-04)
Added [980] NES Snow Bros (USA) by Randil in 13:56.85 (2007-10-08)
- obsoletes [45] NES Snow Bros (USA) by JP&JP in 16:45.05 (2004-03-28)
Added [970] NES Track & Field (USA) by Phil in 12:55.43 (2007-09-30)
- obsoletes [34] NES Track and Field (USA) by Arc in 08:28.05 (2004-04-29)
- obsoletes [35] NES Track and Field (Europe) by Phil in 09:05.4 (2004-04-29)
- obsoletes [36] NES Track and Field (USA) by Phil in 08:56.48 (2004-04-29)
- - obsoletes [644] NES Track and Field (USA) by Arc in 08:48.55 (2004-03-14)
Added [945] Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA) by arkiandruski in 35:28.92 (2007-08-18)
- obsoletes [133] Genesis Gunstar Heroes (USA) by Jackic in 32:59.0 (2004-07-20)
Added [944] NES River City Ransom (USA) by Chamale in 06:53.42 (2007-08-18)
- obsoletes [37] NES River City Ransom (USA) by Sleepz in 08:59.95 (2004-03-15)
Added [934] SNES Mortal Kombat II (USA v1.0) by Samhain-Grim in 22:43.68 (2007-08-03)
- obsoletes [789] SNES "quirkfest" Mortal Kombat II (USA v1.0) by Samhain-Grim in 17:54.45 (2007-02-04)
- - obsoletes [702] SNES Mortal Kombat II (USA V1.0) by Samhain-Grim in 12:20.57 (2006-10-22)
Added [897] Genesis Altered Beast (Japan/USA,r2) by foda in 05:53.3 (2007-06-25)
- obsoletes [96] Genesis Altered Beast (JPN/USA,r2) by Dan in 06:21.57 (2004-06-12)
Added [874] SNES Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey and Minnie, The (USA) by Jaysmad in 19:03.97 (2007-05-27)
Added [830] NES Super C (USA) by Baxter & Adelikat in 12:20.02 (2007-04-11)
- obsoletes [105] NES Super C (USA) by Genisto in 12:39.42 (2004-06-27)
- - obsoletes [17] NES Super C (USA) by Genisto in 13:18.35 (2004-03-12)
Added [797] NES Contra (JPN) by adelikat in 08:57.98 (2007-02-16)
- obsoletes [114] NES Contra (USA) by Genisto in 09:34.12 (2004-07-09)
- - obsoletes [16] NES Contra (USA) by qcommand in 10:06.73 (2004-06-06)
- - - obsoletes [643] NES Contra (USA) by Genisto in 10:15.1 (2004-03-14)
- - - - obsoletes [675] NES Contra (USA) by Mathieu P in 11:38.2 (2004-01-19)
Added [787] SNES "2 players" Contra 3: The Alien Wars () by hero of the day in 13:03.32 (2007-02-04)
- obsoletes [586] SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Ash_Williams in 13:14.7 (2006-08-20)
- - obsoletes [98] SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 13:39.83 (2004-06-02)
Added [779] Genesis "100%" Sonic 3 & Knuckles (World) by Upthorn in 45:28.6 (2007-01-26)
Added [756] NES "pacifist" Contra (JPN) by adelikat in 09:46.38 (2007-01-01)
- obsoletes [151] NES "pacifist" Contra (USA) by krieg747 in 10:33.33 (2004-08-05)
Added [745] SNES "pacifist" Contra 3: The Alien Wars (USA) by Ash_Williams in 14:25.25 (2006-12-19)
Added [600] Genesis Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (any) by Nitsuja in 19:55.43 (2006-09-15)
- obsoletes [335] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (any) by Quietust in 21:39.53 (2005-05-09)
Added [550] NES Quarth (JPN) by Acmlm in 01:01.45 (2006-06-15)
Added [500] SNES Super Smash TV (USA) by JXQ in 28:48.68 (2006-03-14)
Added [499] NES Rush'n Attack (USA) by Arc in 09:37.27 (2006-03-12)
- obsoletes [147] NES Rush'n Attack (USA) by Arc in 09:41.15 (2004-07-29)
- - obsoletes [49] NES Rush'n Attack (USA) by Arc in 09:51.7 (2004-04-02)
- - - obsoletes [638] NES Rush'n Attack (USA) by Arc in 10:00.6 (2004-03-28)
- - - - obsoletes [649] NES Rush'n Attack (USA) by Dup in 11:07.25 (2004-03-08)
Added [473] NES Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by Genisto in 09:57.17 (2006-02-13)
- obsoletes [385] NES Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by Saturn in 10:01.42 (2005-07-31)
- - obsoletes [29] NES Chip 'n Dale - Rescue Rangers (USA) by Genisto in 10:20.8 (2004-03-12)
Added [462] NES Snake Rattle'n Roll (USA) by Nitsuja in 07:27.87 (2006-01-26)
- obsoletes [445] NES Snake Rattle'n Roll (USA) by Hanzou in 08:56.98 (2005-12-06)
- - obsoletes [118] NES Snake Rattle'n Roll (USA) by Devindotcom in 10:17.17 (2004-07-14)
- - obsoletes [122] NES Snake Rattle'n Roll (USA) by Devindotcom in 05:08.43 (2004-07-16)
Added [451] NES Ice Climber (USA) by Walker Boh in 19:12.6 (2006-01-03)
- obsoletes [169] NES Ice Climber (USA) by Walker Boh in 21:51.5 (2004-08-22)
Added [443] NES Wai Wai World (JPN) by fuzi2 in 30:58.67 (2005-12-05)
- obsoletes [200] NES Wai Wai World (JPN) by Josh the FunkDOC in 34:24.33 (2004-09-26)
Added [404] SNES Super Bomberman (USA) by Nitsuja in 13:37.32 (2005-09-04)
Added [355] NES "2p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 24:57.47 (2005-06-07)
- obsoletes [291] NES "2p warps" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 15:29.03 (2005-02-02)
- - obsoletes [69] NES "2p warps" Battletoads (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 19:18.78 (2004-04-29)
Added [339] SNES Zombies Ate My Neighbors (USA) by Walker Boh in 59:14.87 (2005-05-11)
Added [320] NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 24:20.12 (2005-04-14)
- obsoletes [284] NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 26:31.67 (2005-01-22)
- - obsoletes [70] NES "1p warpless" Battletoads (USA) by foda in 27:33.38 (2004-05-20)
Added [318] SNES Kirby Super Star (USA) by Nitsuja in 41:56.17 (2005-04-06)
- obsoletes [198] SNES Kirby Super Star (USA) by Zurreco in 51:02.1 (2004-09-24)
Added [310] NES "1p warps" Battletoads (USA) by Phil & Genisto in 13:27.98 (2005-03-18)
Added [194] Genesis Bonanza Bros. (any,r1) by SprintGod in 09:03.02 (2004-09-19)
Added [64] NES Bubble Bobble (USA) by Mattias B. in 27:18.38 (2004-04-19)
- obsoletes [622] NES Bubble Bobble (USA) by Mattias B. in 33:20.95 (2004-04-18)