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Published on 7/22/2011
Formerly known as Halloween Harry, Alien Carnage follows our hero Harry as he single-handedly fights off an invasion of aliens intent on zombifying the populace while rescuing a large number of hostages they have taken. It is fast-paced at the general expense of control quality.
The original creators, John Passfield and Apogee Software, generously released the game as freeware in 2007 and it can be downloaded from here.
This run by Ilari plays through all four "missions" (episodes) back-to-back, as playing through the first three missions is required to unlock the fourth.
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.5

Published on 11/2/2012
Avoid the Noid is a platform computer game for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, written in 1989 to promote Domino's Pizza. It was modeled after the company's ad campaign during the late 1980s. The ads featured a "noid" that destroyed pizzas and must be avoided.
The protagonist must traverse a 30-story building and deliver the pizza within 30 minutes. Colorful rabbits armed with booby traps, phone bombs, rocket launchers and bomber planes that drop water balloons seek to prevent the delivery.
Partners in crime turska & Ilari deliver the pizza in a record-breaking 03:33.52, or 7:42.00 according to the ingame clock. For details on how they did it, read the authors' commentary.
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.6

Published on 6/25/2022
Barbarian is a game developed and published by Psygnosis in 1987. As a barbarian, the player is tasked to navigate through dungeons filled with enemies and traps. Gameplay is done via on-screen icons that can be selected with the mouse, joystick or the function keys, which, suffice to say, isn't the best control scheme for this genre.
eien86 braces through the control scheme and reaches the end in record time.

There is also an alternate YouTube stream featuring audio commentary by the author.
Game:
Barbarian

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.3 + PCem 17+st-1 + Late '80s Package

Published on 12/19/2017
Bio Menace is a 2D, side-scrolling, platform game developed and published by Apogee Software for DOS.
The CIA has learned that gigantic mutants are wreaking havoc in Metro City and their sources say that a scientist calling himself Dr. Mangle is responsible. Snake Logan, the CIA's top secret agent, is sent on a dangerous recon mission, only to have his plane shot down, forcing Snake to walk the streets and kill mutants.
In this run, slamo takes control of Snake as he blasts through mutants and monsters, letting nothing (not even death) slow down his mission.

Published on 9/13/2021
Boppin' is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys and published by Apogee from 1994. The heroes, Yeet and Boik, notice one day that their arcade games have no monsters, and find out that Hunnybunz has taken them all away in his attempt to create a pure, anodyne world free of anything that could be perceived as controversial. Yeet and Boik set off to free these monsters at the behest of other video game heroes, because what else would they do if there was nothing to fight against?
This game was somewhat controversial in its time. The original version had disturbing animations when the players got a game over, but later versions had to have them activated by a command line parameter. Boppin' is also known for its bizarre imagery and its numerous religious and political references.
slamo completes the first episode with two players in record time.
This is the first DOS publication that uses PCem (via libTAS) instead of JPC-RR.
Game:
Boppin'

Genres:
Puzzle
Tags:
2 Players
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.2 + PCem v17+st-1

Published on 5/5/2018
Boston Bomb Club is an old DOS tile-matching puzzle game developed by Silmarils in 1991. The aim of the game is to get the greatest number of bombs across the infernal device constructed by the mad scientists of the Boston Bomb Club from their point of origin to the target zone.
MUGG beats the game in record time.
Game:
Boston Bomb Club

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2 (Modified for Mouse Support)

Published on 11/10/2012
Castle Adventure is a game made in 1984 about a cloverleaf person trapped in a deserted castle with monsters roaming around. You have to find a way to escape the castle by searching for clues.
You move around with the arrow keys. If you manage to find a weapon, you can attack enemies by simply moving into them. Similarly, you can pick up objects on the ground by moving into them. You can also type in commands such as "LOOK DESK", "TAKE KEY", "READ BOOK", and "DROP FLASK". There are treasures to be found and monsters to be slain in order to increase your score.
In this TAS, Ilari & Truncated clear the game in a blindingly fast 19.45 seconds utilizing subframe optimization and rapid keyboard-twisting input. For details, read the authors' comments.
The run is so fast that the emulator can't draw all of the game's video output, so the downloadable encodes are made with a hacked version of the emulator that draws all of them. There is also a secondary YouTube encode that slows the gameplay footage down to 14% speed.
Game:
Castle Adventure

Genres:
Adventure
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2

Published on 2/23/2015
CD-Man is a Pac-Man clone first released in 1989, then updated to Version 2.0 in 1992. The game speed options range from the really slow "Zzzzz..." to the mind-numbingly fast "Warp". Five levels are present in Version 2.0 of the game, unlike the original version, which ended at level 3.
Author c-square controls two characters simultaneously at the highest speed setting and clears the 5 levels twice in 3.71 seconds, making it one of the fastest published TASes on this site.
Due to the sheer speed of the game, slowed down encodes are available. One is at 16.7% of the regular speed, while another is at 10% of the regular speed.

Published on 5/11/2012
Commander Keen 1: Marooned on Mars started the iconic game series. In this episode, aliens from the planet Vorticon VI find out about the eight year-old genius and plan his destruction. While Keen is out exploring the mountains of Mars, the Vorticons steal vital parts of his ship and take them to distant Martian cities! Keen must wrest the parts back from their wicked, clawed hands.
In this run, the author takes back what is Keen's without firing shots at any organic lifeform. Reading the author's comments is recommended.

Published on 5/3/2012
Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes (1990) is the second game in the Commander Keen saga. In it, the Vorticon mothership intends to destroy Earth, and only eight-year old Billy Blaze, as Commander Keen, can save us.
Here the author beats back the Vorticon invasion in slightly under 5 minutes, leaving one to wonder why we here on Earth bother with military defense at all. It's not quite that easy though; reading the author's comments is recommended to understand the planning and manipulation required for Keen to waltz by Vorticon after Vorticon.
If you enjoy this movie, check out these other Commander Keen TASes, all by the same author.

Published on 5/18/2015
From the submission comments: It's Commander Keen 3! Released in 1990, this is the final game in the Vorticon trilogy, using the same engine as Keens 1 and 2. This time Keen must face the Grand Intellect, an evil leader who enslaved all Vorticons and indoctrinated them with only one thought: "Keen must die!"
While there are 16 levels total, only 3 are required to beat the game. In RTA timing this run finishes in 1:37.68 and beats the cancelled run by 30.39 seconds.
If you enjoy this movie, TASVideos also has runs of all the other Keen games.

Published on 2/24/2012
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle (1991) is a part of the popular Commander Keen saga, developed by id Software, and is the first episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy.
Several months after the freeing the Vorticons from Mortimer McMire, Commander Keen (Billy Blaze) finds out that an unknown race called the Shikadi are planning to destroy the Milky Way. He sets course towards Gnosticus IV on a quest to discover their location with the Oracle's aid. Upon arrival, he discovers that the Shikadi have captured the Council Members. In order to save the universe, Keen must fly to the Shadowlands and rescue them.
Using a series of tricks listed in the submission text, Keen reaches the ending in a mere 10 minutes.
Be sure to also watch the exciting conclusion to Goodbye Galaxy.

Published on 3/3/2012
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine (1991) is a part of the popular Commander Keen saga, developed by id Software. It is a direct continuation of the previous episode of Goodbye Galaxy, in which Commander Keen (Billy Blaze) has learned from the Oracle of Gnosticus IV that the evil Shikadi plan to blow up the galaxy with their doomsday device, the Omegamatic (It slices! It dices! It causes a 100,000 light year-diameter quantum explosion!). Naturally, he sets out to sabotage the machine and stop the Shikadi.
Using a series of glitches, Keen completes only four stages to get to the end game, only one of which takes any significant length of time, and destroys the Quantum Explosion Dynamo, the core of the Omegamatic in the impossibly short time of 2:02. In the process, he manages to inadvertently prevent the Shikadi from accomplishing their escape (though you have to watch the ending very closely to figure out that this has happened here).

Published on 4/3/2012
Commander Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter is the final chapter in the Commander Keen saga. Eight-year old Billy Blaze, as Commander Keen, must save his babysitter from being eaten by Bloogs.
Commander Keen 6 is also the third Keen game to get absolutely destroyed at TASVideos. Watch as Keen goes over, around, or through everything in his way to beat the entire game in a bit over three minutes. Reading the author's comments is recommended, and probably mandatory if you want to know what happened.

Published on 12/22/2015
Initially published as a commercial game between Invasion of the Vorticons and Goodbye, Galaxy! in 1991, Commander Keen: Keen Dreams was largely overlooked until it saw a shareware release in late 1992 almost a year after Goodbye, Galaxy!. It is informally known as Keen 3.5 among fans.
In Keen Dreams, Commander Keen goes to sleep and finds himself in the land of Tuberia, where he discovers that Earth children are being trapped in their sleep to work as slaves for the evil King Boobus Tuber. Out of ammo and lacking his trusty pogo stick, Keen must resort to scavenging Flower Power and Boobus Bombs from the local flora in order to combat the tuberian threat.
slamo improves his previous TAS by 24.98 seconds (~21.22 seconds on RTA timing), thanks to a new route, ditching two long levels (Melon Mines and Spud City) in favor of 4 shorter levels on the southern part of the overworld.

Published on 5/18/2018
Crystal Caves is a DOS platformer where your goal is to help luckless entrepreneur Mylo Steamwitz collect all the valuable crystals from each stage to fund a Twibble ranch.
Author Dungeonfacts puts emphasis on the "quick" in Mylo's get-rich-quick scheme, jumping through all sixteen dangerous underground worlds without any fear of what monsters or traps lay inside.

Published on 4/25/2018
D/Generation is an arcade adventure computer game with puzzle elements, published for the PC, Amiga and Atari ST by Mindscape in 1991. In 2018 it was ported to Nintendo Switch by West Coast Software with HD graphics.
The game takes place in a slightly cyberpunk futuristic setting in 2021. A French company called Genoq has developed a series of new genetically engineered bioweapons, which have run out of control and taken over Genoq's Singapore lab. The main character is a courier making an emergency delivery by jetpack of an important package to one of Genoq's top researchers, Jean-Paul Derrida (a name likely inspired by the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida), and who is happily oblivious to the carnage until the lab's doors lock behind him. His customer is ten floors away, all of them crawling with bioweapons.
Game:
D/Generation

Genres:
Action
Puzzle
Tags:
Best ending
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.8 rc2

Published on 1/11/2011
Dangerous Dave is a simple platforming game by one of the designers of the famous game DOOM. The goal is to pick up the trophy sitting somewhere in the level and then to get to the door. Do this 10 times and the game is finished.

Before playing the movie, no matter the format, it is suggested to lower the volume of your speakers, headphones or earphones, since this game has loud sound effects!
Game:
Dangerous Dave

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2

Published on 5/30/2018
Duke Nukem II is the second game in the Duke Nukem series. This time, Duke has been abducted by the evil Rigelatins in an attempt to use his brain to help enslave the earth's population.
Unfortunately for them, author slamo has tool-assisted control of the hero, and he wastes no time at all in showing the menacing alien forces why everybody rightfully knows the name Duke Nukem.
If you like this run, be sure to check out the other runs available for the first game of the series.

Published on 7/13/2018
Duke Nukem II is the second game in the Duke Nukem series. This time, Duke has been abducted by the evil Rigelatins in an attempt to use his brain to help enslave the earth's population.
Unfortunately for them, author slamo has tool-assisted control of the hero, and he wastes no time at all in showing the menacing alien forces why everybody rightfully knows the name Duke Nukem.
This run completes Episode 2 in record time. Check out this movie for a run of the first episode.
If you like this run, be sure to check out the other runs available for the first game of the series.

Published on 3/5/2023
Long before Duke Nukem ever starred in a 3D game, he was the hero in two platform games. This is the first game in which he starred, battling Dr. Proton to save the Earth from his evil Techbot army.
This run plays the first (shareware) episode of the game.
SioN improves the previous TAS by 9.21 seconds, thanks to better optimisation as well as new strategies and a completely new glitch. Please read the author's comments for more details.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPCRR r11.8-rc2

Published on 8/7/2016
Long before Duke Nukem ever starred in a 3D game, he was the hero in two platform games. This is the first game in which he starred, battling Dr Proton to save the Earth from his evil Techbot army.
This run by slamo plays through Episode 2 - Mission Moonbase in record time.

Published on 5/1/2018
In the year 1997, the maniacal Dr. Proton has developed mechanical creatures known as Techbots. Commanding an army of Techbots, the insane scientist intends to conquer the entire world. There is only one hero on Earth who can stop him with his guns and attitude: Duke Nukem.
Duke Nukem: Episode 3 - Trapped in the Future is a side-scrolling shooter with platform elements. Most of the gameplay consists of shooting enemies and exploring the environments, trying to reach the exit and advance to the next stage.
In this final episode, Dr. Proton has created his own future, where his power cannot be matched; Duke is thrown into this future nearly defenseless, and has to figure out a way to escape and defeat the mad doctor once and for all.

Published on 10/5/2010
This table from Epic Pinball was widely distributed as shareware in the mid 1990s. The stated objective is to "[b]ring the android to life!"
The author of this run does just that, maxing out all of the game counters and achieving a very impressive final score.
Game:
Epic Pinball

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 10

Published on 2/17/2018
Epic Pinball is a pinball video game played from a 2D top-down view within a scrollable window. The CD release this TAS was played on comes with the twelve tables (including Super Android from the shareware release) from the floppy releases as well as an additional table: African Safari.
DrD2k9 plays on the Enigma table and summons said Enigma in record time.
Game:
Epic Pinball

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2 (Modified for Mouse Support)

Published on 7/20/2022
Ford Simulator III is a vehicle simulation game from 1992 published by Ford Motor Company and developed by The SoftAd Group. The software allowed you to browse Ford's catalog of cars, and even drive them in a simulation where you would bring your family on a vacation to Lake Wakatonka.
In this movie, slamo drives around like a complete psychopath and endangers everyone on the road in order to bring his family to the lake in record time.
Game:
Ford Simulator III

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.3 + PCem v17-st1

Published on 1/31/2021
Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (later re-released as Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero to avoid trade-mark issues) is an adventure game published by Sierra in 1989. The story goes as follows: In the valley barony of Spielburg, the evil ogress Baba Yaga has cursed the land and the baron who tried to drive her off. His daughter has disappeared and his son has been transformed into a bear, while the land is ravaged by monsters and brigands. The Valley of Spielburg is in need of a Hero able to solve these problems. The player's character is a customized adventurer whose name and class is chosen by the player. The game follows the Hero, who is a recent graduate of the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School, on his journey into the land. He must help people and become a proclaimed Hero.
c-square, mrprmiller and davidtki improve the previous TAS by 1.01 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.
Due to how fast the actions are, a slowed down encode that plays the TAS at 25% of the regular speed is available.

Published on 4/12/2023
Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero (later re-released as Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero to avoid trade-mark issues) is an adventure game published by Sierra in 1989. The story goes as follows: In the valley barony of Spielburg, the evil ogress Baba Yaga has cursed the land and the baron who tried to drive her off. His daughter has disappeared and his son has been transformed into a bear, while the land is ravaged by monsters and brigands. The Valley of Spielburg is in need of a Hero able to solve these problems. The player's character is a customized adventurer whose name and class is chosen by the player. The game follows the Hero, who is a recent graduate of the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School, on his journey into the land. He must help people and become a proclaimed Hero.
davidtki becomes a hero while achieving the highest possible score as possible.
Due to how fast the actions are, a slowed down encode that plays the TAS at 25% speed for gameplay segments is available.

Published on 11/24/2010
Hocus Pocus, published by Apogee Software (developed by Moonlight Software) in 1994 sees a "puny" dropout wizard setting on a quest to collect crystals which will make him powerful. On his way, Hocus is ignoring important information given to him by Terexin while defeating enemies and bosses so that Land of Lattice will become more safe to travel. By completing four tests, he will also be accepted into the Council of Wizards and marry Popopa, daughter of Terexin who leads the Council.
IsraeliRD completes the first of these tests in 15:09.62 minutes, while the player doesn't care about the enemies and get through a horde of them without taking a lot of damage. You can check the author's comments to learn more about his techniques.
The same player did a run for the next episode as well.

Published on 1/26/2011
Hocus Pocus, published by Apogee Software (developed by Moonlight Software) in 1994 sees a "puny" dropout wizard setting on a quest to collect crystals which will make him powerful. On his way, Hocus is ignoring important information given to him by Terexin while defeating enemies and bosses so that Land of Lattice will become more safe to travel. By completing four tests, he will also be accepted into the Council of Wizards and marry Popopa, daughter of Terexin who leads the Council.
IsraeliRD completes the second of these tests in 13:48.61 minutes, while the player doesn't care about the enemies and get through a horde of them without taking a lot of damage. You can check the author's comments to learn more about his techniques.
The same player did a run for the first episode as well.

Published on 12/28/2010
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes a special Christmas episode called Holiday Hare. This is the 1994 version of this episode. A run has been made for the 1995 version of Holiday Hare. There is also a run of the original game available.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2

Published on 12/28/2010
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes a special Christmas episode called Holiday Hare. This is the 1995 version of this episode. A run has been made for the 1994 version of Holiday Hare. There is also a run of the original game available.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2

Published on 7/19/2014
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games was and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes all the standard levels of the full game, which consists of six episodes. We also have a run of the three bonus episodes by the same authors.
You can also watch runs from one of the authors, Ilari, that completed the two Christmas episodes of this game.

Commentary subtitles are available in the YouTube encode and the archive.org page for this run.

Published on 7/19/2014
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games was and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes all the extra episodes (A-C). There is also a run of the original game available.

Commentary subtitles and WebM encodes are available on the archive.org page for this run.

Published on 10/27/2013
Jetpack is a platformer game (now freeware), featuring a man equipped with a jetpack which he uses for flying (if it has fuel, otherwise he can jump) and a phase shifter for temporarily getting rid of troublesome bricks. His goal is to collect all the green gems in 100 devilish stages and avoid hordes of enemies.
In this extremely carefully planned run, slamo completes the game in 32 minutes and 22 seconds with large heaps of luck manipulation and glitch abuse. A normal player would barely get through the first 10 levels in that amount of time.
Prepare to be blown away watching large complex levels completed in under 20 seconds on average. Enjoy seeing extremely tight movement with enemies all around without getting hit, or getting hit yet somehow managing to complete the level anyway. Be dazzled as a dozen teleporters are all simultaneously manipulated to keep enemies away from our hero. Be sure not to fall off your seat when you see Jetman passing through spikes unharmed or completing levels with just the right amount of fuel, and narrowly avoiding certain doom from becoming trapped in reappearing walls.
Practically every aspect of the game was carefully analyzed and thoroughly documented by our users, slamo, Svimmer, Ilari, Nach, creaothceann, and hegyak for the creation of this run. This includes full level maps, with secrets in plain view.

Since the action is so fast paced, there's an alternate YouTube encode at 43% speed, and alternate download encodes at 50% and 75% speeds. It is recommended to watch this run at a slower speed to fully appreciate the timing and many of the tricks performed.

Published on 2/24/2015
Jill of the Jungle: Volume I - Jill of the Jungle is the first episode of a shareware series. It is a platform game where the player takes the role of the titular character, an Amazon woman who takes the not-so-typical role of a monster-slaying, leather-wearing warrior. Jill's most distinguishing ability is morphing into various creatures, such as a bird, a fish, and others, which allow her to explore specific areas. Levels often feature platform structures that must be navigated precisely, as well as keys and gems that must be found in order to advance.
Author slamo runs through the first volume in 6 minutes and 40.85 seconds.

Published on 1/28/2018
Jill of the Jungle is a trilogy of platform games in which the player takes the role of the titular character, an Amazon woman who takes the not-so-typical role of a monster-slaying, leather-wearing warrior. Jill's most distinguishing ability is morphing into various creatures, such as a bird, a fish, and others, which allow her to explore specific areas. Levels often feature platform structures that must be navigated precisely, as well as keys and gems that must be found in order to advance.
Here, slamo tackles the second installment, Jill Goes Underground in 12 minutes and 16.94 seconds.

Published on 7/28/2018
Jill of the Jungle is a trilogy of platform games in which the player takes the role of the titular character, an Amazon woman who takes the not-so-typical role of a monster-slaying, leather-wearing warrior. Jill's most distinguishing ability is morphing into various creatures, such as a bird, a fish, and others, which allow her to explore specific areas. Levels often feature platform structures that must be navigated precisely, as well as keys and gems that must be found in order to advance.
Author slamo completes the last volume in the trilogy, Jill Saves the Prince in 13 minutes and 13.36 seconds.

Published on 8/19/2023
King's Quest: Quest for the Crown is a game first released by Sierra On-Line in 1984, then re-released in 1987. In it, Sir Graham has to retrieve three magical items from the realm, so that he can be crowned King of Daventry after the current king dies.
DrD2k9 improves his previous TAS by 1.56 seconds, mostly thanks to a new route. Please read the author's comments for more details.

Due to the sheer speed of the movie, the second set of downloadables play back the movie at 1/5th of the regular speed.

Published on 10/27/2010
If you've been in Europe long enough, you've probably heard of the Lada car company. However, you probably haven't heard of this relatively obscure tie-in game, involving racing - yes, you guessed it - a Lada... which happens to have a rocket launcher and machine gun (those are almost certainly not standard features).
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 10.13

Published on 11/11/2012
Mario & Luigi for MS-DOS is an independent game created by aspiring coder Mike Wiering in 1994. Although it's limited in some ways, the game is reasonably solid and shows decent smooth-scrolling graphics for a 25MHz 486.
Here, veteran DOS TASer Ilari uses tricks requiring exacting precision to squeeze every last millisecond out of this 6 level game.
Game Version:
MARIO.EXE
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11

Published on 1/22/2023
Mario Teaches Typing is an edutainment game that uses the Mario license to teach typing to kids. Play a variety of minigames that somewhat resemble the main console Mario games by typing out sentences and letters, which can sometimes even include trivia from the '90s!
In this run, c-square aims for the maximum scores that can be reached with all the minigames, using scripts and subframe input to type out as quickly as six letters in a single frame during two minigames.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2 Modified

Published on 1/10/2019
This is a Mega Man game that was not developed by Capcom, but rather by Stephen Rozner of Hi-Tech Expressions, who did all the design, programming, graphics, and sound. The game is infamous for its mediocre quality.
In this run, David Fifield shaves 36.61 seconds off the previous movie. The majority of the savings come from a glitch that allows most of Volt Man's stage to be skipped. Other improvements include better movement throughout the stages and faster boss fights.

This game runs too fast on anything more modern than a low-end 386 or so. As such, the encode is technically correct.
Game:
Mega Man

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.6-WIP (commit bf3a341ad233439e21a32f33df

Published on 2/14/2023
Mixed-Up Mother Goose is an adventure game developed by both Coktel Vision and Sierra-Online and released on various platforms, including DOS. Designed for children, it is set in the dream-like world of Mother Goose, who desperately needs help: the nursery rhymes have gotten all mixed up, and it is up to the player to find the required item and bring it to the person for the rhyme to exist.
Sand finds the items and brings them to the NPCs for their rhymes in record time.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.3, PCem 17+st-1

Published on 5/1/2018
Developed by Australian company Animation F/X and published by Manaccom domestically and by Apogee Software internationally, Mystic Towers is an isometric action RPG released in 1994. You play as Baron Baldric, a geriatric wizard who must rid the twelve Lazarine Towers of all of their monsters to release his village from a curse.
slamo lifts the village's curse in record time.

Published on 4/8/2017
Released by Gray Design Assoicates in 1994, Nitemare 3D is a first person shooter in the same vein as Wolfenstein 3D. The game is a follow-up to the Hugo trilogy of parser-based adventure games and chronicles Hugo's fight to rescue his girlfriend Penelope from an evil scientist named Dr. Hammerstein.
The first episode, played by slamo in record time, is a journey through Hammerstein's bizarrely designed mansion, featuring witches, vampires, and closets that seem to go on forever.

Published on 5/28/2023
Another World, known as Out of This World in North America and Outer World in Japan, is a cinematic platformer that was originally created for the Amiga and Atari ST computers and was later ported to other computers and video game consoles. It was widely known as a watershed moment for cinematic gaming and computer graphics, having an epic scale to its setting and utilizing rotoscoped vector graphics. The story involves a young physicist named Lester Knight Chaykin, who gets involved in a particle accelerator accident and soon finds himself in an alien world. Lester must now find a way to escape the planet and return to Earth.
This time, eien86 escapes from the world in the DOS port in record time.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
LibTAS 1.4.4 + PCem 17+st-1 + Late 90's Config

Published on 4/2/2023
In this timeless classic, the tyrant Jaffar has seized power and has forced Sultan's daughter to marry him. Jordan Mechner's brother David, the brave youth who is a prisoner in Jaffar's dungeons, must rescue her within 60 minutes. Little does poor Jaffar know that he will be defeated in a fifth of the intended time.
eien86 improves his previous movie by 10 seconds in in-game time, pushing it down to less than 12 minutes on the in-game timer. Please read the author's comments for more details on the improvements.

The author has also made a commentary video that you can watch here.

Published on 2/10/2024
In this timeless classic, the tyrant Jaffar has seized power and has forced Sultan's daughter to marry him. Jordan Mechner's brother David, the brave youth who is a prisoner in Jaffar's dungeons, must rescue her within 60 minutes.
This time, eien86 aims to defeat every single enemy in the game and also drinks every potion in the regular stages and rescues the princess in a little less than half an hour.

Published on 4/24/2022
After having defeated the evil Grand Vizier Jaffar, the brave Prince claimed just one reward: the hand of the beautiful daughter of the Persian Sultan. However, as the Prince approached the palace, his appearance suddenly turned into that of a beggar. Someone who looked just like the Prince ordered to throw him out. It turns out that Jaffar is alive and back for vengeance. Banished from the palace, the unfortunate Prince must travel to faraway lands and find a way to defeat the villain.
GMP improves the previous TAS by roughly 14 seconds after accounting for emulation differences, thanks to improved sword tech. Please read the author's comments for more details.

Audio commentary from the author and Samabam, a runner of the game, is available right here.

Published on 11/11/2018
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the sequel to Hero's Quest. It takes place in the town of Shapeir and the desert surrounding it, in a Middle East-like environment. It seems that the powerful elemental spirits have been troubling the Shapeir folk recently. Something, or someone, is behind those troubles. It is the hero's task to find out what is going on, get acquainted with the town's inhabitants and prove once more that he is worthy of his heroic title.
c-square improves his previous TAS by 9.71 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and choosing the Wizard class instead of the Thief class.

The second YouTube stream cuts out the first waiting period in Raseir and shortens the second wait in the same town from 3 minutes (normal speed) to 30 seconds (6x speed).

Published on 3/1/2015
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is a simulation game developed by MPS Labs and published by Microprose in 1990. The goal of this game is to normally rack up as much money as possible by expanding the railroad empire across the land, building stations, buying trains, creating industries and fending off the competition, with a starting capital of £1 million, in order to retire with the highest job rank.
In this TAS, however, c-square loses as much money as possible on the highest speed setting, Turbo, and still manages to earn the highest rank thanks to an underflow, where the value wraps around to be +£32 million after losing money past £32'767'000, in just less than 40 seconds. One could say he crashed the economy by doing so.

Published on 10/18/2010
Skyroads is a short game where one controls a racer on tracks containing lots of bottomless pits and obstacles. Those don't worry our author, though; he just bounces to the music and blasts through levels. Don't blink.
This version of the run is 2.65 seconds faster than the first.
Game:
SkyRoads

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 10.15

Published on 11/7/2010
Not satisfied with regular Skyroads, the developers decided to create a new set of significantly shorter yet excessively difficult tracks under the excuse of a holiday theme.
Here, you can feel vindicated that you don't have to play through those tracks yourself.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 10.13

Published on 4/29/2018
Snoopy and Peanuts, also known as Snoopy: The Cool Computer Game, is a DOS game released in 1989 by Edge Games. You play Snoopy who must find Linus's blanket and bring it to him.
MUGG finds the blanket in record time.
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2 (Enhanced)

Published on 12/9/2017
Vohaul's Revenge is the sequel to The Sarien Encounter, and the second game in Sierra's humorous Space Quest series of adventure games. The player navigates Roger Wilco around with the arrow keys and interacts with the world by typing commands. Like in the previous game, there are many ways for the player character to die. Much of the gameplay is dedicated to avoiding the many traps and hazards Roger will meet on his way. Some actions must be performed quickly in order to prevent Roger from getting killed.
DrD2k9 completes the game in record time, thanks to setting the speed to the fastest setting.

The second YouTube stream plays back the movie at 1/5th of the regular speed.

Published on 10/23/2011
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers is the fourth installment of the Space Quest adventure series, and the first Space Quest game with point-and-click gameplay, as compared to its text-based predecessors. In this game, Roger Wilco is thrown into the future at Space Quest XII, and must stop Vohaul, whose consciousness lives inside another person. To do so, he must time-travel within the future (Space Quest X and XII) and to the past (Space Quest I) to gain information needed to achieve this goal.
The author, c-square, completes this game using major sequence breaks that are almost impossible to perform unassisted without abusing saves. To help with this TAS, the source code of JPC-rr was modified to support mouse input fully. See the submission text for details.

Published on 12/10/2017
Space Quest: Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter is a humorous sci-fi adventure game made with Sierra's AGI engine. The gameplay is similar to that of King's Quest: the player navigates Roger around with the arrow keys and interacts with the game world by typing commands. There are puzzles to solve and plenty of situations where the player will have to use his wit to save Roger from death.
DrD2k9, c-square and Radiant speed through the game in record time.

Due to the sheer speed of the movie, the second set of encodes play back the movie at 1/5th of the regular speed.

Published on 4/28/2018
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary is a point & click adventure game released in 1992 for DOS. It features the original Star Trek crew (Kirk, Spock, McCoy and redshirt). You play through seven episodes, each assigning you with a mission that you need to complete in order to go on with the next mission.
MUGG completes the seven missions of the floppy release (since it features a much shorter mission 7) in record time.

Published on 12/4/2020
The Adventures of Captain Comic: Episode 1 - Planet of Death was one of the first console-style side-scrolling platform (shareware) games for PCs. Though it was developed as an experiment to test the viability of real arcade games on standard IBM-compatible PCs, Captain Comic gained fame as one of the best shareware games ever made, later serving as the inspiration for Commander Keen and even getting an unlicensed port to the NES.
To complete the game, players must collect three treasures that were stolen from the planet Omsoc: rare gems, a sack of rare coins, and a jeweled crown. David Fifield and Kabuto collect the three treasures as quickly as may be technically possible, thanks to accomplishing the routing of the run using computer optimization. To learn more about the algorithms and optimization work that went into this run, read the authors' submission notes.

The encodes of this movie have the authors' commentary embedded as subtitles. Additionally, there is a 21-part series of live coding videos that documents the creation of this TAS. Check out a TAS of the unlicensed NES port here.

Published on 4/17/2011
In this DOS game, watch as Spider-Man lives up to the adjective in the title as he glitches his way to the final screen of the run and completes the game in record time.

Published on 1/5/2019
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is written by Douglas Adams and Steven Meretzky and based on Adams’ BBC radio series, television series, and the series of subsequent novelizations. It’s one of the classic Interactive Fiction games produced by Infocom, labeled as Science Fiction and has a Standard Level of Difficulty. Though divergent from the source material, the main characters, locations, and concepts are here. Unlike the book, death can come quickly if Arthur fails to observe his surroundings, collect inventory, talk to people, and consult the Guide. DON’T PANIC!
c-square completes the game in record time.
Note: Due to the sheer speed of the text scrolling, the second set of encodes are slowed down to 10% of the original speed. However, we recommend you play the game or read the book before you watch the slowed down version, as it spoils the fun of the game.

Published on 2/12/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
dwangoAC and slamo escape from Castle Wolfenstein as fast as possible, using various tricks. Read the authors' comments for more details.

An alternate encode by the authors with the map display is available right here.

Published on 3/19/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo utilizes diagonal dashing and careful manipulation to get through Operation: Eisenfaust as fast as possible.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 6/25/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo, using various tricks, kills a modernised version of the Führer (and thus rewrites history) as fast as possible.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 10/3/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo uncovers the dark secret and kills Otto in record time.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 5/13/2017
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo follows the trail of the madman and uses tricks to skip this episode's boss in order to beat it in record time. Please read the author's comments for more details.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 10/8/2017
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo survives the confrontation with General Fettgesicht and clears the record in record time. Please read the author's comments for more details.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 12/9/2012
Antarctic Adventure was released by Konami in 1983 for the MSX and was later ported to other platforms. You play as Penta, a penguin racing around Antarctica to different research stations while avoiding sea lions, breaks in the ice, and a time limit. The game was popular enough that it spawned a sequel, Penguin Adventure, and Penta became Konami's mascot for a time.
This run by Vampier makes one full round around Antarctica and finishes in just under 14 minutes.
Game:
Antarctic Adventure

Genres:
Racing
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.8.1

Published on 3/3/2024
C.C.R.: Anexo 1, El Algoritmo (C.C.R.: Annex 1 - The Algorithm) is a homebrew adventure game for the MSX that was developed for the MSXdev18 contest. The game starts with a man who suddenly wants to jump off the top of a tall building for mysterious reasons. As you progress through the game, you'll come to learn why the man has come to that point, as a government conspiracy entraps him and many others involving a mysterious algorithm.
CloakTheLurker here speedruns though the adventure and exhausts the game of story content as fast as possible.
You can get the game and its English translation here.
Game Version:
anexo01_6.rom
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 3/12/2011
Of the many Contra ports, the MSX version perhaps differs most notably in that taking damage is not instantly fatal. There's also significantly less horizontal scrolling due to the limitations of the system.
Game:
Contra

Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.8.1 RC2

Published on 2/17/2013
Frogger is a port of Konami's classic arcade game, where you must lead five frogs in each level across a road and a river to the safety of their homes while avoiding hazards like cars and trucks, crocodiles, and a venomous snake.
The author, Quibus, races the frogs through the dangerous area and finishes the first five stages in just under three and a half minutes.
To see another port of the original arcade game beaten quickly, see the Atari 2600 version run. We also have a run of the sequel to the original game.
Game:
Frogger

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
Frogger (Japan).rom
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 1/23/2013
Galaga is the classic arcade shooter that takes place in space, and that's a sufficient enough description. We also have movies of the Atari 7800 version and SG1000 version.
Game:
Galaga

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
Galaga (Japan).rom
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 1/23/2013
Galaxian is an arcade space shooter game created by Namco in 1979. It was the first game to feature multi-colored animated sprites, a scrolling background, and graphics to represent the number of lives and the current round.
Quibus tears through the first stage of the MSX port of this classic game in a little over half a minute.
Game:
Galaxian

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 4/1/2013
Joe Kowalski is trapped in a large haunted house. He must uncover clues to open hidden passageways and staircases and avoid floating eyeballs, ghosts, Frankie the mutant Frankensteiner student ghost, Dracula, and the dreaded Brainiac in order to find his way out.
Quibus plays through this game with skill, utilizing tricks and glitches to escape the house in just over nine minutes.
Game:
Haunted House

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1-dev13213

Published on 3/16/2013
In Hunchback, you take on the role of the eponymous bell-ringer, Quasimodo, in his quest to rescue the beautiful Esmeralda from the tower of the castle fortress. You must run and jump through a number of screens to reach the tower, avoiding spear-toting guards, ramparts and fiery chasms.

Being a run of a game on tape, the loading time is long (about 1 minute 10 seconds), complete with loud noises. You may want to skip it.

Published on 11/27/2011
Invasion of the Zombie Monsters is a B-Movie style platformer for MSX. You take control of Ned, a geek trying to save his girlfriend from a giant demon terrorizing the city. This game was designed to be a throwback to games like Legend of Hero Tonma and Ghouls 'n Ghosts.
This is an improvement of 00:37.90 seconds over the previous run, courtesy of better boss fights and other general optimizations.

Published on 12/30/2016
KiKi KaiKai (奇々怪界) is an overhead multi-directional shooter game that requires the player to move in four directions through various levels while attacking harmful enemies as they approach from off-screen. It was developed and published by Taito Corporation originally for Japanese arcades in 1986.
If the stage 7 boss looks familiar, it's because he's Rocky, the shapeshifting tanuki who becomes your ally in the game's sequel, Pocky & Rocky.
Zupapa completes one round of the game in record time.
Game:
Kiki KaiKai

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.13.0

Published on 2/3/2013
King & Balloon is an original shooter game by Namco that was created to run on Galaxian arcade machine hardware. The goal of the game is to use the orange cannon to blast away the descending balloons and prevent them from reaching and capturing the king.
Here, Quibus showcases precise blasting on the first two stages and a perfect score on the first bonus stage.
Game:
King & Balloon

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 7/3/2011
You take control of two Knights, Popolon and Aphrodite, out to rescue their baby Pamperse from the evil high priest Galious. They have their own subtle differences in gameplay, but for the most part, they just act as two separate health bars.
The authors, zggzdydp and scrimpeh, run through the game at breakneck pace, taking much more damage than they should be able to.

Published on 1/24/2015
Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon (ルパン三世 バビロンの黄金伝説) is a game based on the animated movie of the same name released in 1988 by Toho. You control Arsene Lupin through 7 stages to help a mysterious space woman get her golden space ship.
scrimpeh runs (or rather, jumps) through this fairly short game in 4 minutes and 49.66 seconds.

Published on 11/20/2012
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro is the MSX2 video game adaptation of the anime movie of the same name. What was once a complex plot involving counterfeit money distributed by a tiny country, the game reduces it to just saving a princess in a castle.
The hero here seems to have a sword sharp enough to apparently cut through solid wall to hit targets on the other side plus ability to fall through floors...

Published on 10/7/2015
Metal Gear!? It can't be!
This is the original MSX version of the first entry of the ever-popular Metal Gear series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. In this game, Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, a fortified state founded by a "legendary mercenary" 200 km north of Galzburg, South Africa, in an operation codenamed Intrude N313. He must find out what happened to Gray Fox, after losing contact with FOXHOUND.
In this movie, however, dunnius isn't very stealthy at all; he goes through numerous alerts in order to reach a time of 26 minutes and 28.05 seconds.

Published on 11/26/2016
Unlike the Famicom version, the MSX version of Nuts & Milk is viewed from a top-down perspective and the character (Milk) can walk in four directions. As such, all platforming elements are removed from the game and the emphasis is more on puzzle-solving. The overall goal is the same - collect all fruit onscreen while avoiding baddies, and after that collect the heart to end the level.
Zupapa completes the 12 rounds in record time.
Game:
Nuts & Milk

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.13.0

Published on 12/9/2012
Penguin Adventure is a game about a penguin going on a journey to retrieve a special fruit to save the penguin princess.
Unfortunately, saving the princess takes more than just successful recovery of the fruit and raw speed, so this run gets the bad ending.

Published on 11/11/2010
In this first-published MSX TAS, Rambo decides to skip rescuing the VIP and just make a leeway to the helicopter himself.
Reality is not all it seems, with spiders being as difficult to kill with a knife as a human, and foodlike substances adopting an alternate name.

To play the OMR file, make sure you have the Panasonic FS-A1WSX bios installed.
Game:
Rambo

Genres:
Adventure
RPG
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.8.0-dev11728

Published on 2/22/2013
Scion was an arcade game that was ported to the MSX by Sony in 1985. It features gameplay unusual for a shooter. You don't even need to gun down the enemy ships. Instead, you stay on one screen that loops continuously until all ground targets have been destroyed. Three screens of that and it's on to the next stage.
However, since every stage is identical, Quibus just plays through stage 1 as fast as possible.
Game:
Scion

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
Scion (Japan).rom
Tags:
Single level
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 4/2/2017
Skooter is an action game developed by Byte Busters in 1987 and published by Eaglesoft in 1988 in Europe. The version played here is the Pony Canyon ROM release of 1988.
Game:
Skooter

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.13.0

Published on 1/23/2014
Every one hundred years, the forces of evil mysteriously start to weaken. Though some of these evil creatures band together to counteract this weakness, many of them are still slaughtered by the forces of good. But one day, One, the most evil one, found a way to break this curse and grow only stronger and stronger. Sensing the presence of a cure within the blood of a young woman, he pulled her into the darkness...right before our hero's eyes! Filled with anger, he grabbed his mystical whip and followed One through the night until finding himself at the base of One's fearsome castle. What evil awaits him there? Will he save the girl in time?
The goal in each level of this MSX homebrew game is to find the cleverly hidden white key and use it to open the door to the next level. There are also items that can be picked up along the way to help our hero in his quest.
In this run, scrimpeh manipulates enemy movement and utilizes damage boosts and invincibility frames to beat the game in under 9 minutes.
For another MSX game with very similar gameplay, see the run of Vampire Killer done by the same author.
Game:
The Cure

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.10.0

Published on 9/26/2022
The Fairyland Story is a platforming game that was originally developed as an arcade game and later got ports for the MSX and X68000. It is similar to fellow Taito arcade Bubble Bobble in that you have to defeat all the enemies in each room in order to progress. Here, you play as a witch named Ptolemy, who can transform enemies into cakes that she can squish or push off platforms to crush other enemies with. Her end goal to defeat the dragon Dracolisk and get back the magic gem it stole.
Darkman425 decides to forgo using any warps in this run in favor of showcasing every level the game has to offer as quickly as possible, manipulating the RNG or enemy AI whenever necessary.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/23/2011
The Treasure of Uşas is an adventure and platforming game where the character's attacks depends on his mood, which is changed by touching one of four special emotion icons found in various places within the game.
The player uses these emotions and each of the characters' powers to find the four pieces of Uşas' jewels as fast as possible.

To play the OMR file, you have to have the Panasonic FS-A1WSX bios installed.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.8.1

Published on 8/20/2013
As you can see here, the original Castlevania wasn't only on the NES, but also on the MSX computer. Author scrimpeh did on the MSX Castlevania what Phil Côté & Morrison did on the NES Castlevania.
This version is different in some important ways. Some new gameplay elements include the requirement to collect a white key in each stage in order to advance, the removal of the chain whip after each boss battle, and the ability to buy subweapons from sitting bystanders in white or red clothes.
This is an improvement of 01:14.90 over the previous run thanks to a few new time-saving tricks.

Note: To play the OMR file, you'll need to have openMSX 0.8.2 / 0.9.0 with the Panasonic FS-A1WSX BIOS installed.

Published on 2/23/2013
Yie Ar Kung-Fu II: The Emperor Yie-Gah is the sequel to the famous Yie Ar Kung-Fu. Both games were developed by Konami for the MSX. While the first one was a fighting game, this one is a beat 'em up. You play as Lee Young, a martial arts master and the son of the first game's hero, who must take out self-proclaimed Emperor Yie-Gah and his gang and save China from their evil influence.
The author, Quibus, avoids unnecessary battles with gang members and beats down every boss to defeat Yie-Gah without taking a scratch.

Published on 7/31/2021
Backyard Baseball is one of the best and most well known kids sports games, being the first game in the Humongous Sports franchise. In this first installment in the Backyard Sports series, the player's goal is to assemble a team of backyard kids and take them all the way to the championship - in this instance, the Ultra Grand Championship of the Universe. While not carrying an official Major League Baseball license, the game does contain 30 kids to assemble a custom team, as well as 10 fields for them to play in. The team's name, colors, and mascot can be defined, as well as its batting order and field positions.
TiKevin83 completes a 6-inning pick-up game in record time.
Game:
Backyard Baseball

Genres:
Sport
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.2 + ScummVM 2.2.0

Published on 3/19/2024
Bone.exe is an action platformer for Windows PCs that parodies various internet and video game horror trends. It features characters and settings from various creepypastas and and urban legends and puts them all together into a gun-based platforming game wrapped in a mid-2000s Flash game aesthetic reminiscent of Edmund McMillen's games. Despite all of that, the game does appear to have some affection for the stuff it is parodying.
rythin for this run decides to fight all of the bosses the game contains as fast as possible. This is done by finding areas that contains secret bosses and collecting all 24 notes that are scattered throughout all the levels, which then unlocks a bonus boss at the end.
You can get the game here.
Game:
Bone.exe

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.5

Published on 11/12/2011
Cave Story (2004) is a famous freeware indie game notable for being made entirely by one person, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya.
Watch as nitsuja completely destroys this difficult game with amazingly precise movement. This playthrough saves Curly and finishes with the best ending after beating Ballos.
The program used to make this run, Hourglass, was also developed by nitsuja—with the creation of this run in mind. As such, it is our first published run of a Windows game.

Downloadable encodes and the YouTube encodes include commentary as soft subtitles.
Game:
Cave Story

Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
Hourglass r77

Published on 2/3/2023
Dono's Tale is a 16-bit styled indie platformer developed by Super Item Studios. It has an art style that's very reminiscent of games like Yoshi's Island, and features a super cute blue dragon named Dono who can run, dash, jump, and shoot his way through all the levels to get his fruit back.
TheAmazingYucemu & chickennugget play through this original game's Sonic Amateur Games Expo (SAGE) demo in record time.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4

Published on 11/21/2013
Eryi's Action is a sidescrolling platformer where Eryi must charge through a series of devious traps and enemies in order to stop Farta and recover her melon. There are so many of these traps, in fact, that the developers designated the game a "trapformer". In many cases, the most obvious path through an area does not work, and only clever thinking or trial-and-error will allow Eryi to proceed safely.
Aside from the traps, the game is designed to be very similar to Super Mario Bros.: enemies are defeated by being jumped upon, a flagpole must be reached at the end of each stage, and there are even mushrooms (which can be used as trampolines).
In this run, Bernka uses tool assistance to barely steer Eryi away from many traps and even fool several others, chaining mushroom and enemy jumps and moving precisely to beat the game in the fastest time possible.
For a movie of a similar but much less polished game, see the Syobon Action TAS.
Emulator Replay:
Hourglass r81

Published on 4/18/2013
In Eversion, Zee-Tee is on a quest to rescue the princess across multiple realms, each one more disturbing than the last...
Despite not collecting all the gems, this run by Bernka achieves the good ending by using a glitch to trick the game into unlocking Level 8 with minimum gems.

Published on 2/6/2014
The good Mecha Santa plans to spread happiness and cheer all over the world. Princess Pitch, previously a sidekick in the game Garden Gnome Carnage, sets out to put an end to those silly plans.
This time around, Princess Pitch decides to take on Mecha Santa and his army of robot elves on a difficulty harder than the hardest (Reallyjoel's Mom), since it's too easy otherwise. Reallyjoel's Mom is a secret joke difficulty meant to be impossible: it multiplies the spawn and attack rate of all enemies several times over and removes all powerups and ammo refills. Consequently, a player without tool assistance will maybe beat one room - if they're lucky.
This TAS gets through with liberal use of the piledriver move, as well as precise movement and shooting.
Emulator Replay:
Hourglass r81


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