Tool-assisted movies (4)

Karnov is one of those games whose fame defies my logic.
The game is similar to Ghosts'n Goblins. Both look a little badly programmed.

This is an improved version by one minute.

Karnov is one of those games whose fame defies my logic ― Bisqwit
The game is similar to Ghosts'n Goblins. Both look a little badly programmed.

This is an improved version by another minute. We recommend reading the author's comments…

There is a subtle allusion to Dance Dance Karnov on stage 6.

This is first publication(?) in the Karnov food chain. It was created with famtasia with limited TASing tools. It has some rather unoptimized segments. It does beat the game without taking damage or dying.

This is a historic movie, submitted and obsoleted before the creation of the database-based (and wiki-based) site engine, before July 2004.

It was inserted to the database in a history revival project by Bisqwit in autumn 2006.

Karnov is one of those games whose fame defies my logic ― Bisqwit.

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

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

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

This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.