Kid Chameleon

  • Chameleon Kid
  • Platformer

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Kid Chameleon is a platforming game that was developed by Sega Technical Institute for the Sega Genesis. It is known for its cheesy '90s approach to virtual reality and its unforgiving difficulty, with no save or password systems and deaths that make you lose all of your items and powerups. The story has titular Kid Chameleon going on a virtual reality quest to rescue a bunch of kids that were kidnapped by a rogue artificial intelligence that controls the virtual reality consoles they play on. He must go through the virtual world created by the evil AI and use whatever powerups and abilities he can get in order to take it down.
In this run, CaseyTAS saves 11 frames over his previous run thanks to a couple minor optimizations.

Warning: Some end of level sequences contain strobing lights which may affect those with photosensitivity issues.
Kid Chameleon is the story of a kid trapped in an arcade machine, where he has to traverse many different kinds of levels from different "games" and can transform into many types of characters. It is rather convoluted, with the ability to take many paths to the last level.
Instead of taking the fastest path, this movie takes the longest path possible without backtracking, but does so as quickly as possible. Several new tricks originated in this run that only recently found their way into the any%.
The baseline tab shows the default movie beating the game as fast as possible without any special conditions.

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