Cutthroat Island is a licensed video game that is loosely based on the movie of the same name. It is primarily a hack and slash platformer with other gameplay elements such as autoscroller levels. You choose from two characters, Morgan Adams and William Shaw, and go on an adventure to recover the pieces of a torn-off treasure map that leads to the treasure of the doomed Spanish cargo ship, the Santa Susanna.

In this run, XTREMAL93 opts to get all five collectable treasure chests in addition to being the game as fast as possible. Collecting these treasure chests gives you a quiz after beatng the game where you had the opportunity to answer trivia questions and enter a sweepstake to win a cash prize. Unfortunately, the movie bombed and sunk the production studio with it, possibly rendering the sweepstake null and void.