Trek (Compute's Gazette)
Race though the galaxy in a dilithium-powered starship, but watch out for drones, mountains, and the dreaded plasma cannon.
You are the captain of a starship en route to Delta Minor on a mission of mercy. The research outpost is battling a mutant virus of their own making. your ship has been ordered to assist in decontaminating the outpost and saving the personnel. Due to the nature of the emergency, you proceed at maximum warp.
The article for this game can be found on page 54 of Compute's Gazette Issue 16 (October 1984)
Why TAS This Game?
The continuation of TASing games from my all-time favorite magazine, Compute's Gazette. This makes my 71st TAS from this series.
This issue came along, while I was still without a Commodore 64. Well, eventually...I got one. This was on the list to type in quickly and play!
Game Difficulty and Ending
At the start of the game, 4 levels of difficulty are provided. I choose the hardest, Level 4. As for the ending...you'll be indicated by a message of "Victory", only to be followed up by the "Game Over" screen.
Effort In TASing (Not BOTed)
This game had a bit of turning point for me. At first, I thought the game was running on a timer. Because of that, I was going for maximum score. Well, after starting over from the beginning and improving this TAS...I saw that maximum score was a very shaky category...as I was about 6000 frames faster over my first effort. I continued on and improved this movie by ending input earlier than I have in most of my games. In fact, it was around 800 frames cut from doing so, although it depended on the outcome of luck.
Human Comparison
I was surprised that I couldn't find a human playing this game. I figured it was more popular for someone to post a video. Well, nothing to be found.