Old Tower is a 2018 homebrew game for the ZX Spectrum, it features a kid that can only move one direction at a time, it must collect all coins in each stage and avoid bats to reach the end.
you can also in some levels control another character by switching over to him with the fire button. in some levels you need to position each character in specific spots to make the other character reach a certian palce.
other things include blocks that dissapear once touched, and block that appear once you fly across them.
while this run seems long, that is only due to the fact that starting up this game takes 9 minutes, the game itself is less than 4 minutes long (thanks ZXSpectrum). For the sake of watching this run, I edited out the loading in the encode.

feos: Great game indeed, and the movie is nice. The game is short, not too hard, also not too complicated, but this helps to understand what's going on. In addition, the game is made to be quite appealing - it overcomes usual limitations of ZX Spectrum and looks way better than an average ZXS game. The audience also liked it, accepting to Moons.
feos: Setting back to judging underway until all improvement checks are done.
feos: Replacing with an improvement and setting back to Accepted.
Also I found that this game is present as different versions that don't sync, and it's a free game, so here's the link to the developer site, whose version syncs.
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If this game had been published in the 1980's, I don't think many people who know how the Spectrum works would have believed their eyes.
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If you like the scrolling in this ZXS game, you should check out the other Retro Souls games too. The most recent one being Gluf (yes that’s how you spell it) https://youtu.be/M80QS-itM4o
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EZGames69 wrote:
https://youtu.be/M80QS-itM4o
Is it using 8x2 color attributes? I was a ZX Spectrum 128 owner in the 80's and 90's, and don't remember even one single game of the era that would have used any kind of "change color attributes between drawing scanlines" trick to get more colors at once on screen, nor am I even aware of any such game. I have to wonder if the trick was discovered only later, or if it was known by some developers, but they just couldn't figure out how to make a reasonable game design out of it.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [3950] ZXS Old Tower by EZGames69 in 13:04.04
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LOL The publication got a copyright claim for the loading sound. This is what it thinks it is: https://youtu.be/-mjGKtgemeo
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing