So after my Destiny of an Emporer run (now submitted check it out and vote ;P ) I didn't want to quite do another run of something yet, but thinking about games I used to play a lot, this one came to mind. Mainly because I never beat it, the controls (heck, the game altogether) sucked. And yet at the same time I thought it might be interesting.
The game is in two halves: Driving and Walking, and Driving. Both top-down views. Driving, you avoid baddies, throw dynamite, and look for caves, the shop, and eventually the exit which is opened by purchasing an arena pass at a shop. Bartering is done with food and water found in the caves, where the Walking part takes place. You just walk around with your gun, avoiding baddies, shooting them, and collecting items. Doors require keys to open....usually.
The second Driving I mention above is the arena. You're driving the whole time and have to kill 30 cars. (second time 40 last time 50). I'm not quite sure how I'll optimize this half but I think what I did was pretty entertaining so I'll base it off of it. ANyway this section sucks because you don't have dynamite so you have to push them off cliffs or into pits that open and close, or just Destruction Derby them until they pop! And then it's back to the other style, etc. 3 rounds of each, alternating, and then a final boss which is totally different from the rest of the game, and then 'the end.'
When messing with the game I found a glitch during the cave sections: holding left+right (and with down held or not) and firing causes Max to just sit and fire repeatedly but with no bullets coming out or ammo being lost. No big. Holding up+down (and left, and left+right as well) and firing causes the game to CRASH. Like right then and there it all goes POOF. No help at all.
But holding up, right, and down and firing causes the game to glitch the whole time you hold the buttons down. At random I got it to seriously freak out twice and cause three Maxes on screen at once, I'm trying to recreate it on 'film' but ANYWAY-- the important part of this glitch is that locked doors that I am touching on the north side will OPEN when messed with while glitching out the game, eliminating a need for a key.
(I demonstrate this at the end of the movie)
ANYWAY! The following movie shows that the game is much shorter and even more entertaining than I'd thought when played right so it might not make a bad run after all. I here have optimized the first driving section and go through the arena section largely at full speed but still got a fine movie. I'll redo it of course. And then in the second driving area I find a cave to specifically show off the glitch, I haven't decided which cave is best for the fastest run.
http://www.twistedeye.net/doae/MadMax.fcm