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Spot: The Video game is a sort of knock-off Othello/Reversi clone where your objective is to control more of the board at the end of the game, or take control of all your opponent's discs.
With board games being allowed, and triviality rules being relaxed, what better place than here? What better time than now? Lets all show some love to one of the more under-appreciated mascots out there.
First, we go to the menu and disable move animations which are both annoying and slow. You can do one of two things per turn. You can move one square (which creates a duplicate disc for you) or you can jump and move 2 squares (any direction, including moving like a knight in chess) which doesn't duplicate a disc. If you put a piece adjacent to your opponents discs, you flip them Othello-style.
There was a previous submission of this game from a few years ago. This submission is 2 frames faster than that one was due to optimizing movement tech. If you need to move directly right, holding select actually moves you faster than holding right. Due to this we can land the final piece 2 frames quicker.

feos: Claiming for judging.
feos: This may be a primitive game, in that it's very short and there's only so much you have to do to be quick, but I don't think it's trivial to speedrun it optimally. You have to know how it works. For example, moving right+down and then left+down is quicker than moving straight down twice, because you get less lag. Different routing results in getting the bonus or worse AI movement. Also maybe some faster movement tech involving more Select is found in the future (I couldn't). After trying this myself, it's clear that coming up with this result wasn't trivial. Even though triviality is going to be removed as a factor soon, I don't even feel it makes sense to delay this submission until then. Accepting.

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The arcade game Ataxx sure got a weird NES port.
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It's superficially like Reversi, but I wouldn't call it a clone/knockoff of Reversi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataxx The concept was invented earlier by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley for the unreleased 1988 video game Infection. Virgin Mastertronic licensed it to Leland as well as using the design in its own Spot: The Video Game released the same year as Ataxx.
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2 frames is 2 frames, nice find.
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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. ---- [4890] NES Spot: The Video Game by ShesChardcore in 00:25.74