Animal Match (Compute's Gazette)

You're on safari in "Animal Match", a memory game with oustanding graphics and sound for players of all ages.
The article for this game can be found on page 48 of Compute's Gazette Issue 54 (December 1987)

Why TAS This Game?

The continuation of TASing games from my all-time favorite magazine, Compute's Gazette. This makes my 93rd TAS from this series.
I never even gave this game a chance, back then. The main reason...Crossroads!!! If you haven't seen my work on Crossroads, you should see it. You'll understand why.

Game Difficulty and Ending

There are two difficulties for this game. They are more like modes, so I decided to play both modes to showcase all that the game has to offer.
The difference between the modes is simple...Selection 1 allows you to match the animals, under the keys, without having to match the animal being displayed at the top right. Selection 2, you have to uncover a matching pair that correlates to the animal being displayed at the to right....a feat that is much harder to deal with.

Effort In TASing (Not BOTed)

There was nothing to this game, except finding the fastest frame for each of the matches. Once that was done...the game was pretty much figured out. Just complete Game #1 (easy mode) and Game #2 (hard mode)...and the entire game will have been played to its fullest.

Human Comparison

None to be found.

DrD2k9: Claiming for judging.
DrD2k9: I love that the matches made in the second mode are chosen even before the game is even able to display which animal is supposed to be matched. Accepting!

despoa: Processing...


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #9702: nymx's C64 Animal Match in 01:09.52
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Voted yes, and I personally prefer mode 1. I just realized that I've misunderstood the game. I've thought you were typing out the name of animals and 2 random keys will show the animal... So if I'm correct, in mode 1, you press 2 keys where the same animal resides? And in mode 2, you need to press 2 keys depending on the depicted animal?
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
Voted yes, and I personally prefer mode 1. I just realized that I've misunderstood the game. I've thought you were typing out the name of animals and 2 random keys will show the animal... So if I'm correct, in mode 1, you press 2 keys where the same animal resides? And in mode 2, you need to press 2 keys depending on the depicted animal?
Yes...you are correct on both comments.
I recently discovered that if you haven't reached a level of frustration with TASing any game, then you haven't done your due diligence. ---- SOYZA: Are you playing a game? NYMX: I'm not playing a game, I'm TASing. SOYZA: Oh...so its not a game...Its for real? ---- Anybody got a Quantum computer I can borrow for 20 minutes? Nevermind...eien's 64 core machine will do. :) ---- BOTing will be the end of all games. --NYMX
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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. ---- [6576] C64 Animal Match by nymx in 01:09.52