I like the idea of listing movies that a person enjoys for whatever reason. I think it's fascinating. Inspired by (and copycatting) pages linked to in forum signatures that (ab)use movies.cgi, and egged on by the discovery of the DisplayMovie module (which can embed the same thing into pages with other arbitrary content, like this bloated sentence), here is an annotated list of my movie suggestions.
This list is not a list of my "favorite" movies though. It is a list of possibly overlooked yet very entertaining movies. I also tried to pick mostly games that I had no prior experience with as well.
Order is random as are the reasons for inclusion.

One of the most surprising movies I've seen, this obscure adventure game is incredibly fast.

[Atlas map encode]

NES Legacy of the Wizard by Lord Tom in 13:42.88

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 9/30/2007
Legacy of the Wizard (1987), released in Japan as "ドラゴンスレイヤーIV Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family", is actually a part of Dragon Slayer series. This is a nonlinear platforming adventure game, in which you gain control over one member of the Drasle family to explore the vast dungeon filled with mind bending puzzles and obscure secrets.
The goal of the game is to retrieve a powerful sword named Dragon Slayer, protected by four magical crowns, to kill an evil dragon trapped in the nearby labyrinth. Each member of the family has different abilities, and the portion of the labyrinth only he/she can go into to retrieve one of the crowns. However, this prerequisite was circumvented by the clever use of certain new glitches.
According to the author, this movie employs a completely different route, better luck manipulation and some new tricks that result in a 3:38 faster movie than the previous version.
Moral of this movie: Beware of short fat men, for they're surprisingly quick.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
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Game:
Legacy of the Wizard
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
Game Version:
Legacy of the Wizard (USA).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
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FCEU 0.98.16

I love how amazingly broken this game is.

NES A Boy and His Blob by Aqfaq in 01:57.95

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 6/4/2007
A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (1989) is a popular, whimsical game in which a shapeshifting blob (named Blobert) from the planet Blobolonia teams up with an Earth boy to overcome obstacles on both planets and to defeat Blobolonia's evil emperor.
This movie is ~11 seconds faster than the previous version by the same author, due to better control of the boy's acceleration.
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Game:
A Boy and His Blob
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
Game Version:
Boy and His Blob, A - Trouble on Blobolonia (U) [!].nes
Tags:
Heavy glitch abuse
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This is remiscent of the glitched Zelda II runs.

NES The Battle of Olympus by nesrocks in 10:40.78

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 9/2/2006
The Battle of Olympus (オリュンポスの戦い) is set in ancient Greece. A mortal man named Orpheus receives help from the gods and nymphs in his quest to save his lover Helene from Hades. People often compare this game with Zelda 2 because of its similar gameplay.
This movie is 9:11 faster than Arc's version, mostly because of the utilization of a gameplay-altering glitch: pressing Left+Right simultaneously in order to make Orpheus move with almost unlimited velocity growth. The trick is documented at GameResources/NES/BattleOfOlympus.
The route used in this movie is decided by a few things the hero (Orpheus) must do:
  • Collect three fragments of love in order to activate the Tartarus entry.
  • Get a key to access the second fragment's location.
  • Get the Eyeball of Graeae to see invisible doors (to access the first fragment's location).
  • Get a sword in Peloponnesus. It is needed to kill the three-headed guardian with respawning heads (Cerberus) in Tartarus.
  • Collect 60 olives in order to buy the ocarina, which will be needed to cross the sea to get to Crete and Tartarus.
  • Get a harp in order to call Pegasus. It makes the route faster.
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Game:
The Battle of Olympus
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
RPG
Game Version:
Battle of Olympus, The (U) [!].nes
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Video Downloads:
AVI
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FCEU 0.98.16

Super fast platformer for a movie franchise (the movie's pretty good too...)

NES The Blues Brothers by Randil in 04:37.40

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 7/4/2007
The story of The Blues Brothers is that the Blues Brothers have to take unorthodox routes in order to sneak their way into a gig.
This game is really fast-paced. Do a TAS of it, and… see for yourself. :)
This new version is about 14 seconds faster than the previous movie by Acmlm.
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Game:
The Blues Brothers
Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Blues Brothers, The
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
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One of the best "storybook" games.

NES Déjà Vu by Randil in 10:32.18

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 7/29/2007
A storybook game like Shadowgate and Uninvited.
In this one you star as Ace Harding, a detective who wakes up having no idea who or where he is. As the game progresses you discover that you have been framed for a crime you didn't commit, and must find a way to clear your name.
This is a 22 second improvement over the author's previous attempt by a slight route change and improved menu navigation.
Further reading:
We recommend Mr. Kelly R. Flewin's Déjà Vu Speed Guide.
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Game:
Déjà Vu
Genres:
Storybook
Game Version:
Deja Vu (USA).nes
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AVI
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Strange game featuring, not surprisingly, hammers.

NES Hammerin' Harry by Randil in 07:17.83

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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 6/26/2007
Hammerin' Harry is a pretty simple platformer. Armed with a big hammer, you make your way through 5 levels, and the first 3 levels have bonus levels as well. At the end of each level there is a boss, and in some levels, there are also mini-bosses. In short, this game is a "normal" platformer, you won't have a hard time figuring out what's going on.
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Game:
Hammerin' Harry
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Game Version:
Daiku no Gen San (J) [!]
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Takes intentional damage
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Broken point and click action.

NES Maniac Mansion by Arc in 06:29.13

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 2/18/2008
Maniac Mansion (1990) is a unique game that has weird humor and crazy music. It features cutscenes, multiple ways to win, useless items (like Chuck the Plant), and microwavable hamsters. In the storyline, Dave and two of his friends infiltrate the Edison family's mansion in order to rescue Dave's girlfriend. In order to save her, the teens must get access to the inner lab, deal with Purple Tentacle, shut down the ZOM-B-MATIC, and defeat the evil Meteor.
This movie—Arc's eighth TAS of Maniac Mansion—is about 46 seconds faster than the previous attempt.
The author's comments for the submission help to explain the multitude of tricks and glitches used.
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Game:
Maniac Mansion
Genres:
Adventure
Game Version:
Maniac Mansion (USA).nes
Tags:
Heavy glitch abuse
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
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Rivals Sonic games in how often the player is not actually on the screen.

[Atlas map encode]

NES Marble Madness by adelikat & Deign in 02:48.40

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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 7/5/2007
Marble Madness is a 3D'ish game similar in its style to Snake Rattle 'n Roll. The objective in these two games is quite different, though. In this game, the player must roll a marble from point A to point B. This is of course not as easy as it sounds. And certainly not as easy as it looks in this movie.
This is a 65 frame improvement over the previous movie by adelikat.
This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
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Game:
Marble Madness
Genres:
Racing
Game Version:
Marble Madness [b1].nes
Tags:
One player in a multiplayer game
Video Downloads:
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Totally strange Disney game, nice luck manipulation

NES Mickey Mousecapade by Randil & CtrlAltDestroy in 07:23.68

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 5/2/2007
Even though at first sight this might seem like a kiddie game, when you start playing it you'll see that it's no cakewalk, and is actually very challenging.
There's a lot of fighting in this game, so this movie is nonstop action, and it has very accurate shooting.
This movie is a 35.5 second improvement over the previously published movie.
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Game:
Mickey Mousecapade
Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Mickey Mousecapade (U) [!]
Video Downloads:
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A unique and odd puzzle/adventure game with some glitchy goodness

NES Mighty Bomb Jack "best ending" by hisatoki in 10:15.62

Published on 7/23/2007
Mighty Bomb Jack is a game where Jack goes to rescue his family from a pyramid. Along the way, he meets many enemies who start as mummies and change forms when they hit the ground. He also finds bomb-filled rooms at the end of each round, which work like warp rooms with a twist: you can warp ahead to the bomb room of the next round if the first lit bomb is the last bomb collected. Using this, the author warps past many rounds.
However, this movie aims for the best ending, which is obtained by freeing all the family members in Round 12. This means that the author avoids warping past some rounds in order to collect items. For more details, read the submission comments.
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Game:
Mighty Bomb Jack
Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Mighty Bomb Jack (J) [!].nes
Tags:
100% completion
Best ending
Uses intentional deaths
Uses warps
Heavy resource management
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.16

Solitaire. Freakin' Solitaire.

NES Solitaire by mmbossman in 00:47.27

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 4/8/2008
April 1st submissions rarely manage to gather overwhelmingly positive user feedback, but this movie is a pleasant exception.
Solitaire is actually a family of single-player card games. The particular form featured on the NES is called Klondike, and you can find it distributed with many desktop operating systems, such as Windows.
Amazingly, despite the game being almost as asexual as possible, mmbossman manages to cop a good feel of one of the Queens.
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Game:
Solitaire
Genres:
Strategy
Unlicensed game
Game Version:
Solitaire (AVE) (REV1.1) [!].nes
Tags:
Single level
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FCEU 0.98.16

I don't even like football (U) that much, but this is one of the funniest runs on the site.

NES Tecmo Super Bowl "playaround" by adelikat in 11:05.02

Published on 1/11/2008
This movie doesn't aim to run up the score. Instead, it plays an entertaining game of American football by keeping the score close for drama and by utilizing a variety of wild plays with interceptions, fumbles, impossibly long passes, etc. Thus, the movie manipulates luck often.
In addition, the author exploits a number of bizarre bugs, such as CPU players tackling their own teammate, and a very unorthodox final play.
True tecmobowlers will enjoy the team choice and final score.
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Game:
Tecmo Super Bowl
Genres:
Sport
Game Version:
Tecmo Super Bowl
Tags:
Playaround
Heavy glitch abuse
Video Downloads:
AVI
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Super fast glitch fest of classic 90's "'toons"

NES Tiny Toon Adventures by Randil in 11:18.25

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 11/11/2007
Tiny Toon Adventures (1993), based on a cartoon show of the same name, is a fairly easy game to play. However, it has a nasty bug lurking within it: if you press left and right simultaneously (you can do it if you break your controller's directional pivot), you can get some impressive momentum.
This along with Furball's "walljumping" is heavily abused in this movie, resulting in an impressive 10 second improvement to the previous movie by the same author.
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Game:
Tiny Toon Adventures
Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Tiny Toon Adventures (U) [!].nes
Tags:
Heavy glitch abuse
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This just blew my mind.

[Has commentary]

NES Youkai Douchuuki by Randil in 13:11.35

Published on 6/19/2007
Literally translated, the name of this game means "demon travel journal".
It tells a story about a boy, Tarosuke, who seeks to meet Buddha, who will decide about Tarosuke's next life. In order to meet Buddha, Tarosuke has to do lots of good deeds which earn him "piousness".
This movie is ~80 seconds faster than the previous movie by Morimoto, which was the oldest non-obsoleted movie on this site at the time, being almost 4 years old.
Because there is a lot of interesting dialog in this movie, but all in Japanese, the YouTube and downloadable encodes have English subtitles for all in-game dialog text, as well as some explanations. It should help understanding the game events as well as enjoying its weird sense of fun.
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Game:
Youkai Douchuuki
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
Game Version:
Youkai Douchuuki
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
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Short, absurd, delicious.

Genesis Dark Castle by Aqfaq & stanski in 00:56.55

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 2/4/2007
Dark Castle looks like a Genesis version of Donkey Kong. This new movie is three seconds faster than the previous version by Aqfaq.
Selected comments from Aqfaq:
I managed to skip most of the game, which is good because Dark Castle sucks.
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Game:
Dark Castle
Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Dark Castle (UE) [!].bin
Tags:
Uses hardest difficulty
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GENS

Shortest game on the site... featuring epic luck manipulation.

Genesis King's Bounty by Aqfaq in 00:10.17

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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 12/18/2006
King's Bounty is a turn-based strategy game. The objective is to recover the Sceptre of Order. Map pieces that reveal the location of the sceptre are gained by defeating villains and finding special artifacts.
A normal play session would involve exploring four large continents and battling hundreds of creatures, but in this movie nobody gets killed and everyone is happy.
The input length is 10 seconds long, only 25 frames of which is actual gameplay!
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Game:
King's Bounty
Genres:
RPG
Strategy
Game Version:
King's Bounty - The Conqueror's Quest (USA, Europe).md
Tags:
Heavy luck manipulation
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GENS

A pretty unique game that despite horrible play control is really fast and cool looking

SMS Psychic World by Dammit in 13:03.32

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Obsoleting Movie
Published on 2/18/2008
Monsters have blown up and escaped from a top secret Psychic Research facility and stolen one of the lovely lab assistants as well. Dr. Knavik gives Lucia his precious ESP Booster to save her twin sister Cecile.
By collecting various items on her travels, the ESP Booster grants Lucia various powers (kind of like Mega Man...) to destroy her enemies and also navigate quickly through levels. This is exacerbated for the author by poor hit detection and finicky input control. Input is only allowed one time every four frames. Nevertheless the end result is a fast paced and varied movie.
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Game:
Psychic World
Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Psychic World (E) [!].sms
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy resource management
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Dega 1.14a

A strange Japanese WTF game that's over in the blink of an eye

SMS Psycho Fox by Frenom in 02:12.60

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 12/22/2007
Madfox Daimyojin must be stopped, and only Psycho Fox and his band of various animal friends can stop him. Each character has different characteristics, and naturally the fastest one, Tiger, is employed in this run.
Top speed is mixed with warps to finish the game amazingly quickly, probably before you can figure out what's going on.
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Game:
Psycho Fox
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Game Version:
Psycho Fox
Tags:
Forgoes intentional damage
Uses warps
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"Fastest racing game on TASvideos"™

[Atlas map encode] [Star]

SNES Biker Mice from Mars "final round" by Baxter in 05:12.62

Speedy TAS of 2007
Published on 2/24/2007
A high speed racing game featuring rodents from another (nearby) planet. Although the author doesn't classify the velocity potential of the motorcycle as a programming error in the game, the speed at which he rips through the courses may make you wonder.
A password is used to skip to the final round at Super Hard difficulty with fully upgraded Engine and Shot parts. We do not usually accept movies using passwords. Please read the rules to see our reasons.
This movie has an Atlas Map encode of the Sunset City track, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.
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Game:
Biker Mice from Mars
Genres:
Racing
Game Version:
Biker Mice From Mars (U) [!].smc
Tags:
Demonstration
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty
Uses a level password
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Snes9x 1.43 v9

Samurai Pizza Cats!

NES Kyatto Ninden Teyandee by Ferret Warlord in 09:02.92

This movie has been obsoleted!
Obsoleting Movie
Published on 9/2/2006
A game based on the show Samurai Pizza Cats. Five characters are available, but one (Batcat) is used extensively because his ability of flight leads to many shortcuts.
This game has a glitch enabling one-frame boss fights. To quote the author: If the team leader executes a level three ninpo attack on the first frame of combat, the boss is dead. Right there, dead, even the ones that don't show up immediately. As pulling this off requires your weapon to be maxed out, this saves anywhere from a great deal of time (first level) to a little bit (last level).
This movie was recorded with a bad ROM dump (now known as "b3"); see the author's submission notes for more information regarding this.
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Game:
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Game Version:
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (J) [b3].nes
Video Downloads:
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This movie is masterfully crafted.

[Photo/phono-sensitivity warning]

N64 Glover "all stages" by adelikat in 37:15.28

Published on 9/21/2007
Glover is an animated cartoon-like glove (go figure), complete with only 4 digits. With a ball he can transform into several different forms, and he must complete puzzles and navigate dangerous terrain.
The author takes many shortcuts, specifically the kind that were not intended to be used. Read the author's submission for more information about the bugs used.
This movie is over 4 minutes faster than the author's previous movie.
WARNING: There are rapid flashing lights during the boss fight at Fortress of Fear, which may cause epileptic seizures.
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Game:
Glover
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Game Version:
Glover (U) [!].z64
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes major skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Forgoes time-saving glitches
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty
Video Downloads:
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One of the old "star" runs, but one that is obscure. Absurd game beaten absurdly fast.

SNES Umihara Kawase by flagitious in 01:46.42

Published on 10/1/2006
This little-known Japanese wire-action platformer, with a very well-made rubber wire physics simulating engine, sports a schoolgirl setting out to rid the world of giant mutant fish.
The game is very easy to win, but very difficult to play (try it). This video demonstrates one of the fastest paths to the ending, including quite a few almost impossible maneuvers ― whether playing tool-assisted or not.
This video is a 7 seconds improvement to the previous version.
See the Umihara Kawase page for more information about this game, and the author's comments for more information about this movie.
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Game:
Umihara Kawase
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Game Version:
Umihara Kawase (Japan).sfc
Tags:
Uses warps
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Snes9x 1.43 improvement9

Very pretty, very fast.

N64 Wetrix "1 minute challenge" by Deign in 00:49.72

Published on 6/8/2007
Wetrix is a strange Tetris-style game in which you place blocks onto a large playing field and score loads of points by making lakes and surviving another second (every drop of water that leaks off the field counts against you). This run aims to get the highest score possible in the 1 minute challenge.
The final score is 2,613,944 points. There are huge bonus multipliers which stack together to produce the massive score.
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Game:
Wetrix
Genres:
Puzzle
Game Version:
Wetrix (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl).z64
Tags:
Aims for maximum score
Heavy luck manipulation
Single level
Video Downloads:
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Emulator Replay:
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