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Published on 12/19/2023
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe is an adaptation of the board game of the same name for the Atari 2600. It plays just like Tic-Tac-Toe, but on a 4x4x4 cubic space. Whoever can get a row of four in any dimension wins the game.
In this run, Walgrey plays against the computer at the easiest difficulty and manipulates it into letting her win a single game as fast as possible.

There are alternate encodes that remove all the fades-to-black to make it easier to follow the run.

Published on 6/18/2022
Barnstorming is an Atari 2600 video game designed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision in 1982. The goal of the game is to fly through barns, while avoiding windmills and birds. There are four difficulties, going from 10 to 25 barns; this run uses the easiest one.
ShesChardcore and MrWint improve the previous run by 11 frames through rigorous optimization. You can read MrWint's notes and ShesChardcore's notes for further details.

Published on 6/23/2022
Boxing is a game for one or two players which is played from an overhead point of view. The game lasts for two minutes, and the player who can earn the most points in that time wins. The game also ends if a player earns 100 points in total, netting a knock-out.
You earn one point for a long jab and two points for a close power punch. Two difficulty levels are included which can be set individually for each player.
In this run, ShesChardcore and ViGadeomes manage to save two frames over the previous run by ViGadeomes.
Game:
Boxing

Genres:
Fighting
Sport
Game Version:
Boxing (USA).a26
Tags:
Single level
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/24/2023
Checkers is a video game based on the board game checkers. It was made for the Atari 2600 by Activision. What's notable about this version of the game is that the screen turns black when the opponent AI is computing moves to make against you, and given how fast the Atari 2600 is, a regular game can take nearly an hour to play.
Winslinator here improves on their previous "Game 3" run by 16 seconds. This is done by using better cursor moving technique and improved AI manipulation, ending the game in two fewer rounds. You can read the author's notes for more details.

There's an alternate encode that trims out the loading screens for those in a hurry.

Published on 11/26/2022
Hangman is a simple guessing game that is usually done on pencil and paper. With a set number of blank spaces representing a word or phrase, you guess which letter appears in that word or phrase. Guess right and the letter appears in one or more of the blank spaces. Guess wrong and a stick figure body part is added to a noose. The game ends when either all spaces are filled or the stick figure is complete.
In this run, yep2yel, ShesChardcore, and negative_seven work together to complete a single game of Hangman on the Atari 2600 as fast as possible.
Game:
Hangman

Genres:
Puzzle
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/21/2022
Othello is a board game that is a modern variant of Reversi. It looks similar to Go with its checkered board and black and white pieces, but it's completely different.
negative_seven saves 7.31 seconds over the previous "maximum score" run through extensive research and development, the most notable being the usage of a modern Othello AI engine and pitting it against the Atari 2600 AI. You can read the author's notes here for all the details on the efforts put into the run, including the creation of a custom Atari 2600 emulator.

Published on 7/7/2022
Pepsi Invaders is a reskin of Space Invaders that was privately commissioned by the Coca-Cola Company. According to legend, only 125 carts were made and distributed to various Coca-Cola executives, making it one of the rarest video games of all time. The main difference between this game and vanilla Space Invaders is that you can only shoot one bullet at time, as the trick to having two bullets on-screen at once doesn't work in this game.
Nevertheless, ShesChardcore manages to work around this disadvantage and complete a single level in record time.

Published on 8/8/2020
One day, on your way to school you realize that a lot of obstacles appeared on the streets overnight. As a skater you feel challenged to skate over as many ramps and through as many pipes as possible while still arriving at school in time. You’ve got 5 minutes and a total of 30 obstacles to cope with.
KiwiCracker conquers all 30 obstacles in record time.
Game:
Skate Boardin'

Genres:
Sport
Tags:
Single level
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.2

Published on 5/21/2018
In Skiing, your goal is to ski to the bottom of the mountain in the shortest time possible. The mountain is treacherous with plenty of trees and moguls in the way! There are two different modes of gameplay. In slalom mode, there are a series of gates you need to ski through; missing any will result in a penalty to your time. In downhill mode you just need to ski to the bottom as fast as possible. Each mode includes five different skill levels which affect the length of the course (and the number of gates in slalom mode.)
ViGadeomes completes the slalom mode on the most difficult setting, with an in-game time of 28.21 seconds.

Published on 6/23/2022
This is the Atari 2600 version of Space Invaders, the classic game where you fight to defend your planet from a rectangular array of descending aliens.
KiwiCracker and ShesChardcore clears one wave of aliens systematically, improving on the previous movie by 0.57 seconds through the use of a new technique that changes the size of the ship.
Game:
Space Invaders

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/16/2022
Steeplechase is a horse racing game where you do hurdles against three CPU-controlled opponents with your horse. While this may sound simple enough, it's actually a little more complicated than that once you play the harder game levels. Don't think that just by not missing a single hurdle means you can win a race at the hardest level.
For this run, ShesChardcore has analyzed the game mechanics enough to not only beat the AI at the hardest level, but also set a record time.
Game:
Steeplechase

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 7/25/2023
Avenger is a shoot 'em up for the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 that plays very much like Space Invaders. Like with that game, the goal is to shoot down all the aliens on the screen. You have three barriers that can defend you from the aliens but they can be worn down over time by them.
nymx in this run completes a single level of Avenger at the hardest difficulty in record time.
Game:
Avenger

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 9/12/2023
Bee Zone is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the September 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, you play as a guy that's in a gigantic beehive known as the "Bee Zone", which is filled with honey and enormous bees. Your goal is to collect all the honey in the hive before the giant bees get you and kill you.
In this run, nymx completes a single level of the game in record time.
Game:
Bee Zone

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 3/24/2023
Chopper 1 is a rather difficult Commodore 64 game that was featured in a 1986 issue of Compute's Gazette. You control a helicopter that's equipped with a laser cannon, and your goal is to shoot down as many of the bombs an indestructible alien UFO is sending down to destroy your city. The city is protected by a force shield, but it can only last so long until the bombs pierce through and hit the city.
In this run, nymx chooses to play a single level at the Level 9, the highest difficulty, and beats it in record time without a scratch on the force shield.

Published on 6/8/2023
Heat Seeker is a short arcade-like game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the March 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The goal is simple: eliminate a bunch of heat seeking missiles at a base with your fighter jet. Be careful though as the missiles can track you down and move faster than you.
In this run, nymx completes a single level of the game in record time by destroying a few of the missiles and ending input early by letting the rest of the missiles miss the jet and hit the ground.
There is also another TAS of this game by the same author that instead destroys all of the missiles as fast as possible, which is sadly slower than letting input end early.

Published on 12/23/2023
Maze Master is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the October 1988 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The game plays similarly to Pac-Man, but with one main difference. Instead of being chased by ghosts, you face off against another CPU-controlled player who's in another maze in a race to get as many dots as possible. Whoever gets 176 dots first wins the game.
For this run, nymx sets the in-game speed to maximum and eats every dot in the maze given as fast as possible.

Published on 5/2/2023
Mole Attack is a video game adaptation of the classic carnival game Whac-A-Mole that was developed by HAL Laboratory for the VIC-20 and PC-8001. The goal of the game is score as many points as possible by whacking as many moles in the head you can find. More points are gained for whacking the moles as soon as they pop their heads out of their holes. Points are lost for whacking the moles on their butts.
nymx and DrD2k9 collaborate to score as many points of as possible in a single level with the help of a brute force bot to optimize for both score and speed and a glitch that allows for scoring points by hitting the moles' butts in a certain way.

Published on 9/24/2023
Q-Bird is an arcade style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the December 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. You play as a baby bluebird that is surrounded by various predators. Your objective is to survive and clear the grid of all its tiles by jumping on them until they disappear. Be careful not to step off the grid or you'll fall to your death. In a way, this is basically a 2D version of Q*bert.
nymx in this run decides to play a single level of the game at its hardest difficulty and does so in record time, saving the baby bluebird.

Published on 3/9/2023
Rambo: First Blood Part II is an adaptation of the Sylvester Stallone movie of the same name for the Commodore 64. It is a top-down action shooter where you play as John Rambo, Vietnam War anti-hero. His order in this game is to document the existence of prisoners of war in Vietnam and nothing more. But Rambo, being Rambo, decides to disobey that order and barge into the prison camps and rescue the POWs himself. And Vietnam in the game appears to have an endless amount of American POWs.
nymx completes a single round of POW rescuing in record time by utilizing a zipping glitch that corrupts Rambo for a second and has him move through walls at the speed of sound.

Published on 7/17/2023
Space Dock is a arcade-style game that was published in the August 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, you pilot a mining spaceship filled with cargo you have to deliver. However, there is a bunch of traffic running perpendicular to you blocking your way. Your goal is to get to the other side where the spaceport is without crashing so you can land and unload your cargo.
nymx in this run does just that and plays a single level of the game at the hardest difficulty as fast as possible.

Published on 12/2/2022
Yathzee [sic] is one of many ports of the dice game Yahtzee to the Commodore 64. The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. Points are earned depending on the scoring category chosen. A Yahtzee is when all five dice have the same number and is worth 50 points, the most of the categories. Unique to this particular port is the usage of a synthesized voice, which sounds pretty rough due to being on an 8-bit computer.
nymx decides to max out and glitch the score counter by consistently scoring Yahtzees many times in a row. The synthesized voice was kept in to showcase its ability, despite being able to save an additional 43 seconds with it turned off.

Published on 8/25/2015
The original arcade game Zaxxon was the first game to employ an isometric perspective, later used in other games like Q*Bert, Marble Madness, and Fallout. This ColecoVision port preserves the graphical style which gave the game its name – AXONometric projection.
This run by dwangoAC uses the hardest difficulty and performs several difficult shots in order to beat the first cycle of the game in under two minutes.
Game:
Zaxxon

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.1

Published on 10/5/2010
This table from Epic Pinball was widely distributed as shareware in the mid 1990s. The stated objective is to "[b]ring the android to life!"
The author of this run does just that, maxing out all of the game counters and achieving a very impressive final score.
Game:
Epic Pinball

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 10

Published on 2/17/2018
Epic Pinball is a pinball video game played from a 2D top-down view within a scrollable window. The CD release this TAS was played on comes with the twelve tables (including Super Android from the shareware release) from the floppy releases as well as an additional table: African Safari.
DrD2k9 plays on the Enigma table and summons said Enigma in record time.
Game:
Epic Pinball

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2 (Modified for Mouse Support)

Published on 7/25/2023
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force is a point-and-click videogame released in the year 2008 on the Nintendo DS. It was developed by 1st Playable Productions and published by Disney Interactive Studios as part of the famous Club Penguin franchise.
The game stars a player penguin, as he/she finds a mysterious puffle with a map piece after reading the local newspaper. After some investigating, the player discovers the super secret organization called the Elite Penguin Force, who helps and rescues penguins in time of need.
This TAS by dekutony plays through the special DLC mission for the game "The Puffle Pranksters". In which the player must figure out what happened to The Elite Puffles after they went missing, while also investigating this strange occurrence of "white" Puffles that have appeared all over the island.

Published on 1/4/2022
Tetris Party Deluxe released 25 years after the original incarnation of the popular puzzle game, on both the Nintendo DS and Wii. It features many new modes, including online multiplayer with up to 3 other players on the DS version.
This run by Mars608 completes the Sprint mode, commonly referred to as "40 lines". Focusing on the In-Game Time, it achieves a record-breaking 21"83, which is 1.33 seconds faster than the previous publication.

Note that the time appears longer; however, this is due to more accurate emulation.
This is the very first DS publication using BizHawk instead of DeSmuME.

Published on 1/23/2015
Tetris is a puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. This Game Boy port was included with every system sold, resulting in the game becoming hugely popular.
This run by MrWint completes Mode B at level 9 as fast as possible, and improves the previous movie by 00:06.96 seconds. Most of the improvement comes from a glitch where the game copies the top few rows after line clears. For more details, read the submission comments.
Game:
Tetris

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk svn8760 (1.9.1)

Published on 10/21/2022
Perfection is a board game where you have to fit a number of different shaped pieces into a board under a time limit. Run out of time and all of the pieces pop out of the board. The game has received video game adaptations to a number of systems.
In this run, ShesChardcore completes a single game of Perfection on the Game Boy Advance in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 4/24/2023
Flooder is a simple homebrew puzzle game where the goal is to turn a grid filled with squares of different colors into a single large square of a single color. Starting from a single square of a certain color, you change the color of that square so that it matches the color of an adjacent square, assimilating it. From there, you then continue to change the color of the chain you created, assimilating more squares until the entire grid is one single, uniform square.
Cephla plays a single level of the game in this run and completes it in record time with the help of a brute force script.
You can play the game here.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Flooder

Genres:
Puzzle
Homebrew
Game Version:
flooder.gb
Tags:
Single level
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 11/29/2009
The author plays the GBC version of Tetris this time.
This movie aims to complete the required number of lines as fast as possible. Of course the best course of action is to get only "tetrises" (4 lines at once).
This is a 4.02 second improvement over the previous movie.

Published on 6/21/2014
Resident Evil 4 features a completely new story and an innovative "over-the-shoulder" third person perspective that replaces the fixed camera system of the previous three Resident Evil games.
Special agent Leon Kennedy is on a mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the daughter of the U.S. President, from a sinister cult in a remote rural part of Europe. Leon must fight hordes of violent villagers and mutated monsters on his way to save her.
The Mercenaries is an unlockable minigame in Resident Evil 4. It is unlocked by completing the main game regardless of difficulty. The objective is to kill enemies to earn points before the evacuation chopper arrives in the allotted time.
In this run, Ubercapitalist plays through the Castle level of The Mercenaries game mode using Wesker. He obtains the maximum amount of kills and the highest score using multiple weapons and major amount of luck and spawn manipulation. Ubercapitalist explains in great detail his process in the submission text.
For those who want to watch the run without all of those item pickups, Ubercapitalist has provided an "Artist's Cut" of the movie here.
Ubercapitalist has also made a TAS of the Village map for The Mercenaries.

Published on 11/29/2019
Resident Evil 4 features a completely new story and an innovative "over-the-shoulder" third person perspective that replaces the fixed camera system of the previous three Resident Evil games.
Special agent Leon Kennedy is on a mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the daughter of the U.S. President, from a sinister cult in a remote rural part of Europe. Leon must fight hordes of violent villagers and mutated monsters on his way to save her.
The Mercenaries is an unlockable minigame in Resident Evil 4. It is unlocked by completing the main game regardless of difficulty. The objective is to kill enemies to earn points before the evacuation chopper arrives in the allotted time.
In this run, Ubercapitalist plays through the Village level of The Mercenaries game mode using Wesker. He obtains the maximum amount of kills and the highest score using multiple weapons and major amount of luck and spawn manipulation. Ubercapitalist has also made a TAS of the Castle map for The Mercenaries.

Published on 9/10/2020
Resident Evil 4 features a completely new story and an innovative "over-the-shoulder" third person perspective that replaces the fixed camera system of the previous three Resident Evil games. Special agent Leon Kennedy is on a mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the daughter of the U.S. President, from a sinister cult in a remote rural part of Europe. Leon must fight hordes of violent villagers and mutated monsters on his way to save her.
The Mercenaries is an unlockable minigame in Resident Evil 4. It is unlocked by completing the main game regardless of difficulty. The objective is to kill enemies to earn points before the evacuation chopper arrives in the allotted time.
Ubercapitalist takes on the Waterworld level of The Mercenaries using Wesker. Major manipulation of luck and the AI, in addition to Wesker's powerful arsenal, helps Ubercapitalist achieve the maximum number of kills possible and the highest score well before the evac helicopter arrives.
Ubercapitalist has also made a TAS of the Castle map and a TAS of the Village map for The Mercenaries.

Published on 10/11/2022
Checkers is a video game for the Intellivision based on the board game of the same name. Being produced on a console that's of the same generation as the Atari 2600, the opponent AI takes a while computing possible moves to take against you. Unlike the Atari 2600 version, it takes much less time to do so and it doesn't cut to a black screen while it computes.
Winslinator carefully uses moves that minimize the time the AI takes to compute its moves and beats it in record time.
Game:
Checkers

Genres:
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 3/3/2023
Tutankham is an arcade game developed by Konami that was ported to home consoles such as the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision by Parker Brothers. You play as an ambitious grave robber that's plundering the tomb of Tutankhamun, hoping to find riches and treasures. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of magical curses and wild animals such as dragons that can kill you in one hit. You can shoot them off with your gun, but you can't shoot up or down. You also can only carry one key in a time, and there are multiple locked doors in each level.
Winslinator and feos make their trek in the tomb much easier through the power of RNG manipulation, causing enemies to not spawn most of the time, and complete one loop of the game in record time.

Published on 12/30/2022
The original arcade game Zaxxon was the first game to employ an isometric perspective, later used in other games like Q*Bert, Marble Madness, and Fallout. This ColecoVision port preserves the graphical style which gave the game its name – AXONometric projection.
This run by Winslinator uses the hardest difficulty and avoids shooting shots in order to beat the first cycle of the game in under a minute.
Game:
Zaxxon

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 1/23/2013
Galaxian is an arcade space shooter game created by Namco in 1979. It was the first game to feature multi-colored animated sprites, a scrolling background, and graphics to represent the number of lives and the current round.
Quibus tears through the first stage of the MSX port of this classic game in a little over half a minute.
Game:
Galaxian

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 2/22/2013
Scion was an arcade game that was ported to the MSX by Sony in 1985. It features gameplay unusual for a shooter. You don't even need to gun down the enemy ships. Instead, you stay on one screen that loops continuously until all ground targets have been destroyed. Three screens of that and it's on to the next stage.
However, since every stage is identical, Quibus just plays through stage 1 as fast as possible.
Game:
Scion

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
Scion (Japan).rom
Tags:
Single level
Emulator Replay:
openMSX 0.9.1

Published on 10/18/2013
Death Race is a standalone challenge within F-Zero X, so a standalone movie seemed the best way to present it. The goal is simple: destroy the other 29 ships as quickly as possible according to the in-game clock.
This TAS completes the F-Zero X Death Race as quickly as possible, with a time of 5.866s. This improves the prior fastest TAS time of 8.927 by Katsukawa Sojuro aka Xenos (who reports an unpublished time of 6.993s by throwing the car off the side as this TAS does).
The unassisted world-record is 24.745s by Daniel, played in PAL (20.621s converted to NTSC). There's no video of that time, but this video by the same author is almost as fast.

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.

Published on 5/8/2012
Wildwaters (also known as "Extreme Kayak" and "X-Stream") is a cancelled racing game that was in development by Looking Glass Studios for the Nintendo 64 in 1998-1999. The project was announced at E3 1999 by the company's publisher, Ubisoft, while the studio was working on Destruction Derby 64 (released in the same year), but sadly it was discontinued the following year. The game features an engine with real waterflow physics on the river, an impressive feat on the N64.
In this run, Swordless Link completes the first level (the only playable one in the prototype) using the fastest character, abusing rocks, walls, and everything in his path! There is no proper finish line because one wasn't programmed into the prototype.

Published on 7/9/2023
Non Human is one of 52 games that are bundled in Action 52, one of the more well-known multicarts, and one of its more strange games. As far as what can be told, you are some triangular automaton navigating a very surreal cavern filled with strange creatures such as exploding eels, flying teeth, and flying eyeballs. In this cavern are pits lead to giant disembodied heads with sunglasses that kill you on impact. The objective of the game is to get to the end of the cavern.
LoganTheTASer completes the sole level in this game as fast as possible.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.4

Published on 12/12/2022
Battle Chess is a chess game for the NES with a few neat gimmicks. In addition to standard 2D depictions of chess pieces you get to play with, you also have "3D" pieces that walk and interact with other pieces like they're real people. You also have animations for when pieces overtake and destroy other pieces. There are also features to aid in gameplay such as letting the game suggest moves to you if you're stuck and being able to take back moves and play again.
adelikat decides to play the game using 3D pieces on the hardest difficulty. Moves have to be considered not just to minimize CPU thinking time, but also to take the lengthy "3D" animations into account and minimize those as well. To make things quicker, a glitch was performed that allows for two moves to be played in a row when doing a take back during a CPU's turn.
Game:
Battle Chess

Genres:
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/2/2022
Blackjack is an unlicensed card game made by American Video Entertainment. The rules are simple: the dealer gives you and themselves two cards each. You both then have to get a number of cards so that the sum of the cards' values is as close to 21 as possible without going over. Getting exactly 21 is known as a Blackjack, which gives you an automatic win. If you go over, you lose. Otherwise, whoever is closest to 21 wins the bet.
In this run, ShesChardcore manages to break the bank (get all the money from the dealer's table) with a single doubled down hand of Blackjack in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/9/2012
Front Line is a military combat-themed game ported from the arcade. The objective is to fight off infantry units and tanks until you reach the enemies compound. illayaya completes the first iteration of this game in 02:38.97, though the game repeats this stage forever upon completion.
Game:
Front Line

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.0a

Published on 11/30/2023
Quarth is a puzzle shoot 'em up that was initially released for the arcades before being ported to a number of systems such as the Famicom, Game Boy and MSX2. The gameplay can best described as a mix of a vertically scrolling shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves along the bottom and shoot tiles at incoming groups of blocks to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you either reach the end or a block reaches the line floating above the ship.
TaoTao improves on the previous run by nearly 16 seconds thanks to rigorous subframe RNG manipulation, making the game generate the simplest chunks to complete.

Published on 5/29/2016
Whoever said cats can't fly needs to watch this movie. Rockin' Kats is a nice platformer with tricky gameplay similar to Bionic Commando and Ninja Five-O.
This little movie represents the hardest part of the game – Channel X, which normally appears as a secret bonus stage after the normal ending. This TAS however does not play through the entire game, but inputs a password in the beginning to access Channel X right away.
This movie improves the previous run by 0.55 seconds with tighter movement optimization and lag reduction.
If you liked this movie, be sure to also check out the movie that beats the actual game.

Published on 6/13/2021
Solitaire is 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.
This run improves the previous one by completing 34 frames sooner.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 11/5/2022
Spot: The Video Game is a licensed variant of Reversi starring 7UP's mascot at the time, Spot. The objective of the game is to either take control of the entire board with your own discs or capture all of your opponent's discs, leaving none for your opponent to play with. Spot would later star in other video games such as Cool Spot and Spot Goes to Hollywood.
ShesChardcore utilizes some deceptively untrivial movement tech in this run in order to beat the game in record time.
Game Version:
Spot (U) [!].nes
Tags:
Single level
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/28/2023
Super Pinball is a pinball simulation game for the Famicom that released exclusively in Japan. The objective of the game is to get the mahjong tile needed to complete a winning hand for a game. Other than that, you don't actually play mahjong along with pinball. Instead, you gain the tile by beating a series of pinball tables. These tables include a sports car level, a casino level, a Breakout level complete with movable paddle, and a robot boss battle.
For this run, TaoTao manipulates the RNG to let the pinball bounce around a certain way and get the Breakout level in order to win the game as fast as possible.
Game:
Super Pinball

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.5

Published on 3/9/2020
Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. Even the theme music has a similar feel to the more familiar NES Tetris game by Nintendo.
This movie plays through just the final level, level 17, and clocks in at over one line per second. Notably, luck manipulation does not work the same way in this game as in other versions of Tetris, leading to quite different strategies.
Spikestuff improves the predecessor movie by 00:05.54 seconds.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 4/14/2020
Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. One difference, however, is a Cooperative mode that allows two players to play on the same board simultaneously. The board is 12 tiles wide in this mode, rather than the usual 10 tiles.
In this run, the author controls both players and completes just the final level, level 17, as quickly as possible.
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Published on 5/5/2022
In an effort to avoid the status quo, Capcom decided to experiment, throwing in a leveling system and story-based launch scenarios. Beyond that, it's really just a Mega Man X Zero game.
This is the first game in the series to allow character choice before each stage. Zero is chosen as often as possible, leaving X behind to gather dust. The abusable sword physics highlight Zero's superiority, especially when the sword is used while standing on the ground. Bosses fall very quickly, even when they have 127 health.
This TAS by HappyLee completes the training mode of the game in record time.
Game:
Mega Man X5

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 4/25/2022
2048 is a very popular puzzle game that has received ports to every console possible. The gameplay is simple: combine blocks so they can add up to 2048. (Most ports allow you to go above 2048, but the Uzebox port is unable to.) p0008874 decides to achieve that goal as fast as possible in this run.
You can download the ROM for the game here and the source code here.
Game:
2048

Genres:
Puzzle
Strategy
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 7/15/2022
2048 is a very popular puzzle game that has received ports to every console possible. The gameplay is simple: combine blocks so they can add up to 2048. (Most ports allow you to go above 2048, but the Uzebox port is unable to.)
In this run, p0008874 scores the minimum number of points needed for the unsigned 16-bit score counter to roll over to zero (65536), which counts as the maximum score for the purposes of this run.
You can download the ROM for the game here and the source code here.
Game:
2048

Genres:
Puzzle
Strategy
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/20/2023
Maze is a maze game for the Uzebox. The game is simple: it gives you a randomly generated maze, and your goal is to get to the ladder and get out of the maze.
LoganTheTASer here completes a single level of Maze in record time.
Game:
Maze

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
Maze.uze
Tags:
Single level
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/1/2023
HyperChase: Auto Race is a straightforward racing game with a 3D third-person view for the Vectrex. The objective is to race many other cars to the finish line, avoiding them and other obstacles in the process. With the vector-based graphics, the game can be quite the spectacle even today.
In this run, Lobsterzelda completes a single race in record time.
Game:
HyperChase

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 4/14/2023
Tetris is a puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. This is one of the first titles to follow the Tetris Guidelines.
This movie by Oshisaure aims to complete their input as soon as possible in this mode to exploit a line-clearing glitch.
Reading the submission text for more information on the methods and glitches used is heavily recommended.

Published on 3/30/2023
Styx is a maze-like shooter that was created for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith, who also created Manic Miner. It's a very short game that's split into three sections: a maze filled with spiders, an underwater section filled with enemy fish, and a final dungeon filled with even more spiders and some hooded evil guy. With the ability to shoot laser beams, your goal is to kill the hooded evil guy.
DigitalDuck plays a single loop in this game and kills the hooded evil guy in record time.
Game:
Styx

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8


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