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Published on 7/6/2011
The Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Fire, one of the last games to be released on the ill-fated 32X, follows our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man's battle with the evil forces of the neo-Nazi organization H.Y.D.R.A.
This is an improvement of 00:24.58 seconds over the previous run due primarily to a new glitch allowing Spidey to pass through walls.

Published on 5/7/2022
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is an enhanced remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, developed by Grezzo and Nintendo EAD and released in 2011 for the Nintendo 3DS. Compared to the original, it notably features updated models and textures and updated control schemes to make use of the 3DS's capabilities. The story remains identical to that of the original.
benstephens56, however, ignores much of it by performing a glitch to warp to the credits in record time. Please read the author's extensive comments for more details.
This is the first ever 3DS movie published on this site, made possible with Citra.

An encode featuring commentary by the author is available right here.

Published on 9/9/2016
You're trapped! Your disabled nuclear submarine, resting perilously on an undersea ledge, has begun taking on water. With time running out for you and your crew – and with your onboard torpedoes shaken loose by an eerie current from deep under the sea floor – it's up to you alone whether you sink or swim!
The objective of Airlock is to retrieve the hatch keys and make your way to the next level before your compartment floods. But at the same time you must avoid the torpedoes that have been shaken loose and which, when they cross your path, rob you of precious time.
Alyosha improves the previous publication by 0.92 seconds, thanks to a newly discovered trick. Please read the author's comments for more details.
Game:
Airlock

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.7

Published on 6/8/2023
Chase the Chuck Wagon is a promotional video game that was created to advertise the Purina company's Chuck Wagon brand of dog food. It's based off the premise in the commercials made during the 1970s for the dog food, where a dog would chase a miniature chuckwagon that served as the spirit of the dog food itself. The game adapts this premise by having you help the dog navigate a maze to get to the chuckwagon while avoiding obstacles such as a dog catcher and what appears to be a partially intangible dog totem. The game was only available through mail order from the Purina company itself, and any unshipped cartridges were ultimately destroyed by Purina themselves, making it a particularly rare game.
MrTASer here decides to help the dog get to the chuckwagon by playing all the unique levels the game offers as fast as possible.
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 7/8/2022
Crazy Climber involves a crazy climber whose goal is to climb tall skyscrapers from the bottom while avoiding various obstacles and hazards along the way. At the top of the skyscraper is a helicopter that will bring the climber to the next building to climb.
In this run, DrD2k9 completes one loop of the game, which involves four different buildings to climb, in record time.
Game:
Crazy Climber

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 4/23/2014
In Dodge 'Em (1980), you control a race car on a four lane track, and your goal is to collect all of the dots in order to earn points and advance to the next level. The race track is divided into four quadrants with a break in the lanes between them, and you can change lanes only within these breaks. A second car will travel in the opposite direction and try to get into your lane and crash you, so you need to make sure you switch to any lane it isn't in! You can travel at two different speeds (fast and slow) and even have a second player control the enemy car.
In this mesmerizing movie, yep2yel and morningpee speed around the track and beat the first round of the game in under 55 seconds. In doing so, they improve the previous movie by 00:11.28 seconds thanks to new routes and speed tricks.
Game:
Dodge 'Em

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.6.1

Published on 9/16/2022
Doggone It! is a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 with a simple premise: a mailman named Hank does his job with delivering packages. The problem is that he has cynophobia, a fear of dogs. If one even just touches him, he drops any package he's holding and temporarily becomes paralyzed with fear. Thankfully, there's the Crazy Culvert Kitty, which can give Hank powerups that make deliveries much easier.
In this run, MrTASer completes all three unique stages in record time.
You can get the game here.
Game:
Doggone It!

Genres:
Action
Homebrew
Game Version:
Doggone_It!.bin
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 7/9/2022
Dragonfire is a video game where you infiltrate into a dragon's castle and steal all of its treasure, all while avoiding its fire attacks. The difficulty of the game increases with every castle looted as the dragon itself gets more and more powerful.
In this run, ShesChardcore plays the game until the difficulty stops increasing. The white dragon is the hardest dragon and will be the only dragon available to steal from once beaten. The RNG was manipulated to give the most favorable layouts.
Game:
Dragonfire

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

Published on 3/31/2023
Frogger is the classic game where you must lead five frogs in each level across a road and a river to the safety of their homes while avoiding hazards like cars and trucks, crocodiles, and a venomous snake.
eien86 saves 10 seconds over the previous run through the use of a scripted bot to help find the quickest and most optimal solutions to each level.
To see another port of the original arcade game beaten quickly, see the MSX version run. We also have a run of the sequel to the original game.
Game:
Frogger

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 10/13/2020
H.E.R.O. is a rare fast-paced platformer for the Atari 2600. You control a man with a gyropack who must traverse caves, avoid dangerous enemies, and use a few sticks of dynamite to blast open paths in order to rescue trapped miners.
DrD2k9 and NYMX improve the previous publication by 2.74 seconds, thanks to better optimization.
Game:
H.E.R.O.

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5

Published on 12/31/2019
Halo 2600 is a port of the classic game Halo to the Atari 2600, created by Ed Fries.
This run by Alyosha exploits a glitch that allows Master Chief to effectively phase through walls, allowing him to reach the endgame boss before you even know what's happening.

Published on 9/30/2022
Jungle Hunt is an Atari 2600 game where an unnamed explorer must venture through the jungle and rescue his love interest from being eaten by cannibals. Watch him swing across vines, avoid crocodiles, and jump over boulders as he saves the girl of his dreams.
Winslinator decides to play the game at the hardest difficulty setting until the game can no longer get progressively harder, which takes three loops to do, and does it in record time.
Game:
Jungle Hunt

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.7

Published on 6/22/2022
Krull is a video game adaptation of the science fantasy movie of the same name for the Atari 2600. The story is your typical "prince saves princess" plot, but in space. As for the game itself, it has five stages that very loosely reenact the plot. The most notable gameplay element is the final stage has you rescuing the princess "Breakout-style" while also fighting the final boss.
ShesChardcore completes one loop of this game in record time with a few deaths and movement quirks done to save time.
Game:
Krull

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

Published on 6/24/2022
"Fly the Wind Raider from the workshop of Man-at-Arms to Castle Grayskull — 30 treacherous miles guarded by the evil warriors sent by Skeletor!" - Bullet point from the game's box
Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man is a two-part game, the first being a side-scrolling shooter, and the second being a top-down action segment. The game came with a He-Man comic book!
ShesChardcore and The8bitbeast save 4.94 seconds over the previous run by The8bitbeast by improving the final boss fight with Skeletor.

Published on 6/17/2023
Maze Escape is a simple homebrew maze escape game for the Atari 2600. The goal is to escape a couple of mazes by navigating through them without touching the walls and collecting crosses at their exits.
Here, LoganTheTASer beats all three mazes in the game as fast as possible.
You can get the game here and the source code here.
Game:
Maze Escape

Genres:
Action
Homebrew
Game Version:
MazeEscape.bas.bin
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 9/10/2022
Peril is a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 where you pilot a helicopter armed with guns. Your job is to go into a dangerous labyrinth and destroy the RoboKing and its guardians.
With precise and tight movements, MrTASer and nymx collaborate to complete the game in record time.
You can get the game here.
Game:
Peril

Genres:
Action
Homebrew
Game Version:
NewPeril-RC1.bin
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 12/31/2017
Porky's is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1983. The game is based on the 1981 film of the same name and published by 20th Century Fox.
The player plays as Edward "Pee Wee" Morris, who, despite his shortcomings, strives to get revenge on Porky, the owner of the bar that dissed Pee Wee and his friends. Spikestuff and Alyosha get Pee Wee to the detonator to blow up the bar in just under 8 seconds.
Game:
Porky's

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.1

Published on 8/10/2018
Private Eye is a video game produced and published by Activision and released in 1983 for the Atari 2600 video game system. Designed by Bob Whitehead, who also wrote Chopper Command, Private Eye requires players to track down clues and recover items stolen by a master criminal, ultimately leading to his capture and arrest.
In Private Eye, players assume the role of Pierre Touché, a private investigator who has been assigned the task of capturing the criminal mastermind, Henri Le Fiend. Le Fiend is implicated in a number of crimes across the city, and the player must find the clues and the stolen property in order to successfully arrest Le Fiend.
In this run, ViGadeomes completes all the five Cases consecutively.
Game:
Private Eye

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3

Published on 4/11/2021
Entirely unrelated to the TV series seaQuest DSV, Seaquest is a submarine combat game in which you control a water vessel and must pick up divers at different levels of depth while avoiding fish and enemy subs. While most of the game takes place underwater, you also must resurface for air from time to time so your air meter doesn't run out.
Like Tetris, the game ends when the score reaches the maximum 999999. Watch as Lobsterzelda torpedoes 90 levels-worth of submarines and rescues as many divers in record time.
This movie is actually 15:22.17 minutes slower than the movie it obsoletes, but does not use emulation glitches as the previous movie does to quickly reach maximum score. The judgement history for Seaquest is complicated, as well is this movie's own judgement. See the submission notes and judgement for more information.
Game:
Seaquest

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1

Published on 3/26/2023
Secret Collect. is a homebrew port of the Homestar Runner Flash game of the same name to the Atari 2600. The premise is simple: you are Strong Bad, a red dot, and your goal is to collect the other squares that look nothing like Strong Bad. Blue squares slightly speed you up and yellow squares end the level.
MrTASer in this run completes all eight levels of this very short game in record time.
You can get the game here.
Game Version:
secret_collect.bin
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/16/2014
Spider-Man was the first game to feature the famous hero and also the first Marvel Comics-based video game. Here, Spider-Man must use his web shooters to scale a building and defuse bombs set atop it by the Green Goblin.
Watch as Noxxa climbs the colorful buildings with ease and saves the day in just over three minutes.

Note: While this movie does obsolete one that's nine times shorter, that run only played through one level, while this one plays all six.
Game:
Spider-Man

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.6.1

Published on 11/29/2022
From Wikipedia:
The player(s) takes control of the DC Comics character Superman, who must repair the bridge destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his criminal underlings, enter a phonebooth to turn back into Clark Kent, then return to the Daily Planet in the shortest amount of time. To slow Superman's progress, Kryptonite has been released by Luthor. If hit by Kryptonite, Superman loses his abilities to capture criminals and fly. To regain them, he must find and kiss Lois Lane.
This is a 30 frame improvement over the previous run, thanks to a faster change of crossing over to the next screen instead and initiating the pause demo glitch to warp to the end. That is all.
Game:
Superman

Genres:
Action
Adventure
Game Version:
Superman
Tags:
Major skip glitch
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/6/2019
Tapper, also known as Root Beer Tapper, is a 1983 arcade game released by Bally Midway. Tapper puts the player in the shoes of a bartender. The player must serve eager, thirsty patrons before their patience expires while collecting empty mugs and tips.
Here, Spikestuff completes two loops of the game (which is the point where the difficulty stops increasing) in record time.
We also have runs of the Arcade and Commodore 64 versions.

Note: There is also a lossless encode available in the discussion thread.
Game:
Tapper

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 9/1/2022
Tomarc the Barbarian is an action game where Tomarc the Barbarian must rescue Senta from a cave she got herself lost in. Senta also managed to get herself kidnapped and is imprisoned in a cage that can be opened by Tomarc's sword. Unfortunately, Tomarc lost his sword in the same cave, so he must now find his sword and rescue Senta before the cave bats eat her alive. Special to this Atari 2600 is the ability to switch between two characters to control, Tomarc and Senta, and both characters continue to be affected by their environments even when you're not controlling them. While Tomarc is used to find the sword to rescue Senta, Senta herself is controlled to fend off the bats that are trying to kill her.
DrD2k9 decides not to go through all that trouble in this run by using a good amount of RNG manipulation to get a cave layout that requires the least amount of movement needed and controlling only Tormac to get the sword and rescue Senta as fast as possible.

Published on 6/17/2022
Warlords for the Atari 2600 is best described as a competitive multiplayer version of Breakout. Each player has a tiny hitbox defended by a wall that chips away with each hit from a bouncing ball and a shield to defend the wall with. A player earns a point each round when every other player's hitbox has been eliminated. The first one to five points wins the game.
As it turns out, at the highest difficulty, you can actually win the game without even moving the shield at all. ShesChardcore takes advantage of this and provides only a quarter of a second of input time, most of it just selecting the game with the hardest difficulty.
Game:
Warlords

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

Published on 7/31/2023
Xanthiom is an Atari 2600 homebrew game developed by Mathan Games in 2023. The player controls Lieutenant Grisham, on a mission to rid the threats to the galaxy on the planet Planet Coati 5. This homebrew is very much a take on what the original NES Metroid would be like on the Atari 2600 with the limitations therein.
Darkman425 and nymx save the galaxy whilst collecting every item in the game.

Published on 8/24/2023
Xanthiom is an Atari 2600 homebrew game developed by Mathan Games in 2023. The player controls Lieutenant Grisham, who's on a mission to rid the threats to the galaxy on the planet Planet Coati 5. This homebrew is very much a take on what the original NES Metroid would have been like on the Atari 2600 with the limitations therein.
nymx in this run saves the galaxy while briskly walking and jumping in record time.
You can get the game here.

Published on 8/12/2022
Knight Guy in Low Res World: Castle Days is a homebrew action platforming game for the Atari 7800. You play as a knight who decides to go into a castle to rescue their pet from a dragon. There are 99 rooms of danger and puzzles to go through if you are to get to your pet before an hour is up and you lose completely.
MrTASer and Samsara collaborate to go through all 99 rooms and defeat the dragon as fast as possible. A cat was also chosen as the knight's pet.
You can get the game here.

Published on 7/25/2015
Ninja Golf is an Atari 7800 video game which combines scrolling beat 'em up with golf simulation gameplay. Released in 1990, it later gained some renown for its outlandish subject matter and unique blend of gameplay styles.
The player starts each hole by aiming his ball and shooting it toward the green. He then runs toward the ball, in traditional sidescroller fashion, fighting various enemies encountered along the way. These enemies include other ninjas, gophers, birds, giant mutant frogs, sharks and more.
The enemies faced depends on the environment the ninja golfer is currently in. Sharks are encountered in water hazards and snakes in the sand traps. Ninjas are encountered in all the environments, including underwater.
In this run, adelikat sports, fights, and runs his way through multiple ninjas, sharks, and even dragons to complete possibly the strangest nine holes of golf.
Game:
Ninja Golf

Genres:
Action
Sport
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.10.0

Published on 5/27/2017
Scrapyard Dog starts with Louie's dog Scraps being kidnapped by Mr. Big, who has driven off with Scraps and unleashed (get it?) a band of thugs to stop Louie. Louie must dodge the thugs' attacks while avoiding other enemies, hopping over obstacles, darting under bird droppings, and collecting cans and money.
In this run, Noxxa makes his way through his own junkyard in order to save his beloved dog.
Tags:
Uses warps
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.12.1

Published on 12/12/2023
B.C. Story (비씨 스토리) is a minigame-focused arcade game made by Korean game developer Semicom. From what can be gleamed from the gameplay and the opening scene, the game takes place in an anachronistic version of neolithic times. Here, a tribe upholds a tradition where an erupting volcano will chose for them their next leader. However, this time the volcano has chosen three people from their tribe, Sonlo, Ballo, and Milo. The three must now compete in various minigames and competitions so they can prove themselves which is the most worthy to lead the tribe.
In this run, enderpal7 chooses Sonlo and aims for the highest score possible in every minigame while also becoming patriarch of the tribe.
Game:
B.C. Story

Genres:
Action
Sport
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
Bizhawk 2.9.1

Published on 3/1/2013
Bay Route is a sidescrolling run 'n' gun game that is very similar to Contra. It was developed by Sega and Sunsoft and released to arcades in 1989. You control a commando named Tom as he runs across enemy territory to find and rescue some hostages.
The author, NitroGenesis, controls Tom as well as a second soldier to tear through more enemies in less time on his way to rescue the hostages.

Published on 5/26/2018
Before reminiscing about a man I knew when I was young, before rescuing a hero named Joe, there were games where you played as Joe himself! The Bionic Commando arcade game, sequel to Commando, introduces the first hero in a platform game who couldn't even jump, which spawned many sequels.
Thanks to collecting an item that increases the speed of the bionic arm quite a bit, abusing death to skip the elevator in Mission 4 and better overall optimisation, Jules improves the previous publication by 38.85 seconds.
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.7.7

Published on 8/19/2023
Black Tiger is a hack-and-slash platformer that was created by Capcom for the arcades and later ported by other companies to home computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Three demonic dragons have risen from the mysterious darkness to conquer and control the kingdoms and the surrounding lands. You play as a nameless barbarian hero who sets out to defeat these dragons and wrest control of the kingdom back from them. As you defeat the dragons's minions, you can earn money that you can spend at shops for upgrades for your weapons and armor, antidotes, and single-use skeleton keys.
ninespaces here slays all three dragons in record time by making extensive use of a screenwrapping glitch, allowing them to reach the dragons much faster than otherwise.
Game:
Black Tiger

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/17/2023
Crime City is a 1989 beat 'em up game that was developed by Taito for the arcades. The game involves police officers Tony Gibson and Raymond Broady, who receive a call during their day off that a huge amount of prisoners have broken out of prison and committed a number of large crimes within a very short timespan. They have managed to occupy a shipping port, rob a bank, and kidnap the mayor, among other things. It's up to the two of them to solve the problem as police officers by doing a very '80s move, killing all of them.
This was the game used in TASVideos's Dream Team Contest 11, where groups of tool-assisted speedrunners compete to produce the fastest tool-assisted speedrun within a given deadline. This movie is the combined result of all those efforts. Here, you can witness Raymond Broady die and get shot multiple times in the speedrunners' quest to beat the game as fast as possible.
For more information on Dream Team Contest 11, you can visit this link. For more details how the run was ultimately constructed, you can read the authors' notes here.

Published on 6/20/2016
In Dottori Kun, you control a race car on a five lane track, and your goal is to collect all of the dots in order to advance to the next level, very similar to the Atari 2600 game Dodge 'Em, with the major difference being the ability to change directions.
This run by xy2_ plays all 11 levels, after which no new content is presented.
Game:
Dottori Kun

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.0.7

Published on 8/21/2012
Dragon Unit (also known as Castle of Dragon) is an obscure arcade game about a castle with a dragon in it. Perhaps it's not the most original sounding game; but it does have nudity, gratuitous violence, and Engrish to make up for it. The action is very fast paced, and with the help of TAS skills, the dragon master is dispatched quicker than a hard boiled egg.
We also have a movie of the NES version and a 2 player run.

Published on 1/22/2015
Dragon Unit (also known as Castle of Dragon) is a side-scrolling action-adventure game in which Geraden must hack and slash his way through the kingdom and destroy legions on Darklarza's forces. Initially equipped with a sword and a shield, plus the armor on his back, Geraden can upgrade to more powerful offensive and defensive options, as well as obtain various powerful magic spells.
While the speed boost trick can't be done when playing with two players, mamuuuut still keeps things interesting with a variety of two-player antics.
We also have a run of this game using a single player.

Published on 10/6/2023
Musashi Ganryuki, known outside of Japan as Ganryu is a simple platform Hack and Slash game on the Neo Geo. In this game, you play the warrior Musashi on a quest to fight your old enemy Kojiro who has risen from the dead. Watch as Musashi slides past most dangers and chops up bosses in record time.
JHolleworth saves 1,164 frames over their previous attempt thanks to using charged attacks on bosses as well as some general movement optimizations.

Published on 1/25/2012
Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986) (known in Japanese as 魔界村 Makaimura, "Demon World Village") begins with a normal scene: a half-naked knight is on a date in a graveyard with a princess. Suddenly, a demon appears and abducts the princess! The knight quickly suits up and makes rapid progres (sic) through the demon world in an attempt to rescue his royal girlfriend.
This run of the original arcade game completes the first cycle in 6 minutes and 27.17 seconds. We also have a run of the NES port, but the game engines are so different that a comparison between the two times doesn't make any sense. Reaching the end credits requires a second run-through of the game which would be identical to the first run-through; this is omitted in this run.
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.0.7

Published on 6/14/2009
Ghouls 'n Ghosts is the sequel to the brutally hard Ghosts 'n Goblins, and is brutally hard in its own right. This run is of the original coin-op version, which is most similar to the Genesis one. One of the major differences is less armor from chests.
Creative use of damage and picture perfect boss fights combine with some glitchy looking jumps as xipo takes on Lucifer's many demons. The game is completed twice (which is necessary to get the ending) and along the way we are treated to some fabulous Engrish and more information than necessary about the damsel in distress.
Emulator Replay:
FBA 0.24.94.98

Published on 10/8/2023
Haunted Castle is a Castlevania game released in arcades in 1988. This time, Dracula has kidnapped Simon Belmont's wife, and it's up to him to save her. This game is also infamous for being extremely difficult, especially on version M, where Simon can lose half of his health when getting hit by certain enemies or projectiles (that is, the majority of them) on default settings, whilst only giving the player one life.
zggzdydp plays on Version K, which has a more manageable difficulty (mainly enemies not hitting like tanks), allowing for several damage boosts, and rescues Simon's wife in record time.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 2/14/2021
J. J. Squawkers is a platformer by Athena. The game's description has some awkward English, but it seems to say "the world fell into spells and went crazy". Your heroes are the Karasukun brothers, a pair of ravens, who go fight back after their house is attacked. The game is notable for its beautiful and trippy graphics.
xy2_ completes the game in record time with one player.
Warning for people with sensitivity to light flashes: be careful about the stage background from 7:09 to 7:41 of the video encodes.
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.0.7a

Published on 9/2/2017
Jungle Hunt is an arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. The original version of the game, Jungle King, was the subject of a lawsuit levied against Taito by the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs for copyright infringement for using a likeness of the Tarzan character. Jungle King featured a long-haired feral man in a fur loincloth swinging from vine to vine in the jungle, and most damning of all, an unauthorized reproduction of actor Johnny Weissmuller's famous Tarzan yell. As a result, the hero of the game was replaced with a stereotypical Victorian era "gentleman explorer", the vines were changed to ropes, and the Tarzan yell was replaced with a short tune. On a technical note, Jungle Hunt is one of the first games to feature parallax scrolling. And the music has a rousing jungle beat! Jungle Hunt was later adapted for the various home gaming platforms of the day, including the Commodore 64 (of which we have a TAS of) and the Atari 2600.
£e_Nécroyeur completes one loop of all four difficulty levels in record time.
Game:
Jungle Hunt

Genres:
Action
Adventure
Emulator Replay:
MAME-rr 0.139 v0.1 beta

Published on 10/14/2017
Kung-Fu Master is an arcade game produced and released by Irem in 1984. It is perhaps more widely known by its NES title, Kung Fu. Kung-Fu Master is the seminal game of the "beat 'em up" genre, and it would influence the arcade game industry for years to come. It was a great success for Irem, not just for the arcade market, but also later for the home video game market, as it (as well as Irem's 10-Yard Fight) was chosen as one of the launch titles for the NES. Kung-Fu Master is based on Bruce Lee's final film, Game of Death, wherein the hero must ascend a pagoda at his increasing peril, with each floor guarded by a master of a different martial art.
£e_Nécroyeur clears the five floors in record time.
Game:
Kung-Fu Master

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
MAME-rr 0.139 v0.1 beta

Published on 7/19/2014
Magician Lord puts you in control of Elta, a wizard who has the task of retrieving eight books of wisdom from the clutches of Az Atorse, the god of destruction. By collecting certain powerups along the way, you can transform into different characters, including Rajin, Samurai, Waterman, Shinobi, Poseidon, and Dragon Warrior. Each transformation makes Elta more powerful and grants him new attacks.
Watch £e_Nécroyeur blaze through the game with heavy abuse of a zipping glitch and, well, blazes.
This run improves upon its previous iteration not by time improvement, but by deciding to end the game faster rather than ending input faster; this results in a slightly longer input time, but skips out a big waiting period from the previous run.

Published on 1/27/2024
Released in 1996, Metal Slug is a widely popular game about two soldiers named Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving, enrolled in the Peregrine Falcon Squad, fighting against General Morden and a bunch of other Nazi impersonators in giant mechs & machines in order to stop his New World Order under his power.
Watch mamuuuut destroy anything that stands in their path through wide use of bombs and guns, and about 1222 frames saved over the previous published movie.
If you enjoyed this movie, check out the other Metal Slug runs for more explosive military action.
Game:
Metal Slug

Genres:
Action
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/22/2023
Dig Dug Arrangement is an enhancement of the original title as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 which introduces new power-ups, enemies, level complexity, boss fights and co-op play.
Watch as SFan plays through the entire Arrangement in record time.

Published on 2/11/2024
Rally-X Arrangement is an enhancement of the original title as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 which introduces new complex enemies, new bonus rounds and power-ups.
Watch as SFan plays through the entire Arrangement in record time.

Published on 8/27/2023
Nemo is a beat 'em up platformer that was developed by Capcom for the arcades. It is one of a number of video game adaptations of the anime film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. It generally follows the plot of the movie, where Nemo is sent to Slumberland and inadvertently releases the Nightmare King. It's up to him to defeat the Nightmare King with the power of the Slumberland king's scepter and save Slumberland itself.
Here, Pepper-Color braves through the horrors of the game using only one playable character and saves the kingdom in record time.

Published on 10/31/2023
New Atomic Punk: Global Quest, also known as known as Atomic Punk 2, New DynaBlaster: Global Quest in Europe, and Bomber Man World in Japan, is the second arcade spinoff in the Bomberman series. This game continues from where the previous arcade left off with the villain of of that game, King Bomber, being up to no good again and taking over the United Nations building in New York. It's up to the Bomberman brothers to travel the world to stop King Bomber and his armies.
SheriffPunchy improves their previous movie by 9 seconds, thanks to using the US release and better optimisation.

Published on 12/1/2023
New Atomic Punk: Global Quest, also known as known as Atomic Punk 2, New DynaBlaster: Global Quest in Europe, and Bomber Man World in Japan, is the second arcade spinoff in the Bomberman series. This game continues from where the previous arcade left off with the villain of of that game, King Bomber, being up to no good again and taking over the United Nations building in New York. It's up to the Bomberman brothers to travel the world to stop King Bomber and his armies.
This time, SheriffPunchy takes on the game's VS Super Game mode and gets nine wins in a row in record time. It should be noted that the game loops the 9th stage endlessly afterwards.

Published on 5/20/2016
Osman is a arcade game in the spirit of Strider. It's a very obscure and underrated arcade game, which didn't see much of the light of day, thanks to various issues with the hardware... and the fact that the game is unforgivably hard.
This run by xy2 beats the game with the highest score possible, without relying on checkpoint farming to increase the score further.

Published on 3/19/2017
Osman is a arcade game in the spirit of Strider. It's a very obscure and underrated arcade game, which didn't see much of the light of day, thanks to various issues with the hardware... and the fact that the game is unforgivingly hard. The game never once lets you breathe, and in unassisted play, there are a lot of things to manage at the same time. This, along with the 3 health you start out with, can make clearing with just a single credit a nightmare.
The game mostly revolves along Osman and his power: he has the power to make clones of himself when he attacks that stay for a varying amount of time and reproduce the attack he just did.
This run is an improvement of 21.95 seconds over the previous one by the same author. Note that the real time of this run is 5:25.2 - The extra 1:11.57 is because the author puts his initials in the high score table after the credits roll.

Published on 6/5/2022
VS Pinball is the arcade release of the NES game of the same name. The game is a standard example of a pinball machine, just played virtually.
There is a special bonus room in which the game turns into a Breakout clone of sorts, where the player controls Mario to save Pauline and earn bonus points. The NES game's manual considers rescuing her as winning the game.
DrD2k9 and ShesChardcore both save 3.26 seconds of input time over the previous run through better manipulation of the ball in the bonus room.
Game:
Pinball

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 5/7/2023
Shackled is a game by Data East released on arcades in 1986. Gameplay is similar to Gauntlet, however, a key difference is that saving prisoners lets the player swap between different shot types outside of the standard dagger.
Darkman425, however, uses a hidden exit on the first floor that's present in this particular version of the game to get to the credits in record time.
Game:
Shackled

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
shackled.zip
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 8/26/2016
You control a shinobi, Joe Musashi, who must battle his way through each level in search of hostages which must be rescued. You have shurikens, kicks and punches to defend yourself with, as well as powerful ninja magic which can clear the screen of enemies in one go.
Each level is broken down into smaller scenes, and hostages are guarded by big blokes who throw swords. Watch out for gun-toting enemy henchmen and ninjas. Reaching the end of each level will find you battling it out with a boss. These range from 8ft tall giants to helicopter gunships.
In this run, V kills all the enemies that appear throughout the game, but doesn't try to respawn any of them to increase the kill count, because that would result in endlessly killing the same enemy.
Game:
Shinobi

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.0.7

Published on 9/30/2022
You control a shinobi, Joe Musashi, who must battle his way through each level in search of hostages which must be rescued. You have shurikens, kicks and punches to defend yourself with, as well as powerful ninja magic which can clear the screen of enemies in one go.
Each level is broken down into smaller scenes, and hostages are guarded by big blokes who throw swords. Watch out for gun-toting enemy henchmen and ninjas. Reaching the end of each level will find you battling it out with a boss. These range from 8ft tall giants to helicopter gunships.
EZGames69 throws shurikens at the horde of enemies and clears the game in record time.
Game:
Shinobi

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
Shinobi
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Compatibility MP4
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libTAS 1.4.3 + MAME v0.246

Published on 5/25/2017
Tapper is a 1983 arcade game released by Bally Midway. Tapper puts the player in the shoes of a bartender. The player must serve eager, thirsty patrons before their patience expires while collecting empty mugs and tips.
£e_Nécroyeur completes one loop of the game in record time.
We also have runs of the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 versions.

Published on 4/5/2008
This is a game based on the completely "unique" concept of an evil boss trying to take over/destroy/do whatever with the world, and despite the Earth being filled with about 7 billion occupants, you are the only one who can stop it.
At first glance it may seem odd that, although the game is two player, only one player is used, and that's Player 2. Player 2 was chosen because her aerial attack gives an enormous speed boost. It is also one of the few attacks in video games that operates on frame precision, so smashing out a 30Hz rapid-fire on the controller will lay the beatdown pretty quickly.
That, combined with the fact that half the enemies in this game are of the standard "walk around and shoot" variety, allow the heroine to zip through the game with total reckless abandon. Few games allow a TASer to do that, so this is a rare opportunity indeed.
The game is eerily similar to Mega Man 7 and Mega Man X. It even has pick-throwing miners.
This is a 24 second improvement over the previous movie by the use of some new tricks. These are explained in the author's comments.

Published on 6/10/2023
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a 1983 video game developed by Sydney Development and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for not just the Commodore 64, but also the ColecoVision, Atari 8-bit family, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II. The game is based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart, with the title being a play on the title of the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.
In the game, the player takes the role of the caveman Thor, who has to rescue his girlfriend, "Cute Chick", who has been kidnapped by a dinosaur. To do this, he must travel on his stone unicycle (actually an impossible wheel) through several levels. Each level has Thor moving from the left to the right, avoiding various dangers.
nymx and DrD2k9 both work together for this run to get Thor to his girlfriend in record time.
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 7/2/2023
Bagdad (sic) is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the November 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, you are a guy on a flying magic carpet roaming Baghdad until genies suddenly start attacking you out of nowhere. You must now get rid of these genies by trapping them in bottles and collecting them. Fail to collect a bottle in time and a genie breaks free, forcing you to trap them again.
nymx for this run exhausts all unique content in this game — which done by getting to the 13th wave and trapping the purple genie — as fast as possible with some scripting and nifty RNG manipulation to trap the genies faster.
Game:
Bagdad

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

Published on 12/31/2023
Bagger is a simple arcade style action game in which the player must work as a bagger at a grocery store. It plays simmilarly to games like Tapper where the player throws objects to incoming customers, while also collecting tips.
nymx completes the game's 3 unique loops in record time.
Game:
Bagger

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

Published on 7/9/2023
Balloon Blitz is a arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the August 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is a simple, if archaic, game. You control a hot-air balloon filled with a limited number bombs, and your objective is to use those bombs to destroy enemy tanks that are driving around below you. Don't assume the tanks will sit still and take the hit; they'll move out of the way if you aren't leading your shots.
nymx here plays a perfect game of Balloon Blitz with the tanks at their fastest speeds, not missing one tank with all 20 bombs, and does so in record time.

Published on 7/5/2017
Batman: The Caped Crusader is an action adventure title for the Commodore 64 with presentation resembling that of a comic book.
This game has two distinct parts where Batman fights against either the Penguin or the Joker.
In this movie, adelikat beats the first part quickly by passively ignoring punches, throwing knives, and even bullets heading his direction.
We have a movie that plays against the Joker too.

Published on 2/24/2019
Batman: The Caped Crusader is an action adventure title for the Commodore 64 with presentation resembling that of a comic book.
This game has two distinct parts where Batman fights against either the Penguin or the Joker. In this movie, Dimon12321 beats the second part quickly by passively ignoring punches, throwing knives, and even bullets heading his direction.
We have a movie that plays against the Penguin too.

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 6/27/2023
Blue Max is a scrolling shooter that was initially released for Atari 8-bit computers and was later ported to the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game takes place during World War I, with in on the Allied Powers side controlling a British biplane. Your orders are to shoot down any enemy planes you encounter and bomb your designated targets, which are marked as flashing. These targets range from boats and cars to city bunkers and government buildings. Along the way are runways which you can use to restock and fuel on.
nymx in this run pulverizes the enemy and brings ruin to their cities in record time, manipulating the RNG to ensure no refueling was ever needed and to end input early properly.

Published on 10/27/2023
Canyon Cruiser is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was first published in the January 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The premise is simple: you pilot a space cruiser down a canyon that gets narrower as you progress. How far can you make it before you crash?
nymx in this run tests that question and reaches the rank of "Han Solo" in record time.
Game:
Canyon Cruiser

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
1984-01.d64
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 11/22/2023
Cell Runner is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the September 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Taking place on a faraway, desolate planet, you play as an explorer who is just returning from the ruins of a former subterranean city. Unfortunately, the tunnel you used to get to the ruins has collapsed, and the only other way out is city's barely functioning mass transit system. You must climb up the remains of the transit system, but that is easier said than done as the cells that make up the system randomly open and close and you only have enough stamina to climb each level for 30 seconds.
nymx for the run takes up the challenge and climbs up all 40 levels and reaches the surface in record time.
Game:
Cell Runner

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

Published on 6/18/2017
Choplifter is a game developed by Dan Gorlin and was released by Brøderbund in 1982 for multiple systems. It has the distinction of being one of only a few games originally made for home computers before being ported to an arcade machine.
In this game, you are an ace helicopter pilot tasked with rescuing prisoners of war from enemy camps and returning them to the home base. There are a total of 64 POWs that need saving, but you can only carry 16 at a time.
In this run, DrD2k9 rescues all POWs in record time.
We also have a movie of the Atari 7800 version.
Game:
Choplifter

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.13.0

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 12/31/2023
Chopper Pilot is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 52 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in October 1987. In this game, players embark inside a helicopter and fly across 5 levels composing of forests, cities and mountains, each with increasing difficulty.
nymx flies across the five stages in record time.
Game:
Chopper Pilot

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

Published on 8/25/2017
Congo Bongo is an isometric platformer released by Sega in 1983 for multiple systems. Imagine what would happen if Frogger, Qbert, and Donkey Kong all were mashed together....that's Congo Bongo.
Game:
Congo Bongo

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.13.1

Published on 8/20/2017
Diamond Mine is a top-down action arcade game released in 1983 by IDSI on the Commodore 64. The goal of Diamond Mine is to collect as many diamonds as possible from 20 underground shafts, with each level containing eight diamonds. One must collect all eight diamonds in the shaft before being able to leave the shaft and complete the level.
DrD2k9 digs his way through all 20 diamond shafts as fast as possible.
Game:
Diamond Mine

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.13.0

Published on 12/31/2023
Digger is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 21 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in March 1985. In this game (and unlike the PC game of the same name), players find themselves in an underground area with three trolls, which need to be defeated by dropping a boulder on them.
nymx defeats the three trolls in record time.
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 9/12/2023
Dunk is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the April 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The objective of the game is to get a serious of balls to their designated score spots by pushing them on three boards with cubes. The top two have holes that the balls have to go through and the bottom one has the scoring spots. Each board has its own cube that that all are simultaneously controlled by you. If any of the balls fall off the edge of the boards, you don't get points for that ball.
nymx here powers through the obtuse control schemes of the game and gets the maximum score possible in record time.
Game:
Dunk

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

Published on 9/3/2017
Your task in Frogger is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made.
There are two ports of this game on the Commodore 64: the Parker Brothers port and the Sierra port. DrD2k9 plays through the former in record time.
Game:
Frogger

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.13.1

Published on 10/22/2020
H.E.R.O. is a rare fast-paced platformer for the Commodore 64. You control a man with a gyropack who must traverse caves, avoid dangerous enemies, and use a few sticks of dynamite to blast open paths in order to rescue trapped miners.
NYMX and DrD2k9 play through the 20 levels in record time.
Game:
H.E.R.O.

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5

Published on 1/1/2024
Haunted Mansion is an arcade-style action game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the February 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. An evil witch has catnapped some friendly neighborhood cats and brought them to her spooky mansion, where she is planning to turn them into special "witch cats". While she is out looking for more cats, you must break into her maze-like mansion and navigate all sorts of spooky and scary creatures in order to rescue all the cats before the witch comes back.
For this run, nymx deliberately starts the game with a specific RNG seed in order to get the most favorable layout and beats the game in record time.
Game:
Haunted Mansion

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
1984-02.d64
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 8/12/2017
Jungle Hunt is a right-to-left side-scrolling arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. Jungle Hunt is one of the first video games to use parallax scrolling. The player controls an unnamed explorer, sporting a pith helmet and safari suit, attempting to rescue his girl from a tribe of cannibals by swinging from vine to vine, swimming a crocodile-infested river, and avoiding rolling rocks.
DrD2k9 swings, swims, jumps, and ducks his way through the jungle to rescue his girl in record time.
Unlike the predecessor movie, this run is made using the NTSC settings. The resulting time is shorter due to faster gameplay speed, even though this run is 14 frames longer, because of the RNG difference.
Game:
Jungle Hunt

Genres:
Action
Adventure
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.13.1

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 9/25/2023
Powerball is a Breakout-like game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the May 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Like the game it takes after, the goal is to move a paddle around to get a bouncing ball to hit all the breakable bricks on the screen. You can get powerups from some of bricks to make completing the levels easier. However, what sets this game apart from the other Breakout clones are the bouncing colored "Slivers" that serve as obstacles for the ball.
nymx here completes all ten unique levels in the game as fast as possible with the help of scripts to spawn needed power-ups and manipulate the RNG.
Game:
Powerball

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

Published on 10/6/2023
RADs is an arcade-style game that was published in the February 1988 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Taking place in the far future of 2023, you are a technician for Galactic Communications whose jobs is to maintain a galactic network of communication spindles. As the job is too dangerous to be done by humans in space, rotating alignment droids (RADs) were created to realign the spindles whenever an ionic storm spins them out of alignment. You control the RADs from the comfort of you base to realign the spindles while avoiding mysterious aliens that want to ruin your day such as Space Spore.
nymx here completes all 9 unique levels as fast as possible, manipulating the RNG to ensure that the spindles will be realigned as quickly as possible with minimal interference.
Game:
RADs

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

Published on 12/29/2023
Revenge of Cyon is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 12 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in June 1984. In this game, players need to defend Earth from the invading Cyon empire who try to avoid the player's attacks.
nymx successfully defends Earth in record time.
Game:
Revenge of Cyon

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 11/30/2023
Sky Diver is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the July 1983 issue of the Compute's! Gazette, the magazine's very first issue. Here, you control a spade that's skydiving off an airplane, and your objective is to land on one of the three designated landing pads. To make things a little more difficult, there is a wind mechanic that influences how well you can move in the air.
In this run, nymx does three skydives to land on all three landing pads, doing so in record time.
Game:
Sky Diver

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
1983-07.d64
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 10/2/2023
Snake Pit is a variant of the game Snake for the Commodore 64 that was published in the December 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. As with the game it's based off of, you play as a snake that grows with each piece of food it eats. The objective is to eat as much as you can while continuously moving until you either hit a wall or a part of yourself. Snake Pit differs from most Snake ports in that the food is a group of mice that come out of designated mouse holes instead of randomly spawning around the screen.
In this run, nymx decides to aim for the highest score possible with the game and does so as fast as possible.

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 8/6/2023
Stronghold is a spaceship action game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the April 1991 issue of the Compute's! Gazette!. The crew of the Starship Explorer have found themselves stranded and trapped in an alien stronghold on a distant planet, and it is up to you save them. Navigate the mazes, deactivate the force fields, and avoid any and all hazards, especially the giant aliens, as you bring the crew home safe and sound.
nymx here does just that and phases through the planet's surfaces and walls like they don't apply to him to, beating the game in record time.

Warning: This run contains flashing screens that may be rather uncomfortable to those with photosensitivity conditions.

Published on 8/10/2023
SuperSprite is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was first published in the May 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The objective of the game is to keep a diver named "SuperSprite" safe as he dives down through a series of barriers with holes in them. Your task is to move those barriers so that he safely moves through the holes in them instead.
For this run, nymx decides to achieve the maximum score that was described in the opening sequence of the game, doing so in record time.
Game:
SuperSprite

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

Published on 3/20/2020
Tapper, also known as Root Beer Tapper, is a 1983 arcade game released by Bally Midway. The player takes on the role of a bartender who must serve eager, thirsty patrons before their patience expires while collecting empty mugs and tips.
In this run, DrD2k9 and Spikestuff quench the customers' thirst in record time.
We also have runs of the Arcade and Atari 2600 versions.
Game:
Tapper

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4

Published on 6/25/2023
B.C. II: Grog's Revenge is the sequel to B.C.'s Quest For Tires and was released for the Commodore 64, ColecoVision, and MSX. Thor the cavemen is looking for the meaning of life and travels mountain to mountain trying to discover what it is. To travel across those mountains, however, Thor must pay fellow caveman Peter the clam toll so that he can cross over. To make matters more complicated, Grog seems to have it out for Thor for no particular reason and will try knock him off the mountain whenever he can.
In this run, nymx finds the meaning of life in record time.

Published on 6/4/2023
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a 1983 video game developed by Sydney Development and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for not just the ColecoVision, but also the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II. The game is based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart, with the title being a play on the title of the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.
In the game, the player takes the role of the caveman Thor, who has to rescue his girlfriend, "Cute Chick", who has been kidnapped by a dinosaur. To do this, he must travel on his stone unicycle (actually an impossible wheel) through several levels. Each level has Thor moving from the left to the right, avoiding various dangers.
nymx improves the previous movie by 0.04 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.

Published on 8/13/2023
Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park is platforming game that was released in 1984 for the ColecoVision. Based on the Cabbage Patch Kids doll line, the game has you play as a Cabbage Patch Kid walking through the park that's named "Babyland General®". In that park are lakes to jump across with a hanging vine or a lily pad, bees that attack you, pollen fuzzys that trigger your allergies, and lit campfires that shoot flames at you. Get to the end of the park and you win a stage.
Here, Lobsterzelda opts to complete all 99 stages of the game as fast as possible, going left the entire time.

Published on 10/18/2020
H.E.R.O. is a rare fast-paced platformer for the Colecovision. You control a man with a gyropack who must traverse caves, avoid dangerous enemies, and use a few sticks of dynamite to blast open paths in order to rescue trapped miners.
DrD2k9 and NYMX play through the 20 levels in record time.
Game:
H.E.R.O.

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5

Published on 2/13/2016
In Oil's Well, you control a robotic arm with a drill head as it mines deep below the earth's crust to mine oil and make you rich. But two kinds of enemies lie in wait for you – bugs that damage your robotic arm, and land mines that damage your drill head. You must coordinate your movements to avoid them or your drill is toast!
This run by BrunoVisnadi completes all 10 stages in under three and a half minutes with carefully planned routes and some close calls with enemies.
Game:
Oil's Well

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.4

Published on 10/26/2022
Venture is an action-adventure game where a treasure hunter named Winky goes into dungeons to find treasure. The goal is to get all of the treasure in each level while fighting and dodging monsters. Stay in a room too long, and a big monster called the Hallmonster will chase down Winky and try to kill him.
In a TAS, due to a version-exclusive delay when changing direction inside rooms, the order of rooms visited is important, and changes to Winky's facing angle must be minimized to save time.
In this run, nymx plays the game on the hardest difficulty and collects every treasure in record time.

Published on 7/22/2011
Formerly known as Halloween Harry, Alien Carnage follows our hero Harry as he single-handedly fights off an invasion of aliens intent on zombifying the populace while rescuing a large number of hostages they have taken. It is fast-paced at the general expense of control quality.
The original creators, John Passfield and Apogee Software, generously released the game as freeware in 2007 and it can be downloaded from here.
This run by Ilari plays through all four "missions" (episodes) back-to-back, as playing through the first three missions is required to unlock the fourth.
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Published on 11/2/2012
Avoid the Noid is a platform computer game for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, written in 1989 to promote Domino's Pizza. It was modeled after the company's ad campaign during the late 1980s. The ads featured a "noid" that destroyed pizzas and must be avoided.
The protagonist must traverse a 30-story building and deliver the pizza within 30 minutes. Colorful rabbits armed with booby traps, phone bombs, rocket launchers and bomber planes that drop water balloons seek to prevent the delivery.
Partners in crime turska & Ilari deliver the pizza in a record-breaking 03:33.52, or 7:42.00 according to the ingame clock. For details on how they did it, read the authors' commentary.
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JPC-rr 11.6

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