Tool-assisted movies (30)

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.

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.

Anarchy is a puzzle game where the goal is to shoot a number of blocks in each level using a tank under a set time limit, all while enemy droids are chasing after you. Once all the blocks are shot, an exit opens up and you have to get there before the droids get you or time runs out. Introduced in the later levels are yellow blocks which materialize in different places when shot, creating new passageways and more opportunities in how to tackle those levels.

nymx and DrD2k9 complete the first sixteen levels (the levels loop after that) in record time with help from a script created by the former to brute force the most optimal solutions out of the yellow block levels.

"Astro-PANIC!" is a fast-paced, high-speed, all-machine-language game. The object is to defend your cannon, maneuvering it left and right as alien saucers dodge and dive in a relentless attack. - description in COMPUTE!'s Gazette Part #8

Astro-Panic! is a computer game released as a code listing in the very popular Commodore series magazine, COMPUTE! Gazette, in 1984. The author of the game, Charles Brannon, was a great contributor to the magazine for many articles and programs. Astro-Panic! was one of his most popular games, written completely in 6510 machine language and printed in the Gazette.

nymx manipulates the alien's RNG so much that they look like they want to get shot, and gets to level 15 in record time. Note that at level 15 the game continues, but difficulty drops to 0 and the game is effectively over.

Big Mac (also referred to as Big Mac: The Mad Maintenance Man) is a 1985 platformer game for the Commodore 64. The game sees Big Mac having to shut down a power station while avoiding enemies.

nymx shuts down the power station in record time.

You are Rockford, and you have to dig through monster infested caves in search of diamonds. In each level, you must collect a certain number of these diamonds in order to open a portal to the next stage. Enemies can be squashed by falling boulders, which are released when the ground below them is removed or they are pushed onto empty ground. Be careful, though, because these can also squash you. In later levels, difficulty is increased by many puzzle elements and shorter time limits.

There are 16 levels to be completed and five different skill levels available, which affect the number of jewels which must be collected and the time limit.

nymx plays through the 16 levels on the highest skill set (Difficulty 5) in record time.

Confuzion is a sliding-tile puzzle game in which players must explode all of the bombs in each level using a spark. The spark flows along a fuse, which is made up of a series of tiles. These tiles must be moved such that the fuse forms a path from the spark to each bomb, while also avoiding water droplets that can extinguish the spark.

nymx completes each puzzle so quickly that you'll miss it if you blink, finishing 96 levels (after which the game has no more unique challenges) in record time.

At first glance it looks like a pleasant wooded glade on a peaceful, mild day. Watch out! It's a giant spider! Run! You don't know how it happened; you don't know how you got here, but, unfortunately, you've wandered into the Forbidden Forest!

You'll find a bow in your hand and a quiver full of arrows on your back, as well as four more full quivers on the ground beside you. You're going to need them.

The Forbidden Forest is a place on this world but certainly not of this world. It is a place of unrelenting terror and trial. It is ruled by the dreaded Demogorgon demonic king of monsters. He will send in his horde of grisly creatures against anyone who dares enter his realm. And if by some miracle, or your own skill, you should vanquish his army, you will have to face the Demogorgon himself. A word of encouragement: no one has ever returned from the Forbidden Forest alive!

Note: Loading finishes and gameplay starts at 2:32. The loading section may be seizure-inducing.

Fort Apocalypse is a game developed by Synapse Software and released for the C64 in 1982. The war with the Kralthans is on, and they've taken prisoners. These people must be rescued from the Draconis caves and the Crystaline caves that are located just outside the titular Kralthan main command center. The Fort is too powerful to attack directly, but perhaps a single rocket copter, carefully controlled, might be able to do what an army cannot. However the caves are narrow and the enemy has still setup impact shields, defenses and Hyper-Chambers within their depths.

nymx rescues all of the humans trapped in the fortress, destroys the reactor core there and makes his way back up in record time.

FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING: The destruction of the core at 1:47 in the encode produces flashing lights for about 3 seconds that may cause epileptic seizures.

A documentary about this TAS can be viewed here.

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.

Miami Ice is a racing game for the Commodore 64. In a maze with a slippery floor, your goal is to get your go-kart to the garage on the other end. The description that came with the game tries to justify this as Miami somehow getting hit with a blizzard, freezing all of the streets.

nymx maneuvers his go-kart using the very rough controls on very slippery terrain and completes all seven unique tracks in record time.

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.

Royal Rescue is a platforming game for the Commodore 64 that was originally published in source code form in the Compute!'s Gazette. The princess has been held captive by a disembodied dragon head, and it's up to you to rescue her while traversing conveyor belts and avoiding flying eraserheads and giant bells. Along the way, you get keys to unlock doors to the princess and collect cherries and flowers for extra points.

nymx takes advantage of the knight's really weak knees in this run to save time and traverses through tight obstacles with grace.

The Human Race is a video game published in 1985 on Commodore 64 by Mastertronic Ltd.. It's an action game, set in an arcade and platform themes.

The aim of the game is to achieve a high score. This is done by jumping around the screen and collecting objects. Each single screen level is set at a different point in man's evolution and sees the character start as an ape and evolve into a caveman and beyond as the player progresses through the game.

WARNING: Viewers prone to epileptic seizures should skip the encode to 06:16, as the game boot up screen involves heavy flickering.

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.

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.

Miner 2049er is a platform video game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software. The title "Miner 2049er" evokes a 21st-century take on the California Gold Rush of around 1849, in which the gold miners and prospectors were nicknamed "49ers".

As Bounty Bob, the player's goal is to inspect every section of each mine in search of the evil Yukon Yohan while avoiding the radioactive creatures that inhabit the mine. As Bounty Bob walks over a section of flooring, it fills with color. To complete the level, every section of flooring must be colored.

nymx walks over every section of flooring in record time.

You play as a treasure hunter named Panama Joe, whose goal is to find an ancient treasure hidden by Aztec warrior deep inside catacombs. But beware, the catacombs are a large maze inhabited by monsters. Bouncing and rolling skulls, dancing spiders, disappearing and re-appearing chains and tons of fire await you. You'll have to find many keys and unlock doors in order to reach your goal. Panama Joe can jump and climb ladders, but doesn't have much to offer in terms of combat. That's why the monsters in the game should be avoided: a collision with an enemy leads to a premature death. He will also find amulets which make him invulnerable for a short time. Except for the Master System version, they are activated directly when picked up.

nymx and DrD2k9 go through the nine levels in record time.

We also have a TAS of the Master System version, which includes more levels, amongst other changes.

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.

Tetris 2 is more similar to Dr. Mario than the original Tetris in that the goal is to match the colors of the descending tetrominoes with pre-positioned blocks on the play field. When three or more blocks of the same color line up, they are eliminated. When three or more blocks are lined up with the special flashing blocks, all blocks of that color are eliminated at once.

nymx took to creating a Tetris 2-solving, multi-instanced bot program to solve the game as efficiently and quickly as possible. Do see the author's submission notes to learn more about the creation of this TAS, which took over two years to complete.

A documentary about this TAS can be viewed here. A supercut of this TAS without the scoring segments can be viewed here.

Alien 3 for the SNES is a game loosely based on the movie of the same name. The game consists of six stages, and in each, you are given a series of missions to complete that include rescuing prisoners; repairing pipes, fuses, and junction boxes; welding doors shut; and destroying alien eggs, as well as the mother alien. Once you have accomplished all missions in a stage, you move on to the next stage where you will receive new mission objectives. Missions are outlined via a terminal, and a series of blueprints help you navigate your way through the complex.

nymx completes the game in record time.

A rather decent platformer based off of a rather decent cartoon show from the 90s.

Bonkers is a cartoon bobcat on his first case alone, and must retrieve the Toontown treasure of the Sorcerer's Hat (from Fantasia), the Mermaid's Voice (The Little Mermaid), and the Magic Lamp (Aladdin).

This run is a 21.07 second improvement over the predecessor movie.

F-Zero is a futuristic racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the SNES in 1990.

The game is normally played with through one of three leagues, known as Knight, Queen, and King leagues. This TAS features the first league. We also have a Queen League run.

The author provided a video commentary that was streamed on Twitch.

F-Zero is a futuristic racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the SNES in 1990.

The game is normally played by selecting one of three leagues, known as Knight, Queen, and King leagues. This TAS plays through the second league. We also have a Knight League run.

The author provided a video commentary that was streamed on Twitch.

F-Zero is a futuristic racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the SNES in 1990.

The game is normally played by selecting one of three leagues, known as Knight, Queen, and King leagues. This TAS plays through all three leagues. Each race, aside from the final ones in each league, are finished after entering in 2nd place to skip the winning animation, because of this, there is an alternate encode provided that shows each race ending in 1st place, to achieve the fastest in game time.

A Twitch commentary stream, with nymx and Worsel, can be viewed via the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1438037569

Krusty's Fun House is a video game based on the cartoon series The Simpsons. It was developed by Fox Williams for the British software house Audiogenic, and released in 1992 for the Amiga, NES, IBM PC, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Super NES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The 16-bit versions on the Super NES and the Mega Drive/Genesis were entitled Krusty's Super Fun House.

The player directs small rats to an extermination area through complicated maze-like levels. The player controls Krusty the Clown, who must create a path for the rats to follow and guide them towards an extermination device.

nymx uses a few tricks to manipulate blocks and beat the game in record time.

Note: This run has been commentated on by the author and some RTA runners, you can watch it here.

Krusty's Fun House is a video game based on the cartoon series The Simpsons. It was developed by Fox Williams for the British software house Audiogenic, and released in 1992 for the Amiga, NES, IBM PC, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Super NES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The 16-bit versions on the Super NES and the Mega Drive/Genesis were entitled Krusty's Super Fun House.

The player directs small rats to an extermination area through complicated maze-like levels. The player controls Krusty the Clown, who must create a path for the rats to follow and guide them towards an extermination device.

This is an improvement of 03:16.4 minutes over the previous publication.

Note: This run has been commentated on by the author and some RTA runners, you can watch it here.

Q*bert 3 is the next puzzle game in this long running series starring Q*bert, Coily and the rest of the bad guys.

Q*bert's objective is to jump around the board changing the color (paint) of each of the blocks into the final color, while multiple enemies chase him and sometimes adversely change the block colors themselves.

In this run, nymx improves the predecessor movie by 08:55.17 minutes.

The author provided a video commentary that was streamed on Twitch.

Q*bert 3 is the next puzzle game in this long running series starring Q*bert, Coily and the rest of the bad guys.

Q*bert's objective is to jump around the board changing the color (paint) of each of the blocks into the final color, while multiple enemies chase him and sometimes adversely change the block colors themselves.

In this run, nymx further improves the previous movie by 01:15.83 minutes through a variety of optimizations.

Audio commentary for this run is available via Twitch stream.

X-Bert is a special challenge mode in Q*bert 3, accessed by inputting BYYYBYYY in the options menu. It presents the player with the 20 hardest levels the game has to offer immediately after starting a game.

nymx makes quick work of each level, and finishes X-Bert mode in record time.

Audio commentary for this run is available via Twitch stream.