Tool-assisted movies (34)

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.

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.

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.

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.

C64anabalt is an official conversion of Canabalt for the Commodore 64 (in cartridge form). Canabalt is the game that defined the endless runner genre. The game controls consist of a single jump button to alter the height of the player's suit-clad character, who runs across a war-torn city at an ever increasing pace.

At the incredible speeds reached in this TAS, the building generator can bug out and fail to create sections of buildings. Author dwangoAC had to carefully avoid these bugs in order to successfully run the maximum distance.

There are two different versions of this port. This movie uses the Encore build, which includes a faithful port of the original soundtrack to the C64's SID sound chip.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Decathlon is a sports game with 10 back-to-back events. It is similar to Track & Field for the NES.

This TAS by DrD2k9 aims for the highest score in all events, with fastest time as a secondary goal. A careful study of the game's code allowed DrD2k9 to achieve the fastest possible known times.

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.

Donkey Kong is a classic arcade game that spawned many ports, including this Commodore 64 port.

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.

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.

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.

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.

l'Abbaye des Morts (The Abbey of the Dead) is an exploration platformer game originally developed by Locomalito and Gryzor87, and released for PC in 2010 with a graphical style emulating a ZX Spectrum game. The Commodore 64 version, released 9 years later, features upgraded graphics thanks to significantly better hardware.

The game's official plot synopsis follows: "In the 13th century, the Cathars, clerics who preached about the poverty of Christ and defended life without material aspirations, were treated as heretics by the Catholic Church and expelled out of the Languedoc region in France. One of them, called Jean Raymond, found an old church in which to hide from crusaders, not knowing that beneath its ruins lay buried an ancient evil." Players take control of Jean Raymond, who can do no more than walk, crawl, and jump, as he explores the old church, discovering its terrible secrets the deeper he goes.

Noxxa collects the 12 crosses necessary to beat the game quickly and efficiently and brings them to the altar deep below the church, leading Jean to his unfortunate fate 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.

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.

DrD2k9, abusing a similar glitch present in the Master System version, completes the game in record time.

Monty on the Run is a platformer released for C64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum and is the 3rd release in the Monty Mole series. It is commonly known as having one of the best music tracks of the C64 era, which was notably featured in I Wanna be the Guy. The story goes as follows: On the run from the authorities after his escape from Scudmore Prison, Monty the Mole must escape from his house through the criminal underground and head toward the English Channel and freedom in Europe.

DrD2k9 gains freedom in record time.

Publisher Note: Loading finishes and gameplay starts at 6:51.

Portal for Commodore 64 is a 2018 unofficial "demake" of the original Portal game developed and published in 2007 by Valve Corporation. The "demake" inherits the basic mechanics of the game and adapts them for a simplified 2-dimensional world.

Gameplay still consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes.

Punchy is a clone of the 1983 arcade game Hunchback. It incorporates elements of the classic puppet theater Punch & Judy. Police Constable Bobby must rescue Judy from her abusive husband Punch while avoiding obstacles such as flying tomatoes, flying pies, pits with or without alligators, and Punch himself. Collectible sausages allow the constable to effectively skip a stage.

In this run, DrD2k9 and Memory speed through one loop of the game via optimal use of the sausage effect.

Note: Loading finishes and gameplay starts at 6:59.

Wally has to wake up early for work, but he went to bed without winding his alarm clock. His consciousness must save him from getting fired by finding the clock key and setting the alarm. Numerous obstacles stand in the way, including axes, falling bricks, space invaders, and ghosts. Furthermore, Wally's consciousness can only hold two items and has a limited amount of health in the form of "snooze energy."

ktwo and DrD2k9 improve the previous TAS by 11.64 seconds, thanks to a more efficient route.

Note: Loading finishes and gameplay starts at 4:15. The loading section may be seizure-inducing.

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.

Snoopy is a pet of Charlie Brown's, the everlasting loser and the main character of the "Peanuts" comic series. Snoopy only behaves species-appropriate. Most of the time he lies on the roof of his dog kennel and abandons himself to philosophical thoughts while waiting for the food.

In 1984, he was dedicated an own C64 game Snoopy. A game from a time when Jump & Runs found their feet, it is about steering Snoopy through 20 tricky levels. If you have made it, you restart at level 1 only with higher speed. The obstacles can be simple holes, moats, laser beams and more.

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.

The Great Giana Sisters is a platform game developed by Time Warp Productions and released in 1987. It's known for its controversial similarities to Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., eventually leading to its removal from store shelves. Although there are plenty of similarities in terms of level design between the two games (with the first level being practically identical), the controls differ greatly compared to Super Mario Bros.

Publisher's Note: Both the Downloadables and YouTube Encode modify the video of the Commodore 64's bootup to prevent any epileptic seizures.
Please jump to 3:42 for the start of the run.

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.

The Rat was released for Commodore 64 in 1984. The game was developed by Cymbal Software, Inc. and published by Personal Software Services.

The Rat is a top-view single-screen game where you are a rat spending the night in a cheese warehouse to eat all the cheese on various floors. On each floor there are six cheeses with letters spelling THE RAT and all have to be eaten to open the entrance to the next floor.

See the author's comments for more information about the game and its mechanics.

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.