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Published on 6/9/2023
Alien Armada is an arcade-style shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 that was published in the May 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The premise of this game involves a hapless farmer on another planet who unfortunately has an alien invasion encroaching on his farm. With some quick tinkering, he equips a robot with a laser gun to shoot down the aliens and avoid whatever they can throw at him. All the farmer needs is one shot at the alien mothership and the aliens go away.
nymx exhausts all unique content from this game as fast as possible by playing until the aliens's final attack maneuver has been thwarted, the maneuver beginning once the player gets at least 10,000 points.
Game:
Alien Armada

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 4/10/2022
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.
Game:
Anarchy

Genres:
Puzzle
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.6.3

Published on 5/11/2021
"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 Issue #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.
Game:
Astro-Panic!

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.2

Published on 1/28/2024
Atom Shoot is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 28 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in October 1985. In this game, players are tasked to find 25 quarks within a really thin quartz crystal.
nymx finds the 25 quarks in record time.
Game:
Atom Shoot

Genres:
Puzzle
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.1

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

Genres:
Shooter
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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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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
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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
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Compatibility MP4
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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 9/24/2023
Basketball Sam & Ed is a sports game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the July 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, one or two players can play as walking basketballs Sam and Ed and play a version of basketball where they score points by launching themselves into the hoops. Score as many points as you can to be the winner.
nymx in this run chooses to not only be a winner, but a get as many points as possible in a single round without letting the AI opponent score a single point.

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
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 3/13/2023
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.
Game:
Big Mac

Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Big_Mac.tap
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

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 11/14/2021
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.
Game:
Boulder Dash

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.1

Published on 8/2/2023
Bowling Champ as with every other bowling game in existence, you roll a ball down an alley in an attempt to knock down 10 pins, with the standard bowling rules applying.
Watch as nymx gets a perfect score in record time.
Game:
Bowling Champ

Genres:
Sport
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 1/13/2015
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.
Game:
C64anabalt

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.9.1

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
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 9/25/2023
Castle Dungeon is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the June 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. You are in a dark castle with nothing but a weak lantern. An evil wizard has set up three bombs that are set to explode and destroy the castle. Your task is to find and defuse these bombs before they blow up. Be careful, however, for there are blind guardians that can kill you and pits that you can fall to your death in. Thankfully, there are items you can find to get around those obstacles.
In this run, nymx completes defuses all the bombs in record time by getting an RNG seed that generates a level that has all the bombs close to each other without any obstacles in the way.
Game:
Castle Dungeon

Genres:
Adventure
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Compatibility MP4
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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
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Compatibility MP4
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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
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 7/24/2023
Circuits is a puzzle game for the Commodore 64 that was first published in the December 1989 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The objective is to completely shut down a rogue security computer by sending a series of electric pulses down its circuits and towards pyramid-shaped power points, guiding them by switching on and off circuit gates. Destroy all of those power points and the computer turns off. Should any of the pulses hit a circuit gate, the process fails and you must start over.
nymx here completes a full loop of the game on the hardest difficulty as fast as possible, saving the world from AI.
Game:
Circuits

Genres:
Puzzle
Strategy
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 11/1/2020
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.
Game:
Confuzion

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4

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 10/26/2023
Cosmic Combat is a shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 that was first published in the December 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The Zirconians are invading Earth to take it in place of their dying planet, and it's up to you and your nuclear-powered space cruiser to take down their ships before they can. Their ships don't have any guns, but they all can conduct kamikaze attacks and explode once their reach your area.
For this run, nymx decides to take a more pacifistic approach and not do anything with the space cruiser. Instead, witness as the Zirconians all crash into each other and portray themselves as the stupidest species in the galaxy, all thanks to some hefty RNG manipulation.

Published on 1/28/2024
Cylon Zap is one of the games provided in Issue 2 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in August 1983. Players need to fend off an enemy invasion, also known as Cylons, which attempt to attack the player-controlled space station.
nymx successfully fends off the invasion in record time.
FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING: There are flashing lights upon using a bomb, which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.
Game:
Cylon Zap

Genres:
Shooter
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/15/2023
Cypher is a tabletop board video game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the February 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is a logic-based guessing game based on Master Mind where the objective is to guess a set code within a specific number of turns. Which each guess, the game will provide feedback on which parts of the code are correct and which parts are incorrect. Extra points are given the fewer turns are used to guess the code.
nymx knows what the code is already from the start and plays a round of Cypher as fast as possible.
Game:
Cypher

Genres:
Puzzle
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/26/2019
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.

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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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 9/13/2023
Disc Blitz is a simple shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 that was published in the January 1989 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The goal of the game is to shoot down endless waves of flying saucers with your fighter ship as long as you can without getting hit by any of them. As always with games like these, you have a limited number of lives, so care must be taken.
Here, nymx and DrD2k9 collaborate to complete the game as fast as possible by playing it until the difficulty can no longer increase.
Game:
Disc Blitz

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

Published on 1/9/2019
Donkey Kong is a classic arcade game that spawned many ports, including this Commodore 64 port.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3

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
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 7/28/2019
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.

Published on 2/25/2023
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.

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 7/24/2023
In Going Up?, one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 48 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in June 1987, players must go as high as possible in a building, whilst avoiding all of the elevators which have gone berserk.
nymx completes the first 19 levels (where the difficulty stops increasing) in record time.
Game:
Going Up?

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

Published on 6/24/2023
Gorf is a fixed-screen shooter similar to Galaga and Space Invaders that was initially released for the arcades in 1981 and later received ports to home systems such as the Atari 2600 and the Commodore 64. It was originally meant to be a tie-in to the movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture but later became its own game. with the V'Ger replaced by aliens known as the "Gorf".
The game has five missions to complete. Each of them have their own different layouts and objectives but the goal is basically the same: defeat all of the aliens. After destroying the alien flagship, the game repeats the set of missions but with a higher difficulty and your rank increases.
nymx in this run decides to play the game until the difficulty can no longer increase and does so as fast as possible.

WARNING: This video includes flashing lights that may trigger epilepsy.
Game:
Gorf

Genres:
Shooter
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

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

Published on 5/11/2023
Ice Palace by developer K-tel Software (not to be confused with the one by Creative Sparks) is a rather obscure platforming game for the Commodore 64. A penguin wants to get to the love of his life, but she's at the top right of the screen and he's at the bottom left. Your goal is to guide that penguin using either various tricks and contraptions, or with just the penguin's plain jumping skills. The penguin also comes with the ability to create ice blocks out of thin air for select levels.
nymx completes the game in record time by playing its three unique levels repeatedly until the difficulty can no longer increase, manipulating the RNG in levels involving falling objects.

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 12/17/2020
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.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.5.2

Published on 8/3/2023
Lincoln Green is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 63 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in September 1988. As Lincoln Green, defender of the poor, players need to venture through a dangerous enchanted forest whilst dodging the arrows and not lose the £600 on the way through.
nymx manages to get through the forest in record time.
Game:
Lincoln Green

Genres:
Adventure
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

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 7/22/2023
Maze-Mania is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 27 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in September 1985. Players need to head for the exit, whilst avoiding hazards, which each level (there are 10 in total) increasing in difficulty.
nymx completes the 10 levels in record time.
Game:
Maze-Mania

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

Published on 1/2/2023
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.
Game:
Miami Ice

Genres:
Racing
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.3

Published on 7/2/2023
Miner 2049er is a platform video game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software for many systems such as as the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Commodore 64. 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 in this run does complete inspections of every part of the mine as fast as possible, with some nifty frame perfect tricks being done that are exclusive to this version of the game.
Game:
Miner 2049er

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

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 5/12/2019
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.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 10/13/2019
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.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.2

Published on 9/15/2023
Oil's Well is an arcade style game that was initially developed for Atari 8-Bit computers and was later ported over to various home computers and consoles such as the Apple II, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision. The game has similarities to Pac-Man and Snake, where the objective to to extract all the oil you can find with an extending drilling pipe while avoiding all sorts of hazards that live underground along with a few brought there by your competitors. Your pipe can suck up and destroy those hazards, but the pipe part is still vulnerable to them the entire time.
In this run, nymx completes a single set of levels and gets his stock certificate of 1000 shares as fast as possible.
Game:
Oil's Well

Genres:
Puzzle
Game Version:
Oils_Well.crt
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 6/8/2023
Omicron is an arcade shooter for the Commodore 64 that was published in the April 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The game plays similarly to Asteroids where you control a spaceship on a 2D plane to shoot things, but you shoot down aliens instead of asteroids.
nymx here completes every level the game has to offer in record time, securing space as we know it.
Game:
Omicron

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

Published on 1/27/2024
Pegs is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 42 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in December 1986. Based on the peg solitaire board game, the player needs to remove as many pegs as possible until there's only one left, although the board is a triangular formation.
nymx removes all of the pegs but one and obtains the best possible score.
FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING: There are flashing lights upon winning the game, which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.

Published on 2/9/2024
Pegs is a board video game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the December 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is based on the board game "peg solitaire", where the objective is to eliminate pegs by choosing a peg and hopping over another one with it. The game ends when there's only one peg left on the board or the final board layout is such that no more peg-eliminating moves can be done.
For this run, DrD2k9 opts to complete the fastest game of Pegs possible by making sure the game goes through the least amount of moves to get the a board layout endpoint. This in turn also makes this a lowest score run.
Game:
Pegs

Genres:
Strategy
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 9/25/2023
Pool is a billiards game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the April 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is a simple top-down adaptation of the cue sport with rather simple physics that can be played with one or two players.
Here, nymx completes a single game of pool as fast as possible.
Game:
Pool

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

Published on 3/6/2019
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.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

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 2/11/2024
Predictor is a guessing video game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the June 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The rules are as follows: The first player chooses either the color red or blue. The second player, or the "Predictor", must then guess what the first player chose. If the second player guesses correctly, they get a point. Otherwise, the first player gets a point.
nymx here takes the role of the "predictor" and plays 100 rounds against a computer player, winning all of them in record time with copious amounts of RNG manipulation.
Game:
Predictor

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

Published on 6/28/2019
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.
Game:
Punchy

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 3/27/2022
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.
Game:
Pyjamarama

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

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

Published on 8/1/2023
Queens' Quarrel is one of the games that came with the disk of issue 37 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in July 1986. Based on a puzzle by Karl Friedrich Gauss, players need to place 8 haughty queens who have quarreled in a way that either piece is not adjacent to each other, whether it be horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
nymx solves the puzzle in record time.
Game:
Queens' Quarrel

Genres:
Puzzle
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 7/1/2023
Quolerus is an arcade-style shooter for the Commodore 64 that was published in the November 1988 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The story for the game as described in the magazine goes like this: you play as a fighter pilot in the mineral-rich solar system that is Quolerus fighting aliens known as the Knarbots, who are hoarding Quolerus for themselves and have erected a force field around it. Break through the force field and destroy the Knarbot motherships so that others can mine from Quolerus again without threat.
nymx in this run continuously destroys Knarbot motherships until the difficulty no longer increases and all unique levels are exhausted and does so in record time.
Game:
Quolerus

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

Published on 6/28/2023
Race Ace is a racing game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the May 1990 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. On a top-down perspective, you race other cars and motorcycle down a highway through various lands. Reach the finish line as soon as you can to score a high amount of points. In a way, this game is similar to Road Fighter for the NES, minus the vehicular combat.
In this run, nymx completes one race of the game in record time, ending input early at the most optimal point with the help of a special script.
Game:
Race Ace

Genres:
Racing
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 3/17/2024
Rally Racer is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 65 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in November 1988. It is a fairly simple racing game that sets up to two players on a pre-determined track or a custom one edited by the user.
nymx drives the two racers through the track in record time.
Game:
Rally Racer

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

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

Published on 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 12/28/2023
Root Race is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 54 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in December 1987. In this game, each player has a set amount of trees, manipulating the root system in order to reach water. Whoever was more efficient with their system wins.
nymx opts to get the largest root system, completely crushing the CPU-controlled system in the process.
Game:
Root Race

Genres:
Strategy
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 8/15/2022
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.
Game:
Royal Rescue

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

Published on 8/5/2023
Saloon Shootout is an arcade-style shooter for the Commodore 64 that was published in the July 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. You play as a gunslinger in a saloon and your objective is to gain as many points as you can by shooting down filled mugs filled with beer until time runs out. You have a limited number of bullets and the only way to get more bullets is to shoot playing cards in a specific order. There are also desperados that can steal bullets from you unless you shoot them down and rats that you can shoot for extra points.
In this run, nymx decides to go for the maximum score but shooting as many beer mugs and rats as he can.

Published on 5/4/2023
Sammy Lightfoot is a platforming game that was originally developed for the Apple II and later ported to the Commodore 64 and ColecoVision. Here, you play as circus acrobat Sammy Lightfoot as he jumps across perilous obstacles in service of the audience. He also appears to be a pretty frail acrobat as he can't fall from too high or be hit by objects such as big balls lest he dies.
DrD2k9 in this run plays through the game as fast as possible until the difficulty stops increasing, which takes eight levels with three stages each to do so.
Game:
Sammy Lightfoot

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

Published on 5/19/2023
Sammy Lightfoot is a platforming game that was originally developed for the Apple II and later ported to the Commodore 64 and ColecoVision. Here, you play as circus acrobat Sammy Lightfoot as he jumps across perilous obstacles in service of the audience. He also appears to be a pretty frail acrobat as he can't fall from too high or be hit by objects such as big balls lest he dies.
This time, DrD2k9 aims for the highest displayed score before it wraps around past 999'990 points.
Game:
Sammy Lightfoot

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

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 2/16/2024
Slots is a board-based video game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the August 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is a video game adaptation of the board game Connect Four. Each player takes turns putting tokens into a vertical board, and whoever can make a line of four of their tokens vertically, horizontally, or diagonally wins the game. In addition, another way to win in this game that you can't in original Connect Four is that whoever can get a token at the top row of the board first also wins the game.
In this run, nymx manipulates the opponent into making the worst moves, letting him win as a fast as possible with as little as seven moves total.
Game:
Slots

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

Published on 12/28/2023
Snake Escape is one of the games provided in Issue 1 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in July 1983. Players need to guide a snake out of a garden containing around 150 poisonous plants within a chosen time limit.
nymx helps the snake escape in record time.

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 8/5/2023
Sno-Cat is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 14 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in August 1984. Players need to reach the flag at the end of the slope with a super-powered turbo-driven tractor that shifts gears all by itself, whilst avoiding the trees that are on the way.
nymx reaches the flag in record time.
Warning: The "Game Over" screen, at the end, contains flashing lights that are not suitable to those with photo sensitivity issues.
Game:
Sno-Cat

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

Published on 3/24/2019
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.
Game:
Snoopy

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

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 7/3/2023
Space Gallery is a vertically-oriented shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 that was published in the July 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Taking place in the far out year of 2023, you play as a sentry gunner defending against odd aliens known as Frisboids. Your objective is to destroy all of them and avoid all of their attacks.
nymx here plays the game until all unique content has been exhausted (four rounds), manipulating the RNG to ensure that the alien attack patterns remain consistent.
Game:
Space Gallery

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

Published on 9/24/2023
Space Worms is an top-down shooter game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the April 1989 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In the vein of games like Galaga, the objective of the game is to destroy gigantic space worms that kill you on impact. Every time you shoot it, the space worm gets shorter and shorter. Keep shooting at it until it disappears.
nymx here decides to play the game until the difficulty tops out, which is when the space worm can no longer get any longer, doing so in record time.
Game:
Space Worms

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

Published on 4/24/2023
Spike is a game that's similar to Amidar where the player moves around the board avoiding enemies to find your Commodore keyboard. This game was a package game which came from the American magazine Compute!'s Gazette.
Watch as nymx avoids the light and collects the keyboards in record time.
Game:
Spike

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

Published on 1/28/2024
Spy Defense is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 58 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in April 1988. In this game, set in the future, players are on board of a space ship, helping a spy on the ground cross the various pits whilst fending off alien UFO attacks.
nymx and DrD2k9 succesfully get a spy across in record time.
Game:
Spy Defense

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

Published on 6/9/2023
Star Dragon is a simple arcade-like shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 that was published in the June 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The premise of the game is simple: destroy Star Dragons by shooting at their heads with your spaceship. Anywhere else and the bullets bounce off and can hit you back. And make sure not to make direct contact with any of the Star Dragons if you want to stay alive.
nymx in this run kills all thirty Star Dragons the game throws at you in record time.
Game:
Star Dragon

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

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 10/10/2023
The Forbidden Crypt is an adventure game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the February 1985 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, you play as treasure hunter that goes into crypt that's filled with the treasure of an ancient king that once ruled the area. In this crypt are four rooms you can find that treasure, all of which are guarded by snakes, ghosts, and giant spiders. Can you get all the treasure from the crypt and escape with your soul intact?
nymx takes on that challenge in this run and plays the game until the game can no longer speed up and resets back to normal speed, doing all of this as fast as possible.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 2/8/2017
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.
Tags:
Uses warps
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.3

Published on 7/2/2019
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.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 3/12/2019
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.
Game:
The Rat

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.1

Published on 1/26/2024
The Viper is a snake-like video game for the Commodore 64. In it the player must avoid touching walls or obstacles and continuously get bigger by consuming food.
nymx plays through the hardest difficulty and achieves the maximum score possible.

Published on 7/4/2023
Trap is a puzzle game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the May 1988 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In a mysterious dimension filled with rectangular prisms, there are two things, a square and a sphere. Energy is limited and precious and sharing isn't an option. As the square, your goal is to steal the sphere's energy by trapping it. This is done by passing over prisms and turning them into another color, making them impassable by the sphere and you. Be careful not to trap yourself, however, and you only have a limited amount of time before you run out of energy and die.
For this run, nymx sets the difficulty of the game to its highest playable setting using programming instructions from the magazine and plays until the ball can no longer speed up, doing so in record time.

Published on 4/16/2023
Uridium is a shoot 'em up that was originally released for the Commodore 64 and later ported to other systems such as the ZX Spectrum and the NES (under the title The Last Starfighter, licensed from the movie of the same name). Fifteen enemy Super-Dreadnought spaceships are threatening the Solar System by attempting to drain planets of the minerals in them. Your task is to destroy all of those spaceships by fighting through their waves of smaller defensive ships, landing on the Super-Dreadnoughts, and sabotaging their fuel rods so that they will be obliterated in the process.
nymx efficiently saves the Solar System in this run by destroying all 15 Super-Dreadnoughts in record time.
Game:
Uridium

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


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