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Published on 7/11/2023
Metal Head is a mecha 3D shooter that was released exclusively for the Sega Genesis 32X add-on. It is an arcade-style shooter that can be played in either first-person or third-person mode. The story has you playing as a mecha pilot in the Federation Armed Forces, where your objective is to take down terrorists and warmongers from taking over various countries using mech robots known as "Metal Heads". As the game progresses, you can upgrade your Metal Head's weapons and capabilities to make taking down your ferocious enemies easier.
In this run, Darkman425 succeeds in putting down the terrorists and allows the World Federation to militarize all the liberated countries in record time.

Note: The popping sounds and other audio glitches are due to inaccurate emulation bugs.
Game:
Metal Head

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

Published on 4/15/2023
Moon Patrol is a side-scrolling shooter originally developed by Irem for arcades. The Atari 2600 port was developed by Atari themselves. Players take control of a land vehicle on the moon and are tasked to shoot down aliens and rocks that are on the way.
LoganTheTASer goes through both the beginner and the champion courses in record time.
Game:
Moon Patrol

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

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

Published on 11/28/2017
A fixed shooter game for the Atari 2600, where you must fight bird-like enemies and an alien in a giant spaceship.
This movie completes one full round.
This run is a 00:00.03 second improvement of the predecessor movie.
Game:
Phoenix

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.1

Published on 4/13/2015
River Raid is an early vertical shooter where you fly a plane down a river and fire missiles to blow up helicopters, jets, ships and bridges.
As you can imagine, a tool-assisted speedrun turns this regular raid into an unstoppable barrage of destruction.
This movie obsoletes the previous one due to Lord_Tom getting 1 million points instead of 100,000, thus reaching the true end of the game.
This run was performed by a bot coded by the author, based on a Java port of the game he wrote himself. For more on the extensive work put into this TAS, see the author's comments.
Game:
River Raid

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.5.3

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

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

Published on 7/30/2023
In Star Strike, the player controls a spaceship launched against invaders that are attempting to destroy Earth with the DeathSt... er, an alien planet-destroying superweapon! Players fly along a trench in the alien superweapon, destroying weapon silos and fending off alien fighters. If any silos are left standing when Earth is in range, it's game over.
This time, Winslinator destroys the 8 alien silos in record time.
Game:
Star Strike

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

Published on 12/26/2022
Death Star Battle is loosely based on the events of the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Your task is to destroy the Death Star before its construction is finished. You start the task outside the shield perimeter of the Death Star, where you have to combat different imperial vessels and avoid the death ray while waiting for an opportunity to slip through one of the random openings in the energy shield. After reaching the Death Star, you must reduce its structure up to the point where you can hit the core. In the following destruction of the station, you must avoid collision with the Death Star's debris.
This is an 11 frame improvement over the previous movie thanks to better maneuverability facing the Death Star.

Viewers who have photosensitivity problems may want to avoid watching as there's a high amount of flashing visuals during gameplay that can become uncomfortable to watch.

Published on 12/30/2022
Word Zapper is an edutainment game for the Atari 2600. With a given word shown to you for a few seconds and a 99 second time limit, you are to scroll a set of letters from the alphabet and zap each letter in the correct order to form the word, then finish the round by shooting the alien emoji. You can also use the alien emoji in place of any letter, but the round must be finished with it and another one won't be given to you unless you shoot down five asteroids.
ShesChardcore completes a cycle of the game as fast as possible by manipulating the RNG to generate the words that can be zapped out the fastest on-screen.
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/21/2014
You and your grandfather just bought a small farm for growing vegetables and raising horses. Unfortunately, you find that the place is infested with animals that are determined to drive you away. Using your trusty gun, you aim to rid the property of these pests.
This run completes the first three levels, after which there is no new content. A trick is used to end the bonus levels immediately by shooting Gramps.

Viewers who have photosensitivity problems may want to avoid watching as the amount of flashing visuals due to the use of the light gun can be uncomfortable to watch.
Game:
Barnyard Blaster

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.7.4

Published on 6/25/2014
Choplifter is one of the few games that got ported from home systems to the arcade instead of the other way around. The goal of the game is to pilot an attack chopper to rescue 64 hostages from the clutches of the evil Bungeling Empire.
Besides being fun to play in real-time, it's also well-suited for TASing. It has fast-paced and lag-free gameplay, nice graphics, and simple mechanics. Both moving up and down and rotating the helicopter don't decrease your horizontal speed, which is great for both optimization and entertainment.
In this run, CoolKirby uses tool-assisted precision and tricks like blasting open enemy camps as soon as possible to beat the game in under three minutes.
We also have a movie of the Commodore 64 version.
Game:
Choplifter

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.7.0

Published on 1/23/2013
Galaga is the classic arcade shooter that takes place in space, and that's a sufficient enough description. We also have movies of the MSX version and SG1000 version.
Game:
Galaga

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.4.0

Published on 2/11/2024
Aero Fighters is a shoot-em-up developed by Video System in 1992. Known as Sonic Wings (ソニックウィングス) in Japan, the player assumes control of a fighter jet pilot from either Japan, Sweden, the USA or the UK, who sets off on a war against evil.
PearlASE completes two loops of the game whilst milking the various boss patterns to get a high score of 1,843,600 points.
Game:
Aero Fighters

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1
Additional Downloads:
(Extended input for encoding)

Published on 5/9/2023
Contra is a classic action game. Equipped with heavy artillery and infinite ammo, you must save the world by defeating the organization Red Falcon.
EZGames69 defeats the aliens in record time.
We also have a 1 player TAS of the NES version.
Game:
Contra

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

Published on 2/16/2024
Cyber Sled is a vehicular combat game that was developed by Namco for the arcades and later ported to the PlayStation. It features 3D graphics mixed with 2D sprites all in a third-person view (which can be changed to a first-person view). In this futuristic game, you control a hovercraft that's equipped with cannons and guns. You are to face off against another player, computer-controlled or by another player, and destroy them before they destroy you by maneuvering around the field and making use of cover and pick-ups that are scattered across the field.
In this run, CoolHandMike decides to play the game's "VS Computer Combat" mode and faces a gauntlet of six opponents, beating all of them in record time.
Game:
Cyber Sled

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

Published on 12/1/2017
Front Line is a vertically scrolling action game, where you play as a solider on a mission to infiltrate enemy territory and destroy their fortress.
In this run, the author notably abuses a glitch that allows the hero to travel over 40 times faster than was intended by the developers, leading to stages being completed in mere seconds.
Game:
Front Line

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

Published on 12/25/2017
Jail Break is an arcade game produced and released by Konami in 1986. The game's story is loosely based on the 1981 film Escape from New York, wherein Manhattan has become an island prison from which the hero must rescue the President of the United States, who is being held hostage. In Jail Break, the game's hero, Aki, must fight through 5 stages to rescue the warden of a prison following a mass escape.
This game is quite advanced for it's time. It offers good multi-sprite movement and decent frustrating artificial intelligence. It also has a host of semi-understandable speech phrases such as "Help me!", "Save the hostages.", "The warden has been taken hostage."
But whatever, none of that matters after what £e_Nécroyeur has done to the game with some intense glitching. Bizarre sprite mess just blazes around and terminates the poor prisoners who happened to meet what was left from the hero. Climbing sheer walls, moonwalk shooting, killing aligned groups of enemies with a single bullet - no hostage shall be afraid anymore!
Game:
Jail Break

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

Published on 3/16/2011
In Mercs, an arcade game that is also available for the Genesis, each player takes control of a member of the Wolf Force, to rescue the former President in Africa.
DarkKobold uses all three guys to save him as fast as possible.

To play the FBM file without any problems, it is important to disable the Use M68000 assembly core option in the emulator.
Game:
Mercs

Genres:
Shooter
Tags:
3 Players
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.0.5

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

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

Published on 3/2/2017
In this entry of the popular Metal Slug series, the evil would-be dictator General Morden launches another attempt to take over the world - or so it seems on the surface; this game proves that Morden is no Dr Wily by having the true villains turn out to be something else entirely.
Several of this game's stages branch; this run takes the shortest possible route through the game.
This run is faster than the predecessor movie by 02:41.75 minutes. Improvements come from using new strategies, using new tricks/glitches, and optimizing everything better.

Published on 8/25/2011
This is a run of the fourth game in SNK's big franchise, Metal Slug.
Author x2poet dual-wields Trevor Spacey and Nadia Cassel and conquers General Morden's army like an army of two controlled by a single person!
This run beats the author's previous one by 00:52.82 seconds and features a much more entertaining final battle.
You can also watch the other Metal Slug runs for more intense military action.

Published on 12/12/2011
This entry in the Metal Slug series features the theft of information on the next generation of Metal Slug by the "Ptolemaic Army", wherein our heroes are tasked with recovering that data and putting an end to the evil group.
The author improves his previous version by using a new strategy on the last boss. You can find out the details in the submission text.
You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, and Metal Slug Advance.

Published on 11/7/2009
Metal Slug X (1999) is an updated version of Metal Slug 2, the second installment of an immensely popular run'n'gun series released on the Neo Geo MVS. The games are notable for incredibly detailed pixel graphics, fluid animation, and good humor; but the real key to their longevity is, of course, their high difficulty as far as survival goes.
This is AngerFist's debut performance on FinalBurn Alpha. Please read the discussion thread if you experience desyncs.
Game:
Metal Slug X

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FBA-rr 0.0.3.3

Published on 5/18/2011
Metal Slug X (2001) is a remixed version of Metal Slug 2, the second installment of an immensely popular run'n'gun series released on the Neo Geo MVS. The games are notable for incredibly detailed pixel graphics, fluid animation, and good humor; but the real key to their longevity is, of course, their high difficulty as far as survival goes.
This is x2poet's 00:16.20 seconds improvement over the previous movie, despite now using the hardest difficulty setting. One notable improvement is the use of both players, compared to one in the obsoleted run.
You can also see more of x2poet's Metal Slug work by looking at his runs from Metal Slug, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4 and Metal Slug Advance.

Published on 5/31/2023
Moon Patrol is a side-scrolling shooter originally developed by Irem for arcades. Players take control of a land vehicle on the moon and are tasked to shoot down aliens and rocks that are on the way.
nymx completes the Beginner and the Champion courses in record time.
Game:
Moon Patrol

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
mpatrol.zip
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 2/29/2024
Xevious Arrangement is an enhancement of the original title as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1, which introduces cooperative play, complex enemies and power-ups.
Watch as SFan and CoolHandMike aim for the maximum score through the Arrangement mode.

Published on 5/18/2023
Quartet is a side-scrolling run-and-gun game that was initially developed by Sega as an arcade game and later ported to systems such as the Sega Master System and the ZX Spectrum. In the arcade version, up to four players can choose a character of their choice to clear various space bases that are filled with aliens and other moving hazards and get to the exit.
Watch Darkman425 as he chooses the character Mary and clears all 32 unique levels in record time, bunnyhopping frequently throughout.

Warning: This game contains flickering lights that may prove discomforting to photosensitive viewers.
Game:
Quartet

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

Published on 5/13/2023
Raiden Fighters is an arcade shmup/STG released in 1996 by Seibu Kaihatsu, taking a spin on the very popular Raiden series from the early 90's. It is a more bullet heavy game and focuses more on extreme precision in its scoring systems rather than rote memorisation.
PearlASE uses the Slave ship (Judge Spear variant) to abuse the graze chaining mechanics to their fullest, while uncovering all worthwhile secrets in order to reach a total score of 75,319,350 points. For reference, the current unassisted record for this category was set by SOF-WTN in 2015, with a score of 56,192,730 points.
Game:
Raiden Fighters

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9
Additional Downloads:
(Setup movie)

Published on 8/30/2022
Super Contra is the sequel to the original Contra (also known as Gryzor in Europe). It has different level layouts than the NES version, itself known as Super C in North America and Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces (and with modified sprites to feature robotic characters) in Europe. The Arcade version allows the player to control their jump height by holding Up (for a higher jump) or Down (for a lower jump).
Clicher completes the game on the hardest difficulty setting with 1 player in record time.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
MAME-rr 0.139 v0.1 beta

Published on 8/21/2022
Tron is an arcade video game based on the Disney movie Tron. It consists of 4 minigames loosely based on the movie. One where you get enemy cars to run into your line, one where you shoot each other with tanks, one where you shoot a moving wall, and one where you must reach the exit.
Clicher plays through 12 loops of this game to max difficulty in record time.
Game:
Tron

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
tron.zip
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
MAME-rr 0.139 v0.1 beta

Published on 10/27/2023
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa is a run-and-gun arcade game that is based on the cartoon of the same name and developed by Konami. Following the premise of the cartoon, the main cast of anthropomorphic bovine characters were originally ordinary animals until a mystery comet crashed near them and turned them into walking, talking animals. They formed their own city, Moo Mesa, and ran it like a Wild West town, complete with sheriffs and bandits. One of the denizens of the town, Lily Bovine, has been kidnapped by the notorious Masked Bull. Its up the C.O.W.-Boys and Buffalo Bull to get back Lily and stop the Masked Bull's reign of terror.
In this run, EZGames69 chooses Moo Montana and shoots down and arrests the Masked Bull and his cronies with his machine pistol in as fast as possible.

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
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

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

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

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

Published on 10/26/2023
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
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
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 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 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
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.1

Published on 6/22/2022
Doom II: Hell on Earth is the hit sequel to Doom, one of the most influential first person shooters of all time. The Doomguy has returned from his mission on Mars and his banishment to Hell, only to find that Earth has been invaded by demons. He must now kill all the demons on Earth and go back to Hell so he can kill everything there.
almostmatt1 and Zero Master utilize a variety of glitches and tricks that exploit the Doom engine's quirks to complete the game on the "Ultra-Violence" difficulty as fast as possible. The RNG was also manipulated to ensure the enemy AI acts as the runners intended. You can read the authors' notes for more details on how each level was achieved and a list of all the glitches used.

Published on 2/23/2017
Final Doom is a Doom game that uses the engine, items, and characters from Doom II: Hell on Earth, distributed officially by id. It is meant as a sequel to the events of Doom II and includes two sets of levels, TNT: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment.
This run by Clumsydoomer and 38_ViTa_38 beats The Plutonia Experiment using Skill 4, Ultra-Violence. This is the most common skill level used in the Doom speedrunning and TAS community.
This is an improvement of 1:12.69 over previous movie.
Note: There are encodes of higher resolutions in the discussion thread.

Published on 10/10/2015
Kama Sutra is a 32-level Doom 2 megawad released in March of 2005, created by Adolf "Gusta" Vojta and Jakub "method man" Razak, a pair of Czech speedrunners. They are together known as the "KSteam" after this project.
This run uses Skill 4, Ultra-Violence. This is the most common skill level used in the Doom speedrunning and TAS community.

Published on 4/19/2015
Finally, 16 years after Doom was modified to allow savestates and slowdown (giving birth to tool-assisted speedrunning), TASVideos presents such a movie!
Doom is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software. It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre. The original game is divided into three nine-level episodes and distributed via shareware and mail order. The Ultimate Doom, an updated release of the original game featuring a fourth episode, was released in 1995 and sold at retail.
This run by Akse beats the second episode using Skill 4, Ultra-Violence. This is the most common skill level used in the Doom speedrunning and TAS community.
Note: The encode has been extended to include the full ending music. This is not present if you play back the movie in Doom.

Published on 6/30/2015
Doom is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software. It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre. The original game is divided into three nine-level episodes and distributed via shareware and mail order. The Ultimate Doom, an updated release of the original game featuring a fourth episode, was released in 1995 and sold at retail.
This run by Akse beats the third episode using Skill 4, Ultra-Violence. This is the most common skill level used in the Doom speedrunning and TAS community.
Note: The encode has been extended to include the full ending music. This is not present if you play back the movie in Doom.

Published on 7/19/2015
Doom is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software. It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre. The original game is divided into three nine-level episodes and distributed via shareware and mail order. The Ultimate Doom, an updated release of the original game featuring a fourth episode, was released in 1995 and sold at retail.
This run by Akse beats the fourth episode using Skill 4, Ultra-Violence. This is the most common skill level used in the Doom speedrunning and TAS community.
Note: The encode has been extended to include the full ending music. This is not present if you play back the movie in Doom.

Published on 12/27/2020
Doom is a 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter (FPS) video game by id Software. It is considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre. The original game is divided into three nine-level episodes and distributed via shareware and mail order. The Ultimate Doom, an updated release of the original game featuring a fourth episode, was released in 1995 and sold at retail.
This run by almostmatt1 & 38_ViTa_38 beats the first episode using Skill 4, Ultra-Violence. This is the most common skill level used in the Doom speedrunning and TAS community.
Note: The encode has been extended to include the full ending music. This is not present if you play back the movie in Doom.

Published on 5/1/2018
In the year 1997, the maniacal Dr. Proton has developed mechanical creatures known as Techbots. Commanding an army of Techbots, the insane scientist intends to conquer the entire world. There is only one hero on Earth who can stop him with his guns and attitude: Duke Nukem.
Duke Nukem: Episode 3 - Trapped in the Future is a side-scrolling shooter with platform elements. Most of the gameplay consists of shooting enemies and exploring the environments, trying to reach the exit and advance to the next stage.
In this final episode, Dr. Proton has created his own future, where his power cannot be matched; Duke is thrown into this future nearly defenseless, and has to figure out a way to escape and defeat the mad doctor once and for all.

Published on 12/28/2010
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes a special Christmas episode called Holiday Hare. This is the 1994 version of this episode. A run has been made for the 1995 version of Holiday Hare. There is also a run of the original game available.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2

Published on 12/28/2010
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes a special Christmas episode called Holiday Hare. This is the 1995 version of this episode. A run has been made for the 1994 version of Holiday Hare. There is also a run of the original game available.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 11.2

Published on 7/19/2014
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games was and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes all the standard levels of the full game, which consists of six episodes. We also have a run of the three bonus episodes by the same authors.
You can also watch runs from one of the authors, Ilari, that completed the two Christmas episodes of this game.

Commentary subtitles are available in the YouTube encode and the archive.org page for this run.

Published on 7/19/2014
Jazz Jackrabbit is one of the earliest products released by what was then known as Epic MegaGames, better known these days for producing the Unreal engine. It was viewed initially as being a pastiche of the Sonic the Hedgehog games was and arguably developed along those lines, bearing much of the same fast platformer action.
This run completes all the extra episodes (A-C). There is also a run of the original game available.

Commentary subtitles and WebM encodes are available on the archive.org page for this run.

Published on 10/27/2010
If you've been in Europe long enough, you've probably heard of the Lada car company. However, you probably haven't heard of this relatively obscure tie-in game, involving racing - yes, you guessed it - a Lada... which happens to have a rocket launcher and machine gun (those are almost certainly not standard features).
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
JPC-rr 10.13

Published on 4/8/2017
Released by Gray Design Assoicates in 1994, Nitemare 3D is a first person shooter in the same vein as Wolfenstein 3D. The game is a follow-up to the Hugo trilogy of parser-based adventure games and chronicles Hugo's fight to rescue his girlfriend Penelope from an evil scientist named Dr. Hammerstein.
The first episode, played by slamo in record time, is a journey through Hammerstein's bizarrely designed mansion, featuring witches, vampires, and closets that seem to go on forever.

Published on 2/12/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
dwangoAC and slamo escape from Castle Wolfenstein as fast as possible, using various tricks. Read the authors' comments for more details.

An alternate encode by the authors with the map display is available right here.

Published on 3/19/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo utilizes diagonal dashing and careful manipulation to get through Operation: Eisenfaust as fast as possible.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 6/25/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo, using various tricks, kills a modernised version of the Führer (and thus rewrites history) as fast as possible.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 10/3/2016
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo uncovers the dark secret and kills Otto in record time.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 5/13/2017
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo follows the trail of the madman and uses tricks to skip this episode's boss in order to beat it in record time. Please read the author's comments for more details.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 10/8/2017
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It follows the mission of a World War II Allied spy, William "B.J." Blazkowicz, to take down Hitler's Nazi regime. Also known as Wolf3D, it is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre on PC and is id's precursor to the wildly popular Doom series.
slamo survives the confrontation with General Fettgesicht and clears the record in record time. Please read the author's comments for more details.

An alternate encode with a map display provided by the author is available right here.

Published on 7/19/2019
Contra 4 (2007) is largely a combined remake of the early NES and SNES Contra titles, featuring remixed music and vastly improved visuals utilizing both screens of the DS as if they were one contiguous screen.
Soig improves upon the previous publication by not only optimising it further, but also playing through the 40 missions of the game's challenge mode, which are unlocked after the main game is beaten.

Published on 9/15/2015
Dementium: The Ward is a first-person survival horror game created by Renegade Kids and Gamecock for the DS. You wake up in a mysterious, derelict hospital and must explore the dark, solve puzzles, and avoid the fearsome surgical experiments roaming the halls to escape with your life.
In this tool-assisted speedrun, jlun2 makes his own path through the game, cutting through enemies, bosses, and even walls to assure his character's freedom in under 37 minutes.

Note: Due to an emulation error, certain sounds play louder than intended.

Published on 9/1/2015
The classic Metal Slug series comes to the DS with Metal Slug 7. Although there is only one player this time, this version is notable for allowing the player to keep two weapons and switch freely between them. Also, each player has a special advantage compared to the others: for instance, Eri can use more grenades, whereas Tarma does more damage while using a Metal Slug.
This run uses Eri and Tarma, just like mtvf1's first Eri/Tarma run. It improves zk547's deathless run by 01:08.10, despite having to use two continues to switch between Eri and Tarma.
Also check out the runs of other Metal Slug games such as Metal Slug, Metal Slug X, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5 and Metal Slug Advance.

Note: The second pair of downloadables and torrents are encodes of only the top screen.

Published on 9/6/2016
Metroid Prime Hunters is the DS spinoff to the "Metroid Prime" trilogy, involving Samus in a race against six other bounty hunters to collect the eight Octoliths and get the "Ultimate Power".
At least, that's what was supposed to happen. Unfortunately for those bounty hunters, Memory is on the case. Thanks to a variety of tricks, out of bounds glitches, and optimization, Samus blazes through various planets in the Tetra Galaxy and collects the eight Octoliths in record time, destroying everything in her path. World's greatest bounty hunter indeed.
For those curious to see how the series originated, we also have a run of the original Metroid.

Published on 7/10/2010
Space Invaders needs no introduction. Space Invaders Extreme 2 is part of a recent revival of the series, introducing power-ups and a variety of new gameplay modes.
This run plays Score Attack mode on the hardest available path. Note that it doesn't aim for highest score because doing so would make the movie considerably longer.

Published on 7/24/2010
Otocky was created by Toshio Iwai in 1987 and was only released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. It is best described as a musical side-scrolling shoot 'em up where the primary weapon is a ball which, when fired in one of eight directions, plays different musical notes on the primary instrument quantized to the beat of the background music.
Needless to say, when such a weapon is put into the hands of a tool-assisted speedrunner, you might just find yourself humming along to the end result.
This run was console verified using micro500's TASLink replay device (with 1 frame per latch poll).
Game:
Otocky

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.3

Published on 6/28/2023
TRAPPED (stylized as -TRAPPED-) is a story-driven Flash adventure game and the first entry in what is known as the Trapped trilogy. You play as a man who wakes up to find himself trapped in a guarded bathroom and with no memory of how he got there or who he is. Help him figure out how to get out and solve the mystery that surrounds him and his true identity by solving a series of moon logic puzzles filled with egregious contrivances. Also, a Bible is involved.
Spikestuff here forgoes the nonsense in the game and speeds through it all as fast as possible.
Game Version:
327415_trapped.swf
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS v1.4.4 // ruffle-nightly-2023-05-01

Published on 8/14/2023
Alien Hominid is a 2D run and gun flash game that would eventually lead to the development of the identically titled home console game. This version of the game consists of a single level with two boss fights.
SpectralPlatypus completes the flash level in record time.
Game:
Alien Hominid

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + Ruffle Nightly 2023-08-03

Published on 11/16/2022
Arsenal is another game in the Flash sniper assassin genre, but with the addition of also being a spy. Not only are you tasked with killing your assigned targets, you also have assignments where you are to eavesdrop on certain people and retrieve intel once you kill them. There are also other assignments such as delivering non-lethal knockouts and protecting valuable material.
Spikestuff shoots, snoops, and protects their way through the game in record time.
There is also an encode that removes the scope view with the use of an in-game setting so that the whole area is shown.
Game:
Arsenal

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle-nightly-2022-10-10
Additional Downloads:
(No Scope View Movie)

Published on 8/18/2023
Arsenal is another game in the Flash sniper assassin genre, but with the addition of also being a spy. Not only are you tasked with killing your assigned targets, you also have assignments where you are to eavesdrop on certain people and retrieve intel once you kill them. There are also other assignments such as delivering non-lethal knockouts and protecting valuable material.
In this run, Spikestuff beats the game even faster than their previous run by exploiting a glitch in the game and a quirk in Adobe Flash where objects off-screen can be clicked on. In this case, the targets in missions 3 and 4 are assassinated before they even reach the screen.
There is also an encode that removes the scope view with the use of an in-game setting so that the whole area is shown.
Game:
Arsenal

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
arsenal.swf
Tags:
Heavy glitch abuse
Emulator Replay:
libTAS v1.4.4 // ruffle-nightly-2023-03-14

Published on 6/24/2023
Astro Barrier is an arcade shooter that was playable as a minigame in the now defunct MMO Club Penguin. The game consists of multiple targets that, once shot at, will freeze in place and block other bullets. The goal of the game is to hit every target on the screen with a limited amount of bullets per level.
This TAS by Randomno aims to complete all the secret levels in record time, these secret levels show up if the player waits long enough on certain screens. This movie also skips directly to level 10 and 30 to access the secret levels.
Game:
Astro Barrier

Genres:
Shooter
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle-nightly-2023_05_08

Published on 7/9/2023
Astro Barrier is an arcade shooter that was playable as a minigame in the now defunct MMO Club Penguin. The game consists of multiple targets that, once shot at, will freeze in place and block other bullets. The goal of the game is to hit every target on the screen with a limited amount of bullets per level.
This time, Randomno completes all 40 of the regular stages in record time.
Game:
Astro Barrier

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
bootstrap.swf
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle_ab

Published on 11/16/2022
BloodShot is another one of those simplistic Flash games where you play as an assassin that's been assigned to eliminate a number of targets. Unlike a good number of Flash assassin shooter games, you have multiple things to shoot, giving you a number of ways you can kill your target with your sniper rifle.
Spikestuff takes out every one of their targets in record time.
Game:
BloodShot

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
bloodshot.swf
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle-nightly-2022-10-10

Published on 11/17/2022
Hitstick 3: Deadly Breeze is the sequel to Hitstick 2: No Time For Diplomacy. As with that game, it appears to have been inspired by the Hitman series. You play as an assassin that's tasked to kill very unsavory targets, some of which plan to sell out company secrets to others and others that plan to commit war crimes with chemical weapons.
Spikestuff goes though many seconds of loading screens to eliminate their targets in record time.
Game Version:
hitstick3.swf
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle-nightly-2022-10-10

Published on 11/18/2022
Kyoushuu! Nobuyuki Gundan 2 is a Flash game developed by SKT, and the second game in the Nobuyuki Gundan series. As a lone officer of the Nobuyuki Task Forces, your task is to take down an entire gang in their headquarters without any armor and only a pistol with unlimited ammo.
Spikestuff improves on their previous run by 8 frames by exploiting the fact that you can shoot through walls during the helicopter battle, destroying it more quickly.
Game Version:
nobuyuki2nd.swf
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle-nightly-2022-10-10

Published on 12/20/2022
My Friend Pedro is a platforming-shooter Flash game that was later remade in Unity for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. A mysterious man has found himself in the middle of an alleyway seemingly with no memory what just happened before. A floating, talking magic banana named Pedro then appears and convinces him to kill a bunch of gangsters. To aid the mysterious man, Pedro teaches him that the pills he was forced to take before he became unconscious allow him to slow down his perception of time. With that ability and all the guns he can find, the mysterious man sets off on a rampage for unclear reasons.
In this run, rythin rolls her way to the end as fast as possible, only using bullet time for more optimal platform landings.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle_nightly_2022-12-02

Published on 6/26/2023
Sniper Assassin is a shooter game in the Flash sniping game genre and the first game in the Sniper Assassin Flash series. Unlike later games in the series, this one doesn't appear to have an overarching story. You're given a target to kill and your mission is to kill them. Do not kill the wrong people or you will fail the mission.
Spikestuff shows tip-top hitman efficiency with their machine gun-like sniping skills by completing every mission as fast as possible.
There is also an alternate encode that removes the scope view with the use of a modified SWF file.
Game:
Sniper Assassin

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
libTAS v1.4.4 // ruffle-nightly-2023-05-20

Published on 8/24/2023
Sniper Assassin is a shooter game in the Flash sniping game genre and the first game in the Sniper Assassin Flash series. Unlike later games in the series, this one doesn't appear to have an overarching story. You're given a target to kill and your mission is to kill them. Do not kill the wrong people or you will fail the mission.
Spikestuff shows even greater hitman efficiency in this run by completing the first mission 1.70 seconds faster than their "glitchless" run with the exploitation of an Adobe Flash quirk where clickable objects can be interacted with off-screen, a target in this case.

There is also an alternate encode that removes the scope view with the use of a modified SWF file.
Game:
Sniper Assassin

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
sniperassassin.swf
Emulator Replay:
libTAS v1.4.4 // ruffle-nightly-2023-05-20

Published on 11/16/2022
Sniper Assassin 2 is part of the Sniper Assassin series, another set of entries in Flash sniper assassin subgenre. Unlike most others in said subgenre, it has an ongoing story. Your wife has been murdered by unknown forces, and you must use your particular set of skills to find who's responsible and eliminate them. Along the way, you torture some of your leads to get information that will get you closer to your wife's murderers.
Spikestuff kills and tortures their way through this game in record time.
There is also an encode that removes the scope view and leaves just the reticle using a modified SWF file.
Game:
Sniper Assassin 2

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
sniperassassin2.swf
Emulator Replay:
libTAS 1.4.4 + ruffle-nightly-2022-10-10

Published on 9/9/2023
Sniper Assassin 3 is the sequel to Sniper Assassin 2, and part of the Sniper Assassin series of games as part of the Flash sniper assassin subgenre. It continues where Sniper Assassin 2 left off, as the protagonist continues to kill and torture his way through many mooks as he avenges his wife's murder. This time, his crusade is ramped up in scale as he commits vandalism and more varied strategies of torture, all in the name of taking down his wife's murderers.
Spikestuff improves on their previous run of this game by 25 seconds by exploiting a quirk in Adobe Flash and design flaw in the game where clickable objects in the game can be interacted with off-screen. Thanks to this, a number of assassination targets are eliminated before they even reach the screen.

There is also an encode that removes the scope view and leaves only the reticle with the use of a modified SWF file.
Game:
Sniper Assassin 3

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
libTAS v1.4.4 // ruffle-nightly-2023-03-14

Published on 6/27/2023
Sniper: Year One is yet another Flash game in the sniper shooter subgenre of Flash games. You play a government agent, whose tasks are to assassinate various threats and other targets. Such targets include other assassins, bomb-wielding terrorists, mob bosses, and spies. Kill them all and you get scored based on how accurate your shots were.
Spikestuff here plays on the hardest difficulty and proves to be the quickest shot in this government agency.
There is also an alternate encode that removes the scope view with the use of a modified SWF file.
Game:
Sniper: Year One

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
libTAS v1.4.4 // ruffle-nightly-2023-05-20

Published on 4/7/2020
After Burst for Game Boy was released Japan-exclusively by NCS in 1990. Conceptually just a simple 2D shooter it features three modes (normal, 1P VS, 2P VS) of which this run plays the 1P VS mode. To reach this mode's ending, 15 (instead of 30 in normal mode) single-screen stages have to be cleared (all of which are different from the ones in normal mode).
The game features a ballistic bullet mechanic where you can charge each shot to have a higher exit velocity. Since only one player bullet can be visible at a time, the damage that can be done in any given timespan is severely limited, necessitating hitting multiple targets in one shot for best efficiency.
Quite strikingly, this game is plagued by extreme lag, slowing in-game time down significantly and contributing to about 80% runtime of the entire movie (about 4 lag frames per normal frame).
jlun2 improves the previous TAS by 7.74 seconds, thanks to decreasing the downtime between shots by changing their aim.
Game:
After Burst

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4

Published on 4/18/2020
After Burst for Game Boy was released exclusively in Japan by NCS in 1990. Conceptually just a simple 2D shooter, it has three modes: Normal, 1P VS, and 2P VS.
The game features a ballistic bullet mechanic where you can charge each shot to have a higher exit velocity. Since only one player bullet can be visible at a time, the damage that can be done in any given timespan is severely limited, necessitating hitting multiple targets in one shot for best efficiency. Quite strikingly, this game is plagued by extreme lag, slowing in-game time down significantly.
This run completes the Normal mode's 30 stages in record time. We also have a run of the 1P VS mode, which has different stages.
Game:
After Burst

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4

Published on 12/28/2009
In this game, some short fat guy decides to prove that the police as well as Batman are incapable of doing their jobs. So he steals Batman's outfit, some of his toys, and brings along with himself advanced military weapon prototypes to wipe out the Joker once and for all 'till the next game, and save Gotham city.
This run starts off with walking by enemies, showing how incompetent criminals are at firing guns. It proceeds to aerial combat a bit reminiscent of Gradius, further demonstrating that even when criminals fire, their weapons are no match for Batman's Batwing, even when piloted by a Batman impostor. The big finale here shows that as evil as the Joker is, he like all others cannot withstand rocket grenades indefinitely.
Game:
Batman

Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
VBA-rr v21+

Published on 7/3/2017
Contra: The Alien Wars is the third entry in the Contra series. Like its predecessors, it is a predominantly side-scrolling shooter with a heavy emphasis on action. The protagonist can fire in eight directions when standing still. New abilities include climbing on walls, grabbing poles and navigating tanks. Parts of scenery can be destroyed. Originally released on the SNES, this version of the game was released on the Game Boy in 1994.
ThunderAxe31 makes quick work of this game, jumping and shooting his way through aliens as fast as possible.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.12.1

Published on 5/31/2020
Contra: The Alien Wars is the third entry in the Contra series. Like its predecessors, it is a predominantly side-scrolling shooter with a heavy emphasis on action. The protagonist can fire in eight directions when standing still. New abilities include climbing on walls, grabbing poles and navigating tanks. Parts of scenery can be destroyed. Originally released on the SNES, this version of the game was released on the Game Boy in 1994.
ThunderAxe31 makes quick work of this game, while refusing to kill any enemies. Well, he accidentally stomped on a couple of them, watched one fall into the abyss, wasn't careful enough and enabled some landmines... Some enemies even exploded by themselves. But it was never his intention, okay? It's a pacifist completion.

Published on 11/5/2022
Cosmo Tank is a space tank battle game. You're the commander of the tank "Tiger Alpha-1", and your mission is to fight on land and in space against the Master Insect and his minions. The game features both top-down levels and first person levels in which you can freely move around in all directions. Settings feature both open outdoor environments, caves and space. Slowly upgrade your cannon and armor as you progress for more firepower and the ability to sustain more hits.
Alyosha improves on tool23's run by nearly 2 minutes by properly upgrading the laser weapon, better RNG manipulation, and better optimization.
You can watch this run being played on a real console here.
Game:
Cosmo Tank

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

Published on 10/11/2021
The Game Boy Camera is a peripheral for the Game Boy by Nintendo that allows you to shoot photos with it. However, there are also mini-games included in the cart itself, namely Space Fever II (a shoot-em-up), DJ (a music creation tool), Ball (a juggling game similar to the G&W games) and Run! Run! Run! (a sports game where you race against the clock, which needs to be unlocked first).
CasualPokePlayer improves on ThunderAxe31's previous run of Space Fever II and Run! Run! Run! by optimizing the end of the running level with a jump.
Game:
Game Boy Camera

Genres:
Shooter
Sport
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.3


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