Tool-assisted movies (53)

Game:
Club Penguin Demake
Genres:
Party
Homebrew
Unofficial port
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
ClubPenguinDemakeDemo.gb

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GBC Grimace's Birthday by Cephla in 03:40.34

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4.7 / 10

Published on 9/28/2023

Grimace's Birthday is an unlicensed Game Boy Color game that was commissioned by the McDonald's Corporation as part of their 2023 promotional event of celebrating one of their mascots' birthday. It is a short platformer that has skateboarding levels as a throwback to late-1990s pop culture and regular platforming levels. The story in the game has Grimace gathering a number of other McDonald's mascots for his birthday so they can watch him blow out the candles on his birthday cake. However, the candles have already been lit, so he must get all of his friends before the candles go out.

Cephla here saves 29 frames over their previous run by utilizing a previously unused double jump glitch in the last level.

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GBC Grimace's Birthday by Cephla in 03:40.83

Game:
Grimace's Birthday
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
grimacebday v.1.7.gbc
Tags:
Uses easiest difficulty

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Genesis Action 52: Armor Battle by LogansGamingRoom in 00:59.96

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1.55 / 10

Published on 11/13/2023

Armor Battle is a top-down combat shooter game from the Sega Genesis version of Action 52, one of the most famous multicarts. It is a two player version of the game Norman from the same collection, which itself is a remake of Storm Over the Desert, which is from the NES version of Action 52. In Armor Battle, you and one other player control tanks in a fight to the death in the middle of the desert. Whoever drains the HP of their opponent first wins the tank duel.

LogansGamingRoom saves 42 frames over his previous run through better menu maneuvering and a tiny optimization in the last level.

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Genesis Action 52: Armor Battle by LogansGamingRoom in 01:00.66

Game:
Action 52: Armor Battle
Genres:
Shooter
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md
Tags:
2 Players

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Genesis Action 52: Bombs Away by LogansGamingRoom in 08:16.42

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0 / 10

Published on 11/23/2023

Bombs Away is an autoscrolling war game and one of 52 games that are in the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. You play as a soldier in the middle of what appears to be some village in the jungle. The place is being bombarded by an air raid, and you certainly don't want to be one of the casualties. Your goal is to escape without getting hit by any of the dropped bombs that curiously don't explode unless they hit you directly.

LogansGamingRoom here completes all nine levels in record time, ending input early in the 8th level and letting the game's checkpoint system finish the game for him.

Game:
Action 52: Bombs Away
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths

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Genesis Action 52: Echo by LogansGamingRoom in 11:55.91

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3.6 / 10

Published on 11/16/2023

Echo is a memory game and one of 52 games that are bundled with the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. It plays just like the electronic toy Simon and follows the same rules. The game will give you a pattern to memorize and your objective is to input back the pattern to the best of your memory. As the game progresses, it will give longer patterns and give you less time to memorize them.

LogansGamingRoom beats the game with lightning fast inputs in record time, manipulating the game to give patterns that require the least amount of inputs as much as possible.

Game:
Action 52: Echo
Genres:
Board
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md
Tags:
Heavy luck manipulation

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Genesis Action 52: Knockout by LogansGamingRoom in 02:12.05

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1.5 / 10

Published on 11/13/2023

Knockout is a simple fighting game and one of 52 games for the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. In this two player only game, you and one other person face each other off in the ring and box until either you or the other person gets knocked. Whoever scores the most knockouts out of nine rounds is the winner.

LogansGamingRoom here saves 39 frames over his previous run through better menu maneuvering.

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Genesis Action 52: Knockout by LogansGamingRoom in 02:12.70

Game:
Action 52: Knockout
Genres:
Fighting
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md

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Genesis Action 52: Magic Bean by LogansGamingRoom in 07:49.37

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0 / 10

Published on 11/5/2023

Magic Bean is an action game and one of 52 games that are bundled in the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. In this brief adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk, you play as Jack in his journey to climb up the giant beanstalk he grew and reach the giant's castle at the very top. He must be careful as the giant is throwing random objects down at Jack to prevent him from reaching the castle.

Watch LogansGamingRoom as he dodges enough humongous items to fill up a couple of department stores and completes every level in the game in record time.

Game:
Action 52: Magic Bean
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md

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Genesis Action 52: Ooze by LogansGamingRoom in 03:47.76

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5.25 / 10

Published on 7/26/2023

Ooze is one of the 52 games in the infamous Action 52 multicart on the Genesis. While the player character remains identical from the NES version, it plays very differently, as they have to collect keys spread across 4 stages filled with various hazards.

LogansGamingRoom plays through the four stages in record time.

Game:
Action 52: Ooze
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (Unl) [!].bin
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths

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Genesis Action 52: Speed Boat by LogansGamingRoom in 06:02.77

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1.15 / 10

Published on 11/18/2023

Speed Boat is an action game and one of 52 games that are bundled in the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. It is yet another autoscroller from the collection, just like Slalom and Sunday Drive, where the objective is to get to the end of the level without crashing into anything. This time, you're on a speed boat and you must avoid other speed boats and fishermen on their own tiny boats.

In this run, LogansGamingRoom completes another Action 52 copypaste in record time, ending input early in the last level when possible.

Game:
Action 52: Speed Boat
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md

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Genesis Action 52: Star Evil by LogansGamingRoom in 06:15.33

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0.2 / 10

Published on 11/29/2023

Star Evil is a space shooter and one of 52 games bundled in the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. According to the manual, you are in a spaceship flying through man-made space caverns, which in the game look like chipped off parts of the Death Star floating in space. Your goal is to navigate through the caverns and get to end while avoiding enemy ships that, unlike you, can pass through the cavern walls unharmed. Luckily, your spaceship has laser guns you can use to shoot down the enemies.

LogansGamingRoom here completes an adapted NES Action 52 classic in record time.

Game:
Action 52: Star Evil
Genres:
Shooter
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).md

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Genesis Demons of Asteborg by Riyan & CoolHandMike in 35:55.93

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8.87 / 10

Published on 11/8/2023

Demons of Asteborg is an action-platforming game that was made in 2021 for the Sega Genesis, many years after Sega ceased support for the system. In this epic game, you play as Gareth, one of the royal guards of the Kingdom of Asteborg. The kingdom is under attack by the Zadimus and his horde of demons, who swore vengeance after being defeated in a great war in the past. As Gareth is the son of one of the heroes who helped end the war, it's up to him to stop Zadimus from conquering Asteborg and save the world from the demon invasion.

Riyan and CoolHandMike both work together to complete the game as fast as possible, using a variety of glitches to bypass significant portions of the game. For more details on these glitches and how they were used, you can read the authors' notes.

Game:
Demons of Asteborg
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Demons of Asteborg (World) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Pt-BR) (v1.11) (neofid-studios.com) (Aftermarket) (Unl).md
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses hardest difficulty

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NES Action 52: Alfredo and the Fettucinni's by LogansGamingRoom in 02:08.57

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3 / 10

Published on 11/29/2023

Alfredo and the Fettucinni's, also known as Alfred n the Fettuc, is a platforming game that serves as one of many in one of the most infamous multicarts ever made, Action 52. According to the manual of the game, you are Alfredo, apparently some sort of wrangler of giant living, walking pasta. Your supposed objective is to get all the various shapes of pasta back to the pot before time runs out. In actuality, the pasta is hostile and wants to kill you, and your objective is to get to the end of each level without dying.

LogansGamingRoom in this run completes all three levels in the record as fast as possible, not finding Strega Nona's magic pasta pot at any point.

Game:
Action 52: Alfredo and the Fettucinni's
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Bubblegum Rosie by OtakuTAS in 03:47.44

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4 / 10

Published on 8/24/2023

Bubblegum Rosie, also known in the game as Bubble Gum Rossie, is a platformer and one of 52 games in Action 52, probably the most notorious NES multicart ever released. It stars Bubblegum Rosie, a girl who is looking for her bubblegum. Here, she braves through the candy lands in search for it, but there are other creatures that want gum, too, and are willing to kill her just to see if she has gum. There is also a top-down driving level for a change in gameplay, unusual for an Action 52 game.

In this run, OtakuTAS decides to complete the game as fast as possible while also showing off a glitched driving level that results from getting a game over on the second level and playing from the beginning afterwards.

Game:
Action 52: Bubblegum Rosie
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Rev A) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
Uses intentional deaths

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NES Action 52: Dam Busters by LogansGamingRoom in 01:13.45

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3 / 10

Published on 6/30/2023

Dam Busters is one of 52 games that are bundled in Action 52, an unlicensed but very well known multicart for the NES. This game is very simplistic and involves a beaver traveling across dams to the finish line while avoiding other beavers. Also, this beaver can shoot mysterious projectiles that can blow up enemy beavers somehow.

LogansGamingRoom here completes all two levels in this game as fast as possible.

Game:
Action 52: Dam Busters
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Fire Breathers by LogansGamingRoom in 00:28.72

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1.9 / 10

Published on 10/28/2023

Fire Breathers is a top-down combat shooter from Action 52, the most infamous NES multicart. According to the manual, you and one other player control dragons and are fighting each other in the middle of the Dragon Wars. Whoever kills each other the most in a set of eight rounds will win the wars and bring victory to their kingdom. Note that the game is strictly a two player game; there is no CPU option.

LogansGamingRoom in this run demonstrates the fastest game of Fire Breathers possible, with both players working together to end it as fast as they can.

Game:
Action 52: Fire Breathers
Genres:
Shooter
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
2 Players

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NES Action 52: Fuzz Power by LogansGamingRoom in 01:25.46

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0 / 10

Published on 7/18/2023

Fuzz Power is a surreal platforming game that is one of 52 games that are bundled in the infamous multicart Action 52. According to the manual, you play as some sort of hairy bigfoot creature named "Fuzzy". His goal is to get to the land of Guru, but there are walking combs, brushes, and hair dryers that are out to get all of his hair. It's up to the player to get Fuzzy to his destination.

LogansGamingRoom for this run completes as much of the game that can be completed as fast as possible. The third level is impossible to properly complete due to a catastrophic level design flaw where Fuzzy hits a wall he cannot jump over. It is at this wall where the game is considered finished.

Game:
Action 52: Fuzz Power
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage

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NES Action 52: G-Force Fighters by LogansGamingRoom in 00:49.98

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1.75 / 10

Published on 7/9/2023

G-Force Fighters, also known on the select screen as G-FORCE FGT. and in the game itself as G-Force, is one of many, many space shooters for the unlicensed multicart Action 52. It is a side-scrolling shoot em' up similar to Gradius where you control a space jet and dodge and shoot down everything in your path.

LogansGamingRoom in this run beats the game in record time by ending input early during the second level, as most of the enemies can be avoided by staying at the bottom right of the screen. The third level requires no input at all to be completed perfectly.

Game:
Action 52: G-Force Fighters
Genres:
Shooter
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Jigsaw by LogansGamingRoom in 01:47.81

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1.7 / 10

Published on 11/29/2023

Jigsaw is platforming and one of many in Action 52, a very notorious multicart for the NES. According to the manual, this game is supposed to be a simple jigsaw puzzle game where you match pieces up to make a picture. The actual game is totally different. Here, you play as a handyman in his gigantic workshop, which is filled with walking handyman tools that want to kill you for some reason. The only tool that doesn't want to kill you is presumably your nailgun, which is used to destroy the enemy tools. As with many other platformers from Action 52, the objective is to get to the end of each level without dying to the tools.

LogansGamingRoom in this run beats another three level Action 52 platforming game in record time, not seeing a single jigsaw puzzle to solve or a trap constructed by Jigsaw to avoid.

Game:
Action 52: Jigsaw
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Lollipops by warmCabin in 01:47.01

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3 / 10

Published on 8/3/2023

Lollipops is a platforming game that serves as one of 52 games in Action 52, probably the most infamous multicart for the NES. Here, you are a guy with a giant lollipop named "Johnny Jawbreaker". His goal is to rescue his girlfriend "Lolli" from the the chocolate monsters and must do so by getting the end of three candy-themed levels.

In this run, warmCabin completes all three of those levels and corrupts the music in record time. As it turns out, Lolli is nowhere to be found in the game.

Game:
Action 52: Lollipops
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Mash Man by LogansGamingRoom in 01:55.38

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1.5 / 10

Published on 8/4/2023

Mash Man is game #37 out of 52 from Action 52, a $200 unlicensed multicart made for the NES. You play as some hairless bigfoot dude with a big nose and sunglasses, and as with every other platforming game from Action 52, the goal is to get to the end of each level. In every level are enemies that either appear to be made out of abstract shapes or are some variety of eye monster. They randomly either can or can't be killed, and/or they can or can't harm you.

LogansGamingRoom here shuffles with hairless Mash Man bigfoot guy through all three levels in record time.

Game:
Action 52: Mash Man
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Meong by warmCabin in 01:02.06

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3.13 / 10

Published on 8/29/2023

Meong is a puzzle game that is one of 52 games in Action 52, an NES multicart infamous for its shoddy and monotonous games. The objective of the game is to get to the other end of the level while avoiding hidden mines. Those mines can reveal themselves after some time, but don't stand still for too long or you will blow up. And take note that some of the tiles may actually be walls you can't step on.

warmCabin in this run completes this blatantly unfair game in record time with the help of a script to make things much easier.

Game:
Action 52: Meong
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Non Human by LogansGamingRoom in 00:56.52

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2.6 / 10

Published on 7/9/2023

Non Human is one of 52 games that are bundled in Action 52, one of the more well-known multicarts, and one of its more strange games. As far as what can be told, you are some triangular automaton navigating a very surreal cavern filled with strange creatures such as exploding eels, flying teeth, and flying eyeballs. In this cavern are pits lead to giant disembodied heads with sunglasses that kill you on impact. The objective of the game is to get to the end of the cavern.

LogansGamingRoom completes the sole level in this game as fast as possible.

Game:
Action 52: Non Human
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Ooze by LogansGamingRoom in 03:44.31

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4 / 10

Published on 7/4/2023

Ooze is one of 52 games in the infamous multicart Action 52 and one of its premiere titles aside from Cheetahmen. You play as some small guy wearing a green outfit with a pointy hat in a world filled with dripping ooze and moving blobs of ooze. Your goal is to get the end of the level, which is as easy as it sounds except for the last level, which is annoyingly hard either due to bad level design or as a curveball to ensure that you won't get promised prize code for beating the game.

LogansGamingRoom in this run powers through all six levels of Ooze as fast as possible, casually strolling through half of it.

Game:
Action 52: Ooze
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Robbie and the Robots by OtakuTAS & LogansGamingRoom in 03:36.48

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3.2 / 10

Published on 10/10/2023

Robbie and the Robots is an action platforming game and one of 52 games bundled in Action 52, a very infamous multicart for the NES. In this game, you play as a geek with huge glasses and a gun fighting off robots that, according to manual, were created by Robbie's evil brother, Brainy. It's up to you to shoot all these robots down and get to the end of each level. With six levels in total, the game is unusually content-filled for an Action 52 game.

LogansGamingRoom and OtakuTAS save 54 frames over the previous run through better lag management by only shooting when necessary.

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NES Action 52: Robbie and the Robots by OtakuTAS in 03:37.38

Game:
Action 52: Robbie and the Robots
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Heavy glitch abuse

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NES Action 52: Rocket Jockey by LogansGamingRoom in 00:50.68

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1.33 / 10

Published on 7/10/2023

Rocket Jockey, is one of many, many space shooter-likes for the unlicensed multicart Action 52. It is a side-scrolling shoot em' up similar to Gradius where you control a gunslinger on an ICBM and dodge and shoot down everything in your path.

LogansGamingRoom in this run beats the game in record time by ending input early during the second level, as most of the enemies can be avoided by staying at the bottom right of the screen.

Game:
Action 52: Rocket Jockey
Genres:
Shooter
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes

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NES Action 52: Sombreros by LogansGamingRoom in 04:23.88

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2.33 / 10

Published on 7/21/2023

Sombreros is a vertically scrolling top-down action shooter that is one of 52 games that were bundled in the most infamous multicart Action 52. You play as a guy in a sombrero in one end of town and your goal is to get to the other side of town. However, there are other guys in sombreros that are blocking your path, along with giant conch shells and moving cars. You must use your gun to mow them down so you can get through. Or you can just plow through them like a tank.

LogansGamingRoom here completes all four levels the game has in record time, making it an unusual content filled Action 52 game.

Game:
Action 52: Sombreros
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage

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NES Action 52: The Cheetahmen "warps" by EZGames69 & Samsara in 03:11.30

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6.44 / 10

Published on 7/16/2021

Even the worst video games ever made can make for a good TAS.

This movie speedily plays through "The Cheetahmen", game #52 of a compilation of horrid games called Action 52. While the game is pretty horrible in general, it has a rather catchy BGM.

EZGames69 and Samsara improve the previous movie by 44.76 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and using a warp in the 5th level to spawn the last boss early in a glitched up level.

There are also two published runs of the unreleased sequel, Cheetahmen II. One plays through all the levels, whilst the other starts from level 5 from power-on, due to abusing the fact that some games do not initialize their states before reading them.

Obsoletes:
NES Action 52: The Cheetahmen "warps" by SwordlessLink in 03:56.06

Game:
Action 52: The Cheetahmen
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (Active Enterprises) (REVA) [!].nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Uses warps
Heavy glitch abuse

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NES Action 52: The Cheetahmen "warpless" by EZGames69 & Samsara in 04:33.75

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5.25 / 10

Published on 7/24/2023

Even the worst video games ever made can make for a good TAS.

The Cheetahmen is game #52 in Action 52, probably the most infamous multi-game cartridge released for the NES. The story goes that the "Action Gamemaster" (i.e. some guy) was playing his video game when three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ripoffs pull him through the TV and into their world. They tell him that there are enemies in their world and then leave him behind to fight the enemies.

In this run, EZGames69 and Samsara decide not to use any warps that can skip large portions of each level. This includes the glitch in level 5 that can warp the player to a grey void that has a chance of spawning the final boss.

Game:
Action 52: The Cheetahmen
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (USA) (Rev A) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Forgoes warps
Forgoes time-saving glitches

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NES Action 52: Time Warp Tickers by LogansGamingRoom in 01:10.72

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4 / 10

Published on 7/23/2023

Time Warp Tickers is the 48th game in the unlicensed multi-game cartridge Action 52. As a disembodied pair of fingers, players must defeat or avoid worms, enemies resembling pen lids and other enemies in a surreal world. Defeating an enemy or getting killed yields the iconic "Time?" in lieu of the character.

LogansGamingRoom completes the two levels present in this game in record time.

Game:
Action 52: Time Warp Tickers
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Action 52 (U) [!].nes

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NES Bible Adventures by DrD2k9 in 18:15.03

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5.63 / 10

Published on 10/3/2016

Bible Adventures is a collection of three platformer games in one. Each game is (very loosely) based on a story from the Bible. Gameplay itself has very little biblical connection.

Noah's Ark - Noah collects animals and food in preparation for the flood.
Baby Moses - Moses' mother must carry baby Moses past Egyptian guards, spiders, and birds to reach a safe place to put him in the Nile.
David & Goliath - David must first gather sheep that have wandered off, then he can go to battle against Goliath.

Game:
Bible Adventures
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

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NES Bible Buffet by Invariel, Spikestuff in 03:33.28

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4.19 / 10

Published on 9/3/2016

Bible Buffet: a turn-based board game with action stages and bible quizzes. In it, you spin a spinner and move the number of spaces it says.

When you land on your spot, if it is just a regular spot, you play an action game for points, weapons, hearts, etc. If it has a red circle, you spin again. If the space you land on has a red circle connected to another red circle by dashes, you move forward or backwards to the second circle. If the space has a red circle with a question mark in it, you take a pop quiz of three trivia questions then get to select either a key, a heart or move ahead one, two, three or four spaces.

When you spin, if you get the book instead of a number, you get a pop quiz of three questions. If you get the happy face, something good happens like move ahead ten spaces, get a key, get a heart, etc. If you get the sad face, something bad happens like lose your turn, move back 1 space and lose your turn, and so on.

Invariel and Spikestuff reach the end of the board in record time.

Game:
Bible Buffet
Genres:
Action
Board
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation

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NES Blackjack by ShesChardcore in 00:04.79

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2.2 / 10

Published on 5/2/2022

Blackjack is an unlicensed card game made by American Video Entertainment. The rules are simple: the dealer gives you and themselves two cards each. You both then have to get a number of cards so that the sum of the cards' values is as close to 21 as possible without going over. Getting exactly 21 is known as a Blackjack, which gives you an automatic win. If you go over, you lose. Otherwise, whoever is closest to 21 wins the bet.

In this run, ShesChardcore manages to break the bank (get all the money from the dealer's table) with a single doubled down hand of Blackjack in record time.

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Game:
Blackjack
Genres:
Board
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Blackjack (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Single level

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NES Cheetahmen II by adelikat in 01:11.68

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4.81 / 10

Published on 11/26/2013

Cheetahmen II is the unfinished sequel to game #52 of Action 52. The game contains 6 of the 10 levels originally proposed, in which the player takes control of Apollo, Hercules, and Aries, switching off every two levels.

This is the first movie to abuse the fact that some games do not initialize their states before reading them, which in this case results in one of the cart registers randomly taking a certain value that can force the game to start from level 5 on power-on.

Since the game really behaves like that on the console, it was decided to allow presetting such truly random bits on the emulator side. Read the submission text and its discussion thread for more details.

We also have an "all levels" TAS for this game, done on the patched ROM due to a bug in the original game preventing the player from progressing past level 4.

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NES Cheetahmen II by illayaya in 02:20.04

Game:
Cheetahmen II
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Major skip glitch
Heavy glitch abuse
Uses uninitialized initial state

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NES Cheetahmen II "all levels" by illayaya in 03:27.66

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5.05 / 10

Published on 2/10/2020

Cheetahmen II is the unfinished sequel to game #52 of Action 52. The game contains 6 of the 10 levels originally proposed, in which the player takes control of Apollo, Hercules, and Aries, switching off every two levels.

This run is done with a patched ROM that allows all 6 levels to be played without invoking rare glitches. Here's the run of the original ROM that uses the mapper register glitch to start from level 5.

illayaya saved 00:03.29 seconds over the previous run by using a warp in the third level.

Obsoletes:
NES Cheetahmen II "all levels" by andypanther in 03:30.95

Game:
Cheetahmen II
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Takes intentional damage

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NES Dizzy the Adventurer by alden in 07:49.67

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5.74 / 10

Published on 6/30/2007

The Dizzy series of computer games was one of the most successful computer game brands of the late eighties. They were all based around a central figure, an intelligent egg-like creature called Dizzy.

Dizzy the Adventurer is an enhanced NES port of the sixth game in the series, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk, completed fast by the use of creative routes and of course, maximum speed.

There is also a run of the second game in the series, Treasure Island Dizzy.

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Game:
Dizzy the Adventurer
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Uses intentional deaths

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NES Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade by Bag of Magic Food in 28:43.59

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5.43 / 10

Published on 1/11/2011

Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade is an unlicensed Nintendo game by Codemasters, which is also available licensed on the Genesis as Cosmic Spacehead. The game features a mix of adventure and side-scrolling action.

Here is the plot, according to Wikipedia:

Linus is an alien from the planet Linoleum who crashed into the legendary planet Earth. After returning home and expecting a hero's welcome, Linus soon found his fellow Linomen were skeptical of the existence of the so-called "planet Earth" and decides to return to it, this time with a camera. However, he is flat on the planets' currency, Linobucks, and must deal across the planet to get a new cosmic car and a camera. In his adventures, Linus deals himself out of Linoleum, quashes a robot revolution in Detroitica and gets gas from an abandoned space station.

In this run, watch Bag of Magic Food breeze through this game in just under half an hour with precise playing and some glitches. For plenty of details, including transcriptions of the amusing pieces of dialogue in this game, read the author's lengthy comments.

Game:
Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade
Genres:
Adventure
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es) (Unl).nes

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NES Little Red Hood by Dimon12321 in 05:34.17

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4.3 / 10

Published on 1/26/2019

This unlicensed game is based very loosely on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The protagonist must kick trees and stones to get fruit and treasures in order to progress through 10 rounds, all while avoiding enemies such as bears, cobras, goblins, and hedgehogs.

In this run, Dimon12321 quickly guides Little Red Hood to her grandmother's forest clearing —there's no house to be seen— by manipulating movement and positioning of enemies, items, and the ladders that allow progression from one round to the next.

Game:
Little Red Hood
Genres:
Action
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation

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NES Metal Force by adelikat, Aglar, AntyMew, Aqfaq, Cardboard, Masterjun, MESHUGGAH, MUGG, negative_seven, Noxxa, Scepheo, Denial140 & Truncated in 13:09.60

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7.44 / 10

Published on 2/23/2015

Metal Force is an unlicensed game developed by Open Corp. (who also made Buzz and Waldog) and released in 1994 in South Korea. It is of surprisingly solid quality for an unlicensed title. It controls similarly to classic Mega Man games, except you have two different weapons which you can switch between and upgrade by collecting powerups from enemies. Aside from that, it is a linear adventure comprised of 7 missions, with a boss battle at the end of each. The stages of each mission are quite expansive and packed with enemies and obstacles.

This game was run as part of TASVideos' Dream Team Contest 5, and this TAS was built on a combination of multiple submissions of said contest - hence the high number of authors.

In this TAS, the authors make expansive use of the weapons and the various boosts in order to beat the game in 13 minutes and 9.6 seconds.

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Game:
Metal Force
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Takes intentional damage

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NES Pwn Adventure Z "save glitch" by link_7777, BrunoVisnadi & ais523 in 01:30.87

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5.67 / 10

Published on 2/9/2016

Pwn Adventure Z is a Zelda-like game featuring zombies, originally created for a "capture the flag" hacking competition. As such, it contains various intentional glitches and intentionally unfixed glitches that can be exploited for a fast completion.

This movie ignores all the intended glitches in favor of using save corruption to go out of bounds and defeat a duplicate copy of the final boss, thus skipping basically all the intended and intentionally-glitched gameplay of the game.

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Game:
Pwn Adventure Z
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Major skip glitch
Uses a game restart sequence
Heavy glitch abuse
Corrupts save data
Heavy luck manipulation

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NES Q Boy by dekutony & Alyosha in 30:29.55

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5.1 / 10

Published on 6/13/2022

Q Boy is an unlicensed game created and released by Sachen in 1994. Dr. Mouse has stolen the Flower of Dream and has terraformed the planet Phantom for his own nefarious purposes. Q Boy must now travel to the four ends of the world to look for the Flower of Dream and defeat Dr. Mouse and his associates. Despite the similarities to games like Kirby and Mega Man, it is a completely standalone game.

dekutony and Alyosha save about 12 seconds over their previous run thanks to a different route taken for Stage 4-4 and a more optimized final boss battle with Dr. Mouse.

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NES Q Boy by dekutony, Alyosha in 30:41.75

Game:
Q Boy
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Q Boy (Asia) (Ja) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Heavy luck manipulation

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NES Quattro Adventure: Boomerang Kid by rchokler & Alyosha in 04:53.97

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5.68 / 10

Published on 1/12/2015

Quattro Adventure is a multicart of 4 games released by Camerica in 1991. The third of these games, Boomerang Kid, is a short platform game known for its awkward mechanics and many hidden warps. It also has pretty catchy music.

In this movie, watch rchokler and Alyosha run and jump through the game with tool-assisted precision, finishing it in under 5 minutes.

For more of Quattro Adventure, see the runs of Super Robin Hood and Treasure Island Dizzy.

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Game:
Quattro Adventure: Boomerang Kid
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Uses warps

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NES Quattro Adventure: Super Robin Hood by Alyosha in 04:52.87

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7.22 / 10

Published on 12/31/2014

Quattro Adventure is a cart of 4 games released by Camerica in 1991. One of these 4 games is the platformer Super Robin Hood which is the subject of the current run. The game is unique in its use of hidden 'keys' that open various secret passages allowing the player access to faster routes. Combine this with a developer intended warp and major collision detection glitch and you get the current run of the game in under 5 minutes.

Game:
Quattro Adventure: Super Robin Hood
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Quattro Adventure (1992)(Camerica)(Aladdin Deck Enhancer)(US).nes
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage
Uses warps
Heavy glitch abuse

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NES Quattro Adventure: Treasure Island Dizzy "100%" by goofydylan8 in 13:40.03

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5.42 / 10

Published on 3/16/2012

Dizzy, the intelligent egg-like creature, is back in this second game of the famous series from the 1980s. He needs to gather items that he can trade for boat parts to escape from some islands. For the best ending, he also needs to find 30 coins, some of which are hidden.

This game has a reputation of high difficulty because of its physics and control scheme, but goofydylan8 makes it look like a relaxing platformer through masterful route planning and item management.

We also have a run of Dizzy the Adventurer.

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Game:
Quattro Adventure: Treasure Island Dizzy
Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Unlicensed game

Tags:
100% completion
Best ending

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NES Rocman X by FractalFusion in 13:22.48

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5.92 / 10

Published on 12/31/2012

Rocman X is an original game created by the Taiwanese company Sachen, the most prolific unlicensed developer for the NES/Famicom. Despite the name and pirated title screen, this game has almost nothing to do with Mega Man.

The game takes place in Thunder Blaster Man's home of Gadem City. The mayor is in the middle of throwing a big party for the city's centennial when a mysterious figure crashes the party and kidnaps the mayor's daughter, Miss Lucy. The kidnapper turns out to be the leader of an evil crime syndicate who demands a large ransom for her safe return. Now it's up to the eponymous hero to save Miss Lucy and bring the syndicate to justice!

In this run, FractalFusion jumps and flies through all four levels of this odd platformer and saves Miss Lucy in just under thirteen and a half minutes.

Note: The provided movie file will only sync on certain versions of FCEUX (2.1.5-2.2.1). It will not sync on any other version.

Game:
Rocman X
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Rocman X (Asia) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Uses intentional deaths
Takes intentional damage

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NES Rolling Thunder by Randil in 10:59.55

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5.77 / 10

Published on 3/30/2010

Some longlegged secret agent has to rescue his female partner who was kidnapped by Ku Klux Klan-wannabe terrorists led by some space alien wizard. Between the levels, the terrorists dance in front of a giant widescreen TV showing pictures of the woman in risqué positions and of their alien leader. (We wish we were making this up, but NES games can be pretty weird sometimes.)

The author uses a password to get the hardest difficulty, thus not having to finish the game twice. The author also improves on the previous run by about 51 seconds.

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NES Rolling Thunder by nesrocks in 11:50.58

Game:
Rolling Thunder
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Rolling Thunder (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Uses hardest difficulty
Second quest/Post game-completion
Uses a level password

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NES Silent Assault by MESHUGGAH in 05:26.91

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3.9 / 10

Published on 11/22/2014

Silent Assault is an unlicensed game developed by Joy Van and published by Color Dreams in 1990. In this game, an alien force has somehow taken control of all of Earth's military forces. However, the player character is not under the alien power's control, meaning he's the only one who can fight back. Said character now has to fight through enemy military and alien forces over the course of 8 levels of varying awfulness.

The author of this TAS runs through the game in only 5 minutes and 26.91 seconds.

Game:
Silent Assault
Genres:
Action
Platformer
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Silent Assault (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Uses warps
Heavy luck manipulation

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NES Solitaire by Jigwally in 00:40.93

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4.9 / 10

Published on 6/13/2021

Solitaire is a family of single-player card games. The particular form featured on the NES is called Klondike, and you can find it distributed with many desktop operating systems, such as Windows.

This run improves the previous one by completing 34 frames sooner.

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NES Solitaire by TheRealThingy in 00:37.82

Game:
Solitaire
Genres:
Strategy
Unlicensed game

Tags:
Single level
Uses hardest difficulty

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NES Spiritual Warfare by tmont in 16:47.54

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5.72 / 10

Published on 12/7/2012

Spiritual Warfare (1992) is an unlicensed NES game created by Wisdom Tree. The company specializes in the niche market of Christian-themed video games. The gameplay in Spiritual Warfare is very similar to The Legend of Zelda (1986). The game's story is taken directly from the Bible (Ephesians 6:12-18):

12.) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13.) Therefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and, having done all, to stand.
14.) Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness,
15.) and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
16.) Above all, take the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17.) And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,
18.) praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

The Christian concept of spiritual warfare is a metaphor for fully accepting whatever Christ teaches. The ongoing spiritual war against Satan requires the whole armor of God, meaning that a faithful Christian should always obey the Lord's authority in order to defeat evil.

The author of the TAS utterly ignores the philosophy of obtaining the whole armor of God in order to defeat Satan. The power of prayer, rather than the Helmet of Salvation, is enough to protect the hero's physical body from dynamite explosions.

Game:
Spiritual Warfare
Genres:
Action
Adventure
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Spiritual Warfare (USA) (v6.1) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Takes intentional damage
Uses a game restart sequence

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NES Tengen Tetris "30 lines" by Spikestuff in 00:23.55

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6.21 / 10

Published on 3/9/2020

Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. Even the theme music has a similar feel to the more familiar NES Tetris game by Nintendo.

This movie plays through just the final level, level 17, and clocks in at over one line per second. Notably, luck manipulation does not work the same way in this game as in other versions of Tetris, leading to quite different strategies.

Spikestuff improves the predecessor movie by 00:05.54 seconds.

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NES Tengen Tetris "30 lines" by MarbleousDave in 00:29.09

Game:
Tengen Tetris
Genres:
Puzzle
Unlicensed game

Tags:
One player in a multiplayer game
Single level
Uses a level password

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NES Tengen Tetris "Cooperative, 30 lines" by anonymous user in 00:19.44

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6.37 / 10

Published on 4/14/2020

Tengen Tetris is a version of Tetris made by Atari, which pretty much follows the basic formula of stacking tetrominoes and completing lines. One difference, however, is a Cooperative mode that allows two players to play on the same board simultaneously. The board is 12 tiles wide in this mode, rather than the usual 10 tiles.

In this run, the author controls both players and completes just the final level, level 17, as quickly as possible.

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Game:
Tengen Tetris
Genres:
Puzzle
Unlicensed game

Tags:
2 Players
Single level
Uses a level password

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NES Venice Beach Volleyball by DrD2k9 in 01:38.95

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6 / 10

Published on 3/10/2023

Venice Beach Volleyball is an unlicensed NES game that was developed by Idea-Tek and published by various companies such as American Video Entertainment. It is a simple volleyball video game with many of the features you expect from the sports along with an additional one where a crab will randomly come out of nowhere, steal the ball from the ground, and let the team who scored the point serve earlier.

DrD2k9 plays the game on the hardest difficulty and makes the opposing team look like chumps in record time.

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Game:
Venice Beach Volleyball
Genres:
Sport
Unlicensed game

Game Version:
Venice Beach Volleyball (USA) (Unl).nes
Tags:
Heavy luck manipulation
Uses hardest difficulty

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NES Wally Bear and the NO! Gang by yep2yel in 06:21.62

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3.93 / 10

Published on 8/28/2021

Wally Bear needs to find all of his friends for a party at his uncle's house. While this sounds simple enough, it puts him in danger from dive-bombing pigeons, rabid bulldogs and anthropomorphic animals who want to get him hooked on drugs and into a gang. Worst of all: he's still got to beat his curfew!

The game is designed to teach kids the dangers of doing drugs, gang banging and hanging out with the wrong crowd. Most obstacles can be avoided, but Wally can also bop enemies on the head with his skateboard. There are seven levels to traverse and two power ups to find, all while racing against the clock to help out Wally's friends.

yep2yel makes a mockery of the game's tricky platforming by bunny hopping through it and finishing in record time. This is an improvement of 00:01.63 seconds thanks to better optimization.

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NES Wally Bear and the NO! Gang by yep2yel in 06:23.25

Game:
Wally Bear and the NO! Gang
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

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SMS Toto World 3 by The8bitbeast in 09:42.08

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6.13 / 10

Published on 12/22/2018

Toto World 3 (토토월드 3) is a platformer released exclusively in South Korea where the player controls a caveman kid who must traverse prehistoric landscapes and defeat the predominantly animal-shaped enemies standing on his way. The kid is armed with a club, which can be swapped for a more powerful hammer if the player collects the appropriate power-up.

The8bitbeast completes the game in record time.

Game:
Toto World 3
Genres:
Platformer
Unlicensed game

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