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Published on 8/9/2020
Mechanized Attack is a game where the player uses a machine gun to stage an assault on a tropical island that's home to a cyborg army. Battle through numerous stages beginning with an approach to the island. This first stage is held over the water and features at attack on a number of small gunboats, a helicopter, and an entire battleship. As the player progresses through the stages of the island, the human (and even canine) enemies are revealed to be robots when the flesh is destroyed. At various junctures of the game, the player is allowed to choose which game path to pursue.
XTREMAL93 shoots through the cyborg army in record time.
Game:
Mechanized Attack

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.4.2

Published on 5/21/2014
Mega Man is the first game in the famous series that now comprises games on many different systems as well as several television shows and comic books.
While the other run of this game uses lots of tricks to reach the ending impressively quickly, pirohiko and FinalFighter decided it just wasn't fast enough. In this run, they manipulate an object to appear which allows them to execute arbitrary code and warp to the credits, all using only controller input. For an advanced explanation of how it works, check out the submission text.
Watch this run on a real console (played back on the US version).

Published on 3/14/2020
On this site, we make perfect movies, and then we surpass them. Of course, if we can surpass them, they were not perfect in the first place, but who would have known?
When "perfection" is defined as "as fast as possible", it requires some sacrifices. Indeed, this movie sacrifices a lot in the playability of the game. Full of tricks to pass through walls, tricks to avoid mandatory battles, tricks to pass through enemies relatively unharmed, tricks to acquire weapon refills in little time — there is very little in this movie left that resembles normal playing. Even death is used as a viable playing strategy that saves time. All of the tricks are still performed by the means of mere controller input, even though significant portions of the input were calculated by a computer program.
This movie improves the previous movie by a tremendous 2 minutes and 37.99 seconds, thanks to a new route and better optimisation. Please read the authors' comments for more details.
Of course, upon watching this movie, one does have to question something... is it Mega Man saving the world? Or Dr. Wily trying to save it from absolute destruction?

The second set of encodes leads to a version where the graphics have been fixed.

Published on 10/28/2019
Mega Man 2 is a game that hardly needs any introduction. This movie plays Rockman 2, the Japanese version, which is essentially Mega Man 2 in difficult mode.
warmCabin completes the games without any zips in record time. Please read the submision comments for more details.
The second YouTube stream features an input display.
The author streamed his TAS with live commentary, which can be viewed here.

You can watch this run being played back on a console.

Published on 3/11/2021

Published on 8/7/2013
Mega Man 3 (USAのロックマン3) is the first game in the Mega Man / Rockman series to introduce sliding (though the ability to charge the Mega Buster would have to wait until game 4). It also introduced Rush the robotic dog, who provides the abilities of Rush Coil, Rush Marine, and Rush Jet. Furthermore, after you beat the 8 robot masters, the game makes you revisit modified versions of four stages to fight the Doc Robots, who imitate the robot masters from Mega Man 2. This set a precedent in the Mega Man series to have additional stages between the main robot masters and Dr. Wily's fortress.
This run completes the game about 00:20.62 seconds faster than the previous movie thanks to a new route, more glitches, and better optimization.
This run was console verified using micro500's TASLink replay device (with a window mode of 3.5 ms).

Published on 5/23/2007
The games Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all the same. Eight robot masters are defeated and Mega Man steals their weapons. After some kind of distraction, Mega Man attacks Wily's fortress and it typically gets blown up. If you don't believe that's true, we offer this movie.
While driving home the point in honor of our first multi-game movie, Baxter and AngerFist prove that Capcom really has been making the same game over and over again by playing Mega Man 3, 4, 5 and 6 using the same input.
No attempt is made to synchronize the endings of these games. Mega Man 6 finishes first and Mega Man 4 finishes last.
Encoder's note: There are more encodes (labeled multitrack) available in the Archive collection. Track 1 contains the audio of all four games arranged in such a way that Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 5's audio are on the left audio channel and Mega Man 4 and Mega Man 6's audio are on the right audio channel. Tracks 2 to 5 contain the sole audio of Mega Man 3 to Mega Man 6 respectively.
We recommend sitting back as far as possible and looking (staring?) at the center of the screen when watching the encode.
If you like this movie, you may like to check out some other movies in which multiple games are played simultaneously with one controller.

Published on 11/30/2015
This is the seventh published movie of Mega Man 4 (USAのロックマン4), played for the first time by Tiancaiwhr.
This movie improves the previous run by nearly 2 minutes thanks to new tricks and glitches, as well as better optimization and lag management.
Game:
Mega Man 4

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 4/25/2020
Mega Man 4 Voyage is an extensive hack of the original NES game, featuring changes to level design, music, graphics, weapons, enemies, and bosses. The basic "run, jump and shoot" Mega Man mechanic remains intact, and the hack's authors write that it "should be suitable for veterans and casual players alike."
In this run, Baddap1 completes the game as quickly as possible by using the new Speed Boost item, most of the weapons, and general strategies such as luck manipulation and time-saving damage.

Published on 6/20/2010
This is Mega Man 5 (USAのロックマン5) played by GlitchMan, in an improvement of 1 minute and 22 seconds over the previous run. Improvements include several new glitches involving the Super Arrow and new strategies for two of the boss fights.
Reading the submission text is recommended for details on the glitches.
Game:
Mega Man 5

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.2-interim

Published on 2/2/2016
Mega Man 6 (USAのロックマン6) sees everyone's favorite blue robot ruin Dr. Wily's plot for world domination for the sixth time.
Game:
Mega Man 6

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.0

Published on 7/10/2023
Megankreuzstilette is a ROM hack of Mega Man 3 and is also a modification of a bugfix and improvement ROM hack known as Mega Man 3 Improvement. The name is a portmanteau of Mega Man and Rosenkreuzstilette, though the romhack itself barely has anything to do with the latter video game series beyond having a medieval aesthetic. Despite the name, the modified graphics and music, and the addition of multiple paths that can be taken in each stage, the gameplay itself and the level design is mostly unchanged from the original Mega Man 3.
longbao here goes through this romhack and beats it as fast as possible.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.2

Published on 11/11/2010
Mendel Palace is an action-puzzle game. When playing in real-time, it becomes more action than puzzle, and when TASing, it becomes more puzzle than action. The idea is to shove your opponents into the walls of the arena by flipping over ground tiles. This is harder than it looks, since the enemies often approach in swarms and can kill you with one touch.
Flipping can also reveal some other tile types. For instance, the sun tile flips over everything else, which often cleans up the arena in a hurry. However, there are also extra enemy spawn areas that can be uncovered, especially in the last levels. For more details, see the run's submission comments.
DarkKobold beats the game in just over 19 minutes by using 2 players at the same time.
Game:
Mendel Palace

Genres:
Action
Puzzle
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.4a

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 power-ups 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.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 12/22/2018
Metal Gear!? It can't be!
This is the NES port of the first entry in the ever-popular Metal Gear series, created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami; there are significant differences between it and the original MSX version. It is infamous for its engrish, containing such ever-popular phrases as "I FEEL ASLEEP!" and "UH - OH! THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!".
This run utilizes quite a wide variety of game glitches and collects the minimal set of items needed to complete the game. Additionally, this movie improves the previous movie by 2 frames.

Published on 4/13/2013
In Metal Max, a mysterious war known as "The Havoc" has almost destroyed the human civilization. It's unknown how it broke out, and no one even dares to find out. The few who are left have to struggle to survive. Among them is our young hero, E, who just makes his decision to become a great Hunter.
Released by Data East in Japan in 1991, Metal Max was one of the more "creative" console role-playing games due to more freedom in the story. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future, in which surviving people cluster from villages to ruins, while some Hunters among them fight monsters and outlaws in the "wild".
In this run, suwei improves the previous run by 00:50.58 seconds by using "dud" shells instead of panic shells and buying the teleport item from a different place.

Published on 6/26/2013
Metal Mech: Man & Machine is a poorly-designed platformer. It has some similarities to Blaster Master: you play as a red-suited man who can pilot a larger vehicle in your quest to destroy aliens. In the first five levels, the mech is usually abandoned in favor of silly-looking bunny-hopping through the levels to get a key (the circular icon with a red K) and reach the end of the stage. The last level features a giant blue robot that flies through the level and fights the Alien Queen at the end.
Note that there are sound glitches, so there is no music during the final boss fight and credits.

Published on 5/21/2016
Metal Storm is the tale of an ultra-powerful, smoothly animated, and gravity flipping mechadroid that can take one hit before exploding into confetti. Pah.
This run is an improvement of one and a half minutes over the previous publication, primarily thanks to a new glitch in the way the game handles two events at once to skip large portions of a few stages, along with general optimization and lag reduction.

Published on 7/5/2009
This is a full completion of Metroid, meaning that all items (100%) were collected.
This is a 8 minute 16 second improvement over the previous movie by Zoizite. Much of the improvement comes from using the Up+A restart sequence, though many new shortcuts and optimizations also save time.
This movie has now been console verified. Watch this run being played on a real NES console.

Published on 1/19/2010
Metroid completed using just one item: the morphing ball.
Uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on second controller) to save time in backtracking.
This is an improvement of 36.7 seconds over the previously published run, thanks to a new route and general optimization.

This movie features commentary by the author, which has been added to the encode in the form of soft subtitles. They can be seen when watching the embedded stream via Archive.org.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 4/2/2018
Metroid completed as fast as possible without holding back, and without concern for the game's sanity.
The8bitbeast improves the previous publication by 21.94 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and new tricks. Please read the author's comments for more details.
The run uses a game restart sequence (Up+A on the second controller) to save time in backtracking.
See Metroid Tricks for more information about the door glitch as well as other tips and tricks.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 8/28/2020
Mickey Mania 7 is a pirated Famicom port of Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse. In this port, the player controls "Miki", who must navigate through a slice of the original game's levels, which are all based on classic Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1928 to 1990.
In this run, XTREMAL93 jumps on enemies and throws marbles at a record-setting pace.

TASes of the SNES and Genesis versions of the game can be found here and here, respectively.

Published on 4/3/2008
Released as part of the mostly Game Boy Mickey Mouse series, Mickey Mouse III: Dream Balloon was released in September 1992 by Kemco in Japan for the Famicom. Due to copyright issues it was changed into Kid Klown in Night Mayor World for its US NES 1993 release. In this run, Mickey uses balloons as weapons, as platforms, and as floatation devices to make quick work of the stages.

Published on 11/5/2015
At first glance, Mickey Mousecapade may seem like a simple game. However, it's actually fairly challenging. You guide Mickey and Minnie through five levels, presumably to save Alice from the Alice in Wonderland stories. (The plot doesn't get much explanation.)
This movie by Alyosha improves the previous run by 00:06.37 seconds, largely due to route changes in Stages 1 and 5.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.2

Published on 8/31/2019
Pete has stolen the 10 number molds from Town Hall, and Mickey Mouse decides to help his friend Donald Duck by getting them back.
This is a straightforward platformer, and g0dm0d3 completes it in record time.

Published on 2/2/2023
Mickey's Safari in Letterland is an educational platformer for the NES. Mickey must collect all the letters in the alphabet for his museum by going to 6 different territories.
Using Normal difficulty, LoganTheTASer only has to collect 6 letters in total, completing the alphabet set for Mickey's museum in record time.

Published on 10/24/2023
Might and Magic, first released in 1986 for the Apple II and later receiving ports to many other systems, is the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe. This universe encompasses both the actual Might and Magic games and a multitude of other subseries and spin-offs made in their own genres, including King's Bounty, Heroes of Might & Magic, and others.
This movie uses the Japanese version of the game, which doesn't have the item glitch that allows you to easily skip most of the game.
TaoTao improves on the previous run by a little over 8.6 minutes thanks to a glitch where you can bypass a certain barrier without having to complete the Soul Maze, which saves a significant amount of time. Other glitches involving forfeiting battles and unlocking doors without needing the required class are also used. You can read the author's notes for more details.

There is also an alternate encode by the author that has a map on the side that better shows what the player is doing.

Published on 10/30/2023
Might and Magic, first released in 1986 for the Apple II and later receiving ports to many other systems, is the first installment in the series that would later evolve into a whole fictional universe. This universe encompasses both the actual Might and Magic games and a multitude of other subseries and spin-offs made in their own genres, including King's Bounty, Heroes of Might & Magic, and others.
Normally, this game is rather long. This movie by TaoTao skips most of it by using a glitch that allows the player to get all the important items in a matter of minutes. It is also an improvement of 2 minutes and 18.91 seconds, thanks to abusing a glitch allowing one to ignore the Soul Maze and related events as well as better optimisation.

Published on 7/23/2007
Mighty Bomb Jack is a game where Jack goes to rescue his family from a pyramid. Along the way, he meets many enemies who start as mummies and change forms when they hit the ground. He also finds bomb-filled rooms at the end of each round, which work like warp rooms with a twist: you can warp ahead to the bomb room of the next round if the first lit bomb is the last bomb collected. Using this, the author warps past many rounds.
However, this movie aims for the best ending, which is obtained by freeing all the family members in Round 12. This means that the author avoids warping past some rounds in order to collect items. For more details, read the submission comments.

Published on 3/5/2024
Mighty Bomb Jack is a game where Jack goes to rescue his family from a pyramid. Along the way, he meets many enemies who start as mummies and change forms when they hit the ground. He also finds bomb-filled rooms at the end of each round, which work like warp rooms with a twist: you can warp ahead to the bomb room of the next round if the first lit bomb is the last bomb collected. Using this, the author warps past many rounds.
SpaceColonizer and ktwo improves the previous TAS by 113 frames, thanks to better optimization.
We also have a TAS that saves all family members and gets the best ending.

Published on 10/26/2017
Mighty Final Fight is modeled after its arcade cousin Final Fight but features more cartoon-like graphics and lacks multiplayer.
This time, Guy takes on the many enemies that plague Metro City. In addition, he doesn't take any damage, nor does he die. This TAS improves the previous publication that used Haggar by 1 minute and 0.47 seconds.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 7/5/2020
The objective is not to beat your opponent... but to humiliate him by winning as fast as possible.
Clock Times:
 Glass Joe       0:42.00    Von Kaiser      0:35.61
 Piston Honda    0:36.97
 
 Don Flamenco    0:14.97    King Hippo      0:37.61
 Great Tiger     0:47.48    Bald Bull       0:52.82
 
 Piston Honda II 0:39.97    Soda Popinski   0:43.48
 Bald Bull II    1:08.48    Don Flamenco II 0:58.00
 Mr. Sandman     2:16.48    Super Macho Man 0:43.25
 
 Mike Tyson      1:58.61
This movie, the 8th publication for this game, improves three fights, totaling a 3.77 second clock time improvement and 97 frames of real time improvement.
No clock stopping glitch in this run, though we have a submission that does exploit this glitch.
Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 7/6/2006
The title of this game is very appropriate, as wherever you look there are walls you can break through, or invisible blocks you can make appear.
In order to complete this game as fast as possible, every little secret must be known ahead of time, and the author clearly exhibits such knowledge.
This movie was made with the Japanese version, 迷宮組曲 (Meikyuu Kumikyoku, meaning "labyrinth composition"), but it is essentially identical to the English version, except for the shop/intro text language.
It is about two minutes faster than the previous version, mostly due to much faster boss fights and more precise maneuvers.

This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

Published on 8/9/2016
Mini Putt is a miniature golf game originally developed for home computers in 1987. It was later ported to the Famicom.
This run by TaoTao doesn't putter along. It blazes through every hole in a very "mini" amount of time at just under 7 minutes.

Published on 7/17/2016
Mission: Impossible is a game based on the 1988 TV series of the same name. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to rescue Dr. O and Shannon from the grubby clutches of the Sinister Seven as quickly as possible. As you fight your way through each area, you must obtain information and vital ID cards. Your progress is blocked at every turn by acid flames, raw sewage, scorching steam, high voltage electricity and poison gas.
You can choose between three agents, Max, Grant and Nicholas, according to the situation at hand. Each is equipped with two types of weapons which can be interchanged according to the surroundings.
Zakem66 improves the previous TAS by 37.07 seconds, thanks to new tricks and better optimisation in many places. Read the author's comments for more details.
Game:
Mission: Impossible

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.2

Published on 8/21/2022
Mitsume ga Tooru (translated to "The Three-Eyed One") is a side scrolling action platformer based on the manga of the same name, written by legendary manga artist Osamu Tezuka. In this Japan-only game, our psychic hero with a magical trident must defeat a variety of enemies, including possibly trolls. The kind with big pink fluffy hair. This run features no death and very accurate use of weapons. The trident in particular is very similar to Mega Man V.
This is a 454 frame improvement over the previous movie thanks to better optimization. This run also has been console verified, you can watch the verification here.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.3.0

Published on 3/2/2019
Moai-kun is a fun, fast-paced puzzle-platformer where the goal is to rescue all your pink friends and then reach the door - to continue to the next stage. It has a surprising amount of action for a puzzle game.
In this run, all 56 levels are well-solved and well-played. There are some unexpected twists, such as going through walls, that allows levels to be beaten much faster than normal.
The authors, aiqiyou & J.Y, improve their previous movie by 00:00.85 seconds.
Game:
Moai-kun

Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.2

Published on 11/21/2006
While the CPUs were distracted, FractalFusion changed the dice on them and then left the board for a few minutes. When he came back, all the CPUs were crying. The fraud squad is still investigating.
This movie aims to defeat 4 CPU controlled players, ceasing to press buttons on the controller after as little time as possible. Luck is manipulated for the first 1:08, and then the CPUs are left to lose by themselves without requiring any further actions by the player.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Monopoly

Genres:
Board
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.12

Published on 1/31/2020
This movie aims for the fastest time to get the CPU player bankrupt, and abuses luck to its fullest to make that happen. adelikat utilizes trades, a glitch, and a new innovation he discovered to bankrupt the CPU. This is the first Monopoly submission that does not depend on "stacking the deck" on the community chest or chance cards.
From power-on to bankruptcy, this movie is 00:12.75 seconds faster than the previous record. It is also 27 frames faster in terms of input.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Monopoly

Genres:
Board
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.3.2

Published on 9/14/2008
This game follows the adventures of miniature Dracula and Frankenst… rather, "Vampire" and "The Monster" as they dodge giant golf balls, fight miniature Godzillas and ultimately do battle with a massive head on an equally large television screen.
The authors frequently make use of two players simultaneously to both fight enemies quicker and also provide choreographed dancing. This also allows for more damage- and death-abuse to be used to save time.
Video Downloads:
High Quality MKV
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.12

Published on 3/10/2011
Mark is on his way back home from a baseball game when an alien gargoyle called Bert summons him to save his home planet from evil monsters using his almighty baseball bat.
In this very strange game, you must defeat bosses in each stage before obtaining a key to the next stage. The player normally controls Mark, but by picking up a pill from monsters, Bert can be used. Bert can fly and shoot powerful shots, but he only lasts a short while unless another pill is obtained.
This is the fifth effort to tackle this game and the first to be published.
Game:
Monster Party

Genres:
Platformer
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.4a

Published on 6/4/2013
Moon Crystal (ムーンクリスタル), a platformer only released in Japan, follows a boy on his quest to save his family. The mechanics of the game are slightly reminiscent of Ninja Gaiden and Prince of Persia, with rather detailed animation.
This is a 00:16.07 second improvement to the previous movie using better lag reduction and some new tricks.

Published on 7/19/2020
Multidude is a homebrew puzzle game released on NES in 2014. There are 20 levels in this game. The goal in each level is to control and take each robot to an activated exit that hasn't been occupied by other robots.

You can watch the complete run being played back on a console.
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 7/14/2013
In Mystery Quest, known in Japan as Hao-kun no Fushigi na Tabi (ハオ君の不思議な旅), the player is Hao, an apprentice wizard who finally has a chance to prove himself. The Great Wizard has challenged Hao to seek out his four hidden talismans, which he has placed in four different castles.
Hao has a magic attack which can be upgraded once in the game, and can shoot left and right as well as jumping and upward angled shots. There is also a limited variety of items that can help Hao progress through his quest.
In this run, TASeditor runs, jumps and shoots his way through the castles and completes the quest in under 15 minutes.
Game:
Mystery Quest

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.1

Published on 2/14/2023
Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.
Cephla decides to collect all the gems in this run, clipping through walls and skipping the final boss in the process.
You can play the game here.

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Published on 2/21/2023
Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.
For this run, Cephla plays the "Floor is Lava" mode, which makes touching the floor lethal to Nalle. Nonetheless, the floor is safely touched at points anyway and the game is beaten in record time.
You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Nalleland

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

Published on 2/26/2023
Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.
Cephla improves their previous TAS by 1.49 seconds, thanks to a different route.
You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 3/26/2023
Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.
For this run, LoganTheTASer turns on the "Air Jumps" feature and finishes the game while barely using the pin in record time.
You can play the game here.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Nalleland

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.4

Published on 4/5/2023
Nalleland is a homebrew platformer for the NES about a small walking bear named Nalle. She decides to go out for an adventure but finds that the land around her is filled with monsters and hazards. Luckily, she has a special pin at her disposal that can allow her to defeat those monsters and safely traverse these hazards.
This time, LoganTheTASer and Cephla collect all jumps while jumping in the air in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 4/15/2022
NeSnake 2 is a homebrew game made by MatrixZ in the style of the classic game Snake.
This run by MESHUGGAH and alyosha showcases the only way a Snake game can be TASed for the fastest time. Guess what happens!
This is an 80 frame improvement over the previous movie.

As the heavy amount of luck manipulation done in this TAS is not readily apparent, a secondary YouTube encode is provided that displays the inputs.

You can watch this run being played back on a console.

Published on 11/27/2008
The New Ghostbusters II is a much different game than the USA edition, even though they are based on the same movie. The European version, shown here, takes a Blaster Master-esque approach to the gameplay with a top-down view.
Zus has spent a lot of his time making sure enemies are in highly ideal places, which in turn means that a lot of re-records were spent comparing and working out the best possible route. As a result, Zus saved over 11 seconds from his previous version.

Published on 7/28/2022
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 7/1/2023
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing is a licensed Formula One racing game that was initially released for Amiga computers and later ported to other system such as the NES, Game Boy, and ZX Spectrum. Choose your racer's name and nationality and race against others on Formula One cars on various tracks to be the world champion. Before each race, you can customize parts of your car for more personalized controls. However, be aware of how worn out your tires can get as that can affect how well you can control your car and number of times you have to make pit stops.
In this run, eien86 completes all 16 races as fast as possible with the help of a program called JaffarPlus, which minimized tire wear as much as possible.

Published on 11/4/2013
Nightshade's story begins with the murder of Metro City's hero, Vortex, at the hands of the crime lord Sutekh. Filling the need for a new superhero is Nightshade — a guy in a trench coat! Guide Nightshade through Metro City as he builds popularity and fights rats, gentlemen, female ninjas, and most importantly museum statues.
This run by MESHUGGAH speeds through the game as fast as Nightshade is able to, ignoring lesser goals such as finding the museum items, saving a kitten, or checking out the women's dressing room. It is 00:22.31 seconds faster than the previous version by Maximus.

Watch a resync of this run being played back on a real console.
Game:
Nightshade

Genres:
Adventure
Fighting
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.2

Published on 3/15/2019
"It was the best dinner ever!"
Nim & Nom is an NES homebrew game released in 2018, about lizards with an eating disorder. In this run, kaizoman666 goes through the game's 2-player co-op mode.

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Game:
Nim & Nom

Genres:
Platformer
Homebrew
Tags:
2 Players
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.2

Published on 2/28/2008
The story is about a mysterious robotic force which attacked the world and drove the ninjas out of Japan. Two of the ninjas set out to reclaim the land, but not only did they abuse the powers given by the ninja-obsessed video game industry, they did it in style.
The teamwork of the two ninjas is remarkable. One of the ninjas often transforms into a tiger on which the other ninja can ride.
Game:
Ninja Crusaders

Genres:
Platformer
Tags:
2 Players
Emulator Replay:
FCEU 0.98.12

Published on 7/6/2022
Ninja Gaiden involves an ultra superior ninja, capable of defying the laws of physics by climbing through walls, making dogs explode with his sword, and all while beating bad guys in record time.
After nearly 6 years, better knowledge of the game's emulation, and intensive bot-driven-exploration, this collaborative run by eien86 and Scumtron improves the previous movie by 1 frame.

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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/22/2022
Ninja Gaiden is a classic action NES title known for its difficulty, starring famous ninja Ryu Hayabusa as its main protagonist. Ryu has just learned that his father has recently gone missing after being defeated in a dual against his rival. He must now take up his sword and avenge his father, all the while encountering government conspiracies and supernatural events.
In this run, a group of authors decide to eschew the usual ninja methods of killing anything that wants to hurt you and go for a pacifist run, only killing when necessary to progress. To accomplish this, the RNG was heavily manipulated and glitches were abused to skip as many fights as possible and reduce the number of enemies encountered. For more information, you can read the authors' notes here.

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This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

Published on 11/6/2022

Published on 7/24/2023
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos, as known in Japan as Ninja Ryuukenden II: Ankoku no Jashin Ken (忍者龍剣伝II 暗黒の邪神剣), is the sequel to the original NES game Ninja Gaiden and one of the hardest games for the console. It takes place a year after the first game, where Ashtar continues Jaquio's goal of taking over the world and kidnaps Irene Law to further his plans. Ryu Hayabusa must now find Irene and stop Ashtar before demons and darkness spread everywhere again.
For this run, eien86 opts to go for a pacifist approach, only killing when its necessary to progress. In addition, he also follows a rule where none of the red spheres spread throughout the game can be touched. A program called JaffarPlus was used to facilitate in the creation of this run.

Published on 1/5/2014
The least-subtle ninja in history is back for a third entry in one of the hardest video game series ever.
Here, Rum improves upon Scumtron's previous movie by 00:02.10 seconds through better optimization.
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Published on 3/7/2014
Ninja Jajamaru: Ginga Daisakusen (忍者じゃじゃ丸 銀河大作戦) is a fast-paced action game that was only released in Japan. Its gameplay and art style are highly similar to that of a certain famous game.
Watch as MESHUGGAH bounces over, around, and through this game's many levels and traps, making short work of anything that breathes in the process.

Published on 6/7/2017
Ninja Kid, known as Gegege no Kitaro Yokai Daimakyo in Japan, is based off the anime Gegege no Kitaro.
Takanawa quickly beats the game in 4 minutes and 13 seconds.
Game:
Ninja Kid

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 9/11/2015
Nobunaga's Ambition (信長の野望) is a turn-based strategy role-playing simulation video game. One of the first games in its genre, it was first released in March 1983 by the Japanese video game developer Koei.
Here CogneatoSwitch strategizes and luck manipulates around many obstacles, beating an hours long game in 12 minutes.

Downloadable encodes have the author's commentary as soft subtitles.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.10.0

Published on 4/24/2016
North & South is a humorous, cartoony kind of game about an incredibly bloody war. In it, you move army units around on a board until you approach your opponent, at which point a battle occurs.
JWinslow23 goes the extra mile and takes away all the states from the South in record time.

Published on 12/24/2017
North & South is a humorous, cartoony kind of game about an incredibly bloody war. In it, you move army units around on a board until you approach your opponent, at which point a battle occurs.
This team effort improves the predecessor movie by MESHUGGAH alone by 00:16.37 seconds.

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Game:
North & South

Genres:
Action
Strategy
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 5/1/2023
Nova the Squirrel is a homebrew platformer that acts as a throwback to the "radical animal mascot" craze of the 1990s. You play as Nova Storm, a green squirrel with an attitude, who suddenly finds herself in another world and the ability to copy other abilities from her enemies. Go through various lands with her, solving puzzles in weird places and beating surreal bosses with Nova's special powers.
Cephla beats this game in record time by getting to and defeating the final boss as fast as possible, clipping through numerous walls in the process. The extra levels weren't played as they aren't necessary to beat the game.
You can get the game here and the source code here.
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Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 2/3/2024
Nova the Squirrel is a homebrew platformer that acts as a throwback to the "radical animal mascot" craze of the 1990s. You play as Nova Storm, a green squirrel with an attitude, who suddenly finds herself in another world and the ability to copy other abilities from her enemies. Go through various lands with her, solving puzzles in weird places and beating surreal bosses with Nova's special powers.
This time, Cephla plays through World 6, only accessible after completing the game, in record time.

Published on 6/10/2011
Nuts & Milk is a platform game deriving influences from a number of famous Nintendo games, including Kirby (puffy pink blob as a protagonist), Mario Bros. (green and red fireballs), Donkey Kong Jr. (spring platforms, jumping from ladder to ladder and fruits) and Wrecking Crew (barrels).
This improvement of 00:15.22 seconds over the previous published movie collects all the fruit in all stages, including the bonus round (the latter of which triggers the 'PERFECT' ending).

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Game:
Nuts & Milk

Genres:
Platformer
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.4a

Published on 3/12/2015
The evil space wizard Krohn has mastered the power to control a black hole, and plans on using this power to control the universe. You are an explorer on assignment in a remote corner of the universe. You have just been reassigned to fight Krohn since your ship, the Millennium Orb, is the only space craft cabable of withstanding Krohn's black hole. To defeat Krohn, you must get past 30 different chambers blocking the path. On the left and right side of each chamber are force fields which you must maneuver to keep the Millennium orb within the chamber. Each chamber contains a plane in the center with various targets, around which the Orb will travel. You can make the Orb dive out of it's orbital path into the plane and hit the targets. To complete each chamber you need to complete a goal with the targets (often you will need to figure out a way to clear them all.) The Millenium Orb has a limited amount of feul, however, which will be used up over time and in even greater quantities should you miss the Orb with the force fields. When fuel is low, you can head to Vern's Orb-O-Rama and use earned credits to refuel your Orb.
Game:
Orb-3D

Genres:
Puzzle
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.9.1

Published on 3/23/2023
Overclocked is a very short and superficially simple homebrew NES platformer that was developed for the ByteOff! 2020 Game Jam. You control a mouse cursor, and your goal is to get to the floppy disk on the other side of the level. A second player can also control the floppy disk itself and both of you can work together to make contact. However, if you or the second player doesn't move in a certain way the game dictates, both of you will be reset to your starting positions. Sounds frustrating, doesn't it?
LoganTheTASer nevertheless masters the rules and completes the game using only one controller in record time.
You can get the game here.

Published on 3/27/2023
Overclocked is a very short and superficially simple homebrew NES platformer that was developed for the ByteOff! 2020 Game Jam. You control a mouse cursor, and your goal is to get to the floppy disk on the other side of the level. A second player can also control the floppy disk itself and both of you can work together to make contact. However, if you or the second player doesn't move in a certain way the game dictates, both of you will be reset to your starting positions. Sounds frustrating, doesn't it?
LoganTheTASer and nymx both control the mouse cursor and the floppy disk in this run and have them meet repeatedly in record time.
You can get the game here.

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FCEUX 2.6.4

Published on 7/19/2020
Overlord is a real-time strategic warfare game where the player must manage large standing armies, economic capital, and political stability throughout a number of extra-dimensional star systems.
As the dictatorial ruler of the Epsilon Galaxy, the player has obtained complete, indisputable authority. However, during a scientific experiment in hyperdrive technology, Epsilon scientists discovered four "buffer" dimensions, each containing a number of barren planets that exist between the Epsilon Galaxy and another alien dimension. Unfortunately, the most powerful empires from these alternate dimensions have also just discovered these zones through their own experiments. The player must battle these alien species for control of these buffer worlds, to ensure that their rule in the Epsilon Galaxy remains intact.
FatRatKnight and link_7777 complete the game on the hardest difficulty in record time.

Published on 8/17/2023
P.O.W.: Prisoners of War is a beat em' up that was developed by SNK for the arcades and later ported to the NES. You play as a prisoner of war named Bart, a special forces soldier fighting in what appears to be Vietnam in the middle of the Cold War. Bart has managed to blow up the bars to his prison cell and with nothing but his super hard fists and ingenuity, he must now escape the POW camp and earn his freedom out of country by killing all that oppose him.
NhatNM in this run pummels everyone in this game to submission and manipulates the RNG to mess with the enemies to beat the game in record time.

Published on 4/23/2023
Pac-Man features the cultural yellow dot icon in his classic maze game being chased by ghosts. This first overseas console release in 1988 was licensed by Nintendo and published by Tengen.
Watch as eien86 completes a full cycle of mazes by collecting all dots in the 20 mazes, while avoiding the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky and of course Clyde in record time.
Game:
Pac-Man

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

Published on 6/6/2016
Palamedes II can be described as "its predecessor, turned upside down". As before, your goal is to rearrange a set of dice and put them in a row for elimination. Only series of dice such as 4-4-4-4-4 or 1-2-3-4-5 can be eliminated, and depending on the series, this will result in one or several rows of dice to be eliminated from the screen. Unlike the original Palamedes, this time your character stands on top of the dice, and the growing pile of dice will crush him unless he makes the correct combinations to eliminate the pile. It's a bit like Tetris, and a bit like Klax.
Two modes are available. Mode 1, that this run uses, puts your player on top of a growing pile which must be eliminated.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 1.11.6

Published on 10/18/2021
Chef Cookie must navigate through his cursed restaurant to foil the wicked Ohdove (which is like saying "Hors D'Oeuvre" with a cold). On his way he dispatches anthropomorphic food items with deadly kitchen utensils.
Riyan beats the previous movie by 00:14.76 seconds thanks to an impressive amount of lag reduction, as well as various route optimizations.
A must see for fans of the absurd.
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.6.2

Published on 12/25/2006
This run of Paperboy performs a perfect delivery every day. The author crashes his bike Monday - Saturday to avoid the obstacle course but then plays and finishes it flawlessly on Sunday. It does this as fast as possible, but does not go for score. Instead, it has different subgoals set up every day:
  • Monday & Tuesday: Object crashing day
  • Wednesday & Thursday: Window crashing day
  • Friday: Moving objects crashing day
  • Saturday: Daredevil day
  • Sunday: Lawful day
For more details, see the submission comments.

Published on 7/27/2022
Phred's Cool Punch-Out 2 Turbo is a romhack of Punch-Out!! with tweaked mechanics, new gimmicks, and a couple of new characters. Characters you get to fight include Zelda, Disco Kid from Punch-Out!! for the Wii, and even Doc Louis himself.
DJ Incendration improves his previous run by 16 frames by adjusting the strategy used for the first fight against SW7 Destroyer.

Published on 2/5/2018
Pin-Bot is a pinball game developed by Rare. It is based on the 1986 pinball machine made by Williams. The game is played with a split screen; the bottom half of the screen remains on your flippers, while the top half scrolls to follow the ball(s) on the table. In addition to recreating the pinball game's table, lights, and sounds, several video game elements have been added, such as monsters that like to eat pinballs.
link_7777 and Inzult beat the highest default score in record time.
Game:
Pin-Bot

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
Pin Bot (U) [!].nes
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.2.1

Published on 6/17/2011
This game features a classic save-the-princess plot... in the form of a pinball game.
This run saves 00:29.37 seconds over its predecessor (accounting for a frame rate difference) due to improved strategies and increased precision.
If you like pinball games featuring characters as the ball, also check out Sonic Spinball or Mario Pinball Land.
Game:
Pinball Quest

Genres:
Action
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.4a

Published on 7/25/2023
Pinky Xmas is a Christmas-themed homebrew platformer about Pinky the Flamingo. In this game, it appears that Pinky is trying to enjoy his Christmas, but an ominous floating Santa head and his weirdo minions want to ruin his day for some reason. Pinky is now off to beat this Santa head so he can enjoy his Christmas in peace.
LoganTheTASer and nymx improve the previous movie by 0.92 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and new strategies.
You can play the game here.
Game Version:
Pinky_Xmas_2020.nes
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.4

Published on 4/6/2016
Pipe Dream is a game about keeping unsolidified jello in tubes long enough for it to solidify. More or less.
In this movie, Jules places pipes faster than a plumber on fifteen cups of coffee and only goes as far as absolutely required to contain the goo.
Unfortunately, the annoying music played though most of the game is the "turbo mode" music, and since turbo mode makes the goo flow faster, it can't be ignored in a run that aims for fastest time. It's a good idea to just turn off sound while watching this movie.
This movie stops after playing though all stages once. After that, the set of stages repeats endlessly, not unlike Elevator Action and Circus Charlie.
This run improves upon the previous publication by 00:40.90 seconds by using a new trick which enables the flooz to start flowing much quicker than normal.

Published on 1/23/2021
Delivering pizza is not normally a job one would consider dangerous. This is not always the case, as this game proves; here our protagonist is called upon to deliver pizza to such odd locations as a construction site and a haunted house, all the while dodging enemies apparently intent on claiming the pizza for themselves.
If you were hoping for free pizza from slow delivery, look somewhere else; the author succeeds in deliveries so quickly you'll think the guy was there before people even placed their order.
Jules improves the previous TAS by 12.43 seconds, thanks to better optimisation.
Game:
Pizza Pop!

Genres:
Platformer
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 9/8/2017
The film Platoon featured a squad of five soldiers on their mission for the US Army in Vietnam. In this action game based around the film, you take control of these five guys in turn, with the chance to switch between them as they each take one of the 3 hits that would kill them.
In this run, the author easily navigates the game's maze-like maps in under 8 minutes, obsoleting the previous run by 00:49.15 seconds thanks to a faster route and better movement techniques.
Game:
Platoon

Genres:
Shooter
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.3

Published on 1/6/2024
Plummet Challenge Game is a simple homebrew game where you play as a daredevil whose goal is to plummet to their death. There are also other ways of dying other than falling to the ground such as landing on spikes, getting hit by rockets or bombs, being electrocuted, and being burned alive. Before you die in each level, you have to opportunity to collect coins and get a high score.
LoganTheTASer plays through the game's "Marathon Mode" which contains all 75 levels from the main game as well as some additional levels too.
You can get the game here.
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.6.6

Published on 4/12/2020
Pocket Monsters: White Jade Version is a bootleg game which backports Pokémon Gold/Silver onto the NES.

The encodes of this run include the author's commentary as soft subtitles.

Published on 1/2/2013
Popeye is an arcade video game developed by Nintendo, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. In it, Popeye must dodge Bluto and his infinite stack of beer bottles, and other threats that come in his way such as skulls and vultures - while collecting a number of hearts, music notes or letters spelling "HELP" from Olive Oyl.
In this tool-assisted speedrun, MESHUGGAH plays through one loop (three stages), while aiming to get as high a score as possible.
Game:
Popeye

Genres:
Action
Platformer
Game Version:
Popeye (Japan).nes
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.0

Published on 7/30/2021
Popeye no Eigo Asobi (lit. Popeye's English Game) is an educational version of its predecessor. The player controls Popeye, who must translate a given Japanese word into English by touching the right letters. Incorrect responses lead to Bluto punching a basket containing Swee'pea, eventually dropping the basket and resulting in a loss for the player.
Jigwally manipulates the game's RNG so that only short, fast words are chosen, and completes the game in record time.

Published on 12/12/2019
Power Blade is an underdog platformer by the folks at Taito, highly reminiscent of the Mega Man series. The player takes control of NOVA, a hero who looks a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger and who must destroy a maverick computer with a boomerang. This is one of those obscure games that you may wish you had played as a kid.
In this run, scrimpeh saves 02:30.00 minutes over the previous movie via route changes made possible by new glitches involving ladders and grenades. Details are in the author's comments.

This movie has a full Atlas Map encode, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

Published on 5/2/2022
This is the NES version of the first game in the popular Prince of Persia series. The hero must escape out of the palace dungeons in order to defeat Jaffar and save the princess from certain death.
eien86 saves 56.01 seconds over the previous run through the use of a special program that discovered new skips and optimized the run overall. A detailed list of improvements is in the submission notes.
We also have runs of the SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, and TurboGrafx-CD ports, as well as a run that just completes the SNES training levels.

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BizHawk 2.7

Published on 11/9/2012
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom is a menu-based game resembling Déjà Vu. In it, the main character, Sir Cucumber, sets out on a quest to save Princess Tomato from the sinister Minister Pumpkin upon the request of the late King Broccoli.
Aided by his sidekick, a baby persimmon named Percy, the author, Tool23, navigates through 9 levels to save the day in record time.

Published on 4/8/2022
Pro Wrestling is a wrestling game in which players can utilize many unique skills and moves to pin their opponent. Another way of winning a match is by ring out: if the opponent remains outside of the ring after the 20th count is made and you don't, you win.
In this run, ShesChardcore improves the previous run by goofydylan8 and Brandon by almost 23 seconds. A large chunk of the time saved comes from winning the first eight matches by pinning the opponents instead of doing ring outs, with the rest of the time saved coming from optimizing the ring outs done in the last eight matches.
And with that, "A WINNER IS YOU".
Game:
Pro Wrestling

Genres:
Fighting
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 10/3/2022
Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure is an NES game that's derived from the Famicom game Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshū 80 Nichi Dai Bōken (長靴をはいた猫 世界一周80日大冒険). Both games are loosely based off of the 1976 anime film Puss 'n Boots Travels Around the World (長靴をはいた猫 80日間世界一周), which is part of a small series of anime films starring Toei's old mascot Pero. Watch as Pero visits various places and rides various vehicles to get to them, all while fighting monsters and random bad guys along the way.
For this run, a collaboration of various authors have come together to complete this game as fast as possible.

Published on 12/22/2011
Puzznic is one of the lesser known puzzle block games on the NES. Normally, each level takes a minute or so to complete. In this movie, each one is completed in just a few seconds. The author even manages to overflow the score display before completing the game.
Read the author's comments for more details on the "block-juggling" and other glitches used in this movie.
Game:
Puzznic

Genres:
Puzzle
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.1.5

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.
You can watch this run being played back on a real console.

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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Published on 8/23/2014
Q*bert was originally an arcade video game developed and published by Gottlieb in 1982. It uses "isometric" graphics to create a pseudo-3D effect. The goal of the game is to color all the squares the designated color by stepping on them, while avoiding any enemies that come your way.
Originally made in 2008, watch as unagi quickly blazes through this puzzle game, coloring all squares while getting some unexpected help from a certain little bugger.
Game:
Q*bert

Genres:
Platformer
Puzzle
Game Version:
Q-bert (USA).nes
Emulator Replay:
FCEUX 2.2.2

Published on 11/30/2023
Quarth is a puzzle shoot 'em up that was initially released for the arcades before being ported to a number of systems such as the Famicom, Game Boy and MSX2. The gameplay can best described as a mix of a vertically scrolling shooter and Tetris. You control a ship that moves along the bottom and shoot tiles at incoming groups of blocks to give them a rectangular shape and make them disappear. Each level scrolls at an increasing speed until you either reach the end or a block reaches the line floating above the ship.
TaoTao improves on the previous run by nearly 16 seconds thanks to rigorous subframe RNG manipulation, making the game generate the simplest chunks to complete.

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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