Tool-assisted movies (38)

Myst is a puzzle-solving point-and-click game that was originally released for the Macintosh. The version shown in this run is a homebrew demake for the Apple II. As the Apple II has some significant limitations compared to the Macintosh, the developer had to get creative with the graphics and sound to be able to recreate the experience you'd get from the original game.

Spikestuff nevertheless swiftly maneuvers and beats the game in record time.

You can get the game here.

Bowl-O-Rama is a bowling simulator created by P&P Marketing for the arcades. It uses trackball rolling to throw bowling balls at pins. It features 3 different game modes: "Bowl-O-Rama" which is just regular bowling, "Flash-O-Matic" which scores you based on timing and performance, and "Blackjack" which gives you cards in blackjack that correspond to the amount of pins you throw in a single frame.

Spikestuff scores 21 points in each frame to win the pot in record time.

Donkey Kong II: Jumpman Returns is a ROM hack of the original Donkey Kong. It was made by Jeff Kulczycki, and features 4 brand new levels as well as variations of the original 4 stages. The goal remains to rescue Pauline from the clutches of Donkey Kong,

EZGames69 rescues Pauline in record time.

Donkey Kong Jr. is the sequel to Donkey Kong, where the forgotten titular character has to rescue his father Donkey Kong from Jumpman/Mario. It was released on several home consoles, including the ColecoVision and the NES.

This run, however, plays the original Arcade version, more specifically, the Japanese version, as one single loop has all 4 individual stages of the game. EZGames69 goes through all four stages in record time.

VS Pinball is the arcade release of the NES game of the same name. The game is a standard example of a pinball machine, just played virtually.

There is a special bonus room in which the game turns into a Breakout clone of sorts, where the player controls Mario to save Pauline and earn bonus points. The NES game's manual considers rescuing her as winning the game, so the author DrD2k9 does exactly that in record time.

VS Pinball is the arcade release of the NES game of the same name. The game is a standard example of a pinball machine, just played virtually.

There is a special bonus room in which the game turns into a Breakout clone of sorts, where the player controls Mario to save Pauline and earn bonus points. The NES game's manual considers rescuing her as winning the game.

DrD2k9 and ShesChardcore both save 3.26 seconds of input time over the previous run through better manipulation of the ball in the bonus room.

You control a shinobi, Joe Musashi, who must battle his way through each level in search of hostages which must be rescued. You have shurikens, kicks and punches to defend yourself with, as well as powerful ninja magic which can clear the screen of enemies in one go.

Each level is broken down into smaller scenes, and hostages are guarded by big blokes who throw swords. Watch out for gun-toting enemy henchmen and ninjas. Reaching the end of each level will find you battling it out with a boss. These range from 8ft tall giants to helicopter gunships.

EZGames69 throws shurikens at the horde of enemies and clears the game in record time.

Super Contra is the sequel to the original Contra (also known as Gryzor in Europe). It has different level layouts than the NES version, itself known as Super C in North America and Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces (and with modified sprites to feature robotic characters) in Europe. The Arcade version allows the player to control their jump height by holding Up (for a higher jump) or Down (for a lower jump).

Clicher completes the game on the hardest difficulty setting with 1 player in record time.

Tron is an arcade video game based on the Disney movie Tron. It consists of 4 minigames loosely based on the movie. One where you get enemy cars to run into your line, one where you shoot each other with tanks, one where you shoot a moving wall, and one where you must reach the exit.

Clicher plays through 12 loops of this game to max difficulty in record time.

Anarchy is a puzzle game where the goal is to shoot a number of blocks in each level using a tank under a set time limit, all while enemy droids are chasing after you. Once all the blocks are shot, an exit opens up and you have to get there before the droids get you or time runs out. Introduced in the later levels are yellow blocks which materialize in different places when shot, creating new passageways and more opportunities in how to tackle those levels.

nymx and DrD2k9 complete the first sixteen levels (the levels loop after that) in record time with help from a script created by the former to brute force the most optimal solutions out of the yellow block levels.

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

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

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

Royal Rescue is a platforming game for the Commodore 64 that was originally published in source code form in the Compute!'s Gazette. The princess has been held captive by a disembodied dragon head, and it's up to you to rescue her while traversing conveyor belts and avoiding flying eraserheads and giant bells. Along the way, you get keys to unlock doors to the princess and collect cherries and flowers for extra points.

nymx takes advantage of the knight's really weak knees in this run to save time and traverses through tight obstacles with grace.

Yathzee [sic] is one of many ports of the dice game Yahtzee to the Commodore 64. The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible by rolling five dice to make certain combinations. Points are earned depending on the scoring category chosen. A Yahtzee is when all five dice have the same number and is worth 50 points, the most of the categories. Unique to this particular port is the usage of a synthesized voice, which sounds pretty rough due to being on an 8-bit computer.

nymx decides to max out and glitch the score counter by consistently scoring Yahtzees many times in a row. The synthesized voice was kept in to showcase its ability, despite being able to save an additional 43 seconds with it turned off.

Donkey Kong Jr. is the sequel to Donkey Kong, where the forgotten titular character has to rescue his father Donkey Kong from Jumpman/Mario. It has received ports to many video game consoles, and the ColecoVision is no exception.

Unlike most other ports, the ColecoVision port only has three unique levels instead of four and they are out of order. What would be the fourth level in the NES version is actually the second level here, and after completing it, you repeat the first level again before getting to what would usually be the second level in the NES version. EZGames69 plays as much of the game has to offer in one playthrough as fast as possible in this run.

Venture is an action-adventure game where a treasure hunter named Winky goes into dungeons to find treasure. The goal is to get all of the treasure in each level while fighting and dodging monsters. Stay in a room too long, and a big monster called the Hallmonster will chase down Winky and try to kill him.

In a TAS, due to a version-exclusive delay when changing direction inside rooms, the order of rooms visited is important, and changes to Winky's facing angle must be minimized to save time.

In this run, nymx plays the game on the hardest difficulty and collects every treasure in record time.

Checkers is a video game for the Intellivision based on the board game of the same name. Being produced on a console that's of the same generation as the Atari 2600, the opponent AI takes a while computing possible moves to take against you. Unlike the Atari 2600 version, it takes much less time to do so and it doesn't cut to a black screen while it computes.

Winslinator carefully uses moves that minimize the time the AI takes to compute its moves and beats it in record time.

Diner is a video game that was released for the Intellivision in 1987, years after Mattel had stopped supporting the console. Originally conceived as a He-Man game, it was instead designed as a sequel to the arcade classic BurgerTime. As with that game, you play as a chef in a weird world filled with giant walking food that wants to kill you. Your objective is to kick big balls of edible food off the level and into a plate at the bottom. To stop the killer food from getting you, you can kick the food balls over them or use special peppers that can immobilize them.

In this run, Twisted Eye completes all 15 unique levels the game has to offer in record time.

Flapee Bird [sic] is a homebrew port of Flappy Bird to the Intellivision. As with the original iOS game, the goal is to have the bird flying across as many pipe gaps as possible without crashing. As the game progresses, the pipes get closer and closer together, increasing the difficulty.

In this run, Winslinator decides to reach the maximum score possible in this game of 9999, with the help of a script to automate the process.

You can get the game here.

Sharp Shot is an Intellivision game filled with four minigames that revolve around aiming at things: Touchdown Passing, Space Gunner, Submarine, and Maze Shoot. Touchdown Passing has you throwing footballs at receivers for scoring touchdowns while the rest has you shooting at moving objects. The goal is to earn as many points as you can in 60 seconds.

In this run, Winslinator manipulates the RNG and uses tight movements in order to score as many points as possible for each minigame. Two players are used in certain minigames where both can play at the same time.

Explore winding corridors! Collect magical treasures! Battle vile monsters! Escape perilous traps! You are about to face the greatest challenge any mortal has ever known -- the Tower of Doom. a roguelike featuring 10 selectable characters and 14 adventures. Surviving the Tower of Doom requires quick reflexes and quicker wits. You must learn for yourself how to use many of the items you will find. You must decide when to fight a monster, and when to trade treasure for your life. You must maintain your strength, increase your stamina, and develop your diplomatic skills.

Winslinator saves 1:32.22 over their previous run by using a more optimal seed that requires less rooms to be entered and through even more extensive RNG manipulation.

Explore winding corridors! Collect magical treasures! Battle vile monsters! Escape perilous traps! You are about to face the greatest challenge any mortal has ever known -- the Tower of Doom. a roguelike featuring 10 selectable characters and 14 adventures. Surviving the Tower of Doom requires quick reflexes and quicker wits. You must learn for yourself how to use many of the items you will find. You must decide when to fight a monster, and when to trade treasure for your life. You must maintain your strength, increase your stamina, and develop your diplomatic skills.

Winslinator decides use the most optimal character and scenario that can be used for this run, the Warlock and "The Fortress", in order to beat the game as fast as possible. For further details, you can read the author's notes.

Tropical Trouble is an arcade-like action game for the Intellivision. Clarence and Doris have found themselves shipwrecked on an island when suddenly, a huge Beach Bruiser kidnaps Doris and literally kicks Clarence's butt to the side. Clarence must now get Doris back from the Beach Bruiser while avoiding all kinds of hazards on the island along the way.

In this run, Twisted Eye completes a loop of levels on the hardest difficulty in record time.

Venture is an action-adventure game where a treasure hunter named Winky goes into dungeons to find treasure. The goal is the get all of the treasure in each level while fighting and dodging monsters. Stay in a room too long and a big monster called the Hallmonster will chase down Winky and try to kill him.

In this run, Winslinator plays the game until the difficulty can no longer increase, collecting all of the treasure in the process. The difficulty of the game stops increasing after level 9.

The original arcade game Zaxxon was the first game to employ an isometric perspective, later used in other games like Q*Bert, Marble Madness, and Fallout. This ColecoVision port preserves the graphical style which gave the game its name – AXONometric projection.

This run by Winslinator uses the hardest difficulty and avoids shooting shots in order to beat the first cycle of the game in under a minute.

The Fairyland Story is a platforming game that was originally developed as an arcade game and later got ports for the MSX and X68000. It is similar to fellow Taito arcade Bubble Bobble in that you have to defeat all the enemies in each room in order to progress. Here, you play as a witch named Ptolemy, who can transform enemies into cakes that she can squish or push off platforms to crush other enemies with. Her end goal to defeat the dragon Dracolisk and get back the magic gem it stole.

Darkman425 decides to forgo using any warps in this run in favor of showcasing every level the game has to offer as quickly as possible, manipulating the RNG or enemy AI whenever necessary.

Alien Invaders - Plus! is a game for the Magnavox Odyssey 2 that looks like a clone of Space Invaders. The key differences are that you don't have to destroy everything to win a level, just the red aliens, and that you can take one more hit once your spaceship is destroyed and use that time to convert one of the shield blocks into a another spaceship.

In this run, ShesChardcore and Memory shoot only their required targets with pinpoint precision, even taking hits and converting shield blocks into spaceships in order to get a better aim at the aliens.

Touhou Kaikidan ~ Mystic Square (東方怪綺談 ～ Mystic Square) is the fifth official installment of the Touhou Project series and is a 2D vertically-scrolling danmaku shooting game (shoot em up). It is the last game in the Touhou Project series for the Japanese PC-98. It is also the last game to have ever been officially released for the PC-98, released on December 30th, 1998. In this game, the playable character (Reimu, Marisa, Mima or Yuuka) travels to Makai after a horde of demons came out of a cave in order to confront Shinki about that problem in particular.

KirbyComment makes their way through the game on Lunatic difficulty as Mima, notably not dropping any point item as well as grazing and milking a lot of patterns and attains a score of 284,581,040 points. Please read the author's comments for more details. For reference, the best known real time score is 202,717,620 points by Miller.

This is the first ever publication of a game made for the PC-98 series of computers, which were only released in Japan.

Cross Wiber: Cyber Combat Police is a side-scrolling action platformer developed by FACE for the TurboGrafx-16. It is the sequel to Busou Keiji Cyber Cross, an earlier TG-16 title. The player controls one member of the Combat Police in order to stop the evil Doma Empire from taking over the world.

KidKoopa foils the evil Doma Empire's plan in record time.

Shinobi is an action hack-n-slash game created by Sega. It recieved many ports including one for the PC Engine, developed by Azmik. You control a shinobi, Joe Musashi, who must battle his way through each level in search of hostages which must be rescued. You have shurikens, kicks and punches to defend yourself with, as well as powerful ninja magic which can clear the screen of enemies in one go.

Each level is broken down into smaller scenes, and hostages are guarded by big blokes who throw swords. Watch out for gun-toting enemy henchmen and ninjas. Reaching the end of each level will find you battling it out with a boss. These range from 8ft tall giants to helicopter gunships.

CELESTE Classic is a platforming game developed by Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry in 2015. The game, created in the span of four days for a game jam on the PICO-8 fantasy console, has the player control a red haired girl as she climbs Mount Celeste. It received a good amount of attention for its solid gameplay and has had an active speedrunning scene since then. Its success would eventually inspire both creators to expand upon this concept, which led to the creation of the 2018 game.

FlyingPenguin223, RichConnerGMN, cominixo, ikuyo, Meep, Snoo23, gonengazit, Lord Snek, Akliant, Beeb, Warspyking and RoundUpGaming climb the mountain in a record in-game time of 1:34.933.

The second set of encodes were done on a modified version of the game that removes the screenshake effect that's normally present.

Cyclo 8 is a bike platformer that's similar to the Trials series. It has a rudimentary physics engine where you control which way the bike flips as it moves. The goal is to get to the finish line as fast as you can, all while getting collectables along the way.

rythin opts to get to the finish line without getting all of the collectibles, setting record times in each track.

PICOHOT is an official demake of the game SUPERHOT and was made by some of the same developers. As with SUPERHOT, the gimmick of the game is that time only moves as fast as you do; time runs normally when you run at full speed and comes to a complete stop when you do nothing. With this power, your goal is to defeat all the enemies in your path with whatever you can find and use, whether it be shooting them with a gun, throwing bottles at them, or just punching them to death.

In this run, ikuyo uses frame perfect inputs to eliminate every enemy as fast as possible, sometimes even juggling multiple guns in less than a second.

You can play the game here.

Star Anise Chronicles: Oh No Wheres Twig?? is a non-linear platformer game developed by indie game dev eevee and released in May 2020. It stars Anise, as she embarks on a little adventure to find her missing Branch Commander, Twig.

ikuyo finds Twig in record time.

The Lost Strawberry is a PICO-8 platformer that was made for Ludum Dare 40. It was heavily inspired by CELESTE Classic, taking after its aesthetics and storytelling. The general premise is that a guy suddenly finds himself in a strange world filled with monsters, hazards, and puzzles. You have to guide him through so he can get back to his own world and learn more about his past.

ikuyo deftly moves through the levels in this game in record time.

You can play the game here.

The Lost Strawberry: X-Mas Edition is the Christmas-themed spin-off to the PICO-8 game The Lost Strawberry. Compared to the base game, this version focuses entirely on the platforming gameplay itself, removing the story and boss fight and adding more levels. It also has a number of Quality of Life features added such as another color to the color palette and more buttons for controlling the character.

ikuyo completes all 30 levels of this Christmas game in record time. All the tricks from the run for the base game apply here.

You can get the game here.

2048 is a very popular puzzle game that has received ports to every console possible. The gameplay is simple: combine blocks so they can add up to 2048. (Most ports allow you to go above 2048, but the Uzebox port is unable to.) p0008874 decides to achieve that goal as fast as possible in this run.

You can download the ROM for the game here and the source code here.

2048 is a very popular puzzle game that has received ports to every console possible. The gameplay is simple: combine blocks so they can add up to 2048. (Most ports allow you to go above 2048, but the Uzebox port is unable to.)

In this run, p0008874 scores the minimum number of points needed for the unsigned 16-bit score counter to roll over to zero (65536), which counts as the maximum score for the purposes of this run.

You can download the ROM for the game here and the source code here.

Makaimura for WonderSwan is the 4th game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise. Developed by Capcom and published by Namco on the short-lived WonderSwan console, Namco's attempt at a handheld video game console.

The game stars Sir Arthur, trying to save Princess Prin-Prin. It is just about what you'd expect for a Ghosts 'n Goblins game. You fight a bunch of enemies by throwing projectiles, you are committed to horizontal jumps, and of course the difficulty is very high.

That doesn't stop enderpal7, who breezes through the two loops of this game in record time.