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Published on 1/18/2023
Knuckles' Chaotix is one of the few Sonic games that doesn't feature Sonic himself. The story differs between the English and Japanese versions of the instruction manual that came with the game, but they both involve Dr. Robotnik trapping Knuckles' friends on a special island. Knuckles must now save his friends and discover the mystery behind the island. The gameplay is similar to that of earlier Sonic games, with the added gimmick of being bound to a partner with an elastic tether, giving the game its reputation for wonky rubber band physics. After each stage, the next level and your next partner are selected via roulette.
Tuffcracker completes the game while going for all 6 Chaos Rings to achieve the best ending in this game.

Published on 3/12/2023
Knuckles' Chaotix is one of the few Sonic games that doesn't feature Sonic himself. The story differs between the English and Japanese versions of the instruction manual that came with the game, but they both involve Dr. Robotnik trapping Knuckles' friends on a special island. Knuckles must now save his friends and discover the mystery behind the island. The gameplay is similar to that of earlier Sonic games, with the added gimmick of being bound to a partner with an elastic tether, giving the game its reputation for wonky rubber band physics. After each stage, the next level and your next partner are selected via roulette.
Tuffcracker improves on their previous run by 24.5 seconds. For all the details on the glitches used and the routes taken, you can read the author's notes.

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

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

Genres:
Shooter
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Published on 12/19/2023
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe is an adaptation of the board game of the same name for the Atari 2600. It plays just like Tic-Tac-Toe, but on a 4x4x4 cubic space. Whoever can get a row of four in any dimension wins the game.
In this run, Walgrey plays against the computer at the easiest difficulty and manipulates it into letting her win a single game as fast as possible.

There are alternate encodes that remove all the fades-to-black to make it easier to follow the run.

Published on 3/11/2023
Bowling is a simple bowling game for the Atari 2600. There are three modes to choose from: Games 1 and 2 can have the bowl curve once in a single direction depending on how which direction the joystick is moved, Games 3 and 4 give you full control of the ball until you let it straighten out, and Games 5 and 6 only have the bowling ball travel in a straight line.
DrD2k9 plays Game 5 in this run and does the exact same optimal movement many times in a row to score a perfect game in record time.
Game:
Bowling

Genres:
Sport
Game Version:
Bowling (USA).a26
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Published on 3/12/2023
Bowling is a simple bowling game for the Atari 2600. There are three modes to choose from: Games 1 and 2 can have the bowl curve once in a single direction depending on how which direction the joystick is moved, Games 3 and 4 give you full control of the ball until you let it straighten out, and Games 5 and 6 only have the bowling ball travel in a straight line.
DrD2k9 plays Game 3 in this run and uses tool-assisted telekinesis to win a perfect game in record time.
Game:
Bowling

Genres:
Sport
Game Version:
Bowling (USA).a26
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Published on 3/12/2023
Bowling is a simple bowling game for the Atari 2600. There are three modes to choose from: Games 1 and 2 can have the bowl curve once in a single direction depending on how which direction the joystick is moved, Games 3 and 4 give you full control of the ball until you let it straighten out, and Games 5 and 6 only have the bowling ball travel in a straight line.
Cephla and DrD2k9 play Game 1 and make a series of precisely curved bowls to win a perfect game in record time.
Game:
Bowling

Genres:
Sport
Game Version:
Bowling (USA).a26
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/8/2023
Chase the Chuck Wagon is a promotional video game that was created to advertise the Purina company's Chuck Wagon brand of dog food. It's based off the premise in the commercials made during the 1970s for the dog food, where a dog would chase a miniature chuckwagon that served as the spirit of the dog food itself. The game adapts this premise by having you help the dog navigate a maze to get to the chuckwagon while avoiding obstacles such as a dog catcher and what appears to be a partially intangible dog totem. The game was only available through mail order from the Purina company itself, and any unshipped cartridges were ultimately destroyed by Purina themselves, making it a particularly rare game.
MrTASer here decides to help the dog get to the chuckwagon by playing all the unique levels the game offers as fast as possible.
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Published on 8/23/2023
Checkers is a video game based on the board game checkers. It was made for the Atari 2600 by Activision. What's notable about this version of the game is that the screen turns black when the opponent AI is computing moves to make against you, and given how fast the Atari 2600 is, a regular game can take nearly an hour to play.
In this run, Winslinator decides to play the game at the "Game 1" difficulty. Since the lower difficulty gives the CPU much less time to think compared to the higher difficulties, Winslinator focuses on beating the it in the least amount of moves possible while also minimizing CPU thinking time.
Game:
Checkers

Genres:
Board
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Published on 8/24/2023
Checkers is a video game based on the board game checkers. It was made for the Atari 2600 by Activision. What's notable about this version of the game is that the screen turns black when the opponent AI is computing moves to make against you, and given how fast the Atari 2600 is, a regular game can take nearly an hour to play.
Winslinator here improves on their previous "Game 3" run by 16 seconds. This is done by using better cursor moving technique and improved AI manipulation, ending the game in two fewer rounds. You can read the author's notes for more details.

There's an alternate encode that trims out the loading screens for those in a hurry.

Published on 3/31/2023
Frogger is the classic game where you must lead five frogs in each level across a road and a river to the safety of their homes while avoiding hazards like cars and trucks, crocodiles, and a venomous snake.
eien86 saves 10 seconds over the previous run through the use of a scripted bot to help find the quickest and most optimal solutions to each level.
To see another port of the original arcade game beaten quickly, see the MSX version run. We also have a run of the sequel to the original game.
Game:
Frogger

Genres:
Action
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Published on 4/1/2023
Kelly Kangaroo is a homebrew platformer for the Atari 2600 that was created for the Strawberry Jam 2 game jam. The story in the game has Kelly Kangaroo and her love Rosie the Rabbit on a date when a mad scientist Contemptus Mundy, jealous at how happy Kelly and Rosie are, kidnaps Rosie and brings her to his motherbase in the clouds. Kelly must now go up there and rescue Rosie, avoiding all sorts of weird animals and monsters. However, the only way to truly free her is by collecting six strawberries that are scattered throughout the game.
LoganTheTASer and nymx eschew collecting any strawberries in favor of getting to the Mundy's ship in the clouds as fast as possible, getting the bad ending as a result.
You can get the game here.
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Published on 6/17/2023
Maze Escape is a simple homebrew maze escape game for the Atari 2600. The goal is to escape a couple of mazes by navigating through them without touching the walls and collecting crosses at their exits.
Here, LoganTheTASer beats all three mazes in the game as fast as possible.
You can get the game here and the source code here.
Game:
Maze Escape

Genres:
Action
Homebrew
Game Version:
MazeEscape.bas.bin
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 8/2/2023
Miner 2049er is a platform video game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 for many systems such as as the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Commodore 64. The title "Miner 2049er" evokes a 21st-century take on the California Gold Rush of around 1849, in which the gold miners and prospectors were nicknamed "49ers". As Bounty Bob, the player's goal is to inspect every section of each mine in search of the evil Yukon Yohan while avoiding the radioactive creatures that inhabit the mine. As Bounty Bob walks over a section of flooring, it fills with color. To complete the level, every section of flooring must be colored.
nymx here does complete inspections of every part of the mine as fast as possible.
Game:
Miner 2049er

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Platformer
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 3/26/2023
Secret Collect. is a homebrew port of the Homestar Runner Flash game of the same name to the Atari 2600. The premise is simple: you are Strong Bad, a red dot, and your goal is to collect the other squares that look nothing like Strong Bad. Blue squares slightly speed you up and yellow squares end the level.
MrTASer in this run completes all eight levels of this very short game in record time.
You can get the game here.
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secret_collect.bin
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Published on 11/12/2023
Slide Boy in Maze Land is a homebrew puzzle game for the Atari 2600 and Atari 7800. You play as Slide Boy, who can only slide in one direction and cannot stop until he hits a wall. The goal of each level is to get to the exit while avoiding all hazards.
LoganTheTASer improves on his previous run by 32 frames thanks to a minor optimization on Level 25.
You can get the game here. There is also a run for the Atari 7800 version for those interested.
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slideboy_final.bin
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BizHawk 2.8

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

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Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 11/1/2023
Video Chess is a chess game released in 1978 for the Atari 2600. In it, the player duels against the computer in order to get a checkmate. It features eight different difficulty levels.
Walgrey gets a checkmate on the easiest difficulty setting, Level 8, in record time.
Game:
Video Chess

Genres:
Board
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 7/31/2023
Xanthiom is an Atari 2600 homebrew game developed by Mathan Games in 2023. The player controls Lieutenant Grisham, on a mission to rid the threats to the galaxy on the planet Planet Coati 5. This homebrew is very much a take on what the original NES Metroid would be like on the Atari 2600 with the limitations therein.
Darkman425 and nymx save the galaxy whilst collecting every item in the game.

Published on 8/24/2023
Xanthiom is an Atari 2600 homebrew game developed by Mathan Games in 2023. The player controls Lieutenant Grisham, who's on a mission to rid the threats to the galaxy on the planet Planet Coati 5. This homebrew is very much a take on what the original NES Metroid would have been like on the Atari 2600 with the limitations therein.
nymx in this run saves the galaxy while briskly walking and jumping in record time.
You can get the game here.

Published on 7/8/2023
Fraction Fever is a math-focused educational game for various systems such as the Apple II, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. You play as a guy on a pogo stick trying to climb the floors, and the way to do that is to pick the floor tile with the pictogram that best matches the numerical fraction shown at the top of the screen. Pick the wrong one and the tile collapses, causing you to fall down one floor. As you climb the floors, the pictograms start to become more visually complicated to make it harder to pick the right one.
Here, Darkman425 completes a full loop of the game in record time, which requires reaching and completing floor 20.
Game:
Fraction Fever

Genres:
Educational
Game Version:
Fraction Fever.dsk
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/12/2023
B.C. Story (비씨 스토리) is a minigame-focused arcade game made by Korean game developer Semicom. From what can be gleamed from the gameplay and the opening scene, the game takes place in an anachronistic version of neolithic times. Here, a tribe upholds a tradition where an erupting volcano will chose for them their next leader. However, this time the volcano has chosen three people from their tribe, Sonlo, Ballo, and Milo. The three must now compete in various minigames and competitions so they can prove themselves which is the most worthy to lead the tribe.
In this run, enderpal7 chooses Sonlo and aims for the highest score possible in every minigame while also becoming patriarch of the tribe.
Game:
B.C. Story

Genres:
Action
Sport
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Bizhawk 2.9.1

Published on 4/30/2023
Big Kong is a bootleg hack of Crazy Kong, itself a licensed adaptation of Donkey Kong by Falcon for the Japanese market, as the unexpected popularity of it led to a shortage of arcade cabinets. Notable changes in Big Kong include swapping 25M and 50M, as well as making the original 25M a bit more difficult.
EZGames69 plays through all four stages on Galaxian hardware in record time.
Game Version:
bigkonggx.zip
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libTAS 1.4.4/MAME v0.250

Published on 8/19/2023
Black Tiger is a hack-and-slash platformer that was created by Capcom for the arcades and later ported by other companies to home computers such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Three demonic dragons have risen from the mysterious darkness to conquer and control the kingdoms and the surrounding lands. You play as a nameless barbarian hero who sets out to defeat these dragons and wrest control of the kingdom back from them. As you defeat the dragons's minions, you can earn money that you can spend at shops for upgrades for your weapons and armor, antidotes, and single-use skeleton keys.
ninespaces here slays all three dragons in record time by making extensive use of a screenwrapping glitch, allowing them to reach the dragons much faster than otherwise.
Game:
Black Tiger

Genres:
Action
Platformer
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BizHawk 2.9.1

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

Genres:
Platformer
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 12/17/2023
Crime City is a 1989 beat 'em up game that was developed by Taito for the arcades. The game involves police officers Tony Gibson and Raymond Broady, who receive a call during their day off that a huge amount of prisoners have broken out of prison and committed a number of large crimes within a very short timespan. They have managed to occupy a shipping port, rob a bank, and kidnap the mayor, among other things. It's up to the two of them to solve the problem as police officers by doing a very '80s move, killing all of them.
This was the game used in TASVideos's Dream Team Contest 11, where groups of tool-assisted speedrunners compete to produce the fastest tool-assisted speedrun within a given deadline. This movie is the combined result of all those efforts. Here, you can witness Raymond Broady die and get shot multiple times in the speedrunners' quest to beat the game as fast as possible.
For more information on Dream Team Contest 11, you can visit this link. For more details how the run was ultimately constructed, you can read the authors' notes here.

Published on 10/6/2023
Musashi Ganryuki, known outside of Japan as Ganryu is a simple platform Hack and Slash game on the Neo Geo. In this game, you play the warrior Musashi on a quest to fight your old enemy Kojiro who has risen from the dead. Watch as Musashi slides past most dangers and chops up bosses in record time.
JHolleworth saves 1,164 frames over their previous attempt thanks to using charged attacks on bosses as well as some general movement optimizations.

Published on 10/8/2023
Haunted Castle is a Castlevania game released in arcades in 1988. This time, Dracula has kidnapped Simon Belmont's wife, and it's up to him to save her. This game is also infamous for being extremely difficult, especially on version M, where Simon can lose half of his health when getting hit by certain enemies or projectiles (that is, the majority of them) on default settings, whilst only giving the player one life.
zggzdydp plays on Version K, which has a more manageable difficulty (mainly enemies not hitting like tanks), allowing for several damage boosts, and rescues Simon's wife in record time.
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Published on 8/31/2023
Karnov is an arcade platformer developed by Data East in 1987. The game features a bulging-muscled, east-Russian man who must go on a quest to search for the ultimate treasure.
CoolHandMike completes the game and obtains the ultimate treasure in record time.

Published on 2/10/2023
Klax is an arcade puzzle video game developed by Atari. It is essentially a Tic-Tac-Toe game with tiles, where the player must match up similar colored tiles either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Each wave requires the player to make a certain amount of "Klaxes" to proceed to the next wave, and sometime specify if it needs only horizontal, vertical, or diagonal ones.
PearlASE aims to achieve a maximum score on 100 waves of the game.
Game:
Klax

Genres:
Puzzle
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libTAS 1.4.4 + MAME 0.220

Published on 6/30/2023
Kuri Kinton (功里金団) is a beat 'em up game that was developed by Taito only for the arcades. You play as a special Chinese policeman who is tasked with infiltrating an underground criminal base to rescue a fellow police officer and his daughter. Good thing you can throw energy blasts that can damage people at a distance. Each level in the base has a martial arts boss that you have to fight in order to proceed. Die once and it is game over unless you insert another credit.
In this run, Mihoru uses the secret martial art of bunnyhopping to speed through the base and rescue the police officer and his daughter in record time.
Game:
Kuri Kinton

Genres:
Fighting
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 7/19/2023
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters is the direct sequel to Mega Man: The Power Battle. Like its predecessor, this arcade-only game does away with the levels of the classic Mega Man games and instead pits you against Robot Master after Robot Master. It features four characters and three paths to choose from, with different Robot Masters to fight in each mode. With each path and each combination of characters, you can get unique epilogues that add some worldbuilding and depth to the characters chosen.
For this run, CoolHandMike chooses the "Rescue Roll!" path, using both Proto Man and Bass simultaneously to defeat each Robot Master faster than with a single character. RNG trickery was also involved in quickly beating the Robot Masters. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

Warning: This game contains scenes with flashing lights that are not suitable to those with photosensitivity issues.
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Published on 5/31/2023
Moon Patrol is a side-scrolling shooter originally developed by Irem for arcades. Players take control of a land vehicle on the moon and are tasked to shoot down aliens and rocks that are on the way.
nymx completes the Beginner and the Champion courses in record time.
Game:
Moon Patrol

Genres:
Shooter
Game Version:
mpatrol.zip
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 12/22/2023
Dig Dug Arrangement is an enhancement of the original title as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 which introduces new power-ups, enemies, level complexity, boss fights and co-op play.
Watch as SFan plays through the entire Arrangement in record time.

Published on 8/27/2023
Nemo is a beat 'em up platformer that was developed by Capcom for the arcades. It is one of a number of video game adaptations of the anime film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. It generally follows the plot of the movie, where Nemo is sent to Slumberland and inadvertently releases the Nightmare King. It's up to him to defeat the Nightmare King with the power of the Slumberland king's scepter and save Slumberland itself.
Here, Pepper-Color braves through the horrors of the game using only one playable character and saves the kingdom in record time.

Published on 10/31/2023
New Atomic Punk: Global Quest, also known as known as Atomic Punk 2, New DynaBlaster: Global Quest in Europe, and Bomber Man World in Japan, is the second arcade spinoff in the Bomberman series. This game continues from where the previous arcade left off with the villain of of that game, King Bomber, being up to no good again and taking over the United Nations building in New York. It's up to the Bomberman brothers to travel the world to stop King Bomber and his armies.
SheriffPunchy improves their previous movie by 9 seconds, thanks to using the US release and better optimisation.

Published on 12/1/2023
New Atomic Punk: Global Quest, also known as known as Atomic Punk 2, New DynaBlaster: Global Quest in Europe, and Bomber Man World in Japan, is the second arcade spinoff in the Bomberman series. This game continues from where the previous arcade left off with the villain of of that game, King Bomber, being up to no good again and taking over the United Nations building in New York. It's up to the Bomberman brothers to travel the world to stop King Bomber and his armies.
This time, SheriffPunchy takes on the game's VS Super Game mode and gets nine wins in a row in record time. It should be noted that the game loops the 9th stage endlessly afterwards.

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

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

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9
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(Setup movie)

Published on 5/7/2023
Shackled is a game by Data East released on arcades in 1986. Gameplay is similar to Gauntlet, however, a key difference is that saving prisoners lets the player swap between different shot types outside of the standard dagger.
Darkman425, however, uses a hidden exit on the first floor that's present in this particular version of the game to get to the credits in record time.
Game:
Shackled

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
shackled.zip
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 9/23/2023
Spinmaster, known in Japan as Miracle Adventure (ミラクルアドベンチャー), is a beat 'em up game that was developed by Data East and published by SNK for the arcades. In this game, you play as Johnny and Tom, two treasure seekers that are out to save Johnny's girlfriend and gather map pieces in order to find the biggest treasure in the world. Along the way, they must fight through lots of quirky henchmen, large bosses, and more using a variety of weapons and superpowers they can pick up. All of this is accompanied by cartoony graphics and lots of stock settings you'd expect in an adventure game from the '90s.
For this run, Pepper-Color opts to use only one character, Johnny, and slides through everything in their path as fast as possible.

Published on 2/24/2023
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is the sequel to Street Fighter and the second game in Capcom's ever popular fighting game series Street Fighter. Boasting an expanded roster and a bigger selection of moves, this game codified many elements that define the fighting game genre and introduced the concept of combos by accident. It was hugely popular at the time of its release and received many updated re-releases, adding in more characters, stages, and gameplay mechanics such as super moves.
Dark Noob and SDR decide to break the game in half and showcase many glitches and AI tripups, the results looking more like something out of the Rainbow Edition. For a list and descriptions of all the glitches and moves used in this run, you can read the authors' notes.

Published on 5/4/2023
Tekken Force, a paramilitary organization protecting the Mishima karate fighters, is nearly obliterated by the mighty Ogre. Heihachi Mishima's only hope is his grandson Jin Kazama, who lives with his mother Jun, unaware of his legacy. When the Ogre attacks his home and presumably kills his mother, Jin seeks out his grandfather and learns the martial arts of the family. On his nineteenth birthday, Heihachi announces the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 3, hoping that Jin will use the opportunity take out the meddlesome Ogre.
Tekken 3, like its predecessors, is a versus fighting game. New features include prominently featured side-stepping, allowing characters to retreat into the background and back during fights, more combo throws, fifteen more characters, and reduced jumping capabilities to allow for more realistic combat.
Spikestuff breezes through all the fights in record time. The total in-game time is 9'61.

We also have a TAS of the PSX version, which abuses a pause trick to get the in-game timer even lower.
Game:
Tekken 3

Genres:
Fighting
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BizHawk 2.9
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(extended input)

Published on 3/25/2023
The King of Fighters '96 (KOF '96) is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles in 1996. It is the third game of the series, following The King of Fighters '95. Like its predecessor, the game was ported to the Neo-Geo CD, as well as the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The game made a few changes to gameplay such as new techniques, various changes of some teams, with a few of them introducing new characters.
Dark Noob shows off a plethora of glitches and infinite combos in this playaround, which are explained in more detail in the author's submission comments.
Note: Partway through the encode (after winning the first match against the CPU), the sound effects when selecting the characters/teams is higher pitched.
Flashing lights warning: There are instances of pretty heavy flashing when some combos are performed and when an opponent is KO'd, which may cause epileptic seizures in some cases.

Published on 9/13/2023
Violent Storm is a 1993 side-scrolling beat-'em-up produced by Konami for the arcades. Up to three players can choose between Wade, Boris and Kyle, who all have different fighting styles, speed and moves, some of which are hidden. Players must guide them through 7 different stages, along the way clashing hordes of enemies who wallop, sock, pommel, whip and slug against them, sometimes with knives, lead pipes, bombs, bolts of electricity, spiked balls on chains, garbage cans, vise grips, molten metal and a myriad of other deadly armament.
The ridiculous plot, influenced by movies such as The Warriors, Streets of Fire, and Escape From New York, takes place in the aftermath of World War III. Civilization has been devastated, gangs are running amok in the cities, and toughened vigilantes have taken over the government's responsibility of protecting the common folk. Three of these vigilantes, Wade, Boris, and Kyle, were performing their duties when they witness their friend Sheena being kidnapped by the demonic Red Fredy, Lord Geld's right-hand man. It's up to the trio to rescue Sheena and take down Lord Geld and all of his minions.
For this run, Pepper-Color decides to control all three playable characters at once and bumrushes through every enemy in their way as fast as possible.
Game:
Violent Storm

Genres:
Fighting
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BizHawk 2.9.1

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

Published on 5/6/2023
X-Men vs. Street Fighter is a cross-over fighting game running on CPS-2 hardware. It features gameplay similar to that of the Street Fighter series, but also incorporates dual-character selection as well as tag team-based combat.
KusogeMan completes the game in record time.
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xmvsf
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Published on 4/8/2023
BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 is the direct sequel to the original F-Zero on the Super Nintendo, released for the Satellaview, a peripheral to the Super Famicom in Japan that allowed users to download games through satellite broadcasts. This sequel features 5 brand new tracks under the "Ace League" cup, considered to be more difficult than the tracks on the original F-Zero.
In this movie, nymx speeds through all 5 tracks in the game in record time. Each race, aside from the last 2 tracks, are finished after entering in 2nd place to skip the winning animation. There is an alternate encode provided that shows each race ending in 1st place, to achieve the fastest in game time.
This is the first ever Satellaview publication on this site.

A commentary video, on the making of this TAS, is available here.

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

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 6/10/2023
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a 1983 video game developed by Sydney Development and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for not just the Commodore 64, but also the ColecoVision, Atari 8-bit family, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II. The game is based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart, with the title being a play on the title of the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.
In the game, the player takes the role of the caveman Thor, who has to rescue his girlfriend, "Cute Chick", who has been kidnapped by a dinosaur. To do this, he must travel on his stone unicycle (actually an impossible wheel) through several levels. Each level has Thor moving from the left to the right, avoiding various dangers.
nymx and DrD2k9 both work together for this run to get Thor to his girlfriend in record time.
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Published on 7/2/2023
Bagdad (sic) is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the November 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, you are a guy on a flying magic carpet roaming Baghdad until genies suddenly start attacking you out of nowhere. You must now get rid of these genies by trapping them in bottles and collecting them. Fail to collect a bottle in time and a genie breaks free, forcing you to trap them again.
nymx for this run exhausts all unique content in this game — which done by getting to the 13th wave and trapping the purple genie — as fast as possible with some scripting and nifty RNG manipulation to trap the genies faster.
Game:
Bagdad

Genres:
Action
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 12/31/2023
Bagger is a simple arcade style action game in which the player must work as a bagger at a grocery store. It plays simmilarly to games like Tapper where the player throws objects to incoming customers, while also collecting tips.
nymx completes the game's 3 unique loops in record time.
Game:
Bagger

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 7/9/2023
Balloon Blitz is a arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the August 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is a simple, if archaic, game. You control a hot-air balloon filled with a limited number bombs, and your objective is to use those bombs to destroy enemy tanks that are driving around below you. Don't assume the tanks will sit still and take the hit; they'll move out of the way if you aren't leading your shots.
nymx here plays a perfect game of Balloon Blitz with the tanks at their fastest speeds, not missing one tank with all 20 bombs, and does so in record time.

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

Published on 9/12/2023
Bee Zone is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the September 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. In this game, you play as a guy that's in a gigantic beehive known as the "Bee Zone", which is filled with honey and enormous bees. Your goal is to collect all the honey in the hive before the giant bees get you and kill you.
In this run, nymx completes a single level of the game in record time.
Game:
Bee Zone

Genres:
Action
Platformer
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 3/13/2023
Big Mac (also referred to as Big Mac: The Mad Maintenance Man) is a 1985 platformer game for the Commodore 64. The game sees Big Mac having to shut down a power station while avoiding enemies.
nymx shuts down the power station in record time.
Game:
Big Mac

Genres:
Platformer
Game Version:
Big_Mac.tap
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BizHawk 2.8

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

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

Genres:
Sport
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 10/27/2023
Canyon Cruiser is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was first published in the January 1984 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The premise is simple: you pilot a space cruiser down a canyon that gets narrower as you progress. How far can you make it before you crash?
nymx in this run tests that question and reaches the rank of "Han Solo" in record time.
Game:
Canyon Cruiser

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
1984-01.d64
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Adventure
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 11/22/2023
Cell Runner is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the September 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Taking place on a faraway, desolate planet, you play as an explorer who is just returning from the ruins of a former subterranean city. Unfortunately, the tunnel you used to get to the ruins has collapsed, and the only other way out is city's barely functioning mass transit system. You must climb up the remains of the transit system, but that is easier said than done as the cells that make up the system randomly open and close and you only have enough stamina to climb each level for 30 seconds.
nymx for the run takes up the challenge and climbs up all 40 levels and reaches the surface in record time.
Game:
Cell Runner

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 3/24/2023
Chopper 1 is a rather difficult Commodore 64 game that was featured in a 1986 issue of Compute's Gazette. You control a helicopter that's equipped with a laser cannon, and your goal is to shoot down as many of the bombs an indestructible alien UFO is sending down to destroy your city. The city is protected by a force shield, but it can only last so long until the bombs pierce through and hit the city.
In this run, nymx chooses to play a single level at the Level 9, the highest difficulty, and beats it in record time without a scratch on the force shield.

Published on 12/31/2023
Chopper Pilot is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 52 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in October 1987. In this game, players embark inside a helicopter and fly across 5 levels composing of forests, cities and mountains, each with increasing difficulty.
nymx flies across the five stages in record time.
Game:
Chopper Pilot

Genres:
Action
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Puzzle
Strategy
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

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

Genres:
Puzzle
Board
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/31/2023
Digger is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 21 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in March 1985. In this game (and unlike the PC game of the same name), players find themselves in an underground area with three trolls, which need to be defeated by dropping a boulder on them.
nymx defeats the three trolls in record time.
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Published on 9/13/2023
Disc Blitz is a simple shoot 'em up for the Commodore 64 that was published in the January 1989 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The goal of the game is to shoot down endless waves of flying saucers with your fighter ship as long as you can without getting hit by any of them. As always with games like these, you have a limited number of lives, so care must be taken.
Here, nymx and DrD2k9 collaborate to complete the game as fast as possible by playing it until the difficulty can no longer increase.
Game:
Disc Blitz

Genres:
Shooter
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 9/12/2023
Dunk is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the April 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The objective of the game is to get a serious of balls to their designated score spots by pushing them on three boards with cubes. The top two have holes that the balls have to go through and the bottom one has the scoring spots. Each board has its own cube that that all are simultaneously controlled by you. If any of the balls fall off the edge of the boards, you don't get points for that ball.
nymx here powers through the obtuse control schemes of the game and gets the maximum score possible in record time.
Game:
Dunk

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.0

Published on 2/25/2023
Fort Apocalypse is a game developed by Synapse Software and released for the C64 in 1982. The war with the Kralthans is on, and they've taken prisoners. These people must be rescued from the Draconis caves and the Crystaline caves that are located just outside the titular Kralthan main command center. The Fort is too powerful to attack directly, but perhaps a single rocket copter, carefully controlled, might be able to do what an army cannot. However the caves are narrow and the enemy has still setup impact shields, defenses and Hyper-Chambers within their depths.
nymx rescues all of the humans trapped in the fortress, destroys the reactor core there and makes his way back up in record time.
FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING: The destruction of the core at 1:47 in the encode produces flashing lights for about 3 seconds that may cause epileptic seizures.

A documentary about this TAS can be viewed here.

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

Genres:
Platformer
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

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

Genres:
Shooter
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BizHawk 2.9

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

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

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

Genres:
Adventure
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 12/23/2023
Maze Master is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the October 1988 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The game plays similarly to Pac-Man, but with one main difference. Instead of being chased by ghosts, you face off against another CPU-controlled player who's in another maze in a race to get as many dots as possible. Whoever gets 176 dots first wins the game.
For this run, nymx sets the in-game speed to maximum and eats every dot in the maze given as fast as possible.

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

Genres:
Puzzle
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 1/2/2023
Miami Ice is a racing game for the Commodore 64. In a maze with a slippery floor, your goal is to get your go-kart to the garage on the other end. The description that came with the game tries to justify this as Miami somehow getting hit with a blizzard, freezing all of the streets.
nymx maneuvers his go-kart using the very rough controls on very slippery terrain and completes all seven unique tracks in record time.
Game:
Miami Ice

Genres:
Racing
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.6.3

Published on 7/2/2023
Miner 2049er is a platform video game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software for many systems such as as the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and Commodore 64. The title "Miner 2049er" evokes a 21st-century take on the California Gold Rush of around 1849, in which the gold miners and prospectors were nicknamed "49ers". As Bounty Bob, the player's goal is to inspect every section of each mine in search of the evil Yukon Yohan while avoiding the radioactive creatures that inhabit the mine. As Bounty Bob walks over a section of flooring, it fills with color. To complete the level, every section of flooring must be colored.
nymx in this run does complete inspections of every part of the mine as fast as possible, with some nifty frame perfect tricks being done that are exclusive to this version of the game.
Game:
Miner 2049er

Genres:
Platformer
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 5/2/2023
Mole Attack is a video game adaptation of the classic carnival game Whac-A-Mole that was developed by HAL Laboratory for the VIC-20 and PC-8001. The goal of the game is score as many points as possible by whacking as many moles in the head you can find. More points are gained for whacking the moles as soon as they pop their heads out of their holes. Points are lost for whacking the moles on their butts.
nymx and DrD2k9 collaborate to score as many points of as possible in a single level with the help of a brute force bot to optimize for both score and speed and a glitch that allows for scoring points by hitting the moles' butts in a certain way.

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

Genres:
Puzzle
Game Version:
Oils_Well.crt
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Shooter
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Sport
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 9/25/2023
Powerball is a Breakout-like game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the May 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Like the game it takes after, the goal is to move a paddle around to get a bouncing ball to hit all the breakable bricks on the screen. You can get powerups from some of bricks to make completing the levels easier. However, what sets this game apart from the other Breakout clones are the bouncing colored "Slivers" that serve as obstacles for the ball.
nymx here completes all ten unique levels in the game as fast as possible with the help of scripts to spawn needed power-ups and manipulate the RNG.
Game:
Powerball

Genres:
Action
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

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

Genres:
Puzzle
Board
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Shooter
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

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

Genres:
Racing
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9

Published on 10/6/2023
RADs is an arcade-style game that was published in the February 1988 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. Taking place in the far future of 2023, you are a technician for Galactic Communications whose jobs is to maintain a galactic network of communication spindles. As the job is too dangerous to be done by humans in space, rotating alignment droids (RADs) were created to realign the spindles whenever an ionic storm spins them out of alignment. You control the RADs from the comfort of you base to realign the spindles while avoiding mysterious aliens that want to ruin your day such as Space Spore.
nymx here completes all 9 unique levels as fast as possible, manipulating the RNG to ensure that the spindles will be realigned as quickly as possible with minimal interference.
Game:
RADs

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

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

Published on 12/29/2023
Revenge of Cyon is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 12 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in June 1984. In this game, players need to defend Earth from the invading Cyon empire who try to avoid the player's attacks.
nymx successfully defends Earth in record time.
Game:
Revenge of Cyon

Genres:
Action
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published on 11/30/2023
Sky Diver is an arcade-style game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the July 1983 issue of the Compute's! Gazette, the magazine's very first issue. Here, you control a spade that's skydiving off an airplane, and your objective is to land on one of the three designated landing pads. To make things a little more difficult, there is a wind mechanic that influences how well you can move in the air.
In this run, nymx does three skydives to land on all three landing pads, doing so in record time.
Game:
Sky Diver

Genres:
Action
Game Version:
1983-07.d64
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

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

Published on 10/2/2023
Snake Pit is a variant of the game Snake for the Commodore 64 that was published in the December 1987 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. As with the game it's based off of, you play as a snake that grows with each piece of food it eats. The objective is to eat as much as you can while continuously moving until you either hit a wall or a part of yourself. Snake Pit differs from most Snake ports in that the food is a group of mice that come out of designated mouse holes instead of randomly spawning around the screen.
In this run, nymx decides to aim for the highest score possible with the game and does so as fast as possible.

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