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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 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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BizHawk 2.9.1

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 12/21/2022
Othello is a board game that is a modern variant of Reversi. It looks similar to Go with its checkered board and black and white pieces, but it's completely different.
negative_seven saves 7.31 seconds over the previous "maximum score" run through extensive research and development, the most notable being the usage of a modern Othello AI engine and pitting it against the Atari 2600 AI. You can read the author's notes here for all the details on the efforts put into the run, including the creation of a custom Atari 2600 emulator.

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 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 1/27/2024
Pegs is one of the games that came with the disk of Issue 42 of Compute!'s Gazette, released in December 1986. Based on the peg solitaire board game, the player needs to remove as many pegs as possible until there's only one left, although the board is a triangular formation.
nymx removes all of the pegs but one and obtains the best possible score.
FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING: There are flashing lights upon winning the game, which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.

Published on 2/9/2024
Pegs is a board video game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the December 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. It is based on the board game "peg solitaire", where the objective is to eliminate pegs by choosing a peg and hopping over another one with it. The game ends when there's only one peg left on the board or the final board layout is such that no more peg-eliminating moves can be done.
For this run, DrD2k9 opts to complete the fastest game of Pegs possible by making sure the game goes through the least amount of moves to get the a board layout endpoint. This in turn also makes this a lowest score run.
Game:
Pegs

Genres:
Strategy
Board
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 2/11/2024
Predictor is a guessing video game for the Commodore 64 that was published in the June 1986 issue of the Compute's! Gazette. The rules are as follows: The first player chooses either the color red or blue. The second player, or the "Predictor", must then guess what the first player chose. If the second player guesses correctly, they get a point. Otherwise, the first player gets a point.
nymx here takes the role of the "predictor" and plays 100 rounds against a computer player, winning all of them in record time with copious amounts of RNG manipulation.
Game:
Predictor

Genres:
Board
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.9.1

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 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
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 12/2/2022
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.

Published on 8/7/2023
Chess Challenger is an unreleased chess game for the ColecoVision that was announced back in 1983 before becoming vaporware and never getting an official release. Unfinished prototypes of the game then went around for decades before getting an unofficial homebrew release by independent developer CollectorVision Games, using the prototypes and old advertising as reference.
Winslinator in this run chooses to play against the CPU at the hardest difficulty and beats it as fast as possible. The moves made against the CPU were chosen to ensure that the CPU spends the least amount of time calculating its next move. For further details, you can read the author's notes.

Published on 8/7/2023
Chess Challenger is an unreleased chess game for the ColecoVision that was announced back in 1983 before becoming vaporware and never getting an official release. Unfinished prototypes of the game then went around for decades before getting an unofficial homebrew release by independent developer CollectorVision Games, using the prototypes and old advertising as reference.
Winslinator in this run chooses to play against the CPU at the easiest difficulty and trounces the remarkably bad AI as fast as possible.

Published on 8/6/2015
Touch! Gostop DS is a handheld version of the popular Korean card game Gostop, developed and published by CTGAME Entertainment in 2008.
In this run, perfectacle carefully manipulates luck to beat every ranked opponent as quickly as possible. For each opponent, a minimum amount of points must be obtained before being able to move on to the next one. Clever strategy and use of auto-wins are also used to rack up multipliers and obtain extravagant high scores in a remarkably short period.
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Published on 11/5/2023
4-in-1 Fun Pak is a collection of board games for the Game Boy. It includes the games Checkers, Chess, Reversi, and Backgammon, and has the option to either play against a CPU or against another human player by either sharing the Game Boy or linked with another Game Boy using the Link Cable.
In this run, Winslinator decides to play Backgammon against the CPU at its hardest setting and trounces it in record time by manipulating it into making the worst moves. For more details on how it was done, you can read the author's notes.

Published on 10/30/2023
4-in-1 Fun Pak is a collection of board games for the Game Boy. It includes the games Checkers, Chess, Reversi, and Backgammon, and has the option to either play against a CPU or against another human player by either sharing the Game Boy or linked with another Game Boy using the Link Cable.
In this run, BlackWinnerYoshi and Spikestuff play Chess in "2 Gameboys" mode, the 2 player mode with two linked Game Boys, and work together to achieve the fastest "Fool's Mate" possible.
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 2/12/2023
Caesars Palace is a licensed tie-in to the Caesars Palace brand of casinos for the Game Boy. In the game, you get to play a number of gambling games in the titular Caesars Palace: Roulette, Video Poker, Slots, Blackjack, and the Big Wheel. Leave the casino with enough money gained from your playthroughs and you get a car based on what you have.
TaoTao and ViGadeomes improve on the previous run by about 28 seconds. The ending shown in the previous run was found to not be actual best ending, the actual best ending (which is ownership of the Caesars Palace casino) requiring at least $5,963,776 to achieve. The authors do this by getting two absurdly lucrative jackpots in a row at the Slots with some careful RNG manipulation.
Game:
Caesars Palace

Genres:
Board
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/26/2023
Connect Four is a board game played by many people in many countries across all ages. The rules are simple: Each player takes turns dropping chips down a grid. Whoever can make a row of four connecting chips either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins the game. Like with Perfection and many other board games, it has received ports to many video game consoles.
Alyosha improves the previous TAS by 2.53 seconds, thanks to a better winning strategy.
Watch this movie played back on a Game Boy Player right here.

Published on 11/27/2023
Connect Four is a board game played by many people in many countries across all ages. The rules are simple: Each player takes turns dropping chips down a grid. Whoever can make a row of four connecting chips either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins the game. Like with Perfection and many other board games, it has received ports to many video game consoles.
Tompa, Alyosha, and Winslinator collaborate to complete a game in "Normal Game" difficulty as fast as possible, manipulating the AI to think faster so the game can be ended quicker.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 11/14/2022
Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is a licensed chess game with a few extra features. In addition to a mode where you just play a quick game of chess, there's also a tournament mode that basically serves as the campaign mode and a Puzzles mode where you have to put the opponent in checkmate under a specific layout and with specific restrictions.
In this run, Walgrey plays Puzzle mode and completes all 30 puzzles in record time.

Published on 3/27/2016
Mario Party Advance follows a different format than the main games, since only a single person can play without connecting to another GBA. In this game, the player moves around the game board, visiting characters, running quests, and playing minigames. Many of the non-player characters are from classic Nintendo 64 games like Super Mario 64, Mario Party, and Paper Mario.
In order to beat the game as fast as possible, Nacho manipulates luck to achieve favorable rolls. Careful Mushroom management also allows him to intentionally lose some minigames when it would be faster than beating them.

Published on 10/21/2022
Perfection is a board game where you have to fit a number of different shaped pieces into a board under a time limit. Run out of time and all of the pieces pop out of the board. The game has received video game adaptations to a number of systems.
In this run, ShesChardcore completes a single game of Perfection on the Game Boy Advance in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.

Published on 1/19/2021
Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood is an adventure game developed by NewKidCo and published by NewKidCo and Disney Interactive. It was released in North America in April 2000 for the Game Boy Color.
The game follows Winnie the Pooh as he interacts with other characters in the wood. Most of the game uses a board game structure, where the player rolls a dice and draws cards to move around on the map in an attempt to explore the wood. The game is aimed at a younger demographic and was designed to be simple. It was the first Winnie the Pooh game to be released on a video game console.
In this movie, Winslinator achieves "100% Knowledge", equivalent to 100% completion of the game, in record time.

You can watch the console-verification of this movie here.

Published on 10/2/2021
Mario Party 6 is a party game released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004 (and 2005 in Europe and Australia). The game features two main game modes: Party Mode, where 4 players compete to get the highest amount of stars, and Solo Mode, in which one player must reach the end of the board to get a Rare Mini-Game. If the player goes further than that space, they'll lose all mini-games they've collected, amongst other events.
GoddessMaria and Samsara play through all three boards of the game's Solo Mode and get the Rare Mini-Games in record time.
We also have a TAS of Mario Party 7's Solo Cruise.
Game:
Mario Party 6

Genres:
Board
Party
Emulator Replay:
Dolphin 5.0

Published on 8/24/2020
Mario Party 7 is a party game released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2005. Four players race across a board trying to get stars.
In this TAS, BeastlyN64 plays on the "Solo Cruise" gamemode. This is the main story mode for Mario Party 7 in which the player must play through all 6 boards against one CPU opponent. Each board has a different objective the player must beat before progressing on to the next board. Unlike party mode, you don't play minigames at the end of each turn.

Published on 11/16/2023
Echo is a memory game and one of 52 games that are bundled with the Sega Genesis version of Action 52. It plays just like the electronic toy Simon and follows the same rules. The game will give you a pattern to memorize and your objective is to input back the pattern to the best of your memory. As the game progresses, it will give longer patterns and give you less time to memorize them.
LoganTheTASer beats the game with lightning fast inputs in record time, manipulating the game to give patterns that require the least amount of inputs as much as possible.
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BizHawk 2.9.1

Published on 10/11/2022
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.
Game:
Checkers

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

Published on 2/4/2023
Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack is a collection of gambling games released for the Intellivision and was the first game to be bundled with the Model 1 console during its launch. The collection includes Blackjack and three Poker variants, Five Card Draw, Five Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud. You can either play against the computer dealer or another player in each game.
Winslinator beats all four gambling games offered in record time, doing a hefty amount of RNG manipulation in the process.

Published on 3/3/2023
USCF Chess is a chess video game that uses the name of the United States Chess Federation for branding purposes. It comes with both a one player mode and two player mode. In one player mode, you play against the AI with the difficulty of your choice. The higher the difficulty, the longer it takes for the AI to come up with a move to play against you, with some moves even taking hours to happen.
In this run, Winslinator chooses to play against the AI at Level 1, the lowest difficulty, and trounces it in record time.

Published on 3/4/2023
USCF Chess is a chess video game that uses the name of the United States Chess Federation for branding purposes. It comes with both a one player mode and two player mode. In one player mode, you play against the AI with the difficulty of your choice. The higher the difficulty, the longer it takes for the AI to come up with a move to play against you, with some moves even taking hours to happen.
For this run, Winslinator chooses to play against the AI at the Level 6 difficulty, the highest difficulty the game can go and still make moves on its own, and beats it as fast as possible. The moves taken by Winslinator are chosen so that the AI won't spend too long calculating its next move. They are not meant to be the most optimal moves used in an actual chess game.
There are also encodes that cut down on the time it takes for the AI to think for those in a hurry.

Published on 3/4/2023
USCF Chess is a chess video game that uses the name of the United States Chess Federation for branding purposes. It comes with both a one player mode and two player mode. In one player mode, you play against the AI with the difficulty of your choice. The higher the difficulty, the longer it takes for the AI to come up with a move to play against you, with some moves even taking hours to happen.
Winslinator in this run beats the AI at the easiest difficulty as fast as possible by glitching it into making blunders and outright illegal moves while technically making legal moves himself the whole time. For more details on how this is achieved, you can read the author's notes.

Published on 2/15/2024
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel is a variant of the traditional chess game developed by Thunkspace in 2020. Notably, it features a mechanic called "multiverse time travel", allowing pieces to travel through time as well as between timelines, creating alternate timelines in any given game.
Spikestuff completes every puzzle of the game in record time.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: The TAS features transitions that happen in quick succession throughout, which may cause epileptic seizures to those affected.
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libTAS v1.4.5

Published on 12/23/2018
Mario Party is a party video game featuring characters from the Mario franchise. It combines the mechanics of board games with more than 50 different mini-games. The two modes of Mario Party are Adventure Mode, the standard mode of play with up to four players, and Mini-Game Island, a single player mode which forgoes the board game mechanics and instead has you win mini-games to progress through levels layed out on an world map.
In this run, Doomsday31415 plays through the game's Mini-Game Island mode as fast as possible, improving upon the previous publication by 01:12.92.

Note #1: Every second encode of each type leads to a version where all mini-game explanations and results screens have been removed.
Note #2: There are also lossless encodes and encodes at additional resolutions available in the discussion thread.

Published on 11/11/2023
Mario Party 3 is the 3rd installment of the Mario Party series of games, developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo. It features 70 brand new minigames as well as new boards, game modes, and playable characters.
One of these game modes is "Story Mode" in which the player must play through every board in the game against computer players. This TAS plays through the story mode on the "Super Hard" difficulty, which normally requires a completion on hard mode to unlock.

Published on 12/12/2022
Battle Chess is a chess game for the NES with a few neat gimmicks. In addition to standard 2D depictions of chess pieces you get to play with, you also have "3D" pieces that walk and interact with other pieces like they're real people. You also have animations for when pieces overtake and destroy other pieces. There are also features to aid in gameplay such as letting the game suggest moves to you if you're stuck and being able to take back moves and play again.
adelikat decides to play the game using 3D pieces on the hardest difficulty. Moves have to be considered not just to minimize CPU thinking time, but also to take the lengthy "3D" animations into account and minimize those as well. To make things quicker, a glitch was performed that allows for two moves to be played in a row when doing a take back during a CPU's turn.
Game:
Battle Chess

Genres:
Board
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 3/12/2023
Battle Chess is a chess game for the NES with a few neat gimmicks. In addition to standard 2D depictions of chess pieces you get to play with, you also have "3D" pieces that walk and interact with other pieces like they're real people. You also have animations for when pieces overtake and destroy other pieces. There are also features to aid in gameplay such as letting the game suggest moves to you if you're stuck and being able to take back moves and play again.

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

Genres:
Board
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/27/2022
Battleship is an NES adaptation of the board game of the same name. As with the board game, your goal is to sink your opponent's battleships by correctly guessing the locations of where they are and launching attacks at those locations. You don't know where your opponent's ships are from the start and neither does your opponent for your ships, but with proper guesswork, you can tell where they are soon enough. The NES version adds additional features such as special weapons that can hit more than once per turn.
ShesChardcore completes all 40 levels in this run as fast as possible, manipulating the AI as intended for the most favorable outcomes.
Game:
Battleship

Genres:
Board
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 9/3/2016
Bible Buffet: a turn-based board game with action stages and bible quizzes. In it, you spin a spinner and move the number of spaces it says.
When you land on your spot, if it is just a regular spot, you play an action game for points, weapons, hearts, etc. If it has a red circle, you spin again. If the space you land on has a red circle connected to another red circle by dashes, you move forward or backwards to the second circle. If the space has a red circle with a question mark in it, you take a pop quiz of three trivia questions then get to select either a key, a heart or move ahead one, two, three or four spaces.
When you spin, if you get the book instead of a number, you get a pop quiz of three questions. If you get the happy face, something good happens like move ahead ten spaces, get a key, get a heart, etc. If you get the sad face, something bad happens like lose your turn, move back 1 space and lose your turn, and so on.
Invariel and Spikestuff reach the end of the board in record time.

Published on 5/2/2022
Blackjack is an unlicensed card game made by American Video Entertainment. The rules are simple: the dealer gives you and themselves two cards each. You both then have to get a number of cards so that the sum of the cards' values is as close to 21 as possible without going over. Getting exactly 21 is known as a Blackjack, which gives you an automatic win. If you go over, you lose. Otherwise, whoever is closest to 21 wins the bet.
In this run, ShesChardcore manages to break the bank (get all the money from the dealer's table) with a single doubled down hand of Blackjack in record time.

Watch this run being played back on a real console.
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 11/29/2023
Cadillac is a card game for the Famicom that was released only in Japan. It is a variant of the falling block puzzle game where you match playing cards by the poker hands they make. If three or more cards make a Flush, Straight or any better poker hand vertically or horizontally, the cards are cleared and you earn money based on the poker hands made. In order to complete a game, all the cards on the board must cleared and a money requirement must be met.
In this run, TaoTao completes a game of Cadillac on Level 9, which requires $2000, in record time with heaping amounts of RNG manipulation.
Game:
Cadillac

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

Published on 2/13/2023
Caesars Palace is a licensed tie-in to the Caesars Palace brand of casinos for the NES. In the game, you get to play a number of gambling games in the titular Caesars Palace: Roulette, Video Poker, Slots, Blackjack, and the Big Wheel. Leave the casino with enough money gained from your playthroughs and you get a car based on what you have.
TaoTao saves 3.8 seconds over the previous run by using the Slots instead of the Big Wheel to get $140,000 more quickly. Time was spent playing Video Poker in order to set up the RNG for Slots. For more details, you can read the author's notes.

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

Genres:
Board
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8.0

Published on 1/28/2024
Kaettekita! Gunjin Shougi: Nanya Sore!? (帰って来た!軍人将棋なんやそれ!?, lit. It's Back! Japanese Military Chess: What Is That!?) is a video game adaptation of the board game Gunjin Shougi, which plays more similarly to the Western board game Stratego than shougi itself.
Each player has a set of pieces that consist of various military ranks. The objective is to either capture the opponent's flag or take out all of the opponent's pieces. Both players can only see their own pieces until their pieces directly make contact. Once that happens, the pieces that make contact are revealed to both players, and the one with the higher rank wins and takes out the piece. There are also mines and missiles, some with nuclear warheads, that can respectively affect all but one rank or affect multiple spaces at once.
Here, TaoTao would rather not play any games of Gunjin Shougi and instead opts to exploit a DPCM bug that's also in Super Mario Bros. 3 to corrupt the system memory and skip straight to the credits and the special message given by the developers. You can read more information on how this exploit was done on this page.

The primary movie file for this publication mutes the game due to how the RAM was initialized by the emulator. The encodes for this tool-assisted speedrun were made with a movie file that has the RAM initialized with all zeros, allowing for the sound to be played.

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 11/5/2022
Spot: The Video Game is a licensed variant of Reversi starring 7UP's mascot at the time, Spot. The objective of the game is to either take control of the entire board with your own discs or capture all of your opponent's discs, leaving none for your opponent to play with. Spot would later star in other video games such as Cool Spot and Spot Goes to Hollywood.
ShesChardcore utilizes some deceptively untrivial movement tech in this run in order to beat the game in record time.
Game Version:
Spot (U) [!].nes
Tags:
Single level
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 1/2/2023
Taboo: The Sixth Sense is a tarot card reading simulation for the NES that was probably sold at full price. You give the simulator your name, date of birth, and gender, and with that information it will generate a tarot card reading. After that, you give the simulator the state you live in, assuming you live in the United States, and it will generate lottery numbers for you.
ShesChardcore presses her luck by consulting this simulator in record time.
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 4/13/2023
The Chessmaster is a long-running series of chess video games made for various consoles and computers. The NES version of the game comes with various ways to tweak the CPU opponent, such as allowing it to think while you make your move and whether or not it has access to a predefined set of moves to make early on.
FractalFusion plays against a CPU opponent set at "Newcomer 1", the easiest difficulty setting, and utilizes the Bongcloud variant of the Wayward Queen Attack to checkmate it in record time.
Game:
The Chessmaster

Genres:
Board
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Compatibility MP4
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BizHawk 2.8

Published on 7/6/2022
The Three Stooges can be described as a board game where you play various minigames, often aiming to collect as many items or correct answers as possible. The plot of the game involves Moe, Larry, and Curly trying to raise enough money to make sure the local orphanage doesn't get taken away by the big bank.
Darkman425 in this run chooses the most optimal sequence of games to gain the minimum amount of money needed for the best ending, $20,000, and finish in record time.
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Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 9/29/2022
Only in the '80s can an IT business company make a stock market simulation game for a Nintendo console, and that game is Wall Street Kid. You are an upcoming stockbroker in the 1980s, the era of the Japanese asset price bubble, Reaganomics, and gross consumerism, and your goal is to prove your worth as a member of the Benedict family by taking $500,000 in seed money and putting that into the stock market so you can have more money to buy opulent luxuries such as a big house, a yacht, and eventually a castle that can be worth up to $10 million. Successfully prove your worth and you win the disproportionately fattest inheritance ever of $600 billion in 1990 dollars (or $1.35 trillion in 2022 dollars). Don't and you're disowned by the family.
In this run, ShesChardcore takes advantage of the small RNG, which is very generous for a stock market simulation, and optimizes the text generation and the menu actions in order to become obscenely rich, while also ripping off the bank in the process by skipping out on loan payments at the end.
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.8

Published on 6/16/2023
Wordle is the word game that took 2021 storm and has received ports to more than just smartphones and tablet PCs. The rules are simple. You have six tries to guess a five letter word. If you get the word wrong, the letters that are correct and in the right position are colored green and the letters that are in the word but are in the wrong position are colored yellow. You use those clues to guess the word until you get it right or you run out of tries.
Cephla in this run chooses the NES homebrew port and plays a single round (a single word) as fast as possible.
You can get the game here.
Game:
Wordle

Genres:
Board
Homebrew
Game Version:
wordle.nes
Video Downloads:
Compatibility MP4
Emulator Replay:
BizHawk 2.9

Published on 4/6/2012
The game of Clue has been attempted many times here at TASVideos. After years of research and planning, it's finally been honed down to a tidy 00:26.50 seconds. Whodunit? You'll have to watch to find out.
Game:
Clue

Genres:
Strategy
Board
Emulator Replay:
Snes9x 1.43 v17 svn123


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