Adventures of an Extremely Bored Amateur

The Idiot's Guide to beating the Apprentice. (Seong Mi-Na Edition.) This is NOT a demonstration of how to use Mi-na properly. This is intended to show a method of defeating the Apprentice (in Arcade Mode) using as few easy moves as humanly possible. Moves used: Throws. A+G or B+G 6BB BBB 44B

G's Japanese Voice was just begging to be paired up with Shao Kahn's Fatality.

What happens when someone times their rage quit with a mercy? Let's find out. Online Casual 6/1/2019

Juri's Talking Portrait Mode in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. aka "Story" Mode aka "Lazy 3D Animation" Mode

Beating Soul Calibur VI Arcade Mode (Hard) with custom Racing Stripe Taki.

The Idiot's Guide to Beating the Apprentice. (Any Reasonably-fast Character.) This is NOT a demonstration of how to use Tira properly. This is intended to show a simple generic method of defeating the Apprentice (in Arcade Mode) usable by a number of swift characters. (Okay, okay, okay, it's really to get people in online forums who complain about the Apprentice's AI to shut up.) Moves Used: AA BB Throws (A+G or B+G)

Nothing special. Just a flimsy excuse to test out a capture device. (2010)

Nothing special. Just a flimsy excuse to test out a capture device. (2010)

Slightly improved playthrough using 2 Player B to play as Jimmy Lee solo. Despite having more lives (from killing off Billy), still beat it with under 4.

A trick someone showed me a long time ago in an arcade far far away. Recorded on MK Arcade Kollection (PC), but I've performed it on numerous arcade cabinets, MAME, and the bonus disk bundled with MK Deception Kollector's Edition.

An embarrassingly awful playthrough of Double Dragon II for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Breaking the million point threshhold and resetting the 6 digit score counter in Yar's Revenge. Played by me online at http://www.atari.com/play/game/yars_revenge Captured in one sitting. Actual playtime was about 45 minutes, condensed down into this 12 minute video.

Boss Battles in CastleVania: Symphony of the Night. Prologue Stage: Dracula.

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Boss Battle in Metroid (NES): Ridley. Password used to get Samus sans-spacesuit: 000000-000020 000000-000020 Items Acquired: Morph Ball, Missiles (75), Long Beam, Bombs, Ice Beam, Energy Tanks (4), High Jump Boots, Screw Attack, Wave Beam. Essentially, I went from Brinstar to Norfair to Ridley's Lair, picking up all accessible items along the way; hence, why I don't have the Varia Suit yet. There's no reason to backtrack from Norfair to Brinstar when the High Jump Boots are literally next door to the entrance to Ridley's Lair.

Beating Marvel Super Heroes on the hardest difficulty with Psylocke (alternate colors.) MSH is probably the easiest Capcom fighting game, so beating it on the hardest setting isn't that impressive. To select a character's alternate colors, hover the cursor over the character you want and hold up (for top row characters) or down (for bottom row characters) for a few moments before pushing the button.

A re-edit of that infamous scene in Metroid: Other M, putting it all into context with a little help with the original Metroid on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

A montage of some of the BS I encountered playing through Street Fighter 1 as both Ryu and Ken in the 2018 Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (PC). I did actually get a chance to play Street Fighter 1 in the arcades a grand total of once, which was more than enough. I quickly headed back over to the Street Fighter II Turbo cabinet because it was 1993 and there was better things to play by then. All gameplay is my own, using a Qanba Obsidian as Ken and Razer Panthera as Ryu. This video features the music of Tommy Tallarico and Hideyuki Fukasawa.

The first five missions of Mutant Apocalypse, after which the game gives it's first continuation password. I collect all three Xs in each mission, giving Beast, Cyclops, Gambit, Psylocke, and Wolverine an extra life.