Lamest Arcade Run Ever! (X-Men: COTA)

1 month ago
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Quite possibly, the lamest non-TAS arcade run ever (to weirdly appropriate totally inappropriate music)! I play X-Men: Children of the Atom (via MAME) on the hardest difficulty, basically spamming one move for the entire run because the CPU can't deal with it.

Seriously, this is literally twenty minutes of Psyblasts. By my count, I performed this one move 685 times. That's 85.6 PsyBlasts per match, 42.8 per round; 77.4 PsyBlasts per minute, and 1.3 per sec.

I have literally given my thumb a blister on multiple occasions doing this arcade run on a controller with a d-pad.

Technical Note: it is from one continuous run; however, Windows Capture on that particular computer does not like to record more than ~12 minutes (the sound glitches for about 10 minutes and then mysteriously goes clean again). So, I stopped recording during the victory screens, edited them out entirely, and just transitioned directly into the next match. I originally intended to do more editing and highlight the monotony of the gameplay while condensing it down via split screen, montage, and other techniques, but ... honestly? I didn't feel like sifting through the footage to make that happen. I did, however, always intend to use Korobeiniki & Trepek [sic] from Tetris: Axis on the 3DS.

One of these days I'll do an unedited run. Maybe. Eventually. Whatever.

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