{"id":61,"date":"2006-02-02T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2006-02-02T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T20:46:42","slug":"deadly-towers-tool-assisted-time-attack-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/61\/deadly-towers-tool-assisted-time-attack-video","title":{"rendered":"<em>Deadly Towers<\/em> Tool-Assisted Time Attack Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/images\/deadlytowers\/dt_2_small.gif' alt='Deadly Towers' class=\"alignright\"\/>This is sort of a follow up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/52\" target=\"new\">my last feature on <em>Deadly Towers<\/em><\/a>.  I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/deadlytowers-timeattack-bobwhoops\/deadlytowers-timeattack-bobwhoops.avi\" target=\"new\">speed run video<\/a> (78 mb, requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xvid.org\/\" target=\"new\">Xvid<\/a> codec) of a guy beating said game in 18 minutes and 46 seconds on the site <a href=\"http:\/\/bisqwit.iki.fi\/nesvideos\/movies.cgi?systemid=1\" target=\"new\">NES Videos<\/a> (scroll down to <em>Deadly Towers<\/em> on that page).  NES Videos is a cool archive of tool-assisted console game movies.  What are tool-assisted game movies, you ask?  Well, they are attempts to find the quickest possible way to complete a game, but they use emulator save states to achieve as perfect as possible a performance, and clever video editing to present a seamless viewing experience (making it appear that the entire run was done in one sitting).  Ideally, I suppose the time-attack competitors  that make these movies are looking for the theoretical &#8220;best&#8221; or &#8220;fastest&#8221; way to complete a given video game, sometimes with different constraints.  They&#8217;re lots of fun to watch, so check out some more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bisqwit.iki.fi\/nesvideos\/\" target=\"new\">NES Videos<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I mentioned before, all the dungeons that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/52\" target=\"new\">Ben Johnson mapped<\/a> (presented in our last article) are completely superfluous to successful <em>Deadly Towers<\/em> completion.  And as a great illustration of this fact, the player in the video doesn&#8217;t enter any one of them at all.  This video makes it look like <em>DT<\/em> is way easier than it is.  But <a href=\"\/wp-content\/files\/deadlytowers\/Deadly_Towers_U.nes\">give it a play yourself<\/a> and get frustrated \/ mystified  like the rest of us. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is sort of a follow up to my last feature on Deadly Towers. I stumbled upon this speed run video (78 mb, requires Xvid codec) of a guy beating said game in 18 minutes and 46 seconds on the site NES Videos (scroll down to Deadly Towers on that page). NES Videos is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}