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113. Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors (1987, NES) by SNK

Current Any% (No ABBA) Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF AVGN:
Ikari Warriors (NES)
-Ikari Warriors (Arcade)
-Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road (NES)

Almost 5 years ago, I set out to speedrun all of the “shitty games that suck ass”...

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165. Charlie’s Angels

Charlie’s Angels (2003, GameCube) by Ubisoft

Current Any% Leaderboard (Speedrun.com)

You think by Game #178 I’d have learned every lesson the AVGN Trials could possibly teach me.  I mean, I’ve beaten games that have beaten me down...

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200. The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man

The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (1992, NES) by Acclaim

Current Speedrun.com leaderboards (Any%)
 

I had high hopes for this one.  I really did.  Upon watching the AVGN’s episode for this game, I truly thought that perhaps this would be better...

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175. The Town With No Name

The Town With No Name (1992, PC) by On-Line Entertainment

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

My name’s not Shane, kid.

Certainly one of the easiest (and dumbest) any% speedruns this side of Crazybus, The Town With No Name is a silly, humorous, and ridiculous comedy game disguised as a serious attempt at a Spaghetti Western...

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84. Hydlide

Hydlide (1989, NES) by FCI

Current NES Leaderboard (Any%)

“This game… is ******* Hydliiiiide” -Toad22484

This is a game that will infuriate you, frustrate you, and make you turn it off so quickly that your head will spin.  You’ll curse the 20 second loop of music that NEVER stops and you can NOT turn it off...

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184. Trespasser

Trespasser (1998, PC) by Electronic Arts

Current Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

I fully expected a trainwreck.  How could I help it?  Have you seen this game?  It’s awful!  Or, at least on the surface it is.  As a speedrun it is...

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169. Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry (1990, NES) by Mindscape

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

This game is such a missed opportunity.  What a shame.

The concept of a Dirty Harry NES game could have been great...

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130. ALF

ALF (1989, Master System) by Sega

Current “Any” Leaderboard on speedrun.com

Do you remember Alf?  I honestly had completely forgotten the 1980’s sitcom entirely until the Nerd reviewed this Sega Master System “gem” in 2014...

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35. Wrath of the Black Manta

Wrath of the Black Manta (1990, NES) by Taito

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF CAPTAIN S:
Wrath of the Black Manta
-Home Alone (NES)
-Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (NES)

The episode here is more interesting than the game itself… and that’s not really saying much, either...

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93. Lester the Unlikely

Lester the Unlikely (1994, SNES) by DTMC

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

I remember accidentally renting this as a kid. Don’t ask me how I managed to do that. I don’t remember. Perhaps it was all they had. Maybe we were just kids and thought “hehehehe let’s play a game where you play as a dork”...

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