Game:

Bionic Commando (1987)

Duration: 1:29

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Pretty simple in theory. The camera locks once you land on the elevator (where exactly it locks depends on how you scroll the elevator on screen). The goal here is to swing clear over the elevator and then use our parachute respawn to push the camera over to get the platform on screen, and then land on the platform. Each death needs to be done as high as possible while on the farthest right position. It can be done with one fewer death by waiting for the parachute to screenwrap and then dropped from the very top-right corner each time, but it is only 2-3 seconds faster than riding the elevator at that point.

The optimal setup (seen here) requires four spare lives. With default settings (start with 3 lives, extra lives at 20/40/every 60k) you should have exactly enough lives on a deathless run to stage 4. This also means that we have to do the rest of the tower climb without the grapple upgrade, which is the hardest section in the game. The skip saves approximately 17 seconds though, and guarantees a good helicopter spawn.

The second half of this video is just a sample of what it would look like. It is important for me to recollect the grapple upgrade (white/blue powerup at 0:55), and I grab the rocket launcher at the end even though I'm not sure if it is necessary. There are a lot of variations on this general route, as there are countless different patterns of enemy positions, but this general route has a pretty good success rate.

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