Joust Arcade: 100,000 Points in 3:51
3Who remembers growing up playing this? I didn't; but I grew up loving the NES version! This time attack has likely been beaten many times by high-score experts, but it was fun to chase in a short time!
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FAQ:
Q - What is this game?
A - Joust is an arcade game where you must defeat waves of enemies by making contact with them while your position is higher than theirs.
Q - What is "50K"?
A - It means "try to obtain 50,000 points in the game as fast as possible". It's a speedrunning category on speedrun.com. Time begins when the player bird first appears, and ends on the frame which 50K points is attained.
Q - What is "100K"?
A - Same thing, but with 100K.
Q - What platform are you playing on? Is it emulator?
A - Yes, MAME.
Q - Why don't you do [insert idea here] instead?
A - Goodness gracious, I'm sure I'm missing things. As a newbie, people who have been competing scores in Joust certainly will be more knowledgeable about all this. I'd be very interested to see if you try this out for yourself, using any method you want! Comment here with your thoughts if you'd like.
Q - Why are you speedrunning this game, of all games?
A - Joust NES is one of the first games I ever played at a very young age. It happened to be the game that NESCardinality was grinding when I started watching his stream regularly in 2018. Since then, I've kept meaning to try speedrunning it myself, and every time I checked the leaderboard I noticed that the world records had never changed. I finally got off my butt and gave it a shot! It was a blast to compete, and after some time, I finally decided to check out the Arcade version. It took a bit of getting used to it, but now I'm loving this one, too!
Q - What's the point of this?
A - Speedrunning is a fun and extremely challenging way of adding replay value to your all-time favorite games, or any game at all! The first time I tried speedrunning River City Ransom EX (GBA) in 2015, no speedruns existed on the official speedrun.com leaderboards, so I had to create the page myself. I left it for years and forgot all about it. Then Redd92 beat my world record, and once I found out, I felt a brand new competitive fire! It motivated me to create entirely new routes for categories in that game, so I could experience new challenges with one of my favorite games ever. It's been indescribable fun, and triumphing over the game like this after it beats you down feels absolutely otherworldly. I experienced the same thing with Family Dog, a game I'd never played before attempting to speedrun it.
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