[TAS] [Obsoleted] A2600 Dragster by Omnigamer in 00:08.49

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Published on May 30, 2021 5:30:59 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odysSQUYZQw

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Dragster (1980)

Duration: 0:19

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This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see http://tasvideos.org/3430M.html

This movie has been obsoleted by http://tasvideos.org/3662M.html. TAS originally published on 2017-06-16.

Dragster, released in 1980 for the Atari 2600, is the first video game developed by Activision. It was programmed by David Crane, who later wrote Pitfall! The object of the game is to either beat the player's opponent across the screen, or to race against the clock for best time, depending on the settings used.

The game is well known as having the first console speedrun with the world record of 5.51 by Todd Rogers in 1982 according to Twin Galaxies. This record is known as the oldest, unbeaten world record in all of speedrunning. Omnigamer decided to try and match the elusive 5.51, and disassembled the entire game looking for how the 5.51 was achieved. After conducting his research, Omnigamer found that the long sought 5.51 was impossible to achieve within the conditions of the game, putting into doubt the veracity of the record of Todd Rogers.

Instead, this run achieves the fastest possible time of 5.57 on player one, with player two completing the track in the lowest amount of input frames.

This run has been console verified by dwangoAC using true's Multireplay device (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXMxZbPzRzs) (latch per vsync using extraction board).