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Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (1990)

Duration: 7:13

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This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see https://tasvideos.org/3330M
TAS originally published on 2017-02-14

This is the final game of the Alex Kidd series, once Sega's flagship series. As the title suggests, this is a bit of a departure from the other games in the series and borrows concepts heavily from the Shinobi ( https://tasvideos.org/1308M ) games.

Here, Alex Kidd's girlfriend has been kidnapped and he needs to go rescue her. In addition to his bizarre ability to use poles and ropes to turn into a fireball, he also apparently has the ability to use ladders to warp through solid walls.

The8bitbeast ( https://tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/The8bitbeast ) improves the previous run ( https://tasvideos.org/3046M ) by 47 seconds, thanks to better optimisation and the addition of a major new trick which allows zipping across screens with the tornado powerup.