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Tempo (1995)

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Original Air Date: September 07th, 2009

This video took me a considerable amount of time to arrange. It's a compilation of all the "endings" of the game merged down into the time of a single ending, as each ending is just the credits with different pictures depending on your performance throughout the game. They are swapped out accordingly going from the "worst" ending to the "best" ending with simple transitions (so as to not alter the natural feel of the ending much), with the credits being cut into segments largely proportionate to each other.

The real thing that took so long wasn't the editing, but capturing the footage. Tempo has six endings based on your final score, but there is a really wicked oversight from the developers that will cause you to likely never see the second half of the endings under ordinary circumstances. Unlike ordinary games where one would expect to get a good ending playing the game naturally by discovering every secret, playing every mini-game, and defeating every enemy in the best way possible, that won't work in this game.

Even if you used up all your "natural" mini-game tokens and do well, you're still not very likely to see the fifth or sixth ending. The reason is because the high scores needed are absurdly high. To get the final ending (not even fill up the screen), you need approximately one million points. Doing everything possible through the natural course of the game (on "Hard" difficulty) may net you half of that-- "if" you're really good at the game. It's no wonder many people haven't seen anything other than the first two endings.

In order to get all the endings, I replayed the game on hard difficulty (as the special bonus is ten times higher on the final level than on normal difficulty), skipped to the final level with my password, and ran back and forth between the Labyrinthe rooms to dance and gain tokens, as this is the only place where you can do it infinitely. I then lost all my lives to exit the tower with 250 tokens (so I had more than enough) and played the 10-Token mini-game 25 times until I had a score of over 2 million, so I'm assuming I have all the endings since the monitor was full.

It took a lot longer than it sounds. Through the normal course of the game, you might have seventy-to-ninety tokens and you'll likely screw up a lot on the boulder/log busting mini-game, though I have little problem with it until level eight.

Before someone says I should have used cheats or something similar, I wanted to see how long it would take naturally, or if they even expected people to see the other endings. Took me about 6 1/5 hours (cumulative, I didn't sit and play it straight) to grab everything and about 15 minutes to edit it. I guess the game had to get its length from somewhere, as the initial run is incredibly short, but it wasn't very pleasing. The mini-games also make searching the entire level for perfect bonuses seem really irrelevant (20,000 points versus a possible 74,970). Oh, and the endings are oddly in different proportions like that by default. I wondered why the pics weren't centered and stuff.

Anyway, the endings according to the themes are:

Bad Endings:
Boxers - The only "bad" ending of sorts; A different ditty plays if you get this ending. Tempo is by his lonesome, looking somewhat heroic and somewhat dorky in a pair of boxers or shorts.

Normal Endings:
Food - Katy and Tempo grab something to eat. They're a little popular at this point.
Guitar - Tempo and Katy rock out loud!

Good Endings:
Travel - Tempo and Katy go on a vacation to enjoy themselves. Tempo doesn't seem to mind the crab getting ready to crop his top.
Hot Ride - Tempo and Katy enjoy themselves in an expensive and fast sports car. This is a pretty difficult ending to get.

Best Ending:
Family: This is the ending that's so damn hard to get. It's a picture of Tempo and Katy's future. They have a number of kids, Tempo plays golf and dons a mustache, and Katy is the devoted mother-figure. She also appears to be pregnant in this ending. It's a shame the story for the Tempo series is so thin though (if you couldn't guess from these endings).

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