This is appropos of nothing — a belated shout out to some early-90s platformer goodness the Sega Genesis brought us in the form of one of the most difficult video games in the history of consoles: Kid Chameleon.
A maze of levels and warps and and boss battles, Kid Chameleon told the saga of a “wicked,” “badass” kid (I guess you knew he was tough and extreme because he dressed like a ’50s greaser…wtf…) who has to enter a virtual reality video game world to save a couple wimpy dorks from the requisite evil dude: Heady Metal. Hell yeah. The kid has to adopt a number of different character personas (there were around 10 total, I think) to get past parts of specific levels, hence the “chameleon” in the title.
So, check this out. This is a fairly lengthy video, but your boy beats the game in about 16 minutes, which, if you’ve ever played the thing, is nigh-on godlike. My brother and I used to toil for hours to get 3/4 of the way through. Jesus H. Christ himself couldn’t beat the game this fast.
Keep in mind this is only about 1/3 of the game’s levels.
My only issue is the guy skips the two most incredible characters in the game: Maniaxe, an axe-throwing dude who looked like J. Voorhees, and Juggernaut, a Kaiser helmeted skeleton in a tank that rolls around and shoots skulls. Seriously.
This says it’s a “tool-assisted video” which usually means a real human wasn’t at the controls. It’s actually a program that’s running the game in place of a real player.
Huh. Well, that blows. Thanks for the heads-up, though.
No, “tool-assisted videoâ€? means that the game was saved along the way, and if you messed up you’d just reload. Fairly simple. Amazing anyways.