TAS: River Raid "Fastest Completion" by Lord Tom
For details on how this video was made, see: tasvideos.org/4...
River Raid is a legendary Atari 2600 vertical shooter where you fly the River of No Return trying to reach 1,000,000 points by blowing things up while flying over fuel depots to keep going. Extremely few people have beaten the game playing in realtime (I'm not one of them!), and I'm unaware of a start-to-finish video of the game ever having been published.
This tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) beats River Raid as quickly as possible. With enemies worth between 30 and 100 points, this movie takes 556 bridge sections to reach 1,000,000.
The first 99,090 points of this movie and the final few enemies were TAS'd "by hand" -- using an emulator, frame-by-frame advance and savestates.
The middle 90% was generated using a Java program I wrote which very accurately simulates the logic of the game and uses a "bot" approach to simulate millions of possible paths through each section and choose the best one. Over 1 trillion individual savestates were generated and analyzed using the River Raid bot. The resulting controller input, just shy of 83 minutes worth, was fed into the Biz Hawk emulator to create the movie shown here.
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I always wondered if this game had an ending as a kid. I die peacefully on my deathbed now.
@AWhite-pg2fq
4 жыл бұрын
It's not the actual game
@aernrom7169
Жыл бұрын
@@AWhite-pg2fqpor?
- General.. You better see this, sir. - What goin' on Captain? - We have umm.. a-an enemy fighter.. in our air space.. we're taking heavy casaulties, sir - What casaulties? - Umm.. we have.. a.. 746 confirmed helicopters lost, 646 gunboats, 492 fighters and several bridges destroyed.. - My goodness... How many aircrafts the enemy have there?? - It's.. a.. one.. sir. One plane.
@fatihgokcayoglu
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
This is how you upload a video in yt. No intro, no outro, no narration or annoying added music, no trying to be cool B.S. Thank you very much sir 👍
My first video game. More than 33 years ago.
@Olssono
4 жыл бұрын
Lol me too but 31 years ago
@user-tu5um5xz6w
2 жыл бұрын
Даааа!!
@TheBarricade32
2 жыл бұрын
Brother, same.
@conniethomas4753
2 жыл бұрын
Aww I love as diabolical it seems never forget the refuelling sound tho ;-) x
@Colt45hatchback
Жыл бұрын
Do you mean the first one you had, or the first game you made?
So many commenters here need to look up the meaning of TAS: Tool Assisted Speedrun. The most common tools used are to slow down time and use save states to 'rewind' time. The video is the final result played at normal speed. This video here though apparently uses an algorithm.
Wow, this is what we can call a modern AI abusing an old video game, lol. Everything is abused. How the plane shakes in the thin passages, how it shoots enemies that aren't in the screen yet, or are at 1 pixel distance, how it hits (I guess) all planes that are possible to hit, how deaths are abused too, to recharge fuel, usually when the bridge is destroyed and the score is about to get a new life... even the 1M score is reached by destroying a bridge at the moment it appears in the screen. Cool! Now to it the other way please. Killing just bridges and enemies which are not possible to skip, so we can know more and more maps. :D
*GOT A COUPLE OF HEART ATTACKS WATCHING THIS! IT'S JUST SO PURE BEAUTY!*
The first time a played video game, was like 5, and still watching this guy playing look very hard
Reminder that this game used to be banned in Germany for excessive violence and cruelty
@phj9894
9 жыл бұрын
Why? There's no big violation in this game.
@astrojunkey
9 жыл бұрын
hijong park The federal department for media harmful to children said something along the lines that this software inspires to enter the mindset of a massmurderer and makes war and killing look harmless. Yeah, that's the shit gamers in Germany have to deal with.
@phj9894
9 жыл бұрын
astro that's sounds stupid.. In that way, they had to ban space invaders or other many shooting games since they are about the war between mankind and alien and shoots each other to 'murder'.
@kewrock
8 жыл бұрын
+astro They're called Nanny States. Mike Bloomberg for president. No more big sodas.
@nitorishogiplayer3465
7 жыл бұрын
hijong park well Germany is indeed stupid
One of the greatest videos I have ever seen.
@nordicaryanAntiZog
2 жыл бұрын
it's done by a computer not by a dude, duh?
@FedorMachida
2 жыл бұрын
@@nordicaryanAntiZog Calm down man, lol It's just a game.
@nordicaryanAntiZog
2 жыл бұрын
@@FedorMachida fedork, im always calm, 'lol'.
@FedorMachida
2 жыл бұрын
@@nordicaryanAntiZog you seem angry, imo
@nordicaryanAntiZog
2 жыл бұрын
@@FedorMachida im happier than your two fathers at a dude ranch on payday. lmao
I beat this game in 3h + 6 minutes. I was about to leave it half the way, because I didn't know if it would ever ends. I played it on an emulator, without neither save nor pause. It was even worse: it had a bug, in which, if I go to 1 side and right after to the other, the plain slid more than it should. Plus, my keyboard at the time didn't accept 3 keys at the same time, which is often required by this game. So I had to alter between 1 direction and the shootings.
This is not the end, the video was programmed to be in a endless loop, the programmer did not imagine that Tom will hit the maximum score, so the game just crashed!
@8BeatsVGM
Жыл бұрын
In other words, thats the end of the game
@zazelby
2 ай бұрын
No, like several Activision games at the time, it's designed to end at one million points. Laser Blast does the same thing, including turning the score to "!!!!!!". Kaboom stops at 999999 but doesn't change the score to anything special, and Dolphin stops at 300,000 points and the score changes to the word "Amazing!"
River raid este juego me encanta cuando era niño adolescente me fascinaba jugarlo era mi favorito
Somewhere I have my River Raid and Chopper Command patches. The 80s were the best. We as kids thought we were on top of the world. Real kids living in a real world. No bs.
This was one of my favourite games on the 2600, but wait, no ending
999 999 points limit reached.
The Rom is Hacked !!
@uncleconrad
4 жыл бұрын
Valdemar Gomes sim, ele disse isso na descrição
I don't think that this is a person playing ,it gotta be something else maybe a machine learned "Machine Guy"
Modified code .. Computer was playing
@Keith2XS
5 жыл бұрын
might3d And it’s easy to tell too. I’m really surprised so many can’t tell the difference.
@solarflare9078
4 жыл бұрын
Do people read the description nowadays?
I've also heard this is not the only ending possible. As we know, Atari games were distributed by more than one company, not only Activision. If I'm not wrong, River Raid was also distributed by Mattel (as Moon Patrol was), and the ending was not dying at 1 million... ideas for a new TAS
When you're an ace fighter pilot but your mum tells you that tea will be ready in one and a half hours
I would like to point out for the ones that are not aware that this guy makes this game look easy. When in reality, this game's difficulty can be compared to Goldeneye N64 on 00 Agent while being armed with just the throwing knives. One of my favorite games and so damn difficult !!
Nice work!
I did not understand, what really happened ?! Nearly 1 million awards ended after that game or is it still going on? Is this game over at all? How many hours later did you reach 1 million awards?
I did not know the end of this game. Thank you very much.
ходят слухи что этот самолёт уже Вояджер догоняет
Am I crazy the way I remember the game it also had helicopters that shoot and tanks shooting at you
1982 and better hit detection than Counter Strike...
increíble!!! jamas vi a nadie jugar así,que control,estuvo genial el vídeo
Wow. So technically, this game does have an end. Sorta.
@Velts125
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like real life.
at least this game's ending is better than Dragon's Lair on the NES.
THE 1:22:41 MAKES ME REALIZE ONE THING: YOU MAY SERVE YOUR ARMY PERFECTLY AND WIN A WAR FOR A COUNTRY OR EMPEROR, IN THE END YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BAG OF TRASH! SO, DON'T WAR!
@Null42x86
4 жыл бұрын
! ! ! ! ! !
Good Lord, Tom! Thank God you finished this game and saved my life from going through this hell game! Kudos to you!!! 🏆🏅🕹 🤗🤗🤗
it has to be a hack, someone said rom hack' can one program the rom to do this ?
@LordTom77
5 жыл бұрын
From the description: For details on how this video was made, see: tasvideos.org/4648S.html
@hieveryone2932
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's impossible to play like that. My real record was 196600
nice computer generated game action.....it was the computer not you who beat the fk out of it lol right on...
I secured back in 1989 ...96000
Loved it! That was sick👌🏻
This is hypnotic! XD
I never could understand the lack of 'logic' in this game. Let me get this straight. I can fly the plane over water, but not grass or ships on the surface of the water? Yeah, that's not how airplanes work. This is the main reason I didn't bother playing this game much when I was a kid.
The best game of atari!!
Wow, finally! I can lay myself to rest now!!
And in less than 90 seconds there goes my highscore.
Damm! This game was the shit!! One of my favorites when I was a kid. Thanks for the upload.
I had always this thought what would happen at the end ofthis game
*And this is the end of the game??? i don't remember if this was had an end*
Funny how the algorithm considers faster to kamikaze itself when its running out of fuel....K wonder the alg considers passing slower on the fuel tanks to recharge more. Also, you should make one without shooting a single ship, or the least possible ones, to verify if maps are infinite. If you dont reach the million it should go on and on.
@LordTom77
4 жыл бұрын
The algorithm does consider the speed at which to travel over fuel cells, though the plane's accel/deceleration is slow so you can't get too much more fuel without losing time. I did make a version once that would consider it a penalty if any ships were shot, which worked nicely and was funny, though I never assembled it to a full run. The levels are procedurally generated so would theoretically repeat in an infinite loop of several thousand levels, but if you let the game run in emulator with a cheat on so you can't die or score points it crashes out eventually, not sure why or exactly where.
hahaha what a great game an thanks for uploading the memories i remember we would play this for hours an hours when we were kids an get so far an when you fly over the fuel depot slowly you fill up more fuel then shoot it to get the points.. i hated those blue areroplanes that woudl come out of no where an crash into you hahahaha .. the emories the good times. how i miss this .. .. lol what happednd you were going so great hahahaah oh well the game it self was hard to finish i never made it to the end even if i play for over a hour the adapter woudl get oo hot an wed get scared if it gona blow up lol hahahah
The Comments section is always just as good as the video ✌️
The problem when you need to gas up you don't speed but you are still an expert
Did TAS already exist at that time?
is John Rambo the pilot ?
Dios mio Excelene Jugada Señor Tom. Considero que es la Mejor Jugada que e viste del River Daid Excelente
@domgamesentretenimentos
3 жыл бұрын
Tas not is habilidad
viendo el video me doy cuenta que una persona no puede jugar asi,durante tanto tiempo y con tan buen pulso,me tuve que poner a ver las opiniones con el traductor de google y mas abajo unos brasileros dicen que uno leyo que en realidad es un bot jugando,ya me parecia...
and then i read tas in the description ! so it was not skill it was a bot omg jeez
Speechless 😶
Awesome!
Hero, hero, hero .
Unbelievable!!!
This game realy bring death for us
Para, nem Deus conseguiria jogar dessa forma
@yusukeurameshi7754
6 жыл бұрын
Danilo Lipinski ksksksks
@marluslima6584
5 жыл бұрын
várias vezes o cara teria morrido, atira quando está em cima, nada haver, pura alugaçãoo...
@kevansbr
5 жыл бұрын
Leiam a descricao... o cara criou um bot pra jogar e fazer o video..
Best ending, ever
Why you never do drum solo while approaching bridge with gun speed on angle?
@LordTom77
Ай бұрын
I love that you call it 'drum solo' so accurate. The bot I used to generate this avoided shots that didn't hit anything. In retrospect, adding the rapid fire drum solos would have been fun and pretty easy to do
Respetuosamente te digo: No mames!!! Gracias... Ahora ya se cómo acaba un juego de atari!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙊🥰 Eres un master!!
Rare to see someone score a million and lose.
Yo en mi juventud tambien llegue al millón pero duré como 4 horas porque le frenaba, este del video es el mejor jugador del mundo.
@Lord Tom Do you have this video still in higher resolution?
@LordTom77
Жыл бұрын
The professional encoders at tasvideos.org published a better encode - up to 1080p, 60fps: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJ6Z18uGg9CxqLQ.html
Muita nostalgia.
1980 oyunum rekorum 78500 idi....
The best player !! ;) River Raid Atari 2600 ♡
My maximom rate was 190000 in 30year before in that time river ride was dreamy game
Confusing! How does he even do that? I had never seen sb exceed 60000 before!
Lord Tom, Could you do that on the Atari 5200 version?
sin duda eres el mejor jugador. felicidades me gusto mucho un millon y a toda velocidad
Ohh the memories
I wonder if this was using an actually 2600 controller?
Impossible. The game was chacked :P
@NomeusRandoms
6 жыл бұрын
those chackers!
Bhai itni speed se ye game khelne ki trick bta do mujhe please. Kasam se bhai mza aa gaya ask to. I am old fan of this game. Thanks
what a sad ending :(
The game is like EXPLODED form the score 😃😃😃 May be the programmer develop the game with infinite playing loop, but the 6 digit score variable cause game crash. Fu**ing hell.
So the end is a 1 million score ? That's a rip-off. Feels more like a system limitation than an end.
If you would push back while going over the fuel pods. You'll live longer
O cara é muito bom
I feel the need..the need for........
Kboom! ;-)
he is outstanding .. my highest score was around 200,000
Avión es invencible?
Genial parece piloto de guerra de 10ig29 peruano entrando a arica y saliendo en punta Arenas
Best tas im like it
Aqui o comentário brasileiro que você estava procurando 😂
Wow, just wow
Whats with going back and forth in the little spaces?
@LordTom77
8 жыл бұрын
That's done to maintain horizontal velocity. You can switch from moving left to moving right (and vice versa) and keep horizontal speed. But if you go straight for even 1 frame you have to accelerate all over again. There are cases where there's a tiny benefit to drop horizontal speed, but I didn't permit this for the bot-generated portion of this movie as it would have greatly increased the number of paths to check without much (if any) benefit.
@shawnward95
8 жыл бұрын
+Lord Tom ohh, i nvr knew that
Meu recorde pessoal foi mais 120.000 nesse jogo, tenho certeza que esse NÃO é o final. Esse jogo do vídeo esta bugado.
@AlexandreFerreira-zs2yk
7 жыл бұрын
Alexandro Martins também acho bem improvável. Ele chega a matar aviões sobre a parte verde do jogo. Meu recorde fou 181mil. Mas desse jeito aí? Acredite quem quiser.
@GeekDetour
6 жыл бұрын
Se você ler a descrição do vídeo, tem um link pra uma página onde ele explica como o vídeo foi feito. Não é uma pessoa jogando - ele criou uma aplicação que analisa o mapa do jogo e pré-calcula quais os comandos para um caminho ideal matando o máximo possível de inimigos - e um bot joga no emulador usando esses resultados.
@zenaidenascimento2097
5 жыл бұрын
zerei esse jogo quando completei 999.999, final muito tosco.
NICE!
Tool assisted
Mi hermana tenia el record en casa con 40mil en 1hora de juego aprox.
Never died hitting the edge? No shooting helicopters? No shooting tanks. Straight lines? This is some kind of modification of the original game.
I love u man awesome
Muy bien 😚
Que isso amigo tu joga demais..parabens:)
@cbozo8980
5 жыл бұрын
Leia a descrição, trata-se de um TAS
Nice.