- 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.
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
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.
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'.
This was a thing of beauty. I remember the absolute anxiety of running low on full, furiously hitting the fire button cause I knew the parts where jets would fly across and get me, only to hit a desperately needed full depot. Good times. This was back when you had to imagine in video games. You could play this game and imagine you were maverick flying in a mission. I feel bad for kids who did not get to grow up in 80’s
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.
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
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!
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!"
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!
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 !!
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?
Huh. It really is the river of no return. I think the highest score I ever got as a kid was around 60,000. You could really get into the zone with this game and just going for what felt like ever. Crazy to see that it was probably just ten minutes!
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.
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
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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I always wondered if this game had an ending as a kid. I die peacefully on my deathbed now.
It's not the actual game
@@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.
🤣🤣🤣
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 👍
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.
My first video game. More than 33 years ago.
Lol me too but 31 years ago
Даааа!!
Brother, same.
Aww I love as diabolical it seems never forget the refuelling sound tho ;-) x
Do you mean the first one you had, or the first game you made?
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
One of the greatest videos I have ever seen.
it's done by a computer not by a dude, duh?
@@nordicaryanAntiZog Calm down man, lol
It's just a game.
@@FedorMachida fedork, im always calm, 'lol'.
@@nordicaryanAntiZog you seem angry, imo
@@FedorMachida im happier than your two fathers at a dude ranch on payday. lmao
*GOT A COUPLE OF HEART ATTACKS WATCHING THIS! IT'S JUST SO PURE BEAUTY!*
Reminder that this game used to be banned in Germany for excessive violence and cruelty
Why? There's no big violation in this game.
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.
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'.
+astro They're called Nanny States. Mike Bloomberg for president. No more big sodas.
hijong park well Germany is indeed stupid
The first time a played video game, was like 5, and still watching this guy playing look very hard
This was one of my favourite games on the 2600, but wait, no ending
This was a thing of beauty. I remember the absolute anxiety of running low on full, furiously hitting the fire button cause I knew the parts where jets would fly across and get me, only to hit a desperately needed full depot. Good times. This was back when you had to imagine in video games. You could play this game and imagine you were maverick flying in a mission. I feel bad for kids who did not get to grow up in 80’s
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.
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
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!
In other words, thats the end of the game
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!"
The Rom is Hacked !!
Valdemar Gomes sim, ele disse isso na descrição
When you're an ace fighter pilot but your mum tells you that tea will be ready in one and a half hours
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!
! ! ! ! ! !
I don't think that this is a person playing ,it gotta be something else maybe a machine learned "Machine Guy"
I did not know the end of this game. Thank you very much.
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 !!
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?
it has to be a hack, someone said rom hack' can one program the rom to do this ?
From the description: For details on how this video was made, see: tasvideos.org/4648S.html
Yes, it's impossible to play like that. My real record was 196600
999 999 points limit reached.
*And this is the end of the game??? i don't remember if this was had an end*
Huh. It really is the river of no return.
I think the highest score I ever got as a kid was around 60,000. You could really get into the zone with this game and just going for what felt like ever. Crazy to see that it was probably just ten minutes!
Did TAS already exist at that time?
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.
Loved it! That was sick👌🏻
is John Rambo the pilot ?
Lord Tom, Could you do that on the Atari 5200 version?
Why you never do drum solo while approaching bridge with gun speed on angle?
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
Nice work!
increíble!!! jamas vi a nadie jugar así,que control,estuvo genial el vídeo
Damm! This game was the shit!! One of my favorites when I was a kid. Thanks for the upload.
River raid este juego me encanta cuando era niño adolescente me fascinaba jugarlo era mi favorito
Good Lord, Tom! Thank God you finished this game and saved my life from going through this hell game! Kudos to you!!! 🏆🏅🕹 🤗🤗🤗
Wow, finally! I can lay myself to rest now!!
@Lord Tom Do you have this video still in higher resolution?
The professional encoders at tasvideos.org published a better encode - up to 1080p, 60fps: ruclips.net/video/vjeuiMSmKxQ/видео.html
Avión es invencible?
I wonder if this was using an actually 2600 controller?
at least this game's ending is better than Dragon's Lair on the NES.
Am I crazy the way I remember the game it also had helicopters that shoot and tanks shooting at you
The best game of atari!!
I had always this thought what would happen at the end ofthis game
This is hypnotic! XD
Whats with going back and forth in the little spaces?
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.
+Lord Tom ohh, i nvr knew that
it loops somewhere, right?
it would eventually after many thousands of bridge sections, but there's no way to get that far without reaching 1 million points
Wow. So technically, this game does have an end. Sorta.
Sounds like real life.
Dios mio Excelene Jugada Señor Tom. Considero que es la Mejor Jugada que e viste del River Daid Excelente
Tas not is habilidad
1982 and better hit detection than Counter Strike...
The Comments section is always just as good as the video ✌️
And in less than 90 seconds there goes my highscore.
Is it real? It touches helicopter, destroyers,..
and then i read tas in the description ! so it was not skill it was a bot omg jeez
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
This looks fun
Hero, hero, hero .
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.
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...
Modified code .. Computer was playing
might3d And it’s easy to tell too. I’m really surprised so many can’t tell the difference.
Do people read the description nowadays?
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
Unbelievable!!!
Muita nostalgia.
Speechless 😶
Rare to see someone score a million and lose.
Best ending, ever
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.
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.
Este tipo es humano?
Como faz isso river raid cara viciado muito bom
ходят слухи что этот самолёт уже Вояджер догоняет
I secured back in 1989 ...96000
Para, nem Deus conseguiria jogar dessa forma
Danilo Lipinski ksksksks
várias vezes o cara teria morrido, atira quando está em cima, nada haver, pura alugaçãoo...
Leiam a descricao... o cara criou um bot pra jogar e fazer o video..
Respetuosamente te digo: No mames!!! Gracias... Ahora ya se cómo acaba un juego de atari!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙊🥰
Eres un master!!
Ohh the memories
Awesome!
This game realy bring death for us
Is a human that is playing River Raid?
If you would push back while going over the fuel pods. You'll live longer
what a sad ending :(
sin duda eres el mejor jugador. felicidades me gusto mucho un millon y a toda velocidad
The best player !! ;) River Raid Atari 2600 ♡
nice computer generated game action.....it was the computer not you who beat the fk out of it lol right on...
Meu recorde pessoal foi mais 120.000 nesse jogo, tenho certeza que esse NÃO é o final. Esse jogo do vídeo esta bugado.
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.
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.
zerei esse jogo quando completei 999.999, final muito tosco.
My maximom rate was 190000 in 30year before in that time river ride was dreamy game
Impossible. The game was chacked :P
those chackers!
he is outstanding .. my highest score was around 200,000
Best tas im like it
1980 oyunum rekorum 78500 idi....
O cara é muito bom
So the end is a 1 million score ? That's a rip-off. Feels more like a system limitation than an end.
I feel the need..the need for........
Wow, just wow
The problem when you need to gas up you don't speed but you are still an expert
sounds fake you cant flicker within the narrow canals like you do
NICE!
Genial parece piloto de guerra de 10ig29 peruano entrando a arica y saliendo en punta Arenas
zagraj bez kodu o rozbijanie się o ściany
I didn't use a code. For details on how this video was made, see: tasvideos.org/4648S.html
Aqui o comentário brasileiro que você estava procurando 😂
Fun fact: this game was created by a woman programmer, a rarity at the time.