Magical. Flying. Bathtub
Anybody remember this game? It's an old Codemasters game that was originally released as Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Adventure for the NES, which is itself a sequel to Linus Spacehead, part of Quattro Adventure.
Basically it's a point-n-click adventure that becomes a platformer between each area (but only once; once you complete an area you don't have to platform more). The story is that Linus/Cosmic crash-landed on Earth, and upon his return expected to be a hero that discovered a new planet with sentient life, but no-one believes him because there's no evidence (apparently whoever gave him a lift back to planet Linoleum disappeared pretty sharpish), and you have nothing but your birth certificate to hand as you try and get back to Earth with a camera to document your discovery. During the course of the game you have to gamble your money away no less than THREE times, buy gunpowder from the Post Office and build a bomb, give a helium balloon to a monster (a puzzle which is given away by the BOX ART), buy Larry Flint's stolen driving license from Shady Lionel. It's a kids game, as you can plainly see.
There's a couple of sequence breaks (you're meant to deactivate the robots in the Detroitica factory but with careful platforming you can bypass them, and you can skip one of the Linoleum platforming sections by using a teleporter). I blind raced this today as part of a weekly adventure-game blind race and I think it's pretty awesome. Ran it a few times and already beat the game in under 40 mins. Other things worth being in mind are that the hitboxes are somewhat counter-intuitive, and also if you get hit by an enemy near the exit of an area and your corpse exits the area before hitting the bottom of the screen, then you still finish the section and don't lose a life!
I didn't find any speedruns of the game online (there's a 1:04:xx longplay but that's it), but my 39:37 run is here: Part 1, Part 2. Obviously there's a lot of improvements to be made but it was only the 3rd go at that point!
I also found a TAS of the NES game which looks pretty good:
Basically it's a point-n-click adventure that becomes a platformer between each area (but only once; once you complete an area you don't have to platform more). The story is that Linus/Cosmic crash-landed on Earth, and upon his return expected to be a hero that discovered a new planet with sentient life, but no-one believes him because there's no evidence (apparently whoever gave him a lift back to planet Linoleum disappeared pretty sharpish), and you have nothing but your birth certificate to hand as you try and get back to Earth with a camera to document your discovery. During the course of the game you have to gamble your money away no less than THREE times, buy gunpowder from the Post Office and build a bomb, give a helium balloon to a monster (a puzzle which is given away by the BOX ART), buy Larry Flint's stolen driving license from Shady Lionel. It's a kids game, as you can plainly see.
There's a couple of sequence breaks (you're meant to deactivate the robots in the Detroitica factory but with careful platforming you can bypass them, and you can skip one of the Linoleum platforming sections by using a teleporter). I blind raced this today as part of a weekly adventure-game blind race and I think it's pretty awesome. Ran it a few times and already beat the game in under 40 mins. Other things worth being in mind are that the hitboxes are somewhat counter-intuitive, and also if you get hit by an enemy near the exit of an area and your corpse exits the area before hitting the bottom of the screen, then you still finish the section and don't lose a life!
I didn't find any speedruns of the game online (there's a 1:04:xx longplay but that's it), but my 39:37 run is here: Part 1, Part 2. Obviously there's a lot of improvements to be made but it was only the 3rd go at that point!
I also found a TAS of the NES game which looks pretty good:
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