As close as you can get to being good at the game without actually being good at the game.

00:00 ------ Jungle

1:14 ------ Base1 Good rhythm throughout, 145 core kill 2:00 130% boss kill, lost ~1s

2:17 ------ Waterfall JDSilva 5 skip route (sub-optimal "EA" branch for 6 skips total) lost ~1s 2:30 scubasteve kill + flame jump 2:49 worthless extra skip 3:02 left-arm-only 1-cycle Gromaides kill

3:24 ------ Base2 hose 'em down. supersoaked most rooms that mattered 4:27 3-jumper room of doom, 429 core kill 4:43 "the holy frame" double glitch, 1cycle

5:00 ------ Snow Field standard snowfield. no yolo, pretty good tanks, no frezy jumps 6:31 optimal spawn ufo boss

6:44 ------ Energy Zone 7:08 middle flame 7:18 exo/splice-o skip 7:42 2 jumps from Joseph

7:56 ------ Hangar 8:01 freaked out from nerves 8:21 pollycart hop 8:42 Operation: Jericho/Koolaid man wallbreak 8:48 "pauseclaws" 9:00 near perfect boss kill

9:11 ------ Alien's Lair 9:52 near death experience 9:55 the nerves are real. lost ~0.3 to slipperythumb 10:00 ceiling spider fail + Final fight

Official time should be 10:00 after frame count

Played on NES with OG brick controller.