For the second Game Jam, Team Moose came up with Mechanical Ice Apocalypse. It's a really good, and generally considered rather hard, boss battle. And if you want the medals or to submit your time, you have to do it with one life.

When it first came out I beat it in a time that was below 1:56, which long stood as the top time for the game. After the game was updated to shrink the hitboxes it got harder to get a really low time, because the missiles the second time through lasted on the screen longer. As such, I was fairly confident nobody would come anywhere close to my time. And I was right: only one other person has gotten a time below 1:57, and that just barely.

However, I wanted to see if I could find a way to get a sub-1:56 time in the new version now that missiles behave the way they do. So I set up my screen recorder and had at it. And did this:

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So not only did I succeed at getting a sub-1:56 time, I actually did it sub-1:55 AND set a new high score for the game. Because I felt like it. But that's not all: shortly after recording that run I played one perfectly, and came out with this:

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So odds are that's the fastest time that's possible in the game. And it's mine. And there you go.