Junction (Sega) [TAS in 13:51.671]
Channel: Andy Dick
Date: 2019-10-13

Junction is an action-puzzle game published by Konami and ported to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive by Micronet in 1990. The box art is labeled "H Rated" with the tagline "High Level of Intellect Needed To Complete This Game", but in the realm of tool-assisted speedruns, this is not much of a challenge.

The back story is non-existent, though judging by the short introduction movie, a drunken armadillo robot is caught red-handed eating apples. Punishment for its crime is to be transformed into a red ball that must traverse a tangled path of interconnecting tiles. If our armadillo friend successfully navigates through 50 levels of madness, it is transformed back to its original form where he can be with his robot buddies (and presumably eat more apples).

I speed through this game and complete Stage 50 in 13 minutes and 51 seconds!