I tried speedrunning the original Bloons and almost drove myself insane

He's doing as much as he can to avoid speedrunning CHIMPS

I've only ever known Bloons as a tower defense game, never knew the original was like this

Ngl, both genres Bloons tackled were really well handled.

“Almost went insane” when will Speezy commit to his insanity

Eazy is the definition of borderline insane, see how many time he almost went insane through his speedrunning career but still remain sane after all of this.

How many times games gonna almost make this guy insane

I’m surprised they allow infinite darts in a speedrun

The Nostalgia, I remember playing this when I was younger

It's cool how they ended up taking the powerups from this game and turning them into the OG towers in BTD. You've got the tacks, ice, boomerang, spike balls, bombs, and... *Pac Man*
...huh

This is amazing, the nostalgia is so real .

You actually had unlimited darts on, so your speedrun would go into the UDM category. You got 4th place in that category!

i remember playing this when it was still new, really surprised me the franchise has lasted so long

(0:34) Speezy: “One of the hardest levels in the game”
**Gets 69% Without Attempting To Which Is Statistically Harder**

2:55 The intended strat is to intentionally hit the icy bloons so you can bounce the tack into the ones at the back

the nostalgia...

Bloons wasn’t always a tower defense game? What other lies have I been told by the council?

Such a simple game and so addicting at the same time
The balloon pops are so satisfying to hear

Now this, _this_ was my childhood for me. I did know about Bloons TD and I played it occasionally, but _this_ one was the one for me, the Bloons I remember

This game, and it's sequels, are my CHILDHOOD!

I was playing BTD6 a few minutes ago and I forgot how different the first one was

I remember this game. I never knew it was the original bloons that grew to the game we know today.

I completely forgot this game existed before seeing the video, the nostalgia is real.

I cant even count how many times I would constantly play this game. Love love love it

He has resurfaced a memory I never knew I had. I remember this game, but mot the levels. The sound effects gave me a hit of nostalgia. Thank you

If you want to REALLY drive yourself insane, run it without infinite darts.

This is much better than the tower defense, I wish they made more like this

it's actually strange, but cool, to see how they transformed these powerups into monkeys in BTD. I especially liked the triple darts, which didn't even return until BTD5

I like how you can see the game mechanics transfer into the towers, like you can't pop frozen bloons except with a bomb. Also I like the little monkey he's cute.

I looked for this game for SO LONG. And I love it SO MUCH. It's really nostalgic for me because I used to play it when I go to my aunts place when I was a kid.

Holy Christ I've played so many bloons TD games I forgot this game existed, what a throwback

I remember when Bloons had it's own website where you could make maps and play levels made by other people and gain XP from doing it. Then they closed it down. It was so much fun at the time

I have very vague memories of playing this game back in the day! The sounds effects, some of the levels, and the graphics are pretty nostalgic!

Speezy saccing his good Twitch runs to bring us commentary 🥺

I remember Bloons was one of the first flash games I ever played when I was little. Can't believe not many people know it existed

This is a game I played so much but 100% just forgot about it lmao. The nostalgia

Oh my. I thought I had only played the TD games but seeing this Awoke a hidden memory holyyyyy cow. Nostalgia.

2:54 you can do that!? I always thought you had to hit the ice bloons first then bounce a dart all the way across using the frozen bloons.

I spent way too much time as a youngun making custom levels. Love seeing this again.

I have a few games that I would love to see speedruns of. I'm thinking of Insaniquarium, an aquarium simulator where you keep your fish alive and fight aliens, earning enough money to buy three egg pieces and end each level. Feeding Frenzy, a game where you play a variety of fish species and try to reach the top of the food chain by eating anything smaller than you. And lastly, an obscure game called Plantasia, that focuses on restoring and tending to gardens to gather enough pollen to complete each level.

Take a shot every time speezy says "very"

Nostalgic, brought me back to flash game days

Considering the fact that it was never officially confirmed that bloons aren't sentient and can't feel pain, it's entirely possible that this goofy monkey game is just mass genocide

God I forgot about this game. definitely spent a lot of time playing it. Somehow never connected the dots on it being related to the btd series

FINALLY oh my god I thought I hallucinated this version of bloons but this was my entire childhood!! thank you for unearthing it!!!

I've only known Bloons as this game, I first heard about the tower defense trying to look it up to show my friends. I have so many memories of this game, my brother used to make levels and then I would play them. The levels, of course, were usually really hard/impossible so I would try for a really long time and then cry. Pretty much every time we played together I would end up crying. Ah, good times.

This game was in my school and it took me a week to beat, the fact he speed ran it both crushes me and impresses me

I used to love this game as kid, good to know It was as hard as I remember

nice to see some mechanics are still in the very early pre-tower defence game, like the triple dart or boomerang

I originally thought this was the knock off but now I know btd is the spinoff

I loved this game back in the day! Some of those levels really were massive headaches though...

God, I love bloons
It's kinda weird how they branched off to other genres

This game really did hit different!

The boys who played cool math games in 6th grade will always be the ultimate speed runners for these types of games

This man is insane

"we wanna use those pink Bloons which will get a lot of different *darts*"
Knowing they're tacks in the pinks hurt me mentally

love seeing the speed runs

so fun and relaxing to watch
keep it up like that
so special love your homur and the way you speak, funny and relaxing love ya

Ill be honest this style of game i like more than the direction bloons decided to take

I played the first BTD as a kid and I thought it was the original- never knew about this game!

2:54 for this level i think you were supposed to hit the ice bloons so you can bounce a dart on top of the frozen ones to hit the last section of bloons

I.... I thought I dreamed this game lol, i remember playing it once in school, and never finding it ever again

I always assumed there was a bloons game before bloons tower defence but I didn’t think it would be something like this.

3:22 I struggled with that level so much because I didn't know you could glitch through the wall!

I remember playing this in my 1st 2nd and 3rd grade computer classes
Good memories
But unfortunately life is always under pressure when growing up

Speezy is speedrunning my childhood and I love it

The references from this game in the tower defense game is crazy.

Will you do a speedrun without infinite darts, or just this category?

I've never knew this was a game at first , that's actually cool

Now this is the good old Bloons i remember playing

I played these as a kindergartener. I was surprised to learn that they changed to tower defense later

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS! I used to get so angry at this game in school.
I have friends who play the tower defense game completely seriously, can't wait to tell them that I played the original

I don't think i've ever seen past stage 14. That one was always my bane somehow.

Nice, I remember speedrunning Bloons Junior.
How about Cubob next time? (also called Cuboy Quest 2, weird)
It’s one of those nostalgia flash games for me

Man i remember the old old tower defense days of this franchise

*How can something so simple be so entertaining?*

Never expected that towers on Bloons series were powers in the original Bloon

i think speezy loves going crazy cause he speedruns so many games that make him

Damn taking me back to the computer lab days at school with this one

Really loves the word “Insane”

I remember this. The OG blooms was so different. I liked it.

Watching this video unlocked a memory I had thought of in a decade haha

The nostalgia... its too strong.....

Only Speezy can commentate with such a calm tone while going so fast

I remember playing this game and thinking it was amazing

Bloons player pack speedrun? Oh wait, it’s too difficult…

I am so excited for this speedrun trilogy!!!

I thought this is a fangame
Ah, the memories

I love how the Tac Balloons evolved into the
Tac Shooter

This really unlocked a memory for me wow!

Pls do more co-op speedruns with your brother!

"one of the most stressful things i've done yet"
what about the pancakes

I'm pretty sure that the levels complete when the last dart disappears. So when they are bouncing, the level won't end, and when you make a large through for just 2 more balloons, the level doesn't end until it goes out of bounds.

I was never interested on the tower defense game, i loved this one.
Even better was to make and play other player's levels

2:55 I feel like doing this the intended way of using the ice bloons to make a bridge and bouncing a dart across is faster than going for the trick shot

Guys, that one level took way too long than he wanted it to!

Better than any of the tower defense games

For all those saying you didn’t know this existed, y’all are too young 😂

You need some rest man you have been insane when speedrunning lots of games

I never knew bloons started out as a game other than tower defense

Also as I tryharded bloons insanity, the bouncy walls are not inconsistent. only there being different speeds for your darts launch and literally adjusting angle by a single pixel will mess it up