4 for the PlayStation 2, and as a standalone title on the Xbox Live Arcade. In the modern era, Time Pilot shows up on Konami Arcade Classics for the PS1, Arcade Advanced for the Game Boy Advance, Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits for the Nintendo DS, Oretachi Geesen Zoku Vol. Time Pilot’s simplicity made for some decent ports, developed for the ColecoVision, MSX, and Atari 2600. He later quit Konami and joined up with Capcom, where he went to develop Final Fight and Street Fighter II. Time Pilot was the brainchild of Yoshiki Okamoto, who also created Gyruss. It takes awhile to get used to, since you turn so slowly, but once you master it, it’s a fun little game. Although you can only move in eight directions, your ship turns smoothly when changing angles, allowing you to spray shots of machine gun fire at enemies. You can only shoot in the direction your ship is facing. Certain enemies will eject from their planes, and picking them up will yield extra points. After defeating this stage, the game then loops. In the final stage of 2001, though, the sky is dark black, and all of the enemies are UFOs. For the most part, the only real difference between the eras are the color of the backgrounds and the enemy sprites (going from biplanes to helicopters to jets), although they all attack the same. You begin in 1910 AD, moving to 1940, 1970, 1984, and then finally 2001, which must’ve seemed so far in the future back in 1982, when this was made. Once you’ve killed enough, as indicated by a meter at the bottom of the screen, you fight a boss before warping to the next time period. As a time-traveling jet fighter, you must destroy all the enemies in the sky, which loops infinitely in all directions. both games really show what their platforms (Atari and C64) can really do when a port is handled correctly.Īnd both games really even go BEYOND what could be reasonably expected - amazing ports, EXCELLENT games, and wonderful releases, I can't praise both of these enough.One of Konami’s better known early shooters, Time Pilot is a bit like an arena shooter similar to Robotron 2084. This port is about as marvellous and miraculous as Thomas Kite's C64-port of "Scramble" Kudos to people that created this little marvel, I can't give enough thumbs up! Thank you SO MUCH for adding more life to my Atari systems!
I just wondered if this game or a variant exists that I could play on my Atari 800XL, but I wasn't prepared to be this positively surprised! If one were to nitpick - and I really mean that, this game doesn't deserve any criticism, because someone really polished it lovingly - the resolution is a bit low, so it feels like you're playing a zoomed-in version, and sprites are consequently HUGE (in my big CRT television, they're monsters), and some of the soundworld isn't maybe optimal.īut this beats the oddly mediocre C64-version, and is at least as much fun to play as the excellent C16-version (although it's called 'Space Pilot') that I just played today on my Commodore 16 (no emulation). Time Pilot is the only game I sometimes bother playing on my DS when I am adventuring somewhere in the world - it's so easy 'n quick to start playing, the gameplay is tight and yet so deep, because you can go through different time zones and everything - and the sound effects are marvellous. The gameplay is so good, it's as close to arcade feel as you can get - the explosions are juicy, the graphics flow smoothly and have even a parallel effect (usually missing from home ports)! What a heavenly release, this is the first time I ever felt an urge to send money to someone. games have been converted to a beloved Atari system?Īnd it works with my real Atari 800 XL immediately, and it's in XEX format, too?
Why didn't anyone tell me that one of my very favorite Arcade, C16, C64, etc.
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