Time Pilot

Time Pilot

released on Nov 01, 1982

Time Pilot

released on Nov 01, 1982

Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri. Debuting in the golden age of video arcade games, it is a time travel themed game that allowed the player's plane to freely move across open air space that can scroll indefinitely in all directions. The Killer List of Videogames included Time Pilot in its list of top 100 arcade games of all time. The player assumes the role of a pilot of a futuristic fighter jet, trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. The player must fight off hordes of enemy craft and defeat the mother ship (or "boss") present in every level. The background moves in the opposite direction to the player's plane, rather than the other way around; the player's plane always remains in the center.


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Taking my time traveling superjet back to 1910 to blow Orville and Wilbur out of the goshdarn sky.

Nice visuals, basic shooting, serviceable sound effects.

I liked this one but it took a few tries to really grasp the controls. They seem simple enough. Its a free roaming shooter but you can shoot way faster than most games so my best strategy was just to do circles letting the bullets fly until I had to dodge a rocket or something. Probably not setting any highscores since every time I went for the parachute dude I get killed for not zig zagging enough. I do like how each stage kind of changed it up with the different eras but they mostly all played the same and it was just window dressing but still cool.

accurate span of time a pilot in ww1 lasts

Genuinamente muito daora, a gameplay parece mais com uma tentativa de emular dogfights de jatos em vez de ser um shmup mais convencional, e é muito divertido ficar flankeando hordas de jatos inimigos. Além disso, o fato dos estágios serem divididos pelo tempo em que se passam, e a dificuldade subir pela tecnologia ter evoluído, é bem legal.

This game had no right to be as fun as it is.