One Quarter, One Play - Time Pilot

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Published on June 23, 2019 8:11:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GC6r-i1eTE

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Time Pilot (1982)

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Time Pilot is a fun multidirectional SHMUP that was released in the arcades in 1982. Time Pilot was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto for Konami, and published by Konami for the EU, and Japan. Centuri published the game for North American arcades. A year later Time Pilot would be ported to the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and the MSX.

The game’s designer Yoshiki Okamoto did one other game for Konami which is the classic Gyruss. He then joing Capcom. At Capcom he was involved with the following games.
1942 – Director
SonSon – Director
Side Arms – Director
Gun Smoke – Director
Forgotten Worlds – Director
Final Fight – Producer
Street Fighter II – Producer
Resident Evil – Producer
Resident Evil 2 – Producer

Time Pilot was a game that I have never played in an arcade (it never made it to mine). I wish I would have had the opportunity to play this back in the day because this is a fun game. Like many early arcade games your goal is to score the most points. That said Time Pilot did have a small story, and five levels to play through.

The story is simple enough. You assume the roll of a pilot from the future, and you’re trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. In each level you will have to blast through hordes of enemy aircraft while trying to save parachuting pilots. After blasting 56 enemies, a boss aircraft will enter the stage. Blow up the boss, and you’ll transport to the next level.

Hardware wise this machine isn’t all that impressive.
Z80 CPU running at 3.072 MHz
Z80 CPU running at 1.79 MHz (used to control the sound chips)
(2) Ay-3-8910 Sound running at 1.79 MHz

As you can see I didn’t make it all that far. The game is much harder than it looks. That said with a few practice games I can usually get to the forth level.

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