Time Pilot is an arcade developed by Konami, released 1 November 1982 on Xbox 360, Atari 2600, ColecoVision and Arcade.
What Time Pilot is
Time Pilot is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1982. It was published by Centuri. It is available on Xbox 360, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Arcade, MSX and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
This game has the player travel through five time periods, rescuing stranded fellow pilots. The player must fight off droves of enemy craft while picking up parachuting friendly pilots. Once 56 enemy craft are defeated, initially 25 on the MSX platform and increasing by 5 after each game cycle (finishing the last battle against the UFOs), the player must defeat the mothership for the time period. Once she is destroyed, any remaining enemy craft are also eliminated and the player time-travels to the next level. All the levels have a blue sky and clouds as the background except the last level, which has space and asteroids instead. The specific eras visited, the common enemies, and the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Time Pilot holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Time Pilot launched on 1 November 1982, within three weeks of Q*bert, The Hobbit: A Software Adventure and Millipede. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Q*bert, The Hobbit: A Software Adventure, Millipede.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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