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Welcome to Game of the Week! Each week there will be a new featured game on this page. The game may be good, average or diabolically bad, it really doesn't matter! Just look at the pics, read the text and enjoy the nostalgia! :-) Game of the Week! is open to contributions so if you would like to contribute a game article for this page you're more than welcome to! Every article we receive will be considered!
Space-Pilot
1984 Kingsoft
Programmed by Henrik Wening
 
Most text of the present article comes from the feature on arcade conversions by Julian Rignall, as published in the third issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64 (July 1985)
 

 

SPACE PILOT
Anirog, £7.95 cass, joystick and keys

Time Pilot was a minor hit in the arcades around 1982. This version provides a good challenge and a good old-fashioned blast.

You pilot a fighter jet which flies in any direction through moving clouds, blasting various enemy aircraft. There are five different stages. You start by tackling the biplane fighters of World War I, progress through the monoplanes of WWII, the helicopters and jets of the 70's and 80's and end up with the flying saucers of 2001.

On each level you have to shoot a certain number of planes before a big craft of that period appears. Shoot that to move onto the next period. Paratroopers occasionally appear which you can pick up for bonus points.

Overall, like the arcade version, the sound and graphics leave something to be desired, but are quite adequate. The movement is smooth and the action satisfying.

-----Rignall ratings-----
Graphics 61%
Sound 34%
Arcade Feel 79%
Accuracy 81%

JR lowscore: 110,000

 

 

Htmlized by Dimitris Kiminas (2 Dec 2001)

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