Time Pilot '84

Time Pilot '84
North American arcade flyer
DeveloperKonami
PublisherKonami
PlatformArcade
Release
  • NA: May 1984
  • JP: June 1984
GenreMultidirectional shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Time Pilot '84[a] is a 1984 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. It was released in North America in May 1984 and Japan in June 1984.[1] The different time periods of 1982's Time Pilot are replaced by a top-down view of a science fiction landscape that varies in color and type of enemies.[2] It adds the ability for the player to launch guided missiles. Time Pilot '84 was primarily sold as a conversion kit for older games.[2]

Gameplay

The first button is used to fire a standard shot, which can destroy green-colored enemies. The second button is used to fire missiles, which can destroy the silver-colored enemies. The player needs to lock on to a silver enemy to fire missiles at it. Destroying enough green enemies brings out a large, silver boss enemy that must be dispatched before advancing to the next level.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Time Pilot '84 on their August 15, 1984 issue as being the eleventh most-successful table arcade unit of the month.[3]

Legacy

Time Pilot '84 was ported to the Commodore 64 as Space-Pilot II released by Kingsoft in 1985.[4] The first Space-Pilot was a port of Time Pilot.

Hamster Corporation released the game as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in May 2021.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: タイムパイロット'84, Hepburn: Taimu Pairotto ' 84

References

  1. ^ Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 27, 122. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  2. ^ a b "Time Pilot '84". Arcade History.
  3. ^ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 242. Amusement Press, Inc. August 15, 1984. p. 25.
  4. ^ Space Pilot II at Lemon 64
  5. ^ Whitehead, Thomas (May 27, 2021). "Nintendo Download: 27th May (North America)". Nintendo Life. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
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