Editing Time Pilot (section)

{{Short description|1982 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Time Pilot
| image = Time Pilot Flyer.png
| caption = North American arcade flyer
| developer = [[Konami]]
| publisher = {{Video game release|WW|Konami<ref>{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Time Pilot, Konami (USA) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2780 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Time Pilot / Pooyan (Konami, UK) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=2957 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref>|NA|[[Centuri]]<ref name="GM203"/>|EU|[[Atari, Inc.|Atari Ireland]]<ref name="cashbox"/>|FRA|[[:fr:Karateco|Karateco]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Time Pilot, Karateco (France) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=6519 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref>|MENA|Atari Ireland<ref name="cashbox"/>}}
| designer = [[Yoshiki Okamoto]]
| artist = Hideki Ooyama
| composer = Masahiro Inoue
| platforms = [[Arcade video game|Arcade]], [[Atari 2600]], [[MSX]], [[ColecoVision]]
| release = '''Arcade''' {{Video game release|JP|November 1982<ref>{{cite web |title=TIME PILOT |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M733292 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref>|WW|January 1983<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005) |date=October 13, 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |language=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=113 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n114}}</ref><ref name="cashbox"/>}} '''Atari 2600''' {{Video game release|WW|1983}} '''ColecoVision'''{{Video game release|WW|1983}}'''MSX'''{{Video game release|EU|1983|JP|December 1984}}
| genre = [[Multidirectional shooter]]
| modes = [[Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]
}}

{{Nihongo foot|'''''Time Pilot'''''|タイムパイロット|Taimu pairotto|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a [[multidirectional shooter]] [[arcade video game]] designed by [[Yoshiki Okamoto]] and released by [[Konami]] in 1982. It was distributed in the United States by [[Centuri]],<ref name="GM203">{{cite magazine|title=Overseas Readers Column - Konami's Video "Time Pilot" Licensed To Century Of U.S.A.|magazine=[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]]|issue=203|publisher=[[:ja:アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc.]]|date=15 December 1982|page=30|lang=ja}}</ref> and by [[Atari, Inc.|Atari Ireland]] in [[Europe, the Middle East and Africa|Europe and the Middle East]].<ref name="cashbox">{{cite magazine |title=Industry News: Atari, Konami Announce Pact For 'Time Pilot' |magazine=[[Cash Box]] |date=18 December 1982 |page=106 |url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox44unse_27/page/n155 |publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co.}}</ref> While engaging in aerial combat, the player-controlled jet flies across open airspace that [[Scrolling|scrolls]] indefinitely in all directions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits - NDS - Review|publisher=GameZone |date=April 9, 2007|url=http://nds.gamezone.com/reviews/item/konami_classics_series_arcade_hits_nds_review|accessdate=2011-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809142455/http://nds.gamezone.com/reviews/item/konami_classics_series_arcade_hits_nds_review|archive-date=2011-08-09|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Konami Arcade Classics: Well, at least it's classic|website=IGN |date=January 7, 2000|url=http://psx.ign.com/articles/161/161714p1.html |accessdate=2011-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728114606/http://psx.ign.com/articles/161/161714p1.html|archive-date=2011-07-28|url-status=live}}</ref> Each level is themed to a different time period. Home ports for the [[Atari 2600]], [[MSX]], and [[ColecoVision]] were released in 1983.

A top-down sequel, ''[[Time Pilot '84]]'', was released in arcades in 1984. It drops the time travel motif and instead takes place over a futuristic landscape.