Editing Time Pilot

{{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.

==Gameplay==
Players assume the role of a [[aircraft pilot|pilot]] of a futuristic [[fighter aircraft|fighter]] [[jet aircraft|jet]] trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. The player's jet remains in the center of the screen at all times, and the eight-direction joystick causes their jet to rotate to face in that direction, causing the screen to scroll in that direction to present forward motion.

In each level, players battle many enemy aircraft and the occasional stronger aircraft. After a fixed number of these aircraft are destroyed, as displayed on a bar at the bottom right of the screen, a mothership appears. Once the mothership is defeated, they move onto the next time period. Parachuting pilots will occasionally appear and award players points if collected.

There are five levels: 1910, 1940, 1970, 1982/1983{{efn|As this level represents what was then the present day, all releases of ''Time Pilot'' produced after 1982 contain an updated version of the game that changes the year to 1983.}} and 2001. After the fifth level is finished, the game repeats thereafter.

Extra lives are given at 10,000 points, and per 50,000 scored up to 960,000; thereafter, the game goes to "survival of the fittest" mode.

Fighters are destroyed if they collide into bullets, enemy ships, bombs or missiles. Game ends when their last fighter is destroyed.

==Development==
According to his account, Yoshiki Okamoto's proposal for ''Time Pilot'' was initially rejected by his boss at Konami, who assigned Okamoto to work on a driving game instead. Okamoto secretly gave instructions to his programmer to work on his idea, while pretending to be working on a driving game in front of his boss.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.videogames.com/features/universal/okamoto/oktime.html |title=VideoGameSpot's Interview with Yoshiki Okamoto|last=Kent|first=Steven |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981207033331/http://www.videogames.com/features/universal/okamoto/oktime.html |archive-date=December 7, 1998}}</ref>

== Reception ==
In Japan, the annual ''[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]]'' chart listed ''Time Pilot'' as the fifth highest-grossing [[1982 in video games|arcade video game of 1982]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title="Pole Position" No. 1 Video Game: ''Game Machine''{{'}}s "The Year's Best Three AM Machines" Survey Results|magazine=[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]]|issue=207|publisher=[[:ja:アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc.]]|date=1 March 1983|page=30|url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19830301p.pdf#page=16}}</ref> ''Game Machine'' later listed ''Time Pilot'' on their June 1, 1983 issue as being the eighteenth most popular arcade title of the month.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)|magazine=[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]]|issue=213|publisher=[[:ja:アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc.]]|date=1 June 1983|page=29|lang=ja}}</ref>

In the United States, the game topped the ''[[Play Meter]]'' arcade earnings chart in February 1983.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Top 15 Arcade Games: February 15, 1983 |magazine=Video Games |date=April 1983 |volume=1 |issue=7 |page=82 |url=https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_07_1983-04_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n81}}</ref> The Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) later listed it among the thirteen highest-earning [[1983 in video games|arcade games of 1983]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=AMOA Votes On Annual Game Awards |magazine=[[Cash Box]] |date=October 29, 1983 |page=60 |url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox45unse_20/page/68}}</ref>

''[[Computer and Video Games]]'' magazine gave the arcade game a generally favorable review upon release.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Arcade Action |magazine=[[Computer and Video Games]] |date=16 April 1983 |issue=19 (May 1983) |pages=30–1 |url=https://www.solvalou.com/arcade/reviews/176/493}}</ref>

==Legacy==
=== Re-releases ===
* [[Super Famicom]] as a ''Time Pilot '95'' bonus game in ''Ganbare Goemon Kirakira Douchuu: Boku ga Dancer ni Natta Wake''.
* [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] in ''[[Konami Arcade Classics]]'', 1999.
* [[Game Boy Advance]] as part of ''[[Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced]]'' on March 18, 2002.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/694/694557p1.html | title=GBA Gems: Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced | work=IGN | date=8 March 2006 | accessdate=2006-09-01 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614000105/http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/694/694557p1.html | archive-date=2011-06-14 | url-status=live}}</ref> This version includes a hidden sixth era, 1,000,000 BC, with pterodactyls.
* [[PlayStation 2]] as part of the ''[[Oretachi Geasen Zoku Sono]]'' series in 2005 in Japan.
* [[Xbox 360]] as part of [[Xbox Live Arcade]] on August 30, 2006.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11668/Time-Pilot-Flies-Onto-Xbox-Live-Marketplace/ | publisher=IGN | work=TeamXbox | accessdate=2006-09-01 | title=Time Pilot Flies Onto Xbox Live Marketplace | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205003151/http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/11668/Time-Pilot-Flies-Onto-Xbox-Live-Marketplace/ | archive-date=2012-02-05 | url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Nintendo DS]] as part of ''[[Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits]]''.
* [[i-mode]] mobile phones in Japan, 2004.
* [[Nintendo Switch]] and [[PlayStation 4]] as part of ''Arcade Archives'' on 27 May 2021.<ref>[https://nintendohill.com/2021/05/hamster-brings-classic-time-pilot-84-to-nintendo-switch-tomorrow-as-part-of-arcade-archives/ Hamster brings classic Time Pilot '84 to Nintendo Switch tomorrow as part of Arcade Archives]</ref>

===Clones===
''Fury'' is a 1983 clone from Computer Shack for the [[TRS-80 Color Computer]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Boyle|first=L. Curtis|title=Fury |url=http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/fury.html |website=The Tandy Color Computer Games List}}</ref> Two clones, both called ''Space Pilot'' but otherwise unrelated, were released in 1984 and 1986: from [[Kingsoft GmbH|Kingsoft]] for the [[Commodore 16]] and [[Commodore 64]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Space-Pilot|url=http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D2396|website=Lemon64}}</ref> and [[Superior Software]] for the [[BBC Micro]]. ''Vector Pilot'' is a 2011 hobbyist-written clone for the [[Vectrex]] console.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tuts|first=Kristof |title=Vector Pilot|url=https://tbone1892001.wixsite.com/vectrex-guide/vector-pilot|website=The Definitive Guide to Vectrex Collecting}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{KLOV game|id=10119}}
* [http://www.arcade-history.com/?page=detail&id=2906 ''Time Pilot''] at the Arcade History database
* [http://www.centuri.net/timepilot.htm ''Time Pilot''] entry at the [[Centuri]].net Arcade Database

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