If you can shoot them all down before they break formation, you get an extra award of 2000 points. Whenever this happens, an alarm sound is heard. Incoming Formations - Inbound enemies fly at you individually or in groups, but sometimes they appear locked in attack formation. Each wave may require some variation to this idea, especially when shots (missles) can follow you too! You may need to turn quickly to catch a parachute and having a group of followers means extra shots in the air and the extra traffic can prove fatal. If you continue on the same flight path for a while, it is best to circle and clean up the followers. As planes go by, they will often turn to follow you. Since parachutes always fall from above, you will cross their paths more easily and be less likely to let them wander off the screen. If you are able to capture several parachutes in a row without dying, they will increase in value up to 5000 points!įlight Path - In general, flying your plane into the upper corners is a good strategy for early waves. Don't let a parachute move off the screen or it will disappear. They cannot be shot, which allows you to lay down cover fire as you approach. These can be worth a lot of points in the game, so always try to catch them. Parachutes - A parachute will occasionally appear, always falling from top to bottom. Rather than flying in a straight line, vary your flight path to cover more area with shots. You can strafe by adopting a zig zaging pattern. This allows you to hit enemies as you turn past them, not when they are only dead-ahead. You can also fire between the the flight paths as your plane arcs from one direction to another. If you release the stick during a turn, you can get the plane to fly at an odd angle between the 8 directions you would expect. The plane cannot fire faster than the three shots, so as long as your next button press occurs before the fourth shot, the plane fires continuously.Īiming - Since the plane only seems to fly straight in eight directions, one would think that shot direction follows suit, however, this isn't technically true.
Continuous fire is possible by rapidly pressing the button, but there's no need to do this as fast as you can. Trigger - Shots are fired three at a time with a single button press. You can also let go of the stick during a turn and the plane will stay pointed in that direction. This ensures the plane will follow your lead. Normally, the plane turns through the shortest arc possible, but you if you suddenly flip directions by crossing through 180 degrees (say, from straight up to straight down), the plane will still turn in an arc-but you can't predict whether it will turn left or right! Instead, always sweep your joystick in an arc to turn. However, it will make sweeping turns as you change directions. Flight direction is absolute, meaning, the plane flies where you point it. Joystick Control - As stated above, Time Pilot uses an 8-way joystick. As it is a 1980s classic, Time Pilot works in other versions of MAME as well.
This allows player 1 and 2 to sit opposite each other (for cabinets with appropriate control panels) and the game will automatically flip upside-down between players. It also supports cocktail mode which can be enabled via DIP switches. Time Pilot plays well on the Raspberry Pi using lr-mame2003 with CRT-PI shader enabled. The game starts in 1910 against biplanes, then progresses through the decades with each wave requiring different strategies.Ĭenturi and Konami (original) have similar graphics with slightly different marquee.Ītari's (UK and Ireland) cabinet is (was) totally different. These take multiple shots to destroy and when you do, you will move forward in time. After defeating a requisite number of enemies from one time period, a mother ship appears. This allows shots to reach many different angles as you fire and turn. Your plane remains centered on the screen as you steer, and although you can only point it in 8 directions, turning the plane allows it to sweep through each direction to align with your joystick. A single 8-way joystick controls your plane while a pushbutton fires 3 consecutive shots forward. Time Pilot is a vertically-oriented single-player (or two-player taking turns) shooter in which you fly a modern jet fighter through time against enemies from each era of aviation. Overlays available for both Konami and Atariu versions in the Overlay Repo. This game was selected as the MAME Random game Of the Week (MAME ROW)#51
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