Impossible Mission II (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A playthrough of American Video Entertainment's unlicensed 1989 action game for the NES, Impossible Mission II.
The name Impossible Mission probably doesn't mean much to console gamers, but if you were gaming on a Commodore 64 in the late 1980s, I'm sure you're already quite familiar.
The two Impossible Mission games on the C64 were created by Novotrade, a company that did a lot of contract work for Konami and Sega in the early 90s (remember the NES version of King's Quest V, or the Ecco the Dolphin series?), and published by Epyx, the guys responsible for California Games and the Atari Lynx, amongst other things. This unlicensed NES cart has a better pedigree than most, and even better, Novotrade themselves handled the NES port.
According to the manual, Impossible Mission II puts you in control of an "Agency Field Agent" for Cobra Blue, a counter-terrorist operation that's trying to bring down the "psychotic genius" known as Dr. Elvin Atombender.
Elvin lives in "an immense eight-tower complex constructed with his personal funds in northwest Los Angeles near the UCLA campus," "believed to be staffed entirely by robots of his own design." It's your job to infiltrate the tower and crack the security system so that you can put a stop to Dr. Atombender's plan to destroy the world.
Each of the eight towers holds a piece of music locked away in a safe, and you need to collect all six unique tunes to unlock the central elevator control and reach Dr. Atombender. Two of the tunes are repeats, so you have to keep track of the ones you've already found with your tape recorder.
You'll also need to search each tower for the three-digit code that will unlock the way to the next tower. You can find the color-coded digits, along with several useful items that you can activate at the computer terminals, by searching all of the items you find in each room. Stuff can be hidden in exercise equipment, busted cars, office water bubblers, or anything other random thing you come across, but you have to be careful. The murder robots don't stop patrolling as you perform these searches so you'll need an exit plan in case any get too close.
The computer terminals give you plenty of ways of dealing with each room, though. As long as you've found the appropriate item, you'll be able to blow holes through platforms (and enemies) with bombs and mines, temporarily disable all the robots in the area, move platforms, or turn on the lights in dark areas.
You'll need to take advantage of all these things, too, because Impossible Mission II is a fairly difficult game. The time limit is strict, and though you don't have lives per se, everytime you die you lose time on the game clock. You don't have to play flawlessly, but blundering through it will get you a game over screen pretty quickly.
The platforming can be difficult to get used to - it requires a lot more pixel-perfect precision than something like Mario does, like most computer games of the time - but it does get much easier with practice. That being said, failure in Impossible Mission II is much more fun than in your typical game - especially when you misjudge a jump and go flying into a pit.
As you plummet to your death, your character lets loose the best blood-curdling scream I think I've ever heard in a video game. To call it epic would be a gross understatement. Check out 3:40 to hear it for yourself.
Amazing, right?
The rest of the presentation is pretty good, too. There isn't much music, but the computer bloops and whirs do a good job at not being annoying. The graphics are nicely done - there are a lot of little details going on in each room and your character's animation is super smooth. The color palette choices aren't ideal, but it was the 80s, and the visuals are a solid improvement over the Commodore 64 originals.
I really got into Impossible Mission II. It's a unique concept for a platformer and the NES conversion is a quality way to experience it. It's not an easy game to find at a reasonable price, but if you like precision platforming, you'll find a good bit to like here.
(And how great is that ending? If you're only going to get one screen, that's the way to do it.)
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The death sound in this game tho
First time hearing made me jump
As a kid, Mom found this for me at a yard sale. No instructions. I never had the slightest inkling how to play this game. 😂
IM2 is a pretty good game overall, but what really makes the experience is that incredible digitized scream.
There is a DS sequel.
Reminds me of cinematic platformers such as Another World/Out of This World, Blackthorne, Prince of Persia and, perhaps on-the-dot, Flashback: The Quest For Identity. Except a little more complex; seems like later cinematic platformers either made concessions or narrowed the core game loop to fit on a CD-Rom or something.
@@Invidente7 Ah yeah, I totally forgot that that ever happened. Thanks for the reminder.
@@Invidente7 There's a Nintendo DS *_"Impossible Mission"_* game? I've never even heard of _that._
I wouldnt be surprised if thats one of the reasons Nintendo of America refused to license the game in the first place.
Searching means he’s taking the whole thing with him. Where does he keep it all.
i use to play impossible mission 2 on nes i never try the c64
I am remaking IM2 for the PC in C++ and SDL2. Using the Atari ST version as the base :) You can find some progress videos on my channel (fairly old, I will upload some new ones soon - the game is almost ready).
John Riggs brought me here😎
Cult classic game very fun
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Not related to Mission: Impossible, right?
Yes, it is not related. Actually, I saw videos of this game on the C64 and up now, I thought it was licensed game of the show, but got a surprise reading the video description.
@@magoid Okay.
Office water bubblers.
Come. Stay awhile. Stay forever.
I always thought that voiceover was a cool way to start these games. It's definitely a C64 highlight, if you ask me.
8:40
I was waiting to see a complete playthrough of this on TH-cam. I believe you're the first person to upload one!
Oh, that's pretty cool then
@@NintendoComplete Looks like you were faster than me. I only uploaded the ending to it a few years ago when I finally was able to figure out what to do and how to do. I also see that you either had a dumb luck or you deliberately waited to start on TOWER 7 since that route is by far the easiest to do and proceed.
This game was my first insight to shell shock/PTSD.
R.I.P. Man who does flips in tights
Man... The lot of childhood memories I've spent with these games as a mere kid of 8 years old.
I used to play the _sh%$_ out of them back in the day. I remember actually being kind of intimidated by the classic voiceover at the start *_"Stay a while... Stay FOREVER!! HAHAHA!!"_* Nowadays, I think that voiceover just makes for a good meme and it's very cheesy. I liked the second game, but I was also a bit disappointed in the fact that it really didn't do anything new for the gameplay. Yes, it's C64 limitations. You could only fit so much on those floppies or cassettes. But, the second game always felt like a level expansion pack (comparable to something like *_"Oh No! More Lemmings!"_* ). Not bad at all, just the limitations holding it back from truly being a definitive sequel.
This seems like a really impressive NES conversion by *_Novotrade._* Definitely better than *_"King's Quest V"_* on NES or *_"Tiny Toon Adventures: Cartoon Workshop."_*
I definitely want to give this a shot.
Their best games were probably the unreleased Airball conersion and Qix. The rest of them is just "acceptable".
Thanksssssssss
That running animation screams A Boy and His Blob. Where was this game when I was a kid? This would've been the game that made me love Prince of Persia instead of Prince of Persia being the game that made me love Out of This World.
Lol the death scream
1:04:57 on NES ending scene is not understood. or player falling down or that man in white. in versions for c64/amiga/dos have full scene, where the man in white extremly fast run and jump down from tower roof.
Best video game soundtrack of all time.
This game made no sense when i was a kid and still make no to me now
Too quiet but I'd still download it.
c64 and amiga versions are better
Wait what? That's the ending? Haha 😃
Isn't it great? Haha
It's missing a scene- In the original, the hero confronts the bad guy on the roof. You see the bad guy run for the ledge, jump... and then you get the falling scene.
*THE END?* indeed.
Game is much too quiet.
I loved and hated this on the NES. Still have the console and the cartridge, and it revisits my mind every so often.
I know this game from the Amiga where I think it shone the best.
Just beat this game. It was pretty fun.
This name combine for a NES game.
Mega stupid game. 🤦♂️😵
I agree. It's probably not even sentient. What a waste.
Epyx was running out of money by 1988, and wanted to bring back this game franchise by making a sequel for a game that sold well despite the fact that the original designer quit Epyx in 1984. The original made a lot of money for Epyx, but this one didnt sell as many copies. I never knew there was a sequel until 20 years ago.