To be completely honest, back in 1985 my friend and I spent five months trying to beat this game. Getting the Puzzle pieces became easy it was putting them together that took forever. I will never forget the day we made a puzzle piece work and a letter appeared. We finally got a piece done! After that we painstakingly worked at it and finally got "ALIGATOR". We wondered what to do next and like a lighting bolt it hit me, go back to the door that never opened. We did and to see it open and have the bald headed jerk say "No, No, No!" and "Mission Accomplished" appear.....we cheered and jumped around for an hour!
We played this on my brother's Commodore 64, floppy disk. The sounds here really bring back memories. I thought the way the guy does running flips was the coolest thing I ever saw on a screen at the time. Never solved it...was about 13-14yrs old, circa '84-86...maybe?..I remember it seemed almost like it was an - "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION"!
I could never beat this game. I would die either falling down too many times, or being electrocuted by the robots and ball. Usually the bad guy would laugh signaling game over
And 30 years later I finally see the ending of this game! Thankyou.. I had not the skill nor patience at 10 years old to figure out those damn puzzle pieces!!!
I did! Here's something you don't see here, there ARE puzzle pieces that fit together making what appears to be a complete punch card, that doesn't work. I've been through that!
I could never figure this game out either and I too didn’t have the patience to figure out those puzzle pieces. I was 11 years old when I played it and because I couldn’t figure out how to beat it, I tuned out. Thank you for whoever uploaded it on TH-cam.
This game taught me the concept of deafening silence. Whenever you were in a room and the robots were active, it sounded like a bunch of modems having an orgy or a fight club. When you went out into a hall or used a password to turn them off for a few seconds, every footfall sound just felt so much louder.
Good heavens. I played this game but without a manual or Internet was never able to figure out how to finish it. To see you do it under 25 minutes is a jaw dropping experience for me. Thanks!
@@marcopederzoli4939 I did as well, and I don't think knowing English helped. Just yesterday I read the manual, and learned what the purpose of using the telephone was.
+neo Jeets Indeed. I just played the game for the heck of it (never went past half of all the rooms), the voice at the beginning (30+ years later I still mock it) and the cool animation of the guy running. :)
I know man I remember when I was like 4 or 5 I used to have this game and gta Chinatown wars on my DSi and I never figured out how to beat this game. I feel old as well and I’m only 14
Strange. I remember such "nightmares" (or night terrors) with a giant ball, especially when I had a cold. I thought I'd been younger then, but I might've had them due to this game.
I haven’t even thought about this game for 30 years, and when I did play it, I never ever made it to the end so I will definitely watch this to see how the game actually finishes
Its actually more ridiculous how wasteful modern computers are with ram look at your average website 100 Meg of ram in chrome? I think you can connect a commodore 64 to Internet with a few k
Played this a million times, always ran out of time. With practise, patiencence and a lot of somersaulting luck, i managed to have enough time on my hands to flip those puzzle pieces into correct colour and direction. I was able to beat it, after struggling on it countless hours. Seeing you making it in half an hour forces me to say "Hats Off!". Classic piece of quality back from the days where games were original and thought out. Thumbs up!
This game was one of my party tricks. Back when so few people could complete it I totally mastered it to the point I could do the puzzle pieces in seconds.
I was in college, 1986, and a roommate had a C64 with this game. I remember falling through those Mario holes in the bottom a hundred times. But with some patience, every night I would try to get the tricks with all these different robots and where to jump and when. Once I was able to collect all the pieces and solve the puzzle, this was one of the greatest video game satisfactions ever.
Same here. I have see the game in '90 but i never forget that feeling. It was some strange feeling in that building. No one else in the rooms but robots.
@@johnfoltz8183 Yeah, i wanted to leave that room as soon as possible :) But in the very first time i've checked everything what is the main point of that room... Still no clue.
Finally, I can die in peace since I just saw how the game ends. And so it was "Another visitor. Stay a while, stay forever"? Shit, this puzzled me for over 30 years (the first two words)!!! Thumbs UP if you ever hit or bumped your 1541 Floppy Drive or even pulled the floppy disk out when you ran out of time. :p OK then... SYS64738
Raul Guadarrama As a kid I think I thought it was something said in a foreign language......this is internet gold, right here........the sound of the elevator too.....holy shit
I was so obsessed with this game that I figured out the entire thing, including the puzzle pieces. I'm like my cousin who is also obsessive - he figured out Indiana Jones on the Atari 2600. Part of the fun of the games was figuring out what you had to do to win them. Some games were just impossible though, which was part of the copy protection of the game.
@@HelloKittyFanMan. actually, no. The one that spins when you enter a room until it sees you does begin patrolling at a randomly selected speed each time you enter the room and it sees you again. The behavior selected for each room’s robots remain the same for the duration of that game otherwise.
I had a copy of this back in the day. It was the kind that came with no manual, hints, instructions, or box. Nor was there an internet to consult. Great to see the ending after all this time.
Took me forever to learn how to finish this game. I got it along with a bunch of other games from my cousin. No instruction books or anything with any of them. Even after I figured out the puzzle pieces, it took me a while to realize where to go once I had the entire password. Along the way I named the robots. The ones that were always looking behind them were Paranoid Bots. Those that just went back and forth were Patrol Bots. Ones that that stood in place and turned to watch what you were doing were Observer Bots. Ones that patrolled but fired the moment they saw you were Shoot on Sight Bots. Those that tracked you but didn't fire were Follow Bots. And those that swiveled around firing in both directions or patrolled while firing every couple seconds were Crazy Bots.
the one that slowly followed you and when they reached the end of the platform only to zap you by suprised were the scariest. They seemed to be harmless until you realized it too late.
I never finished this game back in the 80s. Brutally hard. Video is jaw dropping, makes it look so easy. The room with all the holes in the floor and the "stair" like platforms ascending on the right at 5:50 or so was an absolute killer. This guy one shots it. Amazing. Edit: and oh god that room at 21:50....lol so painful
Thank you so much for this video! This game brings me back to exactly 30 years ago, when me, my brother and a friend were playing at the latter's home. I was fascinated by the atmosphere and sound effects. We were never able to understand what the hell to do in the rooms. Great memories!
My dad used to play this when I was a very small child. The sound feared me and in those days I never really understood what exactly he was doing there.... hearing the sound of this game nowadays really gave me a small shiver
Easily one of the most impressive things ive ever seen, this guy is the zen master. That was perfect, at speed, didnt waste a second, knew what he was doing 2 or 3 steps ahead every time this is other level shit, this was a tough and frustrating game and how the hell he worked that puzzle out? Frrrkkk amazing absolutely amazing
+xTHESALTSHAKERx I'm thinking this may have actually been a demo mode of some kind or using a cheat code. Near the beginning, two robots are shooting but the bolts disappear when he nears them even though the sound is still there. Also, he hits some of the robots but never dies. Also, robots don't always act the same for a given room, sometimes they'll shoot or not, come at you or not etc. but he just goes to the furniture parts without checking the action of each robot first.
I am an expert in Impossible Mission and reviewed this video twice. I see no evidence of cheating. This recording appears authentic. Robot programs change from game to game, but are from a limited set of possible programs. An expert player can narrow down the number of possibilities from initial actions of robots and in early game taking extra risk is good idea for sake of a high score. Tayo did not appear to take any risk in this recording. He played it safe. He could have scored higher even in this game by taking more risk or by using the jump exploit instead of running. Yes, jumping is faster than running. I was surprised Tayo did not use it. He could have raked up another 20 points in this game. And this random map was not too lucky either. And he wasted time in the music rooms. Also, due to computer limitations, the robots' shots are occasionally not displayed in some frames. They are there though. 100% to be fried if you are within range. When Tayo hits robots, the robots are asleep. That is safe. There are apparently problems with the recording software too. Around 2:22, the shot is not displayed at all. I guess it was displayed to Tayo, but not sure what platform he used - I assume authentic C64, which never fails to show robot shot completely, only for frames. It seems easier to play this recording, than to write a software or video editing to create this demo for this existing game. Tayo's moves are expert, but not perfect. It clearly shows the human element of suboptimal performance at all levels. He makes small mistakes and has missed opportunities. Still, he is a master. I am sure he could have scored much higher than this if he wanted to.
what i mean by perfect is his ability to sum up a room and as mentioned his ability at times to judge a robots pattern with minimal observation that at my level would seem risky/hairy yet at his he knows he's good. This is one of the most impressive run thrus ive witnessed from that perspective
There was a semi-cheat with this game. The random number generator for the lair is based on time. When you reset a C64, the time goes to zero. So if you can engineer the game starting at the exact same time as a previous run then you can potentially get the same room / robot layout and memorise it. The way that this was done back in the day was to hold the SHIFT + RUN/STOP keys down before turning on the C64 and pressing PLAY on tape at the exact same moment that you turned on the C64. That is, trying to remove any variance in timing between when the game started from when the C64 was turned on. Even then, this was really hard to do and you'd find that 4 out of 5 times, it wouldn't work. But my brother was addicted to this game and persisted with this method - reloading it again and again, until he got the same room layout - and then was finally able to complete it. I mean, it's not much of a cheat - as it's still rather random and doesn't always work - but it can give you the slight edge to, well, do the impossible and complete the mission. And looking at this video, I'm thinking the player either utilised this method or used the modern version of the same cheat - that is, play it in an emulator and immediately create a "snapshot" of the game as it's loaded, so that you can load the snapshot and always get the same map. Which you keep playing until you can master all the rooms. The reason is I think this is that the player just moves up and down on the elevators right next to robots, as if they know ahead of time that this is a robot that doesn't fire. Also, they use a "temporarily disable robots" immediately coming into a room and, again, act as if they already know the robot's patterns and which ones will and won't fire. They're playing the game as if they already know the map and robots ahead of time. That the layout isn't random for them. As I say, with modern emulators, you can engineer that with a simple memory "snapshot" and just keep playing from that until you learn the entire map. Mind you, the difficulty of this game means that, even with such a cheat, it's still an achievement to complete it anyway!
He had a good run. My brothers and I played this game incessantly back then, and we tried to beat each others' times. There are a limited number of robot behaviors, and after playing the game a hundred times, you get familiar with them, as well as the layouts of the rooms and how to get to each item to be searched. Also, after playing it many times, the torn pieces of the punch cards become somewhat recognizable, which speeds up the sorting and puzzling out of them. Still took a lot of skill and time to beat it. One of the top ten on the C54 in my opinion.
FINALLY!!! I found this. I absolutely LOOOOOVED this game in the 80's when I was in college and could not remember the name of it. thx for posting. oh, the memories
All that shit for a guy saying "No!? No!? No!?" That's fucked up! I used to love this game as a kid but could never understand what the fuck it was all about. And I still can't.
This was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games growing up. The voice and flip/run animation were revolutionary back then. That flip is still so satisfying to watch. The elevator and room puzzles made this game feel larger than the typical Atari game. Genius design for the time.
Thanks for this!! Was obsessed when I was 7-8 years old and still love puzzles to this day!! Almost want to play it again to see if I can figure it out before I watch this entirely but SO glad it's here if I don't get the chance to play it again. Thank you for fulfilling a childhood memory! That elevator noise is permanently etched on my brain, holy hell!
Like many other Epyx games, Impossible Mission had the best running animation, and overall animation. And am I alone in thinking the voice of the mad scientist sounds like the voice of the English guy Mr. Bentley on The Jeffersons?
Same. But amazingly I could make it out immediately when I heard it now. i think I was too embarrassed to ask my older brothers what he was saying, being a timid kid
I used to play this game when I was younger, but I couldn't get very far because of my limited skill and also the PAL/NTSC incompatibility where you got zapped if a robot zapped the left wall. I managed to complete this game around 8-9 years ago, I got my best time down to 27 minutes. :)
Omg just the sounds the man makes running thru the hallway and the sound of the elevator moving bring back memories of nearly 40 years ago! A lot of swear words would have unexpectedly come out of my mouth playing this game back then : ) "Stay awhile, Stay forever" tone and phrase funny enough I never forgot and was only a fluke my son mentioned it to me last wk that made me remember this game immediately.
Thank you for posting this video! It brings back such wonderful childhood memories! I don't know how many hours I played this game on my dad's C64 before middle school back in the late 1980s.
Played this a lot back in the day. This has got to have the deepest gameplay and most detailed graphics of any C64 program that loads from disk in a single go. Amazing achievement and a C64 essential.
Wow. This brings back memories. I can't tell you how pumped I was to beat the game for the first time. One of my favorites. Great mechanics and speech all in one game.
When I first got the game, was amazed at the ease of play, quickly got a photocopy of the instructions, then 'cheated a bit' by correctly orientating most of the puzzle pieces. Had a spot of bluetak or masking tape(back then) on the screen to show where the room was to go to. Got mum to photograph opening of the door, she said when? Enjoyed the game & still do today..
@@sabzinatoR: Pschh... I guess I would be asking a 5-year-old to explain why this counts as that but not so many other games where there is also someone who walks in. Plpppthhh!
I got this game in 1984 when it was released. Loved it and played it all the time as a kid. It took me 34 years to find this video and learn what the hell he was saying in the beginning! All I heard was blah blah blah.... stay awhile, stay forever. Thank you for solving this mystery for me!
Wasn't my favorite game but my brother loved it and I used to love watching him play. Even though i had other preferences, I have to be honest in saying that this has to be one of the best computer games of all time.
mtl-self-reliance He do. I’m almost as good as this guy, but haven’t played in years (have it on an emulator now). Was even going to see about going for the world record only to find there are runs with higher scores than mine.
This game was ahead of it's time back then.. Still remember it like it was yesterday.. Fast Load Cartridges.. paperclips on pinouts on the back .. paper punching the 5 1/4" discs for double siding .. ahh the good ole days of simple games :)
I was hecka young when I played this. Eventually, I was able to make it through the rooms, but could never figure out the puzzle part. Thanks for the video!
At first I'm watching this thinking you're using too many snoozes liberally. As it progressed I was in awe of some of your skill. At the end I was stunned to see you finish this game in twenty one and a half minutes never getted zapped once. WOW! Great stuff!
Goddamn it's been over 30 years now... I loved these games, could even finish them as a kid though it was a challenge. But the funny part is my mom played these games as well back in the late 80s. Now, you'd think "ok, she 'played' them meaning she ran around dying and falling..." uh, nope. She played both the Impossible Mission games so much it got to the point where she could execute flawless runs on both games at will. So to ramp up the challenge, I think in Impossible Mission 2 it was possible to gain some kind of time bonuses. Maybe in this one too. So she was actually able to finish the game with MORE TIME on the clock than what you got at the start. Crazy, now that I think about it.
Never underestimate the moms. My brother and I would one day persuade our mom to try a computer game; her first ever. She would start off being ridiculously horrible. My brother and I would laugh ourselves silly. We get back 30 minutes later and she is actually kinda playing it okay. She breaks off to make dinner (for us), rest after a working day, go to work next day to make rent (for us), etc. Finally picks it up again briefly in her limited spare time...and... mommy has become terminator with ace reflexes and timing. We're like wtf?!? mom?!? ...same story whether it was lode runner, boulderdash, you name it. :)
To be completely honest, back in 1985 my friend and I spent five months trying to beat this game. Getting the Puzzle pieces became easy it was putting them together that took forever. I will never forget the day we made a puzzle piece work and a letter appeared. We finally got a piece done! After that we painstakingly worked at it and finally got "ALIGATOR". We wondered what to do next and like a lighting bolt it hit me, go back to the door that never opened. We did and to see it open and have the bald headed jerk say "No, No, No!" and "Mission Accomplished" appear.....we cheered and jumped around for an hour!
Except that... you _didn't_ get "ALIGATOR." Congrats for beating tha game, though!
Must have been "CROCODILE".
Memory can be that way.
Passwords can be swordfish, asparagus, artichoke, crocodile, alligator, albatross, butterfly or cormorant.
We played this on my brother's Commodore 64, floppy disk. The sounds here really bring back memories. I thought the way the guy does running flips was the coolest thing I ever saw on a screen at the time.
Never solved it...was about 13-14yrs old, circa '84-86...maybe?..I remember it seemed almost like it was an - "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION"!
I could never beat this game. I would die either falling down too many times, or being electrocuted by the robots and ball. Usually the bad guy would laugh signaling game over
I remember being amazed at how realistic the running looked.
All thanks to Eadweard Muybridge!
And 30 years later I finally see the ending of this game! Thankyou.. I had not the skill nor patience at 10 years old to figure out those damn puzzle pieces!!!
I only know realized how to beat the checker board computer room.
Westozcards, Same here. I had patience but didnt know what to do. Was 7 or 8yr old.
I was about 10 years old too and this is the first time I see the ending :D
I did!
Here's something you don't see here, there ARE puzzle pieces that fit together making what appears to be a complete punch card, that doesn't work. I've been through that!
I could never figure this game out either and I too didn’t have the patience to figure out those puzzle pieces. I was 11 years old when I played it and because I couldn’t figure out how to beat it, I tuned out. Thank you for whoever uploaded it on TH-cam.
I played this fc*ing game so many times, back in the 80´. I never knew wtf i need to do.
Me and all. Could never get near to completing it.
Me too but I was a wee young Lad back then
Same here. :D
Back then I didn't even understand English... This game was a mystery to as. A cool mystery with voice output! :-)
OMFG. Same
"Another visitor! Stay a while... Stay FOREVER!" Behold the magic of the 1980s.
lol. Is that what he said at the beginning? I could never hear it properly
slaSSification I always understood “destroy in the miami walks“ XD
Always thought it was "Destroy him, my robots".
TheCanadiangirl4 yes, he said that...
Looks like a company called ESS did the voice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Mission#Development
Well, one thing is for sure: that place is _not_ wheelchair accessible!
This game taught me the concept of deafening silence. Whenever you were in a room and the robots were active, it sounded like a bunch of modems having an orgy or a fight club. When you went out into a hall or used a password to turn them off for a few seconds, every footfall sound just felt so much louder.
17:45: Or go into the room where the only thing is the hovering electric ball and dead silence
Good heavens. I played this game but without a manual or Internet was never able to figure out how to finish it. To see you do it under 25 minutes is a jaw dropping experience for me. Thanks!
I figured it out at the time by trial and error but knowing almost no english words it was damn hard!
@@marcopederzoli4939 I did as well, and I don't think knowing English helped.
Just yesterday I read the manual, and learned what the purpose of using the telephone was.
Nice one. As a kid I had no idea what to do in this game. I just loved that guy talking in the beginning and how cool the guy's running animation was.
+neo Jeets Indeed. I just played the game for the heck of it (never went past half of all the rooms), the voice at the beginning (30+ years later I still mock it) and the cool animation of the guy running. :)
Same here, had no idea what I was doing but loved the digitised voice, I was probably only 6 or so at the time
It’s good to know we all had a similar experience. We had no business playing this game but it was still fun.
Feels like played this yesterday.. Though it has been almost 30 years...time sure plays us
Tavarahissi i played it today
I know man I remember when I was like 4 or 5 I used to have this game and gta Chinatown wars on my DSi and I never figured out how to beat this game.
I feel old as well and I’m only 14
ohnoyetipie Y - oh the horrors that await you young lad
Make that nearly 40 years now! Crazy!! 😮
That black ball gave me nightmares.
I like popping it on one of the robots
Ah thank god I wasn't the only one!
Didn't it just pop up the top when you did that?
I don't fucking know why. That thing was a silent killer. You enter a room and without notice, ZZZAAAAPPPP
Strange. I remember such "nightmares" (or night terrors) with a giant ball, especially when I had a cold. I thought I'd been younger then, but I might've had them due to this game.
I haven’t even thought about this game for 30 years, and when I did play it, I never ever made it to the end so I will definitely watch this to see how the game actually finishes
No. No. NO.
I still remember solving Impossible Mission the first time back in the ‘80s. I still have never had a more satisfying moment in any game since
It´s unbelivable what is possible with only 40kb of memory for a whole game. Today the need double that space for the icon for a game on the desktop.
Henson222 ikr!
Henson222 64kb;)
Tommy Eastwood, not all 64kb is available to use for a game....... only 38kb is available. th-cam.com/video/XRR7r6qz0Ms/w-d-xo.html&t=13m9s
You could reach almost all 64K thanks to bank switching.
Its actually more ridiculous how wasteful modern computers are with ram look at your average website 100 Meg of ram in chrome? I think you can connect a commodore 64 to Internet with a few k
Played this a million times, always ran out of time. With practise, patiencence and a lot of somersaulting luck, i managed to have enough time on my hands to flip those puzzle pieces into correct colour and direction. I was able to beat it, after struggling on it countless hours. Seeing you making it in half an hour forces me to say "Hats Off!". Classic piece of quality back from the days where games were original and thought out. Thumbs up!
Jagd Panzer I did beat it eventually as well. I don't remember what the chessboard room was for at 20:16...
This game was one of my party tricks. Back when so few people could complete it I totally mastered it to the point I could do the puzzle pieces in seconds.
I was in college, 1986, and a roommate had a C64 with this game. I remember falling through those Mario holes in the bottom a hundred times. But with some patience, every night I would try to get the tricks with all these different robots and where to jump and when. Once I was able to collect all the pieces and solve the puzzle, this was one of the greatest video game satisfactions ever.
This game is a classic.
Same here. I have see the game in '90 but i never forget that feeling. It was some strange feeling in that building. No one else in the rooms but robots.
Even more creepier was one yellow room with just the electric ball coming down in silence
@@johnfoltz8183 Yeah, i wanted to leave that room as soon as possible :) But in the very first time i've checked everything what is the main point of that room... Still no clue.
Revisiting Counterspy on ps4 made me think of this! It’s a really cool genre espionage or whatever it’s called
Finally, I can die in peace since I just saw how the game ends. And so it was "Another visitor. Stay a while, stay forever"? Shit, this puzzled me for over 30 years (the first two words)!!!
Thumbs UP if you ever hit or bumped your 1541 Floppy Drive or even pulled the floppy disk out when you ran out of time. :p
OK then... SYS64738
Raul Guadarrama As a kid I think I thought it was something said in a foreign language......this is internet gold, right here........the sound of the elevator too.....holy shit
what did SYS6478 do to the c64
Reset it.
Morten Steen no.. most likely crash it..
30 years later, and having not played in decades, I still want to beat the living piss out of the developers.
Somebody could make a movie out of this.
It could star Cruise Tom, maybe.
someone did make a "movie" about this. th-cam.com/video/oSVJrkTLTKE/w-d-xo.html
Even now, 35 years after, I'm not sure if I could solve that puzzle
I have no idea even now how to do the puzzle pieces. That was amazing.
I was so obsessed with this game that I figured out the entire thing, including the puzzle pieces. I'm like my cousin who is also obsessive - he figured out Indiana Jones on the Atari 2600. Part of the fun of the games was figuring out what you had to do to win them. Some games were just impossible though, which was part of the copy protection of the game.
The programmer did a great job in programming the AI for the robots, they all have unique behaviors to make them a bit harder to predict.
+Akira625 They can even change speeds when you go in and out and in a room.
Nah, they're not all that unique.
@@tryithere: No, once a game is generated, they stay the same for the duration.
@@HelloKittyFanMan. actually, no. The one that spins when you enter a room until it sees you does begin patrolling at a randomly selected speed each time you enter the room and it sees you again. The behavior selected for each room’s robots remain the same for the duration of that game otherwise.
@@HelloKittyFanMan. Not true.
Man Epyx was the shiz back in the day.
The best part of this game was that every game had different combinations of rooms.
So passing it like this is the world championship.
I had a copy of this back in the day. It was the kind that came with no manual, hints, instructions, or box. Nor was there an internet to consult. Great to see the ending after all this time.
I must have spent a thousand hours on this game. LOVED it ...Great Memories... Thanks for posting this
Took me forever to learn how to finish this game. I got it along with a bunch of other games from my cousin. No instruction books or anything with any of them. Even after I figured out the puzzle pieces, it took me a while to realize where to go once I had the entire password. Along the way I named the robots. The ones that were always looking behind them were Paranoid Bots. Those that just went back and forth were Patrol Bots. Ones that that stood in place and turned to watch what you were doing were Observer Bots. Ones that patrolled but fired the moment they saw you were Shoot on Sight Bots. Those that tracked you but didn't fire were Follow Bots. And those that swiveled around firing in both directions or patrolled while firing every couple seconds were Crazy Bots.
very cool man - like it 8-)
Nice list, fits perfectly with every robot!
You hit all of them ;)
the one that slowly followed you and when they reached the end of the platform only to zap you by suprised were the scariest. They seemed to be harmless until you realized it too late.
Jon Mar So true! I quickly learned not to trust the slow followers!
I never finished this game back in the 80s. Brutally hard. Video is jaw dropping, makes it look so easy. The room with all the holes in the floor and the "stair" like platforms ascending on the right at 5:50 or so was an absolute killer. This guy one shots it. Amazing.
Edit: and oh god that room at 21:50....lol so painful
There will never be such amzing sounds in video games again.
Not true. Haven't you noticed that they're much more lifelike now?
Thank you so much for this video! This game brings me back to exactly 30 years ago, when me, my brother and a friend were playing at the latter's home. I was fascinated by the atmosphere and sound effects. We were never able to understand what the hell to do in the rooms. Great memories!
My dad used to play this when I was a very small child. The sound feared me and in those days I never really understood what exactly he was doing there.... hearing the sound of this game nowadays really gave me a small shiver
Here the same, I only wanted to play and die to hear the scream. The scream is something I never forgot hahah. Tbh I came here just for the scream
Countless hours have I spent on this when I was almost a teenager...now playing it again on vice on my laptop ❤️
Easily one of the most impressive things ive ever seen, this guy is the zen master. That was perfect, at speed, didnt waste a second, knew what he was doing 2 or 3 steps ahead every time this is other level shit, this was a tough and frustrating game and how the hell he worked that puzzle out? Frrrkkk amazing absolutely amazing
+xTHESALTSHAKERx I'm thinking this may have actually been a demo mode of some kind or using a cheat code. Near the beginning, two robots are shooting but the bolts disappear when he nears them even though the sound is still there. Also, he hits some of the robots but never dies. Also, robots don't always act the same for a given room, sometimes they'll shoot or not, come at you or not etc. but he just goes to the furniture parts without checking the action of each robot first.
I am an expert in Impossible Mission and reviewed this video twice. I see no evidence of cheating. This recording appears authentic. Robot programs change from game to game, but are from a limited set of possible programs. An expert player can narrow down the number of possibilities from initial actions of robots and in early game taking extra risk is good idea for sake of a high score. Tayo did not appear to take any risk in this recording. He played it safe. He could have scored higher even in this game by taking more risk or by using the jump exploit instead of running. Yes, jumping is faster than running. I was surprised Tayo did not use it. He could have raked up another 20 points in this game. And this random map was not too lucky either. And he wasted time in the music rooms.
Also, due to computer limitations, the robots' shots are occasionally not displayed in some frames. They are there though. 100% to be fried if you are within range. When Tayo hits robots, the robots are asleep. That is safe.
There are apparently problems with the recording software too. Around 2:22, the shot is not displayed at all. I guess it was displayed to Tayo, but not sure what platform he used - I assume authentic C64, which never fails to show robot shot completely, only for frames.
It seems easier to play this recording, than to write a software or video editing to create this demo for this existing game. Tayo's moves are expert, but not perfect. It clearly shows the human element of suboptimal performance at all levels. He makes small mistakes and has missed opportunities. Still, he is a master. I am sure he could have scored much higher than this if he wanted to.
what i mean by perfect is his ability to sum up a room and as mentioned his ability at times to judge a robots pattern with minimal observation that at my level would seem risky/hairy yet at his he knows he's good. This is one of the most impressive run thrus ive witnessed from that perspective
There was a semi-cheat with this game.
The random number generator for the lair is based on time. When you reset a C64, the time goes to zero.
So if you can engineer the game starting at the exact same time as a previous run then you can potentially get the same room / robot layout and memorise it.
The way that this was done back in the day was to hold the SHIFT + RUN/STOP keys down before turning on the C64 and pressing PLAY on tape at the exact same moment that you turned on the C64. That is, trying to remove any variance in timing between when the game started from when the C64 was turned on.
Even then, this was really hard to do and you'd find that 4 out of 5 times, it wouldn't work.
But my brother was addicted to this game and persisted with this method - reloading it again and again, until he got the same room layout - and then was finally able to complete it.
I mean, it's not much of a cheat - as it's still rather random and doesn't always work - but it can give you the slight edge to, well, do the impossible and complete the mission.
And looking at this video, I'm thinking the player either utilised this method or used the modern version of the same cheat - that is, play it in an emulator and immediately create a "snapshot" of the game as it's loaded, so that you can load the snapshot and always get the same map. Which you keep playing until you can master all the rooms.
The reason is I think this is that the player just moves up and down on the elevators right next to robots, as if they know ahead of time that this is a robot that doesn't fire. Also, they use a "temporarily disable robots" immediately coming into a room and, again, act as if they already know the robot's patterns and which ones will and won't fire.
They're playing the game as if they already know the map and robots ahead of time. That the layout isn't random for them. As I say, with modern emulators, you can engineer that with a simple memory "snapshot" and just keep playing from that until you learn the entire map.
Mind you, the difficulty of this game means that, even with such a cheat, it's still an achievement to complete it anyway!
He had a good run. My brothers and I played this game incessantly back then, and we tried to beat each others' times. There are a limited number of robot behaviors, and after playing the game a hundred times, you get familiar with them, as well as the layouts of the rooms and how to get to each item to be searched.
Also, after playing it many times, the torn pieces of the punch cards become somewhat recognizable, which speeds up the sorting and puzzling out of them.
Still took a lot of skill and time to beat it. One of the top ten on the C54 in my opinion.
i never understood this fucking game either but i used to LOVE dping the flips
same
I will never forget that elevator sound.
That scream though...
"Ahhhhh hhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhh"
😂😂😂😂😂
It... _what..._ though?
So simple but so brilliant. Impossible Mission was one of the greatest games ever.
12:56 -- "Ah. That's better."
FINALLY!!! I found this. I absolutely LOOOOOVED this game in the 80's when I was in college and could not remember the name of it. thx for posting. oh, the memories
"Another visitor. Stay awhile. Stay forever! "
These lines have been stuck in my head for nearly 40yrs and I could never remember where it came from!
OMG, I played this game for hours as a kid, never finished it, thanks for this.
All that shit for a guy saying "No!? No!? No!?"
That's fucked up!
I used to love this game as a kid but could never understand what the fuck it was all about.
And I still can't.
This was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games growing up. The voice and flip/run animation were revolutionary back then. That flip is still so satisfying to watch. The elevator and room puzzles made this game feel larger than the typical Atari game. Genius design for the time.
I played this game for millions of hours when I was less than 10 years old and watching this video really brings it back. I got to get back into it
The scream when he falls. Stuff of kids nightmares!
nitramletnan I always thought it was hilarious.
I love to do an impression of the scream when he falls. Both me and my brother even have the timing down! :)
nitramletnan But not as sinister as the laugh and screen dissolve when you utterly fail at this game.
Thanks for this!! Was obsessed when I was 7-8 years old and still love puzzles to this day!! Almost want to play it again to see if I can figure it out before I watch this entirely but SO glad it's here if I don't get the chance to play it again. Thank you for fulfilling a childhood memory! That elevator noise is permanently etched on my brain, holy hell!
Me and my little brother would always say "stay awhile, stay foreeever"
At 16 seconds: 'another visitor, stay a while. Stay forever"
I played this game and Im still here. Its scary!
Like many other Epyx games, Impossible Mission had the best running animation, and overall animation. And am I alone in thinking the voice of the mad scientist sounds like the voice of the English guy Mr. Bentley on The Jeffersons?
man I had this on my C64 way back in the day, but never could figure out what the point of it was
You find the pieces and you join 4 pieces together to make an letter and find the code word
I never had the instructions
Why don't you _still_ have it?
Much respect. I played this so much as a kid and never finished it
This was Flashback before Flashback.
The part when he says initially "Another visitor..." I could never make out those two words!
Same. But amazingly I could make it out immediately when I heard it now. i think I was too embarrassed to ask my older brothers what he was saying, being a timid kid
"No. No...Nooo."
He seems so calm...
He's a professor. He knows how to control his feelings.
I used to play this game when I was younger, but I couldn't get very far because of my limited skill and also the PAL/NTSC incompatibility where you got zapped if a robot zapped the left wall. I managed to complete this game around 8-9 years ago, I got my best time down to 27 minutes. :)
Rob Vonk my best time is 34, so to see the uploader do it in half that just blows my mind.
Omg just the sounds the man makes running thru the hallway and the sound of the elevator moving bring back memories of nearly 40 years ago! A lot of swear words would have unexpectedly come out of my mouth playing this game back then : ) "Stay awhile, Stay forever" tone and phrase funny enough I never forgot and was only a fluke my son mentioned it to me last wk that made me remember this game immediately.
Man...that elevator sound..I will never get over it.
should be played in every elevator
for me one of the best C64 game ever !!!
Loved this game when I was a kid. Never beat it but i spent ALOT of time playing it!
Dude, you're the fu*king god of this game!
My gawd...! The nostalgia is SEVERE, right now...! "Stay a while.... Stay FOREVER!!"
Thank you for posting this video! It brings back such wonderful childhood memories! I don't know how many hours I played this game on my dad's C64 before middle school back in the late 1980s.
What a nice guy to invite you to his place to stay a while.
I can't tell you the great memories your videos bring back. It's like teleporting 30 years back in time lol.
The many hundreds of hours I spent trying to figure this game out since I was a kid! At the end I said to myself, "that's it?" and smiled. :-)
As a young kid, I just ran around collecting stuff and tried to stay alive. Had zero clue what to do. My lord, those sound effects bring me back
Loved this game and I did finish!
Excellent. Respect! This was my favourite game during production breaks from the supertrack MIDI sequencer. Never got through more than half of it...
I played this game for so many hours. Glad to see it complete. Well done!
Played this a lot back in the day. This has got to have the deepest gameplay and most detailed graphics of any C64 program that loads from disk in a single go. Amazing achievement and a C64 essential.
Wow. This brings back memories. I can't tell you how pumped I was to beat the game for the first time. One of my favorites. Great mechanics and speech all in one game.
One of the few games I could not finish. STAY A WHILE, STAY FOREVER.
When I first got the game, was amazed at the ease of play, quickly got a photocopy of the instructions, then 'cheated a bit' by correctly orientating most of the puzzle pieces. Had a spot of bluetak or masking tape(back then) on the screen to show where the room was to go to. Got mum to photograph opening of the door, she said when? Enjoyed the game & still do today..
I remember this game, I was about 5 years old when my dad and brothers played it. I called it "He that walks in" ;D
😆
Haha. How come your then-5-year-old mind thought to call it that?
Because he walked into rooms 😂
@@sabzinatoR: Pschh... I guess I would be asking a 5-year-old to explain why this counts as that but not so many other games where there is also someone who walks in. Plpppthhh!
Thanks for uploading this. Some very fond memories of a 1980s childhood!
In the Arkham City DLC when Harley Quinn said Destroy him, my robots, I loved it.
I never could finish it. Great !
I could, but after about nearly 100 trials...
Nostalgia memory flood! One of the best games ever, clever concept, great atmosphere with those sound, stylish graphics...
I never did finish this. It always looked like the guy was going for a pee when he is searching.
Especially when he's searching the toilet, lol.
... or the wastebasket ...
And that's why you never finished the game?
@@Akira625: *toilets
I got this game in 1984 when it was released. Loved it and played it all the time as a kid. It took me 34 years to find this video and learn what the hell he was saying in the beginning! All I heard was blah blah blah.... stay awhile, stay forever. Thank you for solving this mystery for me!
Wasn't my favorite game but my brother loved it and I used to love watching him play. Even though i had other preferences, I have to be honest in saying that this has to be one of the best computer games of all time.
Back in 84/85 when I played this, I loved it. I would have been like 8 years old at the time. So many memories!
25 minutes. Better than I ever did.
I couldn't play this game for the life of me back in the 80's, and finally... I can see how it actually ends.
I never knew what the hell I was doing with the puzzle part!
Great 80s gaming, unbeatable, great nostalgia of course! Great playing too, as always!
One of my first games on the C64, loved the voice sample, loved the game but found it hard. Happy memories. :)
This player's got skills.
mtl-self-reliance He do. I’m almost as good as this guy, but haven’t played in years (have it on an emulator now). Was even going to see about going for the world record only to find there are runs with higher scores than mine.
@@Renville80: Did your 64/128 break down later in life?
This game was ahead of it's time back then.. Still remember it like it was yesterday.. Fast Load Cartridges.. paperclips on pinouts on the back .. paper punching the 5 1/4" discs for double siding .. ahh the good ole days of simple games :)
Freeze Frame....the best invention for the C64.
This was my favorite game as a kid. Looking to buy a C64 again and enjoy those old classics ;)
I was hecka young when I played this. Eventually, I was able to make it through the rooms, but could never figure out the puzzle part. Thanks for the video!
At first I'm watching this thinking you're using too many snoozes liberally. As it progressed I was in awe of some of your skill. At the end I was stunned to see you finish this game in twenty one and a half minutes never getted zapped once. WOW! Great stuff!
Goddamn it's been over 30 years now... I loved these games, could even finish them as a kid though it was a challenge. But the funny part is my mom played these games as well back in the late 80s. Now, you'd think "ok, she 'played' them meaning she ran around dying and falling..." uh, nope. She played both the Impossible Mission games so much it got to the point where she could execute flawless runs on both games at will. So to ramp up the challenge, I think in Impossible Mission 2 it was possible to gain some kind of time bonuses. Maybe in this one too. So she was actually able to finish the game with MORE TIME on the clock than what you got at the start. Crazy, now that I think about it.
Never underestimate the moms. My brother and I would one day persuade our mom to try a computer game; her first ever. She would start off being ridiculously horrible. My brother and I would laugh ourselves silly. We get back 30 minutes later and she is actually kinda playing it okay. She breaks off to make dinner (for us), rest after a working day, go to work next day to make rent (for us), etc. Finally picks it up again briefly in her limited spare time...and... mommy has become terminator with ace reflexes and timing. We're like wtf?!? mom?!? ...same story whether it was lode runner, boulderdash, you name it. :)
STINY! WHO PUT THE PASSWORD FOR MY CONTROL ROOM IN THE CANDY MACHINE!!!
I played this game for HOURS when I was like 7! So good!
Played this when i was a child in like 2006. I never made it but my dad played through the game and i was so impressed. Good old times.
0:16 "Oh now found a visitor. STAY AWHILE. STAY FOREVER!"
Love this game :) Excellent clear vocal quality for a game of this time too.
Stay a while, stay forever!
This game is an eternal classic. It's Incredible what they managed to make a computer with less power than a modern Smartphone do back in the day.
C64 had much less power than Nokia 3310...