Impossible Mission

Description

You play a secret agent on a quest to stop the evil Professor Elvin Atombender, who is believed to be tampering with national security computers. You must penetrate Atombender's stronghold, avoid his deadly robot creations, and acquire various pieces of a password to use in the main control room.

The robots, rooms, and puzzle pieces will be switched around when starting over which provides replay value.

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: "Simon says"
• Impossible Mission series

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User Reviews

Made before "they don't make em like they used to" became true

Commodore 64

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The Press Says

Zzap!	Commodore 64	May, 1987	95 out of 100	95
Mean Machines	SEGA Master System	Oct, 1990	94 out of 100	94
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	SEGA Master System	Feb, 1991	93 out of 100	93
Tilt	Commodore 64	Jul, 1985		83
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Atari 7800	Dec 10, 2003	8 out of 10	80
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Dec, 1985		80
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Wii	Apr 11, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Joystick (French)	SEGA Master System	Apr, 1991	80 out of 100	80
Pixel-Heroes.de	Commodore 64	Oct 18, 2008	7 out of 10	70
Power Play	SEGA Master System	Feb, 1991	68 out of 100	68

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Trivia

Atari 7800 version

On the Atari 7800, the name of the game can be taken literally. Due to a bug in the program the NTSC release cannot not be completed. Some of the items you need are hidden under terminals that cannot be searched. This was fixed for the PAL release.

References to the game

The title of the German computer games podcast Stay Forever by former gaming journalists Christian Schmidt and Gunnar Lott is inspired by the synthesized speech "Stay a while...stay forever!" from this game. The voice is also used in the podcast's intro.

Speech

On the Commodore 64 version. The game is well known for the use of synthesized speech. Electronic Speech Synthesis (the company that developed the sampled speech for the game) used this game as a test sample.

When this sample was a successful game, Electronic Speech Synthesis (ESS) significantly raised their prices. This caused Epyx to never use their services again (although Impossible Mission II uses ESS, Novotrade developed the game, and they were the same sampled speech tracks used in this game).

Awards

• FLUX
  • Issue #4 - #92 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 03/2013 – Issue 03/2013 – One of the "Ten Best C64 Games"
• Happy Computer
  • Issue 02/1986 - #7 Best Game in 1985 (Readers' Vote)
• Retro Gamer
  • Issue 37 - #12 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll

Information also contributed by Big John WV, PCGamer77 and Scott G