Time Pilot (1982)

Time Pilot (夕イム・パイ口ツ卜) is a multi-directional scrolling shooter arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto and released by Konami in 1982. It was distributed in the United States by Centuri. It is a time travel themed aerial combat game that allows the player's plane to fly across open air space that scrolls indefinitely in all directions. The Killer List of Videogames included Time Pilot in its list of top 100 arcade games of all time. Home ports for the Atari 2600 and MSX were released in 1983. A sequel, Time Pilot '84, was released in 1984. It has a top down view instead of a side view, allows the player to shoot guided missiles, and takes place over a science fiction-themed landscape.