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

All thanks to Eadweard Muybridge!

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 KZfaq.

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

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

No. No. NO.

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.

17:45: Or go into the room where the only thing is the hovering electric ball and dead silence

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!! 😮

+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.

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.

Henson222 ikr!

Henson222 64kb;)

Tommy Eastwood, not all 64kb is available to use for a game....... only 38kb is available. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jriCatVn1uCUfac.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

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.

It could star Cruise Tom, maybe.

someone did make a "movie" about this. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbmGfdWcubK4e3k.html

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

It... _what..._ though?

Jagd Panzer I did beat it eventually as well. I don't remember what the chessboard room was for at 20:16...

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.

+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.

Not true. Haven't you noticed that they're much more lifelike now?

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!

+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.

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

same

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.

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?

He's a professor. He knows how to control his feelings.

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

should be played in every elevator

Rob Vonk my best time is 34, so to see the uploader do it in half that just blows my mind.

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?

😆

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!