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During the past three days, key military computer installations of every major world power have reported security failures. In each case, someone gained access to a primary missile attack computer. Only one person is capable of computer tampering on this scale - Professor Elvin Atombender.

Using a fortune he amassed by raiding the computer systems of various financial institutions, Professor Elvin Atombender constructed a vast, underground stronghold packed with computer equipment. There, in seclusion, Elvin spent four years working to breach the security of military computer installations around the world. As you know, he has succeeded. Read More »

Our computer estimates that he will break the launch codes and trigger a missile attack that will destroy the world in exactly six hours. This is the amount of time you will have to complete you mission.

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USA Fri, 11 Apr 2008 by Kelvin Green

During the past three days, key military computer installations of every major world power have reported security failures.

Impossible Mission is highly regarded as one of the classic Commodore 64 titles, particularly impressive given that it was one of the earliest games released for the system. The considerable success of the game led to numerous ports and sequels, including..

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Will

1. Will Ireland 11 Apr 2008, 00:42 BST

Amazing. Fullstop.

Tony

2. Tony United States 11 Apr 2008, 00:49 BST

I remember this game. Its so cool

KhaoShar

3. KhaoShar Germany 11 Apr 2008, 01:57 BST

I remember this, too. I also remember never really knowing what to do because like every other game we had, this was a copy without any manual ^^o (I think the only 'original' game ever to hit our floppy was Zak McKracken- great advature, wanna see it again!!).

Still it was great, save the fact that this scream of death (it's in the video) used to wear on my nerves simlpy because I got to hear it way to often...

BTW: what genre would you think this game is? Is it a platformer? Or is the searching/combining of passwords-element enough to call it an adventure ?°_°? ?

ChinSpin

4. ChinSpin United States 11 Apr 2008, 04:09 BST

Wasn't this on the NES?

Jesse_Blue

5. Jesse_Blue Germany 11 Apr 2008, 07:30 BST

I played IP II on C-64 and only had a brief look at this one. Seemed even more difficult than I to me. Animations were pretty smooth for 8bit and yeah it's hard to determine the genre for this one; more of platformer than anything else to me but it definitely has this exploring factor.

Charco

6. Charco Ireland 11 Apr 2008, 10:50 BST

Never played this one. Animation is great for an 8bit title. Reminds me of an early version of Flashback.

Roo

7. Roo United Kingdom 11 Apr 2008, 15:30 BST

Ahh, I never liked this a whole lot. Sorry folks!

WiiGamer24

8. WiiGamer24 11 Apr 2008, 17:24 BST

Your apolgising for having an opinion?

konkerdoodle

9. konkerdoodle United States 11 Apr 2008, 18:07 BST

Of course! People aren't allowed to have unpopular opinions, you know.

DarrenSW

10. DarrenSW United Kingdom 11 Apr 2008, 21:48 BST

What happened to the Wii version of this? There were a few box mockups at online retailers (and a UK £14 price tag), then it was rumoured to be a WiiWare title, then... nothing. Anybody know?

Tides of Chaos

11. Tides of Chaos United States 11 Apr 2008, 21:55 BST

Wow, the digitized speech is really erm..........something. (but definitely impressive for the time) I might get this if it comes to the US.

President_Leever

12. President_Leever Sweden 12 Apr 2008, 09:15 BST

Damn repetitive and frustrating, but its a cool concept. I guess it inspired some great titles like PoP and Flashback.

Knuckles-san

13. Knuckles-san United Kingdom 12 Apr 2008, 10:46 BST

Ive never played this, Ive played Flashback tho on the megadrive. Are they both simular?

Kelvin

14. Kelvin United Kingdom 12 Apr 2008, 10:49 BST

Knuckles-san, don't go expecting it to be identical to Flashback, but you can definitely see the influence Impossible Mission had on the later game.

timp29

15. timp29 Australia 14 Apr 2008, 11:38 BST

Was this the first ever game with digitised speech?? I rememeber the first time I played this the speech blew me away. Pretty much in a similar fashion to when the sound blaster card came out and i played my first pc game (prince of persia) without pc speaker.

All in all however, (and when it comes to c64 I probably say this alot) The Last Ninja kicked this game's ass. Mission impossible was certainly one of the better c64 games and in its day was a 4/5, but now I would give it a 3. PS Flashback kills this game, I could just watch the cut scenes on flashback all day (just like soul reaver :P)

Drake

16. Drake Netherlands 16 Apr 2008, 16:23 BST

DarrenSW, the Wii version (And a DS version) was released. However, there was almost no info or anything on it, so it went kind of under the radar...

DEMON212

17. DEMON212 United Kingdom 17 Apr 2008, 11:45 BST

Man is this game hard and confusing. I'm totally lost.

Drake

18. Drake Netherlands 17 Apr 2008, 17:06 BST

Basically, you need to search all objects in every room until you've got 36 puzzle pieces. Then flip and turn and change the colours of them so you can create 9 full squares (With some little holes here and there which are meant to be secret code) by overlaying the pictures. If you can't figure it out, call the HQ and ask them to flip the currently two selected pictures on the left to the correct position. You can do that for all pictures, there's no limited amount of calls. Then it's just a case of smart thinking really. After completing all 9 puzzles you need to enter the blue door you saw in one of the rooms earlier.

Oldschoolmayhem

19. Oldschoolmayhem United States 02 May 2008, 06:14 BST

Will C64 ever come to the STATES???

pdrydia

20. pdrydia United States 03 May 2008, 21:04 BST

That looks kind cool.

captain-banana

21. captain-banana Australia 17 May 2008, 04:09 BST

this game has a time limit to complete it by? that is so stolen from majoras mask!! lol

seriously it must be good if clones are still being made for wii and ds

sailingtheseaoffools

22. sailingtheseaoffools United States 20 May 2008, 04:46 BST

There is a DS and Wii retail release of this game. Both classic and remade are on the same release.

The DS version you can get from gamestops for 9.99.

Ricardo91

23. Ricardo91 United States 15 Sep 2008, 23:34 BST

You're a reviewer, Kelvin? I had no idea! :o

Kurachi

24. Kurachi Netherlands 22 Oct 2008, 22:44 BST

this game is really old, my birthyear too :P
my dad played it a lot on C64, and i tried it too, but was no game for me, cuz i was very young when i tried, lol
i think no other version beats it, cuz this is the real one and is almost the same as Impossible Mission II, but has some different styles, and nr 2 was the last one i played

i might aswell try this one for real
i hope more C64 games will be here, cuz theres 1 i dont remember its name, which i played, had fruit in it, was arcade and had to pick up the fruit to make an exit to next level, i loved it but cant remember the name :O

i'll see after SoM :D

Retro_Gameplayer

25. Retro_Gameplayer United Kingdom 12 Dec 2008, 21:08 GMT

I loves this game back in the early 90's but damn its so hard to complete if fact its so solid i gave up in the end not enuf hours in the day!!!!

SNK

26. SNK United Kingdom 14 Dec 2008, 18:25 GMT

my vile mate above used to have this game and i had impossible mission 2

Flea

27. Flea United States 01 Feb 2009, 22:54 GMT

This is one of the first games I ever played. How awesome!

Kurachi

28. Kurachi Netherlands 10 May 2009, 09:06 BST

i have been thinking about it, and i will buy and try to complete, like my father tried, and did lot of the game
at least 1 game from C64 i cant forget :) same to my father, he never forgets this and when we talk about them, he always mentions this one :D
so lets see how much i changed in those years

cheetahman91

29. cheetahman91 United States 24 Oct 2009, 22:52 BST

I tried playing this game, but just couldn't get into it. This'll probably be the next C64 game to hit NA.

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