Impossible Mission C64 Longplay (Part 5)

[pyrofella]

I got old playing this!..... great game... hats off to Commore computers!

[SJB666]

Stay awhile Stay FOREVER!!!!!!

[TheATeciak]

Hm... and the music room was for what purpose?

[ZMoulton]

My fav c64 game right there...good to see you power through it.

[spab2000]

Nice work! You have some mad skillz. You took a lot of risks that I would have just used a snooze for. Do you remember if you get extra points for snoozes remaining? You cut off the "Mission accomplished! Connngratulations!" part, too. I was hoping to see that again.

[rtmnmk]

There was no need for a bloody Mouse on this one...

[gentlepersuader]

Those puzzle pieces at the end are supposed to resemble computer punch cards when completed by the look.

[TheDane2006]

THANK YOU, i have just seen the key to solve the last C64 game i never ever got through- and believe me i have played IMP Mission so many times i cant renember - but that system with the puzzlebricks there havent i seen coming.

[Erekai]

So, what exactly are you supposed to do with the puzzle pieces? I mean, I can tell that you're basically supposed to combine them together so that it's a "full" rectangle, but does it matter which color you make them? And if so, how do you know? And it's hard to tell, but are you rotating the completed puzzle like 8 times, or are you doing it only a couple times and then it beeps at you like 3ish times so you know you're right? I just love this game but it confuses me lol.

[P0V3RTY09]

The ending is typical for most computer games. The developers spent so much time with the game itself and it shows. For the time, it was original and fun to play. However, like with most developers, the rush to get the game on the market over weighs the storyline and what you get is ," No No NO!!!" It would have been cool to have a battle with the mad scientist. perhaps he was even protected with some new robots too. Sad that it ended the way it did.

[Konni1969]

Some say crappy ending, but you mustn't forget, It was C-64. I remember games much bigger with no ending at all.

[tausendstein]

How did You know what to do with the puzzle ? What had You to do :) ? What was the solution ? To fill the rectangle up ? Never found out...ok...i had an illegal crack of the game...no handbook.... :)

[malaris60]

The ending is so bad and so 80s that its AWESOME!

[MazeleyFanClub]

The ending is awesome just because of how hard it was to figure this game out by yourself as a teenager or preteen. Well, I never did beat it at the time, but I didn't own C64 so...

[moparmonster1965]

This was one of my favorite games from back then, but without instructions, it really was impossible.

[TheMilomak]

how the .... was anyone meant to guess the puzzles at the end? that's diabolical.

[watermanbearriveryah]

I beat Impossible Mission 2 several times, but 1 is harder, I never beat it. They are good games who's endings leave much to be desired.

[garyandsonia]

Thanks so much for posting this. So many memories! I never got it myself but you play very well.

[Karnemelk75]

The ending is a bit disappointing indeed. I enjoyed playing the game though. Still, there's one C64 game which I've never been able to complete (along with those that had no ending and just went on). The cruel, unfair and endlessly frustrating WIZARD'S LAIR. Perhaps Saxxonpike is skilled enough to do it (hint, hint;)) I know I'm not, unless I'm willing to die at young age due to a heart attack.

[speedbmp]

That's...that's all you get when you win? That's IT?! OK, I'm not sorry I never beat this game now. (I did not have any documentation/instructions, just a copied disk from my uncle.) Thanks so much for putting this video up; I had some great memories and it was fun to "backseat jump" a few times. lol

[tunnoton]

I knew this was a work of Epyx, judging by the character animation :) (used to play Summer & Winter Games more often)

Fabulous stuff all in all, and these oldie classics would make great handheld titles as remakes.

[edzzzwin]

For years I have been trying to understand this part of the game; thank you very much!

[ilovefl2008]

My God! That was the ending to this game! All those hours I played this game as a kid and that was it, hahahaha. Oh well, it was a classic game that I can still remember playing so vivdly 20 years laters. "Destory him my robots!"

[ArgHamster]

No, no, NO, NOOOO, yesss, yessss, HARDER!

[Chewbernaught]

My brother doesn't play any computer games. He just played this one, completed it, and he's schitzophrenic.

After all these years, he still doesn't like computer games but he has expressed interest in wanting to play it again.LOL

[cayman228]

LOL

[bajan13k]

he prob. finds "normal" games too staightforward, the same way some people love momento and understand it totally, and others find it to twisted.

Like me, I find this game too twisted, but I admire people who can actually solve it.

Maybe he's a frustrated genius, not mentally ill.

[mikecronis]

Wow. You did it! As a kid I could never figure out the puzzle pieces. A+

[giosminator]

A great game... the most classic of all classics by Epyx !

Great animation, elegant and linear graphics, and one of the first game ever including speech synthesis !!

[BitSmacker]

@giosminator Yeah, and to think that it was all done at 1 MHz with very little memory or disk capacity.

[hurryupandw8t]

Yeah, it made sense ... once you figure out the password, complicatedly, what's left? BigComputer #1, BigComputer#2 or that door/cabinet thing in the middle of the map?

Attention spans aren't what they used to be.

They weren't what they used to be, neither ... yuk yuk yuk.

[jahnerd]

I'm kind of amazed at the amount of people saying they never saw the ending and now they have are saying its a disappointment. As one of those who would keep playing this game over and over, when you did beat it and you heard the cries of no,...no,...NOOOO, it made the ending so much sweeter. Looking back I guess all the more so cause you knew so few others had seen it. 2nd game I ever completed (after wizball).

[SaxyFlute87]

.....*SIGH* I wasted how many hours of my life trying to beat this damn game...and this is what I get? The dude says no 3 times and that's it? Sheesh. Still a great game though

[saxxonpike]

Yeah the ending really sucks, BUT! I'd still take a good fun, time consuming game with a crap ending to a poor game with the greatest cinematics ever.

[AlfTqhRoussfe1]

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[aimbotjesus]

@SaxyFlute87 The ending is bad because they didn't expect anyone to finish the game. It's called IMPOSSIBLE mission.

[bajan13k]

That's it for the ending?

A guy saying "no" three times?

[JDoucette]

Lol ha ha ha ha ha, I've ALWAYS wanted this game, I remember seeing it for 5 minutes once, and I had no idea it was this in depth. After all of that... you get this ending? ha ha, wow, I'm lol.

[NorthShoreInnovation]

You forgot the last bit where the female voice says 'Mission Accomplished, CONGRATULATIONS'

[beghilhorst]

Wow, you actually cleared that game! That is such an accomplishment, I never got the puzzle thing...

[HalfEatenDimSim]

Yeah I spent 4 years trying to clock this fucken thing, then finally. Elvin Atombender is a motherfucking legend with his volt spraying robots, I felt a bit sorry for him.

[TheMightyC]

Thanks for sharing this with all us thirty somethings who spent hours and hours on this game. I managed to complete this game only the once back in the day (and Bruce Lee too) and was absolutely chuffed to bits!!!! An absolute classic! Cheers:)

[MrBennHundred]

Woh, so thats how you do it. Nice one saxxonpike

[kingka]

lol. that's it?? after all those hours I put into the game. that's all there is to the ending?? :(

[somniamagus]

Holy balls, I had no idea what to do with those puzzle pieces and I must have played well over 100 hours into this game when I was like eight.

Congratulations, sir. You have cleared away one of the great mysteries of my life.

[KingSparkys]

Excellent effort and top props for beating the game.

I can't remember what you were supposed to do in the chess board room with the big screen ?? *someone help*

I never thought i would see this day, THANKYOU!!!!

[saxxonpike]

I believe when you go in there, the computer will play back notes for you. You must play them back from low to high in order of pitch and you'll get a password to turn off the robots (I think...)

[ocasioc]

Good times. I remember beating both Impossible Mission games.

[saxxonpike]

What's funny is I was able to beat IM2 a couple times like 15+ years ago. Now I've tried and lost 4 times... :P

[sandmanxo]

Glad to see it is beatable. I've been trying on on off for nearly a quarter of a century to beat it and still have never seen the end until now. I'd always end up missing a couple of pieces and run out of time. Impressive work.

[YUCKSTERTHUNDER]

This game looks funny, is this from the 80s.

[saxxonpike]

"The original version for the Commodore 64 was programmed by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984." -Wikipedia

[mexxem]

does it matter what color you complete the pieces in since you can switch freely?

[saxxonpike]

As long as the pieces are completely filled, it will fill in a letter.

[EnterScotari]

Rofl! I just burst out laughing at the end of that. Thats the worst ending to a game ever. I know it was the 80's but come on, seriously! That whole arranging the pieces together doesn't make any sense. How are you supposed to know what goes where?

[YUCKSTERTHUNDER]

But why is an lod man saying *NO NO NO*,and in part 2 someone jumps of a large buliding, i don,t get it.

[lonewolf7999]

I had this game too, but had no clue had to play it...I would just jump around and that stupid globe thing would always kill me when i would be searching. Please explain how you play this game again, refresh my memory.

[saxxonpike]

You jump around in these rooms to gather the colored puzzle pieces being assembled in this part of the video. You then have to take those pieces and arrange them to fill a complete square - once for each of the 8 letters of the password. Once you have the password, you go into the control room and are welcomed by a... relatively underwhelming ending :P

[kolle456]

omg thought zezima was a nerd

[8monoxxx]

WHY RS OF ALL THE GAMES >_>

[unrealnews]

Oh man. I used to love this game. I'd play it with a poor monochromatic monitor, so there was very little hope of me ever beating the game... and seeing this horrible ending. Life is very cruel.