Sprite Castle 109: Space Pilot (Fixed)

Space Pilot was published for the Commodore 64 in 1984 by Kingsoft.

It is a game for one or two alternating players that uses joystick controls.

The history of Kingsoft is interesting.

It was a German video game developer.

They also published several games.

They were founded in the early 1980s by Fritz Schaefer, and it says they became one of the best-known publishers for Commodore 64 games in Germany.

I would question that they were one of the best-known since the list of their library is pretty small, but that's what they have listed here in their bio.

The company was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1995.

The games they are best known for are Space Pilot, Space Pilot 2, and Space Pilot 89.

The game was developed by Henrik Winning.

It was one of his earlier games.

He also did games including Galaxy, Zaga Mission, he did Space Pilot 2, and also a game called Xyron.

I looked most of these up on Lemon64, and it looks like they all include German tech.

So I believe these were all games developed in Germany and marketed there.

Now, this game was also marketed in the UK by a publisher named Anirog, I believe is how you say that, A-N-I-R-O-G, and most of the information you will find about this game online is from that version.

Space Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shoot-em-up game that it says, quote, is heavily inspired by Konami's Time Pilot.

And I would say heavily inspired is probably an understatement.

In this game, the player pilots a fighting aircraft.

You move through different eras of time.

You must defeat all of the enemies on each level and then a boss to proceed to the next stage.

time period you can also rescue parachutists and gain bonus points that way and the more points that you gain or go towards a high score the game does not end it just wraps around to the next time era i suppose that's how time travel works When I review these games, I like to look up if there are any references in pop culture that have to do with this game or anything they may have borrowed from.

But obviously the one thing they borrowed from is Konami's Time Pilot.

This is a near perfect port of the game Time Pilot.

When we look at the box, again, on Moby Games, they only have the UK release, which was published by Anirog.

Again, that's A-N-I-R-O-G.