Time Pilot – Arcade

The Killer List of Videogames included Time Pilot in its list of top 100 arcade games of all time. Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri. 

The player assumes the role of a pilot of a futuristic fighter jet, trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. The player must fight off hordes of enemy craft and defeat the boss present in every level. The background moves in the opposite direction to the player’s plane, rather than the other way around; the player’s plane always remains in the center.