#timepilot

Cheers to another game back up and running 🍻

There was a short in the coin door wiring. It's just disconnected for now - I have some basic wiring work to do still.

But hey, I can finally confirm my Time Pilot PCB works after doing some repairs a while back, which is nice.

So, we’ve been presenting some creative for a hospital lately. And the hospital’s agency of record has a name that’s REALLY close to the name of this game from the 80′s:

And now “CROSS-FI-YUHHHHH” is stuck in my head. But I don’t regret that. Hell, the slappy synth bass alone on this thing makes me INCREDIBLY happy. 

I essentially regret that I never owned this game as a kid.

A friend of mine did. I think we played it about 5 times during our entire friendship. And I sort of regret that we didn’t play it more. 

But like a lot of games that you don’t own, YOUR excitement is basically a boner-killer for the person who does own it. For instance, I used to sleep over at another friend’s place. A pair of brothers, who’d just gotten THIS the previous Xmas.

The entire weekend I was over, I’d pop out of bed around 4:30 am & play TimePilot. 

So fucking cool.

Well, eventually their mom got pissed that I was waking people up with all the noise, having just discovered after about 6 hours of playing the Smurf game that it was fucking horrible/unbeatable.

Well, it was that AND the fact that I was equally addicted to THIS piece of shit show for reasons that had NOTHING to do with Plastic Man:

Okay, so I’m getting off-topic. Back to the subject at hand.

“CROSS-FI-YUHHHHH!”

I also regret that I didn’t know that this obsessive game actually had a predecessor. 

Just look at those cool, fucking graphics.

But mostly I regret that even if I WANTED to play Crossfire today, I couldn’t afford to do so.

Time Pilot Reimagined.

( . )( . ) Milk Wednesday Launch party video ( . )( . )

featuring Perth duo, Time Pilot.

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filming by Jesse Cummings