On the subject of this game, a truly classic precursor to the platform world we know now, it was recently remade for the Oric-1/Atmos machines. The Oric-1/Atmos were classic 8-bit systems which had a life of only 2 or 3 years during the height of 8-bit computing in the 80's, competing against the majors (C64/Amstrad/Spectrum/etc.) and not doing so well, alas. They were but a glitch in the 8-bit matrix.
It has been pretty neat to see the revival of the machines in the last two decades - and the scene that is producing new titles for the machines are pretty neat folks: computing purely for the love of it, producing titles of such brilliance that one could only have wished it happened 30 years earlier.
So I always like to mention it when the opportunity presents itself - if you want to play Impossible Mission, ported as a labor of love by very brilliant coders to an obscure/completely different platform than Javascript/web entirely, you'll need Oriculator:
That was probably the first time I heard synthesized speech on a home computer game and I'm pretty sure I would occasionally fire it up just to play that part and impress other kids stuck with Tandys and such.
It has been pretty neat to see the revival of the machines in the last two decades - and the scene that is producing new titles for the machines are pretty neat folks: computing purely for the love of it, producing titles of such brilliance that one could only have wished it happened 30 years earlier.
So I always like to mention it when the opportunity presents itself - if you want to play Impossible Mission, ported as a labor of love by very brilliant coders to an obscure/completely different platform than Javascript/web entirely, you'll need Oriculator:
https://code.google.com/p/oriculator/
.. and the Impossible Mission .TAP file:
http://im.defence-force.org/
"Stay awhile! Stay FOREVER!!!! Hahahaha ..."
(More great Oric titles, along the lines of the 80's classics like IM and more, available here:
http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=top150game...
If you love Impossible Mission, check out SPACE 1999, SKOOL DAZE, DON'T PRESS THE LETTER Q, and more!)