Introduction: Impossible Mission II is a 1988 computer game for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Enterprise 64 and 128, Nintendo Entertainment System, MS-DOS based PCs, Atari ST, Apple IIe with at least 128K, Apple IIc, Apple IIGS and Amiga computers, developed by Novotrade and published by Epyx. In 2004, it was one of the games featured on the C64 Direct-to-TV.
Impossible Mission II is a direct sequel to Epyx's 1984 game Impossible Mission. The game follows directly from the same plot, with Elvin Atombender seeking revenge, and the player having to stop him. The overall game structure and basic gameplay is mostly similar, but there are a few differences and new features.
The game takes place in Elvin's fortress, which consists of nine towers. Each of the eight outer towers has a specific theme, such as computers, automobiles, furniture and so on. Each tower consists of several rooms connected by two vertical corridors with elevators and two horizontal corridors leading to other towers. This time, the corridors leading between different towers are locked, and can only be unlocked by figuring out a numerical puzzle.
Each tower contains the numbers zero through nine in three different colors. The computer interface will allow you to try various number combinations to see if they are correct.
The elevator to the central tower is unlocked by finding a password, which is encoded in a piece of music. Each of the eight outer towers has a musical piece locked inside a safe. The final password consists of six distinct musical pieces. Two of the pieces you find in the towers are duplicates. If you find that you have a duplicate, you must rewind the tape so that the next musical piece records over top of a duplicate, effectively erasing it.
Another gem from the good old days of computer games. This game was brilliant! fun to play, very difficult, challenging and just all round awesome.
I never actually finished this game but must of played it that many times since the late 80's. A few friends of mine manged to complete the games (without cheats as well) so the game is not impossible but very close.
The game had pleasant graphics for the time and flowed quite well. The sound was a bit bare during the game with lots of silence but the sound effects are good. The game also had the classic intro "Another visitor, stay awhile, stay forever hahahaha" Always a classic that intro.
Impossible mission 2 was probably the best one from the 3 or 4 if you include the new one that came out a couple of years ago. Certainly the one with the most fun and game play. One of the all time classic games.
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