When I played this as a kid we had a bag of gummy bears on the desk with us. I now permanently, forever, associate the taste of gummy bears with both the ones on that day and this game. And that was back in 1986.
A blast from the past! I loved this game, especially when I got old enough to figure out how to actually fly the chopper. For a couple of years I stayed in one spot before I figured out how to fly forward, lol. Tough luck, Jimbo baby!
When I was kid and playing a cracked version of this on the c64, for the longest time I thought the helicopter sim at the beginning was the whole game. Took forever to figure out you had to land and walk around the enemy base. Such a complex game for it's time.
@@dadewd7061 well that's what you get without internet; I too played a cracked copy with no manual and tried to figure out what to do in the cockpit, since it requires some specific keys typing; after a couple of months I found a C-64 magazine with the walkthrough and even some "pokes" to disable some enemies
It was like a 2nd unofficial copy protection. You had the official copy protection, then you had the fact that a lot of these old games were impossible to figure out without the manual. Although I swear I had a pirated copy that completely cut out the helicopter part and started you immediately at the base. Did anyone else experience that?
Oh man! Oh man! Some great memories there for sure! I used to break night on Friday and Sat with my buddies playing these games, specially this one. And then, go to the diner for a nice breakfast. LOL
When I was a kid my Dad was hospitalised with a broken pelvis after a work accident. When he came home he had to have bed rest for much of the day. We loved this game but I couldn't do the flying parts. We got into a rhythm where I would go to school and he would do the flying part and leave the C64 on but be in bed when I got home. I'd do the spy parts and then leave the game on for him to do the flight section. We beat the game this way without ever seeing each other. :) After a few weeks he was well enough to get up again so we watched Thundercats together instead. :)
+demoscenes - Agreed but another great game to me was Zack McKracken or something like that... that was amazing and sucked me in even more into gaming.
What a classic game. Wearing the janitors uniform and confusing the guards was the best. They would be like "these papers seem to be okay" Then others would be like "These papers are wrong" Then Click, Boom hit him with grenade.
Oh my god finally I was trying to remember the name of this game forever..all I could remember was the graphics, gameplay style, and the fact that there was vodka lol.
Derschmu!! the best commodore 64 collection of game video's out there!!! i had this game, i did not even manage to take off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! never played it afterwards, so i'm watching now what i missed out back then!! top uploader!!
+Kim Soares - Yup! But it also goes with the type of technology that is currently available because look at the amazing games being made now-a-days. Simply stunning! I am currenntly playing Assassin's Creed IV - Black Flag... and like u should see this thing on a 70" HDTV in 1080p... OMFG!!!
2016 and I suddenly recalled this game. I had the floppy disk for a bday gift and couldn't wait to get home to play. As far as I got was about 10 minutes in. Landed the helicopter, walked around, didn't know what else to do, lost interest, moved on with life. Nice to see the whole game finally (and that apparently I didn't miss much).
Had this game for ages before I figured out how to fly the craft. After I had it became a firm favourite. Definitely one of the best games for the C64 and still looks bloody cool now.
+Ryan Garritty - Yah! It took me a while too but I think it came with a display card with all the keyboard short-cuts and explaining whatever buttons did. I wish they would make a newer version with like 1080p output. hehehe... just a dream, I suppose. :-(
Wasn't it B, S, I to fire it up? I think I only ever made it to the base twice. That was after I figured out how to program the ADF one day. I never got too far in this game but it gave me some great memories.
Atari in 1983: Here are a bunch cool games where you can jump and sometime shoot. Commodore 64 3 years later: Here's a game that's a flight sim, flight combat, stealth, and fighting game all in one.
Never heard of this game before. But the scope of it is quite breathtaking considering the era (when it was common for games to be finishable in under 10 minutes). The graphics are excellent, too. I LOVE that title screen, so sharp.
My buddy and I played this game for most of an entire summer and had a blast. I can't remember whether we were able to finish it then or if we did that later on but either way, it was a fun game and it's cool seeing it all these years later!
I never could land the freaking helicopter....it always blew up and I would repeat...again and again. To this day I have no clue what I was doing wrong. But at least I finally got to see the entire game and can see how much I was missing. Very cool.
Great! Played this a lot back in the day, but never knew what I was doing really. :D Wish you had made a Let's Play out of this though, I miss some audio commentary.
I've learned basic English thanks to Infiltrator. It came with the brand new C64 that my pops got us from his job in the USA. That was almost 28 years ago and I still remember this game so vividly. Got busted all the time. :D
How do you know who is enemy or friend in the flying segment? trial and error? I had a magazine with the enemy and allied list, don't know how other people played it.
This game was super frustrating but so cool and rewarding. So many "worst" things to do in this game... crashing after spending all that time flying there, getting into a firefight WHILE you are landing, running into a guard and kneejerk running out the door or off the side of the screen, triggering an alarm, and of course for those with OCD... the need to check every single file cabinet for something useful!
Loved this game once I figured it out. It's amazing they ported this to so many OS/consoles. Pity to hear the NES version is lame/impossible. That's what brought me out here as my old Apple IIe is long gone and was going to give the NES version a go. Thx for the post!
+Lee Nolan - And finding dismembered bodies? LOL I always ran out of time by searching thru all of them or as many as I could... Then, I started using the SNAPSHOT cartridge so I would't have to restart all the way from the beginning all over again. Hahaha
This game holds an odd sort of appeal to me, as baffling as it is. I didn't understand it when I was young playing on the NES, I don't understand it now. Still, great job Chis Gray. It takes a special talent to make something as unique and ambitious as this work at all.
I had the NES port of this; I think I was too young to really grasp the flying section as I don't think I ever got past it, although I enjoyed the building sections.
Gutentag DerSchmu, I have a question. If someone else knows please answer. I forgot the name of a game I in the 80s on my c64. It was a strategic game where you had to move troops if I am correct. What I remember is that the graphics where very simple. Blocks where transport vehicles and the soldiers where not much more then a pixel. Overall the levels looked green. I remember you had to mount troops because I know I learned what that word means then ;) Does anyone know what this game was?
Lump Apps www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/list.php%3Fgenre%3DStrategy Maybe it's on this site? Lots of old types of games listed for c64
Remember back in the day when you got a game and they had to put like 5 versions of the graphics on the back of the HUGE box because each system was completely different? Could you imaging having to port a game to 5 different systems and each one required a completely different set of sprites as well as used a completely different scripting language? O_o
Game was really original and ambitious one. It has great atmosphere as well. But I find flying part too simulator-like with tons of keys without good reason for such a game. Making it arcade with some interesting moments would do the trick. Infiltration part is brilliant though ;] Damn, those rooms look like stolen from Spy vs Spy :D
DA DEWD It just doesn't translate well as a console game. I always felt that games of this natuue, especially the flight sim parts tend to play out better on a personal computer system than on a console.
Milo Pepenapolis As far as I know, this game was never made for the NES... I dunno maybe I'm wrong but I always tried to keep up to the latest games for practically every system there was out there whether it was for the Atari, Commodore. Nintendo, Apple, PC... etc. Sure were some great times having lived through that era and I sure as hell miss it. :(
When I played this as a kid we had a bag of gummy bears on the desk with us. I now permanently, forever, associate the taste of gummy bears with both the ones on that day and this game. And that was back in 1986.
ha I'm the same with mini sausage rolls my Mum cooked whilst we played Jet Set Willy!
@Khari Jase atlas dax piss off with your spam crap.
A blast from the past! I loved this game, especially when I got old enough to figure out how to actually fly the chopper. For a couple of years I stayed in one spot before I figured out how to fly forward, lol. Tough luck, Jimbo baby!
When I was kid and playing a cracked version of this on the c64, for the longest time I thought the helicopter sim at the beginning was the whole game. Took forever to figure out you had to land and walk around the enemy base. Such a complex game for it's time.
+thehmc - That's what you get for being a pirate! LOL
@@dadewd7061 well that's what you get without internet; I too played a cracked copy with no manual and tried to figure out what to do in the cockpit, since it requires some specific keys typing; after a couple of months I found a C-64 magazine with the walkthrough and even some "pokes" to disable some enemies
@@alerey4363 Haha same here, was hard to figure out what to do and why :-) but it was still fun as hell. Liked the graphics also!
It was like a 2nd unofficial copy protection. You had the official copy protection, then you had the fact that a lot of these old games were impossible to figure out without the manual.
Although I swear I had a pirated copy that completely cut out the helicopter part and started you immediately at the base. Did anyone else experience that?
@@dorpth I had that, the helicopter phase was completely cut off from the game.
Damn, the best weapon against the enemy: Papers.
"YOU SAVED THE WORLD! WHAT MORE CAN WE SAY?"
How about giving more credit to the people who made sure his papers were in order?
Groundbreaking game 30 years ago. Awesome.
+KarpowSCX - Kinda wish Chris Grey woulda made the conversion for the Amiga too... heck, or even a newer version for the PC would be nice as well.
Early version of Papers, Please.
Oh man! Oh man! Some great memories there for sure! I used to break night on Friday and Sat with my buddies playing these games, specially this one. And then, go to the diner for a nice breakfast. LOL
When I was a kid my Dad was hospitalised with a broken pelvis after a work accident. When he came home he had to have bed rest for much of the day. We loved this game but I couldn't do the flying parts. We got into a rhythm where I would go to school and he would do the flying part and leave the C64 on but be in bed when I got home. I'd do the spy parts and then leave the game on for him to do the flight section.
We beat the game this way without ever seeing each other. :)
After a few weeks he was well enough to get up again so we watched Thundercats together instead. :)
always wanted to own this game. I remember gazing at the screenshots in ZZZap magazine, dreaming about it.
+Felix T-Rex - I still have my original one... wanna buy it? Make me an offer I just can't refuse. LOL... but not less than a bazillion bux!
great game, classic. i never got past the first flight sim stage, but i was super impressed! 😀
This is my all time favorite game! and Still today I love playing it. The game play is awesome, also the AI is quite nice for its time! Awesome 10/10
+demoscenes - Agreed but another great game to me was Zack McKracken or something like that... that was amazing and sucked me in even more into gaming.
Whoever finished this... hats off!
+John Doe - Oh, I finished it several times to see if it had a different outcome or if I would be able to find something new in them cabinets. LOL
Is it difficult?
Hardest ever.
What a classic game. Wearing the janitors uniform and confusing the guards was the best. They would be like "these papers seem to be okay" Then others would be like "These papers are wrong" Then Click, Boom hit him with grenade.
...Plus...it's just like another C64 game, "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein"!
Oh my god finally I was trying to remember the name of this game forever..all I could remember was the graphics, gameplay style, and the fact that there was vodka lol.
Derschmu!! the best commodore 64 collection of game video's out there!!!
i had this game, i did not even manage to take off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never played it afterwards, so i'm watching now what i missed out back then!!
top uploader!!
Games were so imaginative back then.
NORM NORM I think we also had more imagination ourselves back then. Or at least everything was new and novel. :-)
+Kim Soares - Yup! But it also goes with the type of technology that is currently available because look at the amazing games being made now-a-days. Simply stunning! I am currenntly playing Assassin's Creed IV - Black Flag... and like u should see this thing on a 70" HDTV in 1080p... OMFG!!!
Wow, so much memories!
whoa, i remember my grandma gifted this to me and my brother for christmas, 30 years have passed....:)
2016 and I suddenly recalled this game. I had the floppy disk for a bday gift and couldn't wait to get home to play. As far as I got was about 10 minutes in. Landed the helicopter, walked around, didn't know what else to do, lost interest, moved on with life. Nice to see the whole game finally (and that apparently I didn't miss much).
Had this game for ages before I figured out how to fly the craft. After I had it became a firm favourite. Definitely one of the best games for the C64 and still looks bloody cool now.
+Ryan Garritty - Yah! It took me a while too but I think it came with a display card with all the keyboard short-cuts and explaining whatever buttons did. I wish they would make a newer version with like 1080p output. hehehe... just a dream, I suppose. :-(
Wasn't it B, S, I to fire it up? I think I only ever made it to the base twice. That was after I figured out how to program the ADF one day. I never got too far in this game but it gave me some great memories.
Damn you are the MASTER of video games!!!
Right! Unfortunately, it was too complex for me at the age of 9 without any English skills whatsoever.😉
Brilliant. Thanks so much for this. I never got to play it when it came out but I'm going to give it a go now I've seen how good it is.
The indoors section reminds me of an old c64 classic spy vs spy. That was a fun game!. It's the rooms and doorways that do it lol.
Atari in 1983: Here are a bunch cool games where you can jump and sometime shoot.
Commodore 64 3 years later: Here's a game that's a flight sim, flight combat, stealth, and fighting game all in one.
I always loved how all the enemy buildings have fully furnished lobbies complete with an elevator.
This was my favorite game one hundered years ago :)
AMAZING!! U completed it!!!
Never heard of this game before. But the scope of it is quite breathtaking considering the era (when it was common for games to be finishable in under 10 minutes). The graphics are excellent, too. I LOVE that title screen, so sharp.
Thanks for the longplay. I have never seen the ending. Thanks.
My buddy and I played this game for most of an entire summer and had a blast. I can't remember whether we were able to finish it then or if we did that later on but either way, it was a fun game and it's cool seeing it all these years later!
The other day the phrase "Your papers seem to be in order." randomly re-entered my mind from 30+ years ago when I would play this game :).
Remember folks, this came out a year before Metal Gear on the MSX and NES!
6:11 “You don’t look like a janitor to me...”
I LOVED playing this game!
Wow, such a big game. Wish I had this 1 as a kid.
Great game. Much better than a lot of the crap they make today.
+Sith Smasher - Great game for that time but the games they making now... ha! Now way Jose! I mean, technology has come a very long way indeed.
No really, is better than today's games.
is incredible how they fitted all this stuff in just 64kb! O_o
Today they wouldn't fit it in 64Mb.
@@KC9UDX ...and dont forget about Geos, a window's style OS in less than 64kb and with some free Ram for applications!
@@SettimaLegione yep I have it. GEOS isn't exactly Windows-style though, it's very much based on early MacOS.
@@KC9UDX Clear!
Thx for longplay :)
Loved this classic
I never could land the freaking helicopter....it always blew up and I would repeat...again and again. To this day I have no clue what I was doing wrong. But at least I finally got to see the entire game and can see how much I was missing. Very cool.
Immersive. Lovely.
A good old commodore game!
One of my favorite games to play.
Great! Played this a lot back in the day, but never knew what I was doing really. :D
Wish you had made a Let's Play out of this though, I miss some audio commentary.
Yeah, this was some good stuff.
+gumdeo - I know... since that was the latest and greatest back then. LOL
Awesome game!
I've learned basic English thanks to Infiltrator. It came with the brand new C64 that my pops got us from his job in the USA. That was almost 28 years ago and I still remember this game so vividly. Got busted all the time. :D
More like 35 years.
Someone needs to remake this game! I miss it so much.
Love this game
OMG- I remember this game!
How do you know who is enemy or friend in the flying segment? trial and error? I had a magazine with the enemy and allied list, don't know how other people played it.
This game was super frustrating but so cool and rewarding. So many "worst" things to do in this game... crashing after spending all that time flying there, getting into a firefight WHILE you are landing, running into a guard and kneejerk running out the door or off the side of the screen, triggering an alarm, and of course for those with OCD... the need to check every single file cabinet for something useful!
Only three missions? Damned, I almost finished it on my iPad, while I had found this longplay. Great game, same as Saboteur on Spectrum.
Love how the building screens are ripped off from Spy Vs. Spy! I expect him to giggle every time he searches a cabinet or coat wrack.
what a great game
Excellent. One of the first games I've ever finished. Or was it Infiltrator II? Very similar anyway.
Super game!
Ah...Nostalgia!
Wow, very complex game. Looks very nice. :-)
This game blew my mind in the same way Metal Gear Solid did
When you are inside the buildings, it is completely similar of the rooms in the game Spy vs Spy
HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND THIS GAME. I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO PLAY THIS
I've definetly seen this game..... twenty years ago.
No wonder I couldn’t finish this as a kid!
I always love the atmosphere of this game but... I have never been able to take off! I was eight years old then...
Loved this game once I figured it out. It's amazing they ported this to so many OS/consoles. Pity to hear the NES version is lame/impossible. That's what brought me out here as my old Apple IIe is long gone and was going to give the NES version a go. Thx for the post!
I, for one, welcome our new Infiltrator Overlord!
I used to love going through the cabinets
+Lee Nolan - And finding dismembered bodies? LOL
I always ran out of time by searching thru all of them or as many as I could... Then, I started using the SNAPSHOT cartridge so I would't have to restart all the way from the beginning all over again. Hahaha
US Gold were one of my fave companies back in the day. Beach head!
This was the first game I bought for PC after ditching the C64. I'll never forget the disappointment reading the box "Commodore 64 version shown."
"You found Sticky Gum... Yecch!" I LOL'ed!
The searching stealth parts remind me a lot of Covert Action.
This game holds an odd sort of appeal to me, as baffling as it is. I didn't understand it when I was young playing on the NES, I don't understand it now. Still, great job Chis Gray. It takes a special talent to make something as unique and ambitious as this work at all.
Early version of Papers, Please. The infiltration target is clearly Arstotzka!
Wow, Kojima must have gotten the idea for Metal Gear from this game.
I had the NES port of this; I think I was too young to really grasp the flying section as I don't think I ever got past it, although I enjoyed the building sections.
Nice i never was able to make the helicopter fly hehe
this game was VR to me as a kid
Why do you need to use the janitors uniform in mission 1?
I had this as a kid. I never made it off the first flying level.
Spy vs Spy? Which one was first?
How come nothing happened when you set off the alarm in mission 2? No one went after you...?
Strange game. It’s like Metal Gear
The endings in this games were ridiculous. This one looks like they ripped summer games and gave him a gold medal at the olympics. Haha...
12:37 - Get to the choppa!!!!
12:37 fixed
I managed to successfully land the helicopter once, ever and was then captured within about thirty seconds.
Gutentag DerSchmu, I have a question. If someone else knows please answer. I forgot the name of a game I in the 80s on my c64. It was a strategic game where you had to move troops if I am correct. What I remember is that the graphics where very simple. Blocks where transport vehicles and the soldiers where not much more then a pixel. Overall the levels looked green. I remember you had to mount troops because I know I learned what that word means then ;) Does anyone know what this game was?
I think it was a game called Empire.
Ron Baker Thanks Ron, Unfortunately that's not it :( It was less sophisticated graphic wise.
Lump Apps www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/list.php%3Fgenre%3DStrategy
Maybe it's on this site? Lots of old types of games listed for c64
Oh man..... This game again in my life..... No, please.
Remember back in the day when you got a game and they had to put like 5 versions of the graphics on the back of the HUGE box because each system was completely different? Could you imaging having to port a game to 5 different systems and each one required a completely different set of sprites as well as used a completely different scripting language? O_o
Really tough game - never beat the 3rd mission.
Game was really original and ambitious one. It has great atmosphere as well. But I find flying part too simulator-like with tons of keys without good reason for such a game. Making it arcade with some interesting moments would do the trick. Infiltration part is brilliant though ;] Damn, those rooms look like stolen from Spy vs Spy :D
I could never get off the flight part! :)
+jammerc64 - Yeah... kinda
is this the first ever stealth game?
Do you think PS5 will exceed these grafix
This is still playable
Looks like Spy vs Spy graphics
I had a cracked version where the flight and infiltration where seperate. I could never fly, too hard.
I always crashed the stupid helicopter and never made it to the other mission levels. 😔
This was an awesome game back in the day. Although the NES version was abysmal
+John Critch - Ha! I never knew there was a NES version. I loved it on my C64 and finished it several times.
DA DEWD It just doesn't translate well as a console game. I always felt that games of this natuue, especially the flight sim parts tend to play out better on a personal computer system than on a console.
+DA DEWD
I do believe that the NES game was actually a port of the second game, which I never liked as much as the first anyway
Milo Pepenapolis As far as I know, this game was never made for the NES... I dunno maybe I'm wrong but I always tried to keep up to the latest games for practically every system there was out there whether it was for the Atari, Commodore. Nintendo, Apple, PC... etc. Sure were some great times having lived through that era and I sure as hell miss it. :(
Trying to play this at 7 years old without a manual was futile :)
if i try this game online now, i cant even get through the first part