Impossible Mission (Wii)

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Description

You play a secret agent on a quest to stop the evil Professor Elvin Atombender, who is believed to be tampering with national security computers. You must penetrate Atombender's stronghold, avoid his deadly robot creations, and acquire various pieces of a password to use in the main control room.

The robots, rooms, and puzzle pieces will be switched around when starting over which provides replay value.

Screenshots

There are no Wii screenshots for this game.

There are 66 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: "Simon says"
• Impossible Mission series

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The Press Says

Nintendo Life	Apr 11, 2008		80
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Apr 11, 2008	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

Atari 7800 version

On the Atari 7800, the name of the game can be taken literally. Due to a bug in the program the NTSC release cannot not be completed. Some of the items you need are hidden under terminals that cannot be searched. This was fixed for the PAL release.

References to the game

The title of the German computer games podcast Stay Forever by former gaming journalists Christian Schmidt and Gunnar Lott is inspired by the synthesized speech "Stay a while...stay forever!" from this game. The voice is also used in the podcast's intro.

Speech

On the Commodore 64 version. The game is well known for the use of synthesized speech. Electronic Speech Synthesis (the company that developed the sampled speech for the game) used this game as a test sample.

When this sample was a successful game, Electronic Speech Synthesis (ESS) significantly raised their prices. This caused Epyx to never use their services again (although Impossible Mission II uses ESS, Novotrade developed the game, and they were the same sampled speech tracks used in this game).

Awards

• ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
  • February 1991 (issue #41) - Included in the list Greatest Games of all Time, section Platform-based Games (editorial staff choice)
• FLUX
  • Issue #4 - #92 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 03/2013 – Issue 03/2013 – One of the "Ten Best C64 Games"
• Happy Computer
  • Issue 02/1986 - #7 Best Game in 1985 (Readers' Vote)
• Retro Gamer
  • October 2004 (Issue #9) – #45 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
  • Issue 37 - #12 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll

Information also contributed by Big John WV, PCGamer77 and Scott G

Related Web Sites

• Impossible Mission (Site with screenshots of each version, trivia, tips, and the original manual.)
• The End Zone (Dedicated to end of game sequences with the objective of providing the most definitive and complete 'end of game' information ever assembled for the games featured.)