"IMPOSSIBLE MISSION" - HINTS AND TIPS By Jaromir Krol - "Jerry King" - jaromirk@kki.net.pl http://www.kki.net.pl/jaromirk/c64joke/ This great game introduced speech synthesis to the C64, and was one of the most difficult games of its time. Without cheats and possibilites given by the various emulators, it still is! Elvin Atombender, an evil genius, plans to do what all evil scientists do in their weekends: destroy the world. And you, a top secret agent, must stop him. You must search his complex underground laboratory and retrieve 36 pieces of a puzzle. Then you must put them together to form a correct image, and use it to open the door to Elvin's control room. I recommend playing this game with an emulator that has freezing capabilities, or with a program/card which can do it (Game Wizard, Action Replay...). This way, you can freeze before dangerous situations, and if something isn't right, just try again from the same point. The basic game is obvious, really - search all the objects in all the rooms, avoiding robots and doing a lot of gymnastics (yes, I pasted this sentence from my "Impossible Mission II" solution :). In the objects you can find platform "resetters", robot freezers, and pieces of puzzle. Use the freezers and resetters in the terminals - every room has one (or more :). You can also get those in the music rooms - there are two in the maze (which is randomly chosen at the beginning). When you enter the room and use the keyboard, you hear a number of tunes, starting with three. Your task is to put them in the right order - from the lowest one to the highest one. In one of the rooms, there is a large rectangle which you cannot search. It's the door to Elvin's main room. When you have the full puzzle, you can enter it to complete the game. The puzzle consists of nine parts, each in turn consisting of four pieces. You must assemble all nine parts. Each completed part gives you one letter of a password - such as ALBATROSS - and when you have all nine letters, you can open the security door. You may flip and turn the pieces of the puzzle, and even change their colours. You can phone your HQ for help, but it will always cost you a number of minutes. The full puzzle - solved - is an electronic access card. I have the trained versions of both IMs on my site, BTW, so you may want to get them there: http://www.kki.net.pl/jaromirk/c64joke/ Check the games page to download the IMs. L8r!