Infiltrator is a
1986-Notable releases:*Namco releases Sky Kid Deluxe, Hopping Mappy, Toy Pop, The Return of Ishtar, which is the sequel to Tower of Druaga, Genpei Tōma Den, and Rolling Thunder....
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, Apple II,
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by Chris Gray Enterprises.
The player takes on the role of a master-of-all-trades
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named James "Jimbo" McGibbitts. The player's objective is to fly a
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named the Gizmo DHX-3, land at enemy bases, and infiltrate compounds to stop the mad leader.
Infiltrator is divided into six missions, three helicopter flying missions, and three ground-based missions, which are paired together.
During the helicopter missions (the first, third and fifth missions), it is your goal to take off in the helicopter, program the ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) to set your course, maneuver the helicopter to the landing area while hailing nearby planes to determine if they are friend or foe, and engaging in firefights if you respond incorrectly, and finally land the helicopter safely without detection through use of whisper mode.
There are eight options on the helicopter console.
Infiltrator is a
1986-Notable releases:*Namco releases Sky Kid Deluxe, Hopping Mappy, Toy Pop, The Return of Ishtar, which is the sequel to Tower of Druaga, Genpei Tōma Den, and Rolling Thunder....
video game
publishedA video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....
by
U.S. GoldU.S. Gold was a British video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms.- History :...
/Mindscape It was
developedA video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Sony's PlayStation 3, PSP, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, Nintendo DS, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Some...
for the
Atari 8-bit familyThe Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers manufactured from 1979 to 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU and were the first home computers designed with custom coprocessor chips, giving them the most powerful graphics of any 8 bit computers of their time...
, Apple II,
DOSDOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98, and ME.Related systems...
,
Commodore 64The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January, 1982. Volume production started sometime in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$ 595...
,
Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , China, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, it was released as the , commonly abbreviated as the...
and
ZX SpectrumThe ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the...
by Chris Gray Enterprises.
The player takes on the role of a master-of-all-trades
heroA hero , in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion...
named James "Jimbo" McGibbitts. The player's objective is to fly a
helicopterA helicopter is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades. Helicopters are classified as rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from fixed-wing aircraft because the helicopter achieves lift with the...
named the Gizmo DHX-3, land at enemy bases, and infiltrate compounds to stop the mad leader.
Missions
Infiltrator is divided into six missions, three helicopter flying missions, and three ground-based missions, which are paired together.
During the helicopter missions (the first, third and fifth missions), it is your goal to take off in the helicopter, program the ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) to set your course, maneuver the helicopter to the landing area while hailing nearby planes to determine if they are friend or foe, and engaging in firefights if you respond incorrectly, and finally land the helicopter safely without detection through use of whisper mode.
There are eight options on the helicopter console.
M to fire missiles,
G to fire guns,
C to release chaff,
F to release flares,
R for Radio Communications panel to send and receive messages and the ADF controls,
S for the Status terminal,
T for the Turbo engine, and
W for whisper.
Once you have landed safely, the ground base mission begins. You'll have access to five different items in your inventory. The
papers are used to trick the enemy into thinking that you are part of the mad leader's forces. If the guards get suspicious you must use your
gas canister or
gas grenades to knock out the enemy. The
mine detector is used to discover buried mines while walking around before they detonate. Finally, the
explosives are used in the final ground mission to destroy the mad leader's base.
Your goal in each mission is to find a
security card hidden in a cabinet in one of several multi-room buildings. Once located, the card will open up the locked security doors protecting the goal for each mission. In the second mission, you must find the four chemical containers and take them to the lab for analysis to determine which is the nerve gas neutralizer, and then find the vat of nerve gas to neutralize it. In the fourth mission, you must find and rescue Dr. Phineas Gump, a scientist who has been captured by the mad leader. You must feed him the invisibility pill to make your escape. In the sixth mission, you must find all seven of the mad leaders missle control rooms and plant explosives in them, then escape before the timer counts down to zero.
After you complete the ground mission, you must return to your helicopter and fly back to home base. The return flight is much shorter with less planes than the missions to get to the enemy base. Once you complete a mission, you are given a four letter passcode, so that you can return to the same mission, if you turn your game off.
Legacy
Infiltrator was followed by a sequel,
Infiltrator II, in
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.