Overview

The player assumes the role of a pilot of a futuristic fighter jet, trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. In each level the player must fight off hordes of enemy craft then defeat a much stronger enemy ship. The player’s plane always remains in the center of the screen.

The player travels through five time periods, rescuing stranded fellow pilots. The player must fight off droves of enemy craft while picking up parachuting friendly pilots. Once 56 enemy craft are defeated, initially 25 on the MSX platform and increasing by 5 after each game cycle (finishing the last battle against the UFOs), the player must defeat the mothership for the time period. Once she is destroyed, any remaining enemy craft are also eliminated and the player time-travels to the next level. All the levels have a blue sky and clouds as the background except the last level, which has space and asteroids instead. The specific eras visited, the common enemies, and the motherships are the following:

  1. 1910: biplanes and a blimp
  2. 1940: WWII monoplanes and a B-25
  3. 1970: helicopters and a large, blue CH-46
  4. 1982 (Konami version)/1983 (Centuri version): jets and a B-52
  5. 2001: UFOs

The mothership is destroyed with seven direct hits. Once all the eras have been visited, the levels start over again but are harder and faster. The Game Boy Advance version of Time Pilot in Konami Arcade Classics includes a hidden sixth era, 1,000,000 BC, where the player must destroy vicious pterodactyls in order to return to the early 20th century.

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Performances of RL Agents

We list various reinforcement learning algorithms that were tested in this environment. These results are from RL Database. If this page was helpful, please consider giving a star!

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Human Starts

Result Algorithm Source
27202.0 A3C LSTM Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
12679.0 A3C FF Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
11190.5 Rainbow Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning
8267.8 Gorila DQN Massively Parallel Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
7684.5 Distributional DQN Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning
7448.0 Prioritized DDQN (prop, tuned) Prioritized Experience Replay
6608.0 DDQN (tuned) Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-learning
6601.0 DuDQN Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
5963.0 Prioritized DDQN (rank, tuned) Prioritized Experience Replay
5825.0 A3C FF 1 day Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
5650.0 Human Massively Parallel Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
5640.0 DQN Massively Parallel Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
5391.0 Prioritized DQN (rank) Prioritized Experience Replay
5375.0 DDQN Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-learning
4871.0 PDD DQN Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
3273.0 Random Massively Parallel Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning

No-op Starts

Result Algorithm Source
48481.5 IMPALA (deep) IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures
22286.0 ACKTR Scalable trust-region method for deep reinforcement learning using Kronecker-factored approximation
19401 Reactor The Reactor: A fast and sample-efficient Actor-Critic agent for Reinforcement Learning
18871.5 Reactor ND The Reactor: A fast and sample-efficient Actor-Critic agent for Reinforcement Learning
18841.5 Reactor The Reactor: A fast and sample-efficient Actor-Critic agent for Reinforcement Learning
17301 NoisyNet DuDQN Noisy Networks for Exploration
14094 DuDQN Noisy Networks for Exploration
12926.0 Rainbow Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning
12236 IQN Implicit Quantile Networks for Distributional Reinforcement Learning
11666.0 DDQN A Distributional Perspective on Reinforcement Learning
11666.0 DuDQN Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
11124 NoisyNet A3C Noisy Networks for Exploration
10659.33 Gorila DQN Massively Parallel Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
10345 QR-DQN-1 Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Quantile Regression
10294 A3C Noisy Networks for Exploration
9344 QR-DQN-0 Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Quantile Regression
8329 C51 A Distributional Perspective on Reinforcement Learning
7964.0 DDQN Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-learning
7875.0 Distributional DQN Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning
7553.0 PDD DQN Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
7035 NoisyNet DQN Noisy Networks for Exploration
6617.5 IMPALA (shallow) IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures
6167 DQN Noisy Networks for Exploration
5947 DQN Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
5925.0 Human Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
5229.2 Human Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
4870.0 DQN A Distributional Perspective on Reinforcement Learning
3747.5 IMPALA (deep, multitask) IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures
3741 Linear Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
3568.0 Random Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
24.9 Contingency Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

Normal Starts

Result Algorithm Source
4342.0 PPO Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithm
4175.7 ACER Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithm
2898.0 A2C Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithm