Last Mission (video game)

Last Mission is a top-down multidirectional shooter developed by Data East and released in the arcades worldwide in 1986. The game is similar to Time Pilot as players have full movement control over their ship and can move it in all eight directions.

Not to be confused with The Last Mission (video game).

Last Mission
Arcade title screen
Developer(s)	Data East
Publisher(s)	Data East EU: U.S. Gold (ports)
Designer(s)	Akira Sakuma Kenji Nishikawa, Tomotaka Osada, Kenichi Fujimoto (hardware)
Programmer(s)	Akira Sakuma, Satoshi Imamura (arcade) Keith Purkiss (C64)
Artist(s)	Harumi Nomura Atsushi Kushima Shinji Noda Koji Akibayashi Super Tak
Composer(s)	Yukihiko Kitahara, Michiya Hirasawa, Azusa Hara (arcade) David Whittaker (C64)
Platform(s)	Arcade, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release	1986
Genre(s)	Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Plot

The players assume the role of an alien-humanoid space pilot who has been exiled from their home galaxy for committing an unlearned crime. The only way the player character can return is to restore their honor; the only way to do so is to invade and defeat the alien invaders who have been known to frequently attack the player character's people using a ship called the Main Fighter.

Reception

Reception

Award

Publication	Award
Computer and Video Games	C+VG Hit[1]

In Japan, Game Machine listed Last Mission on their December 1, 1986 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.^[2]