Attack of the Timelord!

Attack of the Timelord! puts the player in control of a horizontally moving Time Machine armed with a laser cannon. Spyrus the Deathless, the Timelord of Chaos, sends fleets of Time Ships to destroy it.

Gameplay

Use the directional stick to move horizontally and the action button to fire. Each level is completed by destroying every Time Ship. The game contains 256 stages with progressively faster and better-armed enemies.

Enemy Weapons

• Missiles: Travel in straight lines toward the bottom of the screen.
• Antimatter mines: Follow the movement of the player's Time Machine.
• Annihilators: Reach the bottom of the screen before attempting to strike from the sides.
• Nucleonic Time killers: Robot-piloted destroyers that can anticipate human actions.

Scoring

• Missile: 2 points
• Antimatter mine: 4 points
• Time Ship: 5 points
• Annihilator: 8 points
• Time killer: 16 points

The Timelord appears at the beginning of each level. Starting the game while pressing 0 can jam his transmission, preventing him from reappearing after each fleet is destroyed.