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The Impossible Missions of Impossible Mission.

      Impossible Mission is the type of game that requires amazing puzzle-solving skills, fast hand-eye coordination and just a great understanding of what the heck you're supposed to do in this game. In my time playing, I played through the game 4 times each time getting further and further before ultimately losing. At the start of the game, there is a robotic voice giving one of those classic "you're doomed" kinds of messages and then nothing. Just complete silence, there's no kind of 8-bit music playing, or any sort of instruction as to how to play. They basically just throw in with nothing.      Now the actual gameplay mechanics are quite interesting, you have one speed of running, which makes sense for the era of the game, you also have a very nicely animated front flip that acts as our jump and that's pretty much it. It's nothing too fancy but it works really well for the game itself.  The one thing that got me utterly confused was the puzzles. At f