Choplifter is military themed scrolling shooter where you play as a pilot. Take off from your home base and fly across a horizontally-scrolling playfield of rugged terrain to reach the enemy Bungelings' barracks. There, you must land and rescue a group of helpless hostages and return then to your base. To hinder your mission, the enemy will attack with an array of armaments including tanks, jets, and dangerous air mines. To complete a perfect game, you must rescue all of the 64 hostages.
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The first game where I feel the need to specify that I played the original Apple II version. Ugly graphics, boring and simplistic gameplay with a few basic sounds thrown in.
Posiblemente la mejor versión del juego, incluso mejor que la de recreativa. La mecánica es un poco repetitiva pero da para un buen rato de diversión.
Oh it's quite literally an Atari game.
Makes sense.
Fuck off.
Makes sense.
Fuck off.
So I would kill the tanks and then I would go and shoot the houses so I could save the people and when I saved all the people I took out the cartridge and put back in to restart. I was such a dumb child.
From what I've played of it, this game is pretty good and seems somewhat fair, it's just nothing here really makes me want to try again ever. If I saw this in an arcade I'd put a quarter in, but I probably wouldn't run back later to put in another.
I was lucky enough to get to spend a week at a lake "resort" for early summer vacation as a youth. They had a little arcade that no one ever went to that was just a concrete box with a couple games in it and maybe even a laundry. Choplifter was one of the cabinets there.
Now, you'd think that a rowdy youth would be obsessed with a helicopter that can blow up jets and tanks, but for some reason this game didn't take up as much of my time as the other cabinet in that concrete box: Pac Man. Probably because we found a way to cram our grimy mitts into that machine and activate the coin counter...
At any rate, I recall the controls on Choplifter were also a bit tricky to master. I mean, helicopters are a crazy thing to fly around and people crash them all the time. Plus, rockets on helicopters that can shoot down jets? Bananas.
Now maybe if we'd figured out how to play for free...
Review from thedonproject.com
Now, you'd think that a rowdy youth would be obsessed with a helicopter that can blow up jets and tanks, but for some reason this game didn't take up as much of my time as the other cabinet in that concrete box: Pac Man. Probably because we found a way to cram our grimy mitts into that machine and activate the coin counter...
At any rate, I recall the controls on Choplifter were also a bit tricky to master. I mean, helicopters are a crazy thing to fly around and people crash them all the time. Plus, rockets on helicopters that can shoot down jets? Bananas.
Now maybe if we'd figured out how to play for free...
Review from thedonproject.com