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 On 02/08/2019 at 05:29 PM by Matt Snee See More From This User » |
Another game I played on my Apple II after school was Choplifter. In this game, you are tasked with flying a helicopter and picking up hostages fleeing burning buildings and returning them to your headquarters. The headquarters was on the far right side of the 2D map, and you flew to the left, and could pick up 15 hostages at a time. When you returned to base, the hostages fled one by one into the headquarters.
Obstacles included tanks shooting at you (tanks shooting at helicopters?) and eventually attack jets. The controls of the helicopter are actually pretty good for a 2D game of this era - much more realistic than Chopper Command anyway.
The funny thing is that if you weren't careful, you could crush the hostages if you landed on them wrong. Poor bastards. You could even do this when they were fleeing your helicopter into the base, which was expecially rough.
Over the years, this game was updated and updated, including even a 3D version that bombed in the 90s. When the original came out, the gaming press hailed it as an instant classic, and that it would one day be heralded in a future games hall of fame.
Or not.
I remember that the sonar guy on the American sub in the Tom Clancy book Hunt For Red October was a savant of sound and an obsessive Choplifter player. It marked him as a nerd in the book, but I took it to mean, he was the real hero. Ha!
I played a version on Atari and then an HD remake (or update?) on Xbox Live. That version isn't back compat for Xbox One or I'd go play it right now.
ha, that's funny about Red October. I tried to read that book when I was a kid but couldn't handle it.
Yes! I had Choplifter on the Apple II as well! Although since I was just a little kid, I couldn't figure out the controls at first. The Apple II was kind of my first gaming system, and I have a lot of memeories playing games like Choplifter, Spare Change, Aquatron, and many versions of Pac-Man. The first game I ever completed was a proto-point and click text adventure game called Mickey's Space Adventure on the Apple II, and I felt such a sense of accomplishment as a kid when I did that, and that's one of the reasons why I like to review kids games now at GamerDad.com.
I think I remember reviewing a Choplifter update/remake on the 360. I remember it being very hard.
Those were the days, Cary!!
Damn. Really thought this would be about Wynona Ryder fucking people up with a chainsaw to get those sweet five-finger discounts at the local Macy's.
Wait, why don't we have a gaming hall of fame?
I pay to see that movie.
I don't know. Maybed we do?
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