Choplifter game wiki

Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Language English. There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Software Library: C Software Library. According to the backstory, the helicopter parts were smuggled into the country described as "mail sorting equipment. Although the Iran hostage crisis ended the year before the game was released, Gorlin has stated "the tie-in with current events was something that never really crossed my mind until we published.

The helicopter named "Hawk-Z" in the Master System version manual can face three directions: left, right, or forward facing the player. It may shoot at enemies in any of these directions and need not fly in the same direction it is facing. The forward-facing mode is used primarily to shoot tanks. Care must also be taken to both protect the hostages from enemy fire and not accidentally shoot them oneself. The player rescues the prisoners by first shooting one of the hostage buildings to release them, landing to allow the prisoners to board the sortie , and returning them to the player's starting point.

Each building holds 16 hostages, and 20 passengers can be carried at a time, so several trips must be made. When the chopper is full, no more hostages will attempt to board; they will wave the helicopter off and wait hopefully for its return. Usually, each trip back is more risky than the previous one since the enemy is alerted and has deployed a counter-attack.

If the player lands directly on top of a hostage, or completely blocks the building exit, the hostage s will be killed. In the Apple II and Atari versions, hostages will also die if the vehicle is not landed correctly it is slightly tilted , being crushed as they attempt to board the chopper. While grounded, the helicopter may be attacked by enemy tanks, which it can shoot at only by returning to the air. Also, the enemy scrambles jet fighters which can attack the vehicle in the air with air-to-air missiles or on the ground with bombs.

Tanks and a jet target the helicopter while hostages flee a burning building in the original Apple II game. Choplifter was ported to many other home systems of the era. Borna : "With this it all began - one of the first games on the C64, which has presumably also been played by everyone. Tanks are evil, we had to admit to ourselves with a heavy heart. TheRyk : "The first level is a breeze but then it gets rather tricky, when the jets come.

By all means this is an evergreen, at which there is not much to criticise as measured by the release year. Very good 7 points! Shakermaker : "For the year this is really a cool game. I also like the movements of the helicopter when it turns. But I never really could get into it. However, it gets a nostalgic bonus and that makes then 5 out of 10 points from me - sorry guys.

Shmendric : "I didn't like it that much on the C64, graphics mediocre, controls miserable. The Sega Master System version was great - admittedly this 'copy' would never have existed without the C64 original The home computer versions mostly had only 16 colors and only one scenario due to the hardware. The Commodore VC 20 version was even only monochrome in yellow. With the Apple II version, the helicopter must also be landed more carefully. A similar game is Fort Apocalypse Synapse Software , Only in was the arcade game by Sega produced.

In addition to the much better graphics parallax scrolling and large color palette , there were also various scenarios. In addition to a desert environment, there was also a sea, a cave and a city mission. Background music and voice output were also built into the game.