Chopper I
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Chopper I is a scrolling shooter for the arcade developed and published by SNK in 1988.
In the game, you control a helicopter who must shoot at enemies in a manner similar to Tiger-Heli from three years earlier. The game appears to have sold so poorly, it was never ported to a single home console or computer.
Contents
Personal
Own? | No. |
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Won? | No. |
I randomly came across this game on MAME. I found it to be pretty awful and haven't considered it since.
Review
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Best Version: Arcade
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- The bosses are large and interesting.
- The graphics are pretty attractive.
Bad
- The game is obscenely difficult, too hard for the average gamer to enjoy. It was clearly made to drain quarters.
- The idea of having walls and towers block bullets is a good idea, but it gets over-used in the later areas and becomes annoying.
- When you die, you are sent back to a previous checkpoint, which is annoying.
Ugly
- The game doesn't break any new ground in the genre and is quite dull.
- There is only one upgradable gun. Kind of dull compared to other shooters of the time which usually have three or more.
- There is little variety in the game, you'll see most of what the game has to offer by the end of the first stage.
- The game forces you to play the entire game twice to beat it. This is a shameless way to make a game longer than it is. While I like when games introduce a hard mode to challenge exceptional players, they actually made this a mandatory part of the game's story!
Media
Arcade Art
Documentation
Screenshots
Fonts
The game's font is in the video game font collection.
Videos
Play Online
Representation
Strong female character? | Fail | There are no characters. |
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Bechdel test? | Fail | There are no characters. |
Strong person of color character? | Fail | There are no characters. |
Queer character? | Fail | There are no characters. |
Titles
MAME code: chopper
Links
Categories:
- Video Games
- 1988 Video Games
- Video games developed by SNK
- Video games published by SNK
- Arcade Games
- Video Game Genre - Action
- Video Game Genre - Scrolling shooter
- Video Game Genre - Shooter
- Media Theme - Science fiction
- Multiplayer
- Multiplayer Alternating versus
- Software Distribution Model - Commercial
- Video Games I Don't Own
- Video Games I Haven't Beaten
- Video Game Rating - 2
- Video Game Graphics Rating - 4
- Video Game Sound Rating - 2
- Video games which can be played online
- Video games without a strong female character
- Video games that fail the Bechdel test
- Video games without a strong person of color character
- Video games without a queer character
- Video Game Prime Order - Action, Adventure, Strategy
- Game Mechanic - Autoscroller