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Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« on: March 22, 2003, 06:52:10 PM »
Side-scroller, ok graphics and gameplay. Must have played it sometime between 92 and 94.

It's not too easy to explain how this looked, but here goes anyway:
You flew around shooting things, all seen from the side. The levels was something like a hill, with things both up in treetops and down on the ground to shoot at.  Think a level was typically around 4x4 screens large or so. Quite large, anyway.

There was all sorts of enemies to shoot at, probably even other helicopters (this is a bit vague).

The enemies could have been vietnamese, I seem to remember straw huts and stuff. Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw this game, because I've been searching review pages and games databases all evening, and none of the names ring a bell :-(
 

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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2003, 06:59:25 PM »
I sold my Amiga for a small fortune, but a part of my soul went with it.
 

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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2003, 07:03:09 PM »
Apocalypse (from Virgin) ??
 

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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2003, 07:10:03 PM »
Desert Strike or one of those?
Zeewolf?
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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2003, 07:12:35 PM »
That sounds like Apocalypse to me.  I still occasionally play it now :-D

I've checked around and can't find any screenshots for it :-(
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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2003, 07:22:44 PM »
You know, I thought it started with something "A" or something, but I couldn't find it. Gee, thanks. Now onwards to the glory of tracking down a copy of Apocalypse. Can't see any on ebay, and BTTR doesn't have it (so it's not abandonware...). Anyone with a working set around the house? I have spent ALL day just trying to figure out what it's called, imagine how long it's gonna take me to find a legal copy? No Linux kernels for anyone for a month!!! (not that I have so far delivered anyway, but I was beginning to think I could get the 2.5.65 kernel to work this weekend. That was before I started up UAE :-) )

Thanks for the tips

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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2003, 07:26:04 PM »
You occasionally play it?????

You dirty rotten bastard you :-)
Nah, no hard feelings. Must control self. Arghh. Frell frell frell.
 

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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2003, 07:39:33 PM »
@olegil
 
I play it too, occationaly. Quite cool game, although I only ever had the demo version (two (three?) of the campaigns don't work. But it has got nice controls.
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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2003, 08:39:55 PM »
Could this missing game be the even older "SilkWorm" that had two players, one in a jeep and one in a chopper ?
Let us know !  :-?
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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2003, 08:41:28 PM »
Tigers Bane is a great sideways scrolling helicopter game in which you can choose from several kinds of helicopter, fly with two other wingmen, and get air support from fixed wing aircraft.
You play through a full campaign with the result of each battle affecting the final outcome.
 

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Re: Name the helicopter game, please. I'm going mad here...
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2003, 08:51:05 PM »
Uhm, I already DID let you know. It was Apocalypse. I don't need any more hints now :-)