c64 game with helicopter.

edited August 2012 in Chit chat
i briefly saw it at a house of a friend's friend when i was a kid.

the view was top down. the scrolling was probably multi-lateral.

it wasn't simply a shoot'em up, there were other task, i seem to recall.

i remember the helicopter flying over structures, maybe metal frameworks, maybe building.

anybody has any idea?
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  • edited August 2012
    was it this? M.A.C.H

    m_a_c_h_02.gif

    had a quick look on Lemon, although not sure this has a helicopter in it
  • edited August 2012
    i don't know. it could be, although a remember different colours. more brownish colours. (or maybe it's something else that suggests me this colour).

    i'll try it and i'll let you know.
  • edited August 2012
    alas, it's not the right one.

    this game is from 1987.

    the game i'm looking for can't have been released after 1986. if not after 1985.

    but thank you for your attempt.
  • edited August 2012
  • edited August 2012
    Edit: forget that guess...
  • edited August 2012
    Vampyre wrote: »
    Edit: forget that guess...
    "

    "which guess?".
    Vanamonde wrote: »

    this may well be it.

    strange, i searched all the games from 1982 to 1986 on lemon64 yesterday night and i didn't notice it.

    i will try it.
  • edited August 2012
    The obvious answer would have been Cyclone, but those poor suckers never got a C64 version.
  • edited August 2012
    Thunder Blade?
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • edited August 2012
    no, joyfish, it's not thunder blade, besides it's been released too late...

    i've played this raid at bulgeling bay, it seems to be it.

    so, vanamonde is the winner.

    by the way, i'm trying all these c64 games i'm curious about, and i find them rather boring: there's not even a hint of colour clash.

    now i'm playing "the detective game" by arguss press software, 1986.
    it stuck in my mind since when i saw a review of it in the italian edition of zzap! (in which they used to review some spectrum games too, sometimes).
  • fogfog
    edited August 2012

    so, vanamonde is the winner.

    by the way, i'm trying all these c64 games i'm curious about, and i find them rather boring: there's not even a hint of colour clash.

    .

    I was at work, so didn't see this but have gone with bungling bay also :) . as it's a fav of mine. failing that there are a few more I could have said, but not top down. e.g. battle valley , Fort Apocalypse , chop lifter AND more given a bit of thinking time.

    regarding clash, well the backgrounds are chars .. and the main things are sprites (normally).. but there are limits to sprites , per scanline .. so causes issues with say things like beat em up's etc.. e.g. golden axe... if you have an emulator.. load up an action replay cart in it.. freeze the game, press S and mess with the screen :) even clear it, and restart the game.. if you type "io" in the monitor it'll bring up the values of all the screen stuff as well :)

    lemon has missed obscure games I like from speccy, that 64 owners don't overly know about ..

    remember c64 isn't so hot with 3d stuff or iso's.. due to how the speccy deals with the drawing. but the c64 suits other games.. and even the atari 8 bit suits certain things better.. e.g. ballblazer / rescue on fractulus / elektraglide :)

    krakatoa , speccy is a nice game lots of keys..but you get used to em
  • edited August 2012
    i see, i see, fog.

    i find c64 colours too sad and bland.

    i'll think i will try that alice in wonderland 2d arcade adventure.
  • edited August 2012
    "

    "which guess?".

    I know it's now been found but my initial guess was Airwolf, but that's side-on so it couldn't be that. I then bunged "helicopter commodore 64" into Google Image and got this:

    http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/purple-heart/screenshots/gameShotId,296788/ and thought with all that brown-ness it had to be it. Then I read the caption and realised the helicopter was only a minor part of the game :-)
  • edited August 2012
    i think i was wrong about the browness. it must have been the keyboard.

    anyway, even the perspective is not right, in that game. not enough top down.

    by the way, it seems to have a loading screen reminding of gryzor or something.
  • fogfog
    edited August 2012
    purple heart is like a poor mans ikari warriors.. which jon twiddy did an AMAZING conversion to c64 :D

    Helikopter Jagd by ocean ? by Joffa's pal Mr hat.. Stephen Wahid from ocean did the loading screen for both that n gryzor.

    (aggh!! gryzor = colin porch = parasol stars that was never finished :( why didn't ocean keep copies of the dev disks!!! )

    Tiger Mission - it has a message included for hackers in the code hehe ...like tiger heli (arcade)

    protector , mastertronic

    mr heli is a nice game as is Kamikaze

    failing that it's gunship :)
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