Chopper X-1

Personal Computer Games

Graphics 5/10

Sound 7/10

Originality 2/10

Lasting Interest 5/10

Overall 5/10

Chris Anderson 5/10

MACHINE: Spectrum 16/48K JOYSTICK: Optional SUPPLIER: R&R Software PRICE: £5.50 Fasten your safety belts for yet another Spectrum shoot-'em-up. This time you're on board a helicopter pitted against waves of 'Spinad, Spore and Fusa' which look respectively like waggling scissors, red boxes, and blue octopuses. You can move your machine up or down as it moves slowly across a boring green landscape. But you'll need one finger constantly on the fire button. The Spinad, which are the most numerous, bounce diagonally toward you in large numbers. Meanwhile the occasional Fusa, which floats down screen, must be destroyed before reaching the ground or it will mutate into Spores which attack you from behind. As a last resort you can use one of your two smart bombs to obliterate everything on screen. But you have only two. The sound is surprisingly good for the Spectrum. and all in all this is a reasonable game for 16K.

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Use of Computer 80%

Graphics 56%

Playability 50%

Getting Started 75%

Addictive Qualities 38%

Value For Money 43%

Overall 57%

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Producer: R&R Software Memory Required: 16K Retail Price: £5.95 Language: Machine code Helicopter games seem to have been popular recently. In this new game you are commander of a chopper gunship, and your task is to destroy invading aliens. These come in the form of SPINAD, best described as flapping Y shaped things, SPORE and FUSA. The Spinad have a zig-zag formation, moving slowly across the screen from right to left. Your chopper is stationed on the left and only moves up and down. The Fusa burrow into the earth and then fire out Spores. The other hazard is the weather - it's raining that old arcade favourite, meteors which travel diagonally down the screen. Being hit by anything, of course, means a loss of life. COMMENTS Control keys: 6/7 = down/up 0 = fire, 9 = smart bomb Joystick: Kempston, Mikrogen, AGF, Protek, cursor clip on Keyboard play: responsive Colour: average Graphics: average, nice and big though Sound: very good Skill levels: 1 Lives: 3

Dancing bow-ties threaten your Chopper X-1.