Chopper Commando  1990
DOS Freeware (former shareware)
Developed by Mark Currie
Published by Mark Currie
Genre: Simulation
User rating: 8.8 (5 votes)

System Requirements

IBM or compatible
256K (it will probly run on less)
CGA graphics or higher
Mouse optional
An old favorite of mine. This simple chopper game has a number of missions, sarcastic dialog, and beautiful 4-color graphics. Man that takes me back. Using your helicopter's bullets, missiles, bombs and nukes, destroy other helicopters, transport planes, missiles, some weird looking tanks, and any buildings that you're not fond of. Even when you're walking around outside of your chopper you can still throw grenades. The documentation with v2.0 mentioned that for $5, the author would send you the source code for v2.5 which added new missions to a new "Very Hard" category, but was never distributed compiled and was not to be mass distributed or uploaded to BBS. He was kind enough to send me a compiled copy that includes the source code, and this may be the only site that has it.

Graphics

CGA 320×200×4c
Chopper Commando

Downloads

Chopper Commando v2.56 and Source code in Borland Turbo Pascal 5 (157,780 bytes) xxxx DOS Play online
Chopper Commando v2.0 (62,555 bytes) xxxx DOS

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Availability

Author Mark Currie has generously released this game as freeware.