Chopper is a shoot-tern-up game with you piloting a helicopter. The game loads up with a menu screen. From this screen you can obtain instructions about the four phases of the game, the high scores, and set the skills level. Unfortunately once I left this screen I could find no way back.

At the end of a game, no more lives, the game restarted. I wanted to re-read the instructions and change the skills level. this meant switching the computer off and reloading the game.

The opening screen has you flying past enemy choppers. You have to shoot them down and avoid their fire, If you are successful you are taken to the refuelling screen. Careful positioning of your chopper allows you to refuel in flight from a tanker plane. Another screen presents you with fast moving enemy balloons and geese. If you manage to survive all this you eventually get through to a screen where you have to shoot through a shield in the rocks and destroy the underground enemy power station.

During the game the screen shows your score to date, your remaining lives, highest score, and skill level. The graphics aren't bad but not outstanding. The game itself though didn't grab me, it wasn't different enough from other shoot or be shot games. On the other hand the game is reasonably prices so if you have a yen for chopper flying it might appeal. Of course all pilots must learn somewhere, sometime so the relative simplicity of this game makes it suitable for the younger tyro.

I.C.