HELI-COMMANDO 2017

I'm really lovin' that retro gem! But be warned, this game is currently lacking the Tag "Difficult" ... it's really one heck of a example for "easy to learn, hard to master"! HELI COMMANDO and Dark Souls have more in common as you might think first place: - There's no tutorial, you have to learn by yourself - Unforgiving, there's no "health" or "shield" or such ♥♥♥♥♥ things. You hit something, you die. - You will die a lot ... - When you die, the entire level resets - You can't freely save, the game gives you jumpcodes every couple of levels - The feeling after mastering a level you played and failed like 10 times is incredibly rewarding!! Don't get me wrong here, I meant this absolutely in a positive way :-) The only enemy in this game is YOU. Sounds crazy? Here's why you crash your heli first place: - you are too greedy or - you are too cocky or maybe - you've been unconcentrated for just too long When you want to collect everything to let your highscore skyrocket, you really have to think ahead and try to stay calm and focused all the time. Ah, I forgot to mention: You're constantly running out of fuel and have to refuel at specific places that are placed all around the…

Airwolf on Steam nice !!!

Great game! Feels like Choplifter, Fort Apocalypse and Airwolf on C64.

Sorry Pal, there's only room for cats and snowmen on the copter, no humans allowed! This game doesn't remind me any of the C64 games (yeah-yeah, Airwolf, Choplifter, H.E.R.O etc) BUT reminds me those mid-late 90's shareware shovelware titles which were bundled on CD's, before the Windows XP era. The game It's damn hard! Especially if you try to compete! It was 0.22€ on sale, had to grab it! Also: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2928574391

HELI-COMMANDO 2017 is a 2D retro "arcade" style action game intended to look like a C-64 game, something it comes close to but doesn't quite nail, leaving a somewhat lazy looking mess of a game (considering this came out in 2017 alongside games like Breath of the Wild, Dirt 4 and Prey to name a few). Gameplay is fairly standard stuff for home PC games of the 1980's that died back in the 1980's, as you "fly" a 2D helicopter over a side view selection of platforms, shooting baddies and rescuing people. Only badly, because this really is slapped together badly, and while some small portion of the blame goes to Microsoft's rather crappy XNA Studio, that's been shown to have made much better games, so there's really no excuse there either. Let's go over the defects. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the g…

This reminds me of the 8-bit computer game disks you could find in the bargain bin back in 1989. Except back then bargain bin games cost $10 in 1989 dollars, while you can get this game on sale for 49 cents in 2022--which is practically like being paid to take it in 1989 dollars! It's simple, frustrating, and not very impressive, but it mimics the kind of charm that came with low-effort games back when low-effort still required assembly language and a memory map of the operating system.