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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Low Blow from Apple/Rescue Raiders GS
Message-ID: <90266.224535ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 02:45:35 GMT
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In article <7108@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
says:
>
>In article <1990Sep23.194958.21310@ee.rochester.edu> seah@ee.rochester.edu
>(David Seah) writes:
><> I said doubly quoted junk:
><>	Rescue Raiders used some of the same graphics as Choplifter
><>(you HAVE to remember choplifter if you've been in the // world for a
><>while!)...
><What do you mean by this?  As far as I remember, there were no graphics
><"lifted" from Choplifter, though many of the elements were there.  The
><running guys and the helicopter were much different looking.
>	I'm pretty sure that at least the running guys were basically
>the exact same pixel representations on both games. I thought the
>helicopters were the same too but now you've made me doubt that..
>
The helicopters are much different, both in looks and in how they
fly. The basic concept of the graphics of both games are much
the same though. I like how your helicopter can take damage and
begins to smoke, with bigger and bigger clouds.

As for the people, the ones in choplifter look more like those
in lode runner, but although all are similar I really don't think
any are the same. But think about it - how many different kinds
of teeny people can one draw with apple // graphics (in white)?

><My absolute favorite part of the whole game was the missiles!  They were
><guided, and the enemy would launch swarms of them at you!  It was truly
><the test of an excellent pilot when you could fly all the way from
><your base to the enemy base and drop your guys into their bunker...without
><getting blown to smithereens by the guided missiles spewing out of the
><Main Base every second!  The missiles obeyed the laws of physics, and
><would become "dead bombs" when they ran out of fuel...these are the best
><missiles I have ever seen in an arcade game!  True "seat-of-the-pants"
><flying...not many games have approached this.  At least, I can't think of
><one right now.
>	Yeah, you mean the ones where they'd shoot off of the jeeps??
>And I think the jeeps would blow up since they shot off their missile
>(and thus had no purpose in the game anymore!).

Yes, and you could also shoot them from your helicopter by pressing
both buttons simultaneously. My neighbor my freshman year had
a pirated copy of this game, which had unlimited missiles.
That was pretty fun. He would save up money, blowing up anything
of the enemy's that would get too far, and then send out a whole
line of equipment in a certain pattern... then pick up as many men
as possible and drop them into the line in strategic places. Then
he would just use his unlimited missiles to allow the convoy to
reach the other side of the screen, as long as he could (no unlimited
lives). He could win the first level almost every time that way,
although the second level stumped him since he usually only had
one helicopter left to work with.

(note: not a plug for pirated games, although it was much more
fun than the real version with limited missiles between fill-ups)