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i think i know what youre talkin bout, but maybe not
regardless, it reminded me of a game we had on our ONE grade school computer, that each kid got to play for about an hour once every six months. lol. you were in a turrett at the bottom of the screen, and copters or planes flew overhead dropping parachuters, and you had to shoot em down before they hit the ground. if you let four or five paratroopers get on the ground, they stood on each others back (lol, like three stick figured paratroopers high) and the last paratrooper would use the resulting pile of stick figured humanity like a staircase to get to the top of your turret. i think they dropped a grenade in or something like that, cause when that happened, GAME OVER. also, i have one i would love to remember what it was called. i think this one was maybe on the ATARI 2600. you were at the bottom of the screen, with kinda the same premise, except, you used your joystick to move a little dot around the screen. the dot was an aiming tool. there were lines that i assume were supposed to represent decending nuclear misiles, that are slowly (at first) making their way to the bottom of the screen. the object was to use move your little dot to get far enough ahead of the incoming line, lol, or "nuclear missile" and push the joysticks button, this would assumingly launch countermeasures in the form of what was i guess another missile. anyway, when you pressed the button, a few seconds later, circle would start expanding from the place where your point had been when you pushed the button. any of the lines, strike that, any of the BEGINING (meaning the point on the decending line closest to the ground) that came in contact with this expanding "explosion" was destroyed, and theyby removed from the screen. the whole catch to this was that the incoming missiles came in faster and faster, but the ammount of time that it took for your countermeasures to expand (about 1-2 seconds) didnt speed up. so you ultimately had to try to "kill" as many incoming lines with each of your slow expanding explosions that you could. this caused a little bit of strategy and prioritizing to come into play. it was at first glance your basic atari 2600 kinda game, but i remember playing the socks off that one when i was young, and i was a poster child for ADHD back then, so i KNOW this game was good, or i simply wouldnt have been able to sit still long enough to play it!
anyway, if anyone knows either of the two games i just mentioned, let me know please. and if you ever find out what the name of your game was with the choppers, let me know, as that might trigger me to remember my game, if its not in fact the same game.
God save us....
We're too busy killing the Earth.
Roland Deshayne
aka MichaelJLucasWV
gunslinger from waaay back.
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