Thunderchopper

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Thunderchopper
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Developer(s) Sublogic
Publisher(s) Actionsoft
Platform(s) Apple II, Commodore 64, DOS
Release1986

Thunderchopper is a 1986 video game published by Actionsoft. The DOS version was by Sublogic. [1]

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Gameplay

Thunderchopper is a game in which the player pilots a Hughes 530 MG Defender. [2]

Reception

M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World , and stated that "Thunderchopper lacks the elan and panache that one would have expected." [2]

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References

  1. "Thunderchopper". The Games Machine (27): 53. February 1990.
  2. 1 2 Brooks, M. Evan (February 1988). "Choppers!: Evan's Fighting Gunships". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 44. p. 15.
  3. "The Games Machine Issue 27".
  4. "Computer Play (1989-01)(Computer Play Magazine)(US)". January 1989.