Chopper Command (Atari 2600) How To Beat Home Video Games

[declaration963]

It's not alien jet, but soviet jet VS US convoy with chopper on Afghanistan

[MVillani1985]

Little known fact: This game utilized the side scrolling mechanism three years before Super Mario Bros (often credited as the first) did in 1985.

[glitchedgamer]

@MVillani1985 So did Defender and Pitfall and Jungle Hunt and many others.

[MVillani1985]

@glitchedgamer Very true and good point. I was just pointing out that people think that Super Mario Bros was the first sidescroller while the truth is that they'd already been well established before 1985.

[glitchedgamer]

@MVillani1985 Well, Mario was really the first one that perfected side scrolling gaming, so I think that is why most people consider it the first. Defender and Chopper Command really just looped around when you went off the map. Pitfall was broken into screens that didn't flow together. Mario was the first to really nail continuous, flowing levels that had distinct variations as opposed to the same couple screens repeating.

[MVillani1985]

@glitchedgamer That's a good point. It was kind of a progress that took years but finally got itself right by the mid 80s. But Defender and Chopper Command were the first real step. Many people don't realize that inventions don't happen overnight, many contribute to them through their own piece of the puzzle. One is Rock and Roll, people have a notion that perfectly formed rock and roll came about in 1954 or 1955, when early forms were around as early as 1948 and forerunners as early as 1941.

[glitchedgamer]

@MVillani1985 I guess Mario is just the default answer for most people since it's a game everyone knows. We are just part of the few that pride ourselves on gaming history, so we know truth lol.

[MVillani1985]

@glitchedgamer Yeah, that's true, most people these days don't know too many games outside of the most famous few during the classic era of the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Also most kids these days had no idea the Sega and Nintendo were arch rivals, or that Atari once wanted to buy Nintendo.

[glitchedgamer]

@MVillani1985 I love all the little trivia from the early days of the gaming industry. My favorite is the story behind Activision's famous 2600 sunset.

[MVillani1985]

@glitchedgamer Another interesting thing that people don't realize is that video games existed in some form a good 30 years before the Atari 2600's debut.

[glitchedgamer]

@MVillani1985 It really is a very deep history.

[MVillani1985]

@glitchedgamer What's funny is they think 1947 is when the computer was invented and not the video game, and they're in total disbelief when they find the computer was invented around 100 AD.

[glitchedgamer]

@MVillani1985 Yeah, people don't realize computers can also me mechanical devices.

[MVillani1985]

@glitchedgamer The biggest surprise to most people though is probably that the fax machine was only invented 15 years after the match and a good 30+ years before the telephone, phonograph, or anything like that.

[xraycat30]

This was one of my all-time favorite Atari games. The sound effects and game-play were fantastic (love the sound of the chopper gun) and the rader HUD was truly innovative for it's time. Great vid...5 stars!!!

[rickdabritt]

Love that game. Never gets old.

[czuket]

thanks