Choplifter - Sega Master System - Speed Run 1 of 2

[nostalgiko]

il mio primo videogame a casa!

[blackseakiss]

Jesus, I barely remember this. Must've been playing in nappies.

[uber1and]

how come the enemy bases have english flags and the home base is usa. oh - "friendly fire"! of course!

[EmergeAzureThunder]

Screw level 3, though. Never made it past that one.

[MikeSV1989]

talbot1939, you're the best SEGA Master System player I've ever seen.

[flawlessfat]

this game rocks!

[swordbook]

I used to be hooked on this game as a kid.

[SexyPiecez]

@swordbook YEP ME TOO!!!!



[XDm45carrier]

@swordbook but then you took an arrow in the knee?

[KLEITON22]

This game is very fantastic. Playing this game, I remember of my times of child in Brazil. Congratulations everybody. This game is very good!!!!!

[Praioscal]

We played the first stage for ages and fucked around alot. And then this random superman flying out of a bunker. WTF

[elvis723]

i used to love this game! i remember playing it at the arcade also! thanks for the memories

[pizarro83]

why did it not bother me back then, i mean WTF with the "music or tunes"

[PaxEmpyrean]

You had to shoot ten drones in a row without missing one to spawn Superman. Can't believe I still remember all this. It's been 20 years since I've played this game.

[lordioris]

the music.... it hurts my ears!!! cool game thou

[icepicjoey]

@lordioris 8 bit graphis and music, classicly annoying. These were the days when there were no audio option to turn the sound or music off.

[MGoodbar]

Brings back memories :) awesome classic game

[gck86]

love this game since i was a kid,wow i only one year old playing this game since 1987

[MadCircle01]

@gck86 u were a year old when u were playing this game? dought it, u were just chewing on your dad's controller. and maybe a little drool

[vidviewer23]

Loved this game as a kid. Ashamed to say I never beat the cave level. Maybe someday I will revisit it and dig out my old SMS.

[METAL1ON]

@vidviewer23 Fly backwards into the caves it makes it much easier.

[Nevermore8891]

DOES ANYBODY KNOWS IF I CAN PLAY SEGA MASTER SYSTEM GAMES ON PC??

[Argiri]

@Nevermore8891 try the Meka emulator

[RallyDon82]

definitley the best version apart from the arcade.

[StickyIky]

talk about black hawk down!....lol crash landed that chopper many times!...

[clevelandsteamer1000]

its an over used cliche' but I have to say FOR ITS TIME...AWESOME GAME!

[mgospeed31]

Jesus Christ...talk about old school!!!!

[ugforthewin]

Awesome music.

[MegaMaddog42]

Apache air assault VS Choplifter LOL LOL cannot think :D

[hubbahwah]

\m/

[johneymute]

trough what 1985.

[cs512tr]

ahh memories

[shiloushilou]

graphics suck, music is bip boop bam, story is not..... but damn, sms games were so good!!!

[EastCoastDude99]

@shiloushilou........for a mid 80's game, I thought the graphics were pretty damn good.

[aarn321]

Never did get through the cave when I was a kid.

[tightlypackedcoil]

Getting superman to fly out of the bunkers and other secret areas actually made the hostages run much faster.

[TheEgotasticRipoff]

Get to the choppa!!!

[2stonedbirds]

I loved this game as a kid... I only beat the cave level once, and then my brother stole the controller and proceeded to die on the next level... which was a night mission if I remember correctly. Never beat the cave again and to this day I still hate my brother. ;)

[koffypr]

How many people could fit on a F***** chopper?!

[candygameengine]

@koffypr Those aren't people he's picking up.  They're clowns, and everyone knows you can fit many clowns into a small car, or, in this case, a chopper.

[spacecoke]

haha... listening to that music now makes me realise why it used to send my parents nuts xD

[JESSIEEDSELL21]

lol i remember i used to feel so bad if i ever left one guy behind xD

[Echostarwb]

I could never beat this game as a kid.

[CescoPisicoli]

WTF is that thing that makes that noise and flys next to u at 7:57? :S

[pookieizzy7]

reminds me of Cobra Command

[dpoeira13]

I bow to you .. i never beat that damn cave ... and yeah there was a superman lol ...

one of my first SMS games!

[PomingtonBear]

Wanklifter

[talltom1973]

I had that Sega Master System. It was a nice system.

[CrazyShacklez]

lol never played this but it looks cool

[013Remco]

I remember this game...it was pretty hard!

[citizenlen]

I liked gangster town too

[citizenlen]

omg i miss the 80's games

[chestyfalla]

awesome f-ing game!

[Vanrocco66]

Is this game available on any of the Wii or Xbox 360 "classic game" CD's?

[JESSIEEDSELL21]

@Vanrocco66 unfortunately no but master systems sell for about 30 to 50 bucks on ebay and the game is fairly easy to find :D

[Overdoseplus]

If you shot the hull of the carrier (the ship you start on) in the second stage, jaws would show up as an easter egg.

[aeloria]

God I wish games still used this kind of terrible music. So awesomely nostalgic.

[MusicWeltenSchmerz]

classic

[ninelivecat]

I reckon this was one of the best games on the Sega Master System

[Jevic72]

i remember playing this in the corner store near my house. I remember one of the levels being in a city. I got good at the game. I was also taught a trick that if your chopper gets hit, you had to quickly hit two buttons on the console over and over and hostages woiuld come out with parachutes!

[soopahsoopah]

no shit that cave was a bitch... stalagtites, fireballs and trouble-bubbles

[rpuffer]

agreed, the cave was a ridiculous level

[336Torana]

that fucking stage ...

[METAL1ON]

@soopahsoopah The caves were easy if you did them backwards.

[gck86]

@soopahsoopah inside the cave is damn hard to play.

[METAL1ON]

@soopahsoopah The caves were easy if you flew backwards into them try it.

[icepicjoey]

@soopahsoopah I learned the trick for the caves was to fly backwards throught them, the fire balls and falling rocks are delayed in reacting to you, lol, go figure. It works every time for me.

[BigDeluxe79]

I used to play this all the time when I was a kid. Could NEVER get past level 3.

[jf1gd2]

wtf is that thing at 7:56???

what happens after you beat level 4?

[jf1gd2]

this was my favorite sms game...i especially love the 2nd level with the boats. its beautiful.

did anyone notice how it is nearly impossible to hit the middle gun on the smaller fullsize boats because of the tower it's wedged in between?

[Forzaabruzzo]

AWESOME!

[OriginalBeast001]

i had this game when i wus 3 XD

[creepingice]

this game was hard . so was my hero

[megaman2160]

i could never beat this game

[buddamarsden]

same level 3 were solid it wud b mint if they braiught choplifter out on ps3 u not rekon? haha

[PKMNwww411]

Don't like the screen shake so much.

This game is such a great classic.

[Relugus]

Parallax scrolling FTW.

[tamagoMMA]

This was my favorite version of Choplifter.

[JESSIEEDSELL21]

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[hambone9119]

COULD NEVER PASS 4th level as a kid still couldnt when i last played it at 16 im now 21 and still cant pass it i love the game though i still have the carttridge.

[Lengonator]

Do anyone remember that Superman Flew out of one of those bunkers? or is it just me?

[armand1280]

Yes, you had to shoot those rising objects a certain number of times consecutively. I think it gave you a speed upgrade or something.

[nomen]

@Lengonator

yes! I remember him :)

[CescoPisicoli]

@Lengonator ya i never understood what that was about, but it made the men run faster tho...?

[sagoorbest]

@Lengonator i do , but vaguely

[LudicrousScotty101]

@Lengonator Yes i got SuperMan one time when i beat this cave stage,Hardest sonova bitch this stage wuz,think i probably only beat it once or twice,the whole time i owned Choplifter.

[daviddavedavey]

@Lengonator

Yeah, if you shot enough of those weird floaty-up guys from the opening mouth-type machine, Superman would fly out. Every time you got Superman to fly out, your little dudes on the ground could run faster. Get Superman to appear like 10 times and they'd run like Prefontaine.

[arasgh80]

there was a superman, I am sure.

Cave was terrible. Never expacted to see that game again. Thx for upload

[damienmetalwind]

@Lengonator

I thought Dracula flew out. Along those lines, I remember seeing Jaws in level 2. Maybe it was just me,

[METAL1ON]

@Lengonator Yeah superman was in there every time you found one your little men would run a bit faster to the helicopter.

[ABCMeEFG]

@Lengonator Not just you.  I remember that

[jonndough0]

@Lengonator - YES!! LOLOL, not only do I remember Superman on Level 1 (shoot the burnt out bunkers after you've saved the prisoners)...but also Jaws on Level 2 ( shoot the front of one of the ships & hover down onto water)....AND they also had ET hidden in the cave part of Level 3.... Cheers - J

[METAL1ON]

@Lengonator Yes if you shot in a certain spot superman did fly out and the more of them you made appear the faster the men would run to your helicopter when you landed.

[icepicjoey]

@Lengonator Yep superman, jaws on the sea levle and rambo on the destert levels would pop out now and then. Never figured out how to purposly spawn them, seemed completely random.

But that might have been the arcade version only - not sure if I ever saw it on the sega master system. I recently pulled out my old sega master system and this game is the only one I had, lol, love this game and hate it too.

[345nsg4945g]

@Lengonator if you hovered and shot down so many ICBMs consecutively, than Sup would fly out!

[Tigerman1138]

@Lengonator If you shot the bunker, especially a burnt out one, you could trigger a "hero" and he made the hostages "appear" to run faster. The missle on the water levels from the subs were a bitch. Trick I discovered to beat it , especially hard levels, was to have the chopper face backwards and go backwards into places.

[soniq351]

@Lengonator I haven't played the game in ages but I think to make superman fly out you need to shoot those things coming out from the bunker a number of times and it would happen

[DrLove0378]

That's because this was based on the arcade version -- which was inspired by the old home computer versions of "Choplifter". Many popular arcade games got ported to computers and consoles, and back then, it was very rarely the other way around.

[FieldmasterFox]

I could never get past the 3rd level. (*_*)

[masterlevels]

hey could somebody tell me names of all helicopter shoot em up games for master system. Im looking one which i had ages a go but cant remember its name, first level started in city

[oldhatrs25]

ThunderBlade. Great game.

[masterlevels]

yeah, found it already but thx anyway. ahh memories, great game indeed ^^

[redd7188]

which version is better 7800 or master system?

[Andesken]

Ahhh Damn, I never got beyond the damn cave, I'd always crash the helicopter against the rock ceiling full of rescued hostages, all dead, including the pilot. What a tragedy LOL.

[DANfan69]

The Stage 1 music sounds like an 8-bit Metallica song! That's pretty damn epic.

Hard as hell game though.

[REBEWEOJ]

It's amazing but I truly believe the Master System was better than the NES. I feel somewhat cheated that I could not find one while growing up!

[shiningwizard327]

This is the first video game I have ever played and owned. EPICNESS~!!!! And the game still looks pretty decent to this day!

[MarcoZero1980]

No, what cude

[kilroy3224]

makes me wonder how many people knew about the superman trick or how it made the hostages move that much faster. another game that no one else but me in my household could beat all six levels. very fun game.

[homergrand99]

yeah i used to kill many people by mistake. or get shot down tryin to rescue.

[JasonLee332002]

i was 13 (1988) first played

Choplifter Sega Master System

a disappointment audio & graphics

it wasn't as good as the arcade game

Sega should've ported Choplifter on the Genesis/Mega-Drive arcade perfect version

[garindan75]

good game...i played in the arcade videos...never in Sega but it is cool...

[EnigmaHood]

Ahhhh!! GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!!

[picturethief]

i used to love to make the hostages run out and then peg em' off

[nadoanacleto]

esse jogo era muito bom!! nice game i miss this game

[sigma20xx]

I like how you don't get any anti air support near your base when your dropping off hostages. Thanks for the help bastards. Your risking your life out there, the least they could do is protet you from enemy attacks when your at home lol.

[j03yrul3z]

i remember playin this game when i was 5-7. great game haha.

[seplrm]

my third game ever, super fun. Finished it in Grade four, and the last cave was a so tough with the flaming lava pieces that toosed about. Jaws was in level 2 as well.

[ReturnofRetroBoy]

Nice work, Talbot. Someone needed to load this very underrated 80s gem. Cave level drove me nuts for months, finally had to fly backward out to avoid the hot springs. And those bastard rockets that would rise from the water on level 2 as you're loading hostages.

Superman as well as E.T. (and Elliot) would appear on a flying bike. That's what that floating geisha fan thing is on level 4 with the weird sound effect.

[fuzzplugjones]

the stuttering graphics are killing me, you owe me two alleve

[ninelivecat]

Prob the best game on the SMS

[TheeMcDonger]

i used to love that game. i liked to squash the people when i landed on them

[amazingdany]

Ah, the Superman and the keep-tapping-up-on-the-d-pad-w­hile-rescuing-hostages-to avoid-tanks tricks... Good memories!

[Rockapebates]

yes i remember you had to keep lifting the chopper when you were picking up hostages or this thing killed you! lol and level 3 was nails i cant even remember if i got to level 4

[Forzaabruzzo]

Classic game! I was absolutly hooked on it when I was a little kid!

[RallyDon82]

the very best home version of one of the greatest games ever, choplifter fucking rocks!!!!

[ShuM42]

Mon premier jeu video :o. :tear:

[CescoPisicoli]

Level 3 was by far the hardest and a huge pain in the ass to complete, level 4 was my fav. as it took me so long to complete level 3 and when i finally did and saw a new looking level 4 i was happy about it! Ahhh to be 8 yrs old again.

[putiniwawa]

in the second stage theres a super man

look alike that comes out of the water

if you stay too much time on the submarine area

[nateword]

the superman is on every level every time he comes out it makes the men run faster......on the 1st level you get him by constantly blasting the ships coming out of the ground

[brownrice1]

Damm Dude! I wish I knew lifting the chopper every few seconds keeps the bad guys away. I would of saved myself of Carpal Tunnel.

[Tralivali89]

Terrible Music and Sound

[SimpsonFan82]

old school rules!!!

[damienmetalwind]

I don't know if I ever played stage 4 on a color TV...god I'm old

[Chuloloc]

Awesome.

[djhives]

Where was this guy on 9/11??? exactly....

[UltimateGamerCC]

video quality is a bit of an ouch on this one, nice run though. have you tried using snag-it? users like Judgespear swear by it, maybe that would be better than fraps

[Disthron]

Hi, Chopper lifter has sutch greate graphics for an SMS game. All those layers of paralexing. 0.o

It would be nice to have some comintary though.

[Cyrus7500]

Nice to see another one of your Speedruns thx.