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[vdub_bobby]

You beat up Bluto and rescued Olive, now let's get back to shootin'! It's time for Tiger-Heli!

Post a score and let's get this thing rolling! Note that the score rolls at a million points so for our purposes scoring will be capped at a million.

Please post any tips you may have - best tip gets 1 bonus point! Only scores for games played from the beginning will count! No continues!

And if anyone has a link to the manual, please post it.

This week's competition ends next Tuesday (September 25) morning at approximately 8:00 am PST.

This week's scores:

216,870 vdub_bobby (+10 pts)
192,410 rjchamp3 (+8 pts)
58,800 LarcenTyler (+6 pts + 1 pt for best tip)
32,410 PressureCooker2600 (+4 pts)

Twin Galaxies High Scores

1,282,400 Tom Votava
381,310 Blair Tuck


Overall standings:

1. rjchamp3 (10 pts)
2. gdement (9 pts)
3. LarcenTyler (6 pts)
4. vdub_bobby (4 pts)


Game Info

Coin-op originally released by Taito in 1985; ported to the NES by Pony and released in the US in 1986.

Other platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-16, ZX Spectrum

Related games: None, as far as I can tell.

Tips

From MobyGames.com

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You shoot crates to get pickups. If you shoot the crate when it is green you get a bomb pickup, if you shoot it when it is red you get a mini helicopter that attaches to one of your sides shooting sideways, and if you shoot it when it is white you get a mini helicopter shooting forward. If you shoot 10 crates with a yellow diamond shape you get an extra life.

LarcenTyler:

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First off, the diamonds are red-purple, not yellow.

Edited by vdub_bobby, Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:39 PM.

[LarcenTyler]

58,800

First off, the diamonds are red-purple, not yellow.

And secondly, I must say the music isn't all that bad, but whoever wrote it must've been a novice in composition of music!

[vdub_bobby]

I bought this game last night at Pink Godzilla, so I'm hoping to get some good playing in before next Tuesday.

[vdub_bobby]

216,870

This has pretty good gameplay, but the levels start repeating after something like the 4th level! There are more, and new, enemies and they shoot faster, but still! I was a little disappointed.

Still, a pretty good game all in all. Good action, no cheap kills. Took me a while, though, to figure out how to know how many bombs I had left - then I noticed that they are hanging on the side of my chopper! Kind of a cool touch, though maybe a little too subtle. Also - does anyone know why sometimes your heli automatically drops a bomb to prevent you from getting shot but sometimes doesn't?

Edited by vdub_bobby, Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:02 AM.

[PressureCooker2600]

I can't believe out of the 230 or so NES games I have.....I don't have this one. This game is awesome. Definately not as hard Sky Shark.....but still hard cause I'm playing it on an emulator with ......keyboard controls.......

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[PressureCooker2600]

32410

Probably the best I'll get since these keyboard controls are killing me. Hopefully, I'll have the next game.

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[rjchamp3]

192,410 I lose this one actually, Hate this game

Edited by rjchamp3, Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:04 AM.

[vdub_bobby]

And we're done! Hope you had fun blowing up lots and lots of tanks.