Re: SEGA's arcade rendition of CHOPLIFTER my favorite 8-bit game as of late

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On May 28, 3:38 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> heliboy2...@yahoo.com.tw wrote:
> > Choplifter is indeed one of my favorite classic game. I still remember
> > the first time (back in early 80's) I saw somebody was playing
> > Choplifter on Apple ][, such a good memory. Loderunner is also one of
> > my favorite. But to be honest, I still like the game on Apple ][ even
> > though the remake are better in sound and screen. I guess game playing
> > is not really just the multimedia effect, but the feeling!
>
> Many years ago Marshall McLuhan made a distinction between "cool" media
> that invite us to participate in creating our own experience, and "hot"
> media that provide us with such detail that we all just watch what they
> have created.
>
> The emphasis on graphic photorealism in today's games at the expense
> of participation and playability is qualitatively different from the
> "cooler" games of less graphically capable platforms.
>
> Stan Freberg used to say how he preferred radio to TV and the movies
> (pre-digital effects ;-), because on radio he could have "the Royal
> Canadian Air Force drop a giant ten ton maraschino cherry into Lake
> Michigan" with nothing but sound effects, and his listeners would
> provide all the visual effects in their imaginations.  ;-)

I tried one called "Chopper", which is essentially a copy of
Choplifter, for the Mac OSX.
The beginning of it's doc says:

"Chopper 1.0.4

This was a uDevGame competetion entry, and placed second overall, and
first in game-play."

I couldn't disagree more about the playability. I remember Choplifter
from my high school days on an Apple II. That was awesome. Wish I had
it now.

(I have 2/1 software-starved Apple IIe/IIc's...)