Choplifter - Videogame by Sega

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Choplifter

Name: Choplifter
Developer: Sega

Year: 1985
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Sega System 8
Game Specific: Choplifter Pinout
Settings: Choplifter Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [FireRotate]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Choplifter Description

Fly a helicopter on missions to rescue P.O.W.s. Four different levels featuring desert, sea, caves and city rescue. Avoid and shoot enemy jets, ships, tanks anti-aircraft fire. Digitized speech and catchy background music.

Choplifter was produced by Sega in 1985.

Sega released 591 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Choplifter was produced include Albegas, Angel Kids, 4-D Warriors, Bank Panic, Crowns Golf In Hawaii, Bull Fight, Crowns Golf, Appoooh, Flicky, and Future Spy.

Choplifter - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.40 (4 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.35

     Overall 'Like': 4.00
     Fun (Social): 2.75
     Fun (Solo): 3.75
     Collector Desire: 2.33

Technical Impressions Score: 3.44

     Gameplay: 3.50
     Graphics: 3.50
     Originality: 3.25
     Sound/Music: 3.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

Basic idea is to fly your helicopter to each 'prison' and shoot the door off. Be careful not to shoot any of the POWs as they escape, land then pick up the prisoners and return back to base, you get additional fuel for each prisoner returned you carry a maximum of 8 at a time. Idea is to rescue more than 20 prisoners per level, if you get shot down and lose too many the level restarts. Bit Bonus points for rescuing maximum number of prisoners 24. Spending too much time of the ground alerts tanks, or flying saucers on later levels to your location they appear at the bottom of the screen and start to shell you. Also be careful of rotor blades and landing on/shooting POWs. Great digitized music, and speech. POW's shout 'don't leave' if you fly off without them. Or scream when they're killed. The screen features some really nice parallax scrolling, especially on the first level, and lots of color. All powered by a z80.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Choplifter Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 166 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 69 of these machines are owned by our active Choplifter collectors. And of these, 8 are original dedicated machines, 13 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 48 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with Choplifter machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with extra Choplifter circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Choplifter.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 47 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

Sega Board ID: 834-5795-03
Sega ROM Numbers: 7120-7123, 7127-7130, 7152-7154

Trivia

The history of this game is interesting: Sega licensed it from Brderbund from an original game for the Apple II computer.

Manuals

Instruction Manual 11 Pages, 693 kB File.

Video Clips

CHOPLIFTER (HQ) ARCADE GAME ORIGINAL BOARD SEGA

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Choplifter Flyer #191

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