Helicopter
From Sega Retro
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| Helicopter | |||||||||||||||||
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| System(s): Electro-mechanical arcade | |||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. | |||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. | |||||||||||||||||
| Distributor: Sonic (ES) | |||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||
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Helicopter (ヘリコプター) is an electro-mechanical helicopter arcade game developed and manufactured by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., and first released in 1968.[3]
Contents
Specifications
Dimensions[4]
Gameplay
For 10-cents, players fly a helicopter around the machine in a circular motion. The helicopter is attached to a rod that pivots on top of a center pylon and a counter weight helps lift the helicopter. Player controls the helicopter's pitch and speed. The object of the game is to fly the helicopter so it touch one of seven stationary pins (located around the edges of the helicopter's circle of rotation) with the helicopter's two pring "whiskers". The stationary pin to touch is identified by a light. After touching one stationary pin, another stationary pin is lit. When the correct pin is hit, points are scored. There is a set amount of time per game. The more targets hit, the higher the score.
Sega's Helicopter uses an 8-track tape for background sound for the helicopter engine and rotor sound effects. The speed of the tape player changes to roughly correspond to the throttle setting of the model helicopter, so the sound gets faster as the helicopter goes faster.
History
Two similar contemporary competitors were Midway's Whirly Bird (1969) and Amusement Engineering's Helicopter Trainer (1968), with Helicopter thought to predate them both.
Promotional material
Photo gallery
Front
Playfield
Physical scans
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External links
References
- ↑ 1977 Sega Price List, page 7
- ↑ http://thetastates.com/eremeka/1969prior.html (Wayback Machine: 2023-08-21 09:33)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cash Box, "July 20, 1968" (US; 1968-07-20), page 69
- ↑ File:Billboard US 1968-07-20.pdf, page 40