Choplifter
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System(s): Sega System 1, Sega System 2, SG-1000, Sega Master System | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sega R&D 1 Sega R&D 2 Compile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: Brøderbund Software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer(s) of original games: Dan Corlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1], Shooting[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Choplifter (チョップリフター) is a side-scrolling action game developed by Dan Gorlin for Brøderbund Software that was originally released for the Apple II computer in 1982. The player controls a combat chopper that must retrieve P.O.Ws. trapped in enemy camps and then transport them back to the player's home base. In 1985, Sega remade Choplifter as an arcade game, being the first game developed for their System 2 hardware (although variants of the game were also produced that ran on the earlier System 1 hardware). The same year, Sega also released a My Card version of Choplifter for the SG-1000, while a cartridge version for the Sega Master System was later produced in 1987 for the North American and European markets. A Choplifter III was later released for the Sega Game Gear in 1994 by a third-party publisher, unrelated to any of the first-party versions published by Sega.
Sega's 1992 System 32 arcade game Air Rescue features a similar premise and is considered something of a spiritual successor.
Contents
Production credits
System 1 version
- Programmer: Rikiya Nakagawa
Master System version
- Main Programming: Drunkard Kagi
- Program Assistance: Dumb Muro
- Graphic Design: Funny Fuku
- Sound Effects: Hairy Uwa
- Coordinator: Prince Yama
- Choplifter was licensed from Broderbund Software Inc.
- © Dan Gorlin 1982
- Special Thanks To: R N K TM N N
Hints
Master System US hints (with Teddy Boy Blues)
Magazine articles
- Main article: Choplifter/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
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Physical scans
System 1 version
SG-1000 version
SG-1000, JP |
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Master System version
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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128kB | Cartridge (EU/US) |
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/sc3000/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-09-28 02:34)
- ↑ File:Choplifter SMS US cover2.jpg
- ↑ Sega Arcade History, Enterbrain, page 81
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 8
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 14
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 12
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 ', "" (; ), page 132
- ↑ The Mastertronic Catalogue (UK; 1988), page 2
- ↑ File:Choplifter SMS credits.png
- ↑ ', "March 1988" (; 1988-02-04), page 10
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 51
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 94
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 55
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 34
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 139
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 81
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 133
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 13
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 55
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 20
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 70
- ↑ ', "Máios 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 100
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