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I don't think I played it for the Master System, but I remember playing this game sometime during my childhood. Best part...you can squash hostages...lol! GTA with a chopper!

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I played it primarily (perhaps exclusively) on Apple IIe, and in that version, my favorite strategy was to land on the POWs. Not because it killed them, but because it immediately picked them up and that way I didn't have to wait for them to slow walk to the chopper while a tank approached. At least, that's my recollection...

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Yeah, I think Choplifter is likely the first time I experienced a game where killing non-enemies was actually a thing. It was a weird feeling.

Venter, unfortunately that strategy doesn't work for the SMS version; if I try landing right on top of the area they spawn from, they immediately get squashed xD.

I head spaceshit noises.

Only played this on Commodore, which is a rather simpler game (if just as merciless, your chopper full of hostages is shot down just as easily by a random enemy that wasn't on screen and couldn't have been avoided).

By the way, just to be pedantic: if they're hanging from the ceiling, they are stalactites. Stalagmites go up.

You know what's funny? I did a quick fact check before submitting the review to make sure I got the correct word. Yet, I still got it wrong... Thanks for pointing it out, and for reading the review!

I head spaceshit noises.