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Posted April 27, 2021
Get to the choppa! 2 classic simulation gems from Ziggurat Interactive are now available separately or as a part of a special Helli-Yeah Bundle (-25%):

Super Chopper (-33%) is a dynamic game where you climb into the cockpit of a military attack helicopter and take on 50 dangerous missions. With the help of a bristling arsenal of weapons and maneuverability, you’ll destroy enemy tanks, helicopters, and missile platforms.

Super Huey 1 & 2 Airdrop (-33%) is a true classic among helicopter simulation games, with roots reaching as far as 1985. Thanks to this two-title pack, you can test your high-flying skills with challenges of solo flight, exploration, rescue, and combat.

Take the chance and sit behind the cockpit of a helicopter before discounts on all mentioned above titles will end on 4th May 2021, at 1:30 PM UTC.
Posted April 27, 2021
Uh... April 2021 release date for these classics? I don't think so.
Posted April 27, 2021
Making a bundle of games that released on the 22nd of April makes it worthy of a release slot?

Meh :(
Posted April 27, 2021
Wow quite the surge in classic game releases in the past couple of days.
Posted April 27, 2021
Deja vu? Or is it the Matrix restructuring itself?
Posted April 27, 2021
Are these flight sim or arcade?
Posted April 27, 2021
The first Huey game is perfect once you play Fortunate Son in a loop. Highly recommend it.
Posted April 27, 2021
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mqstout: Uh... April 2021 release date for these classics? I don't think so.
Its actually not uncommon for games to list the date they are released on a platform as their release date. Instead of when it originally released. I have not paid much attention to it on gog, but I know I have seen it often enough on Steam. I would assume that's what's was going on here. Except for one thing. That date is not the date it was added to gog.
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justanoldgamer: Are these flight sim or arcade?
Arcade. Very much arcade.
Post edited April 27, 2021 by MobiusArcher
Posted April 27, 2021
I was about to ask why Super Huey III is not released and included... but it apparently is! Why not mention it in the pitch talk?

EDIT: Errr, ok... Apparently SH3 has already been released on GOG before, as I seem to have it in my library. :) So that is why it is not mentioned, makes sense I guess...

The first two Super Huey games seem to be 1986&1988 games, probably mostly known from Commodore 64... I wondered if Amiga has (superior?) versions of them, but apparently only the first SH was released on Amiga, not the second one, which according to Mobygames.com is Commodore 64 and MS-DOS game.

It is just that... pre-1990 MS-DOS games are mostly icky in my eyes. CGA (or at best EGA) graphics, no sound card support etc... I think I'd usually prefer e.g. Amiga or Commodore 64 versions of such games.

Starting from 1990 and onwards, PC finally started to hold its own, even producing games superior to e.g. their Amiga versions, increasingly so.
Post edited April 27, 2021 by timppu
Posted April 27, 2021
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mqstout: Uh... April 2021 release date for these classics? I don't think so.
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MobiusArcher: Its actually not uncommon for games to list the date they are released on a platform as their release date. Instead of when it originally released. I have not paid much attention to it on gog, but I know I have seen it often enough on Steam. I would assume that's what's was going on here. Except for one thing. That date is not the date it was added to gog.
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justanoldgamer: Are these flight sim or arcade?
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MobiusArcher: Arcade. Very much arcade.
I don't think I have seen this on gog often. Feels like a kinda recent thing here. I annoys me too though. When I want to see the release date I don't want to see the re-release date x decades after the actual release; I want to see the actual release date.
Posted April 27, 2021
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mqstout: Uh... April 2021 release date for these classics? I don't think so.
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MobiusArcher: Its actually not uncommon for games to list the date they are released on a platform as their release date. Instead of when it originally released.
The standard on GOG is the original (or close to) release date, not the "date added to GOG". And that's the standard that should remain. They've fudged it with the major remaster re-releases, counting the remaster as an entirely new game. I don't agree with that, but I can see that argument at least.
Post edited April 27, 2021 by mqstout
Posted April 27, 2021
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timppu: The first two Super Huey games seem to be 1986&1988 games, probably mostly known from Commodore 64... I wondered if Amiga has (superior?) versions of them, but apparently only the first SH was released on Amiga, not the second one, which according to Mobygames.com is Commodore 64 and MS-DOS game.

It is just that... pre-1990 MS-DOS games are mostly icky in my eyes. CGA (or at best EGA) graphics, no sound card support etc... I think I'd usually prefer e.g. Amiga or Commodore 64 versions of such games.
To me it looks like these are the C64-versions (there's save states and stuff here, which you don't typically get with DOSBox), which would be awesome (especially since Ziggurat also holds the rights to stuff like Aztec Challenge and Forbidden Forest.

The Amiga-version of Super Huey should be buried ten miles underground and then nuked. So we should all be glad they didn't add that to the collection.
Posted April 27, 2021
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• $6.69 • -33% • Super Chopper
• $6.69 • -33% • Super Huey 1 and 2 Airdrop
• $14.97 • -25% • Heli-Yeah! Bundle
Posted April 28, 2021
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Zeewolf: To me it looks like these are the C64-versions (there's save states and stuff here, which you don't typically get with DOSBox), which would be awesome (especially since Ziggurat also holds the rights to stuff like Aztec Challenge and Forbidden Forest.

The Amiga-version of Super Huey should be buried ten miles underground and then nuked. So we should all be glad they didn't add that to the collection.
Oh! That would be a positive surprise I guess. I have to check that. Does it sound like a Commodore 64 game, with proper SID music and stuff, not PC beeper sounds?

I wasn't aware of the state of the Amiga version, not sure if I have played it at some point, no recollection. I haven't played the C=64 versions of the two first games ever, I think.

Yeah, I am generally just a bit sad when I see classic releases with the poor PC version of the game, with CGA graphics and PC beeper sounds, when I know there are better versions around as well. The Hostages! release on Steam etc. come to mind, the Amiga version is so much better, with a rocking soundtrack and colorful graphics.
Post edited April 28, 2021 by timppu
Posted April 28, 2021
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mqstout: The standard on GOG is the original (or close to) release date, not the "date added to GOG". And that's the standard that should remain.
Unless the game previously was a one-year exclusive on Epic. In that case GOG usually prefers to use the "date added to GOG". ;-)
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