Mancopter

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Mancopter
Title screen
Developer(s) Nichibutsu
Publisher(s) Datasoft
Programmer(s) Scott Spanburg
Platforms Commodore 64
Release date(s) 1984
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player

Mancopter is a computer game by the company Datasoft that appeared on the Commodore 64 computer system in 1984.

Summary

The player controls a person piloting a helicopter-like flying device over an ocean, and competing with other computer-controlled pilots.

The player flies the copter by rapidly pressing the fire button on the joystick. If the player stops pressing the button, or runs into some sort of obstacle, then the copter will fall into the sea. For a few of these falls, the player is saved by a whale who surfaces with the copter on its head and allows the player to continue the game. If the player runs out of "Fish," (which can be stolen or recaptured from flying pelicans,) then a "Jaws"-inspired shark eats the player instead and the game is over.

Mancopter was programmed by Scott Spanburg, and the music was composed by John A. Fitzpatrick.

Reception

Compute!'s Gazette called Mancopter "challenging enough for adults and picturesque enough for children ... The game is challenging and graphically entertaining".[1]

References

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