I knew this game in its first incarnation as Choplifter from Broderbund. It played like a champ on Apple II+, a 1MHz 6502 processor. And some of you old gamers might even remember it as some other vector game variant in video arcades. However when Choplifter came out in the late 80s in full cabinet form, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Anyways I tried out this Atari ST variant tonight for the first time. Despite having been celebrated on the Mac for some time now, I've never once touched Oids. The graphics wasn't persuasive enough for a jaded gamer like me. But... 5 STARS! Oh my! So there I was loading it for the first time. The welcome screen was an eyeful, and that got my hopes up. But then what follows was a time warp trip back to my Apple II+ days. And people played this on the ST?

In short, it may be a fun game to the old school Atari ST gamers, but it's time someone gave this a full OpenGL update. Take a look at what someone did to Choplifter. Hard to believe this is a one man effort.