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Tiger-Heli
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Before Twin Cobra, before Truxton, before Toaplan became one of the most respected names in arcade shooters, there was Tiger-Heli. It was the studio's first shoot 'em up, a 1985 arcade game that put you in the seat of an attack helicopter, and it introduced an idea nearly every vertical shooter since has borrowed: the bomb, a screen-clearing panic button for the moment the bullets close in.
The action scrolls steadily upward as enemy fire comes at you from both the air and the ground, and your missiles can answer either. Bombs are precious, wiping out nearby enemies and their shots in a single blast, and shooting the cross-shaped bunkers along the route turns up the game's most satisfying reward: small support helicopters that lock in beside your own, one kind firing to the side and another firing forward. Building up an escort and protecting it is the heart of the strategy, and losing it hurts.
The NES conversion was handled by Micronics, and Acclaim brought it to North America in 1987, where it became an early hit in the console's library. It plays at a deliberate, methodical pace compared with the frantic shooters that came later, and reviewers have long pointed to its flicker and slower movement, but that steadiness is also what makes it approachable: Tiger-Heli rewards patience, memorization and careful use of every bomb.
For shooter fans it is a piece of genre history, the opening chapter of the Toaplan lineage that led to Twin Cobra and beyond. For NES players who remember it from the shelves of 1987, it is the chance to fly that first chopper again and see how much of the modern shoot 'em up was already taking shape.
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