Brush Up On The Histories Of Choplifter And Paperboy With These Two New Documentaries

Slope’s Game Room delivers the goods.

They might not be household names today, but once upon a time, the Choplifter and Paperboy brands attracted a lot of attention in the world of gaming.

Dan Gorlin’s 1982 title Choplifter was one of the first scrolling shooters to pull together a movie-like story and solid objectives for the player to follow, and became such a commercial hit that Sega would license the property to produce a 1985 arcade game by the same name – a (then) rare instance of a home title being ported to coin-op when it was traditionally the other way around.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

Slope’s Game Room delivers the goods.

They might not be household names today, but once upon a time, the Choplifter and Paperboy brands attracted a lot of attention in the world of gaming.

Dan Gorlin’s 1982 title Choplifter was one of the first scrolling shooters to pull together a movie-like story and solid objectives for the player to follow, and became such a commercial hit that Sega would license the property to produce a 1985 arcade game by the same name – a (then) rare instance of a home title being ported to coin-op when it was traditionally the other way around.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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