Does anyone know what this game is?

[rchadd]

I remember an arcade game that I played when at University in the UK around 1990/92 but for the hell of it I can't remember what it was called. I hope somebody here will be able to help....

let me try and describe the game play (as much as i call recall):

It was a helicopter based shoot em up.

You controlled a helicopter that was positioned centrally in the screen with a top down view on a map of various terrain (maybe in pseudo 3d). The first few levels were based at sea and around islands (i never got much further). I remember you flew around the map basically shooting military installations located on the various islands,a and also various naval type ships (there might have been also aircraft that attacked you).

I remember there was one significant and novel feature of this game:  

when you turned the helicoptor using the analogue flightstick the whole map would rotate 360 degrees around the helicoptor (the helicopter remained pointing up the screen). I was really impressed with this at the time!

I think you could also control the height of the helicopter with a throttle type control type slide - i think this resulted in the map zooming in to simulate getting closer to the ground.

I would be grateful if any one knows what this game was called - it has been really bugging me for years! As far as i remember it was an awesome game to play.

[Trenchbroom]

Sounds like it is probably Steel Talons, by Atari:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9785

[rchadd]

no - its not that one.

it was one player only game and had a stand up cab.

[jcoleman]

I think you might be talking about Thunder Blade, a personal favorite based on the environmental version:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10094

Is this in MAME?  I have to check that out...

Coleman

[Tailgunner]

I think you might be talking about Thunder Blade, a personal favorite based on the environmental version:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10094

Is this in MAME?  I have to check that out...

Coleman

The last auction I went to had a working enviornmental Thunder Blade. It wasn't in bad shape and went fairly cheaply.

[rchadd]

sorry but it wasn't Thunder Blade either

think more like an arcade version of desert/soviet strike (as played on Megadrive/PS)

but the whole map rotating through 360 degrees when you try to turn the heli....

[ani]

Are you sure it wasn't thunderblade? If you just tried it at first, it changes. The game starts out like afterburner, then a few levels in it shifts to the overhead view.

[gnateye]

zero gunner? or zero gunner 2?