My friend was playing SimCopter last night, and today he gave me the CD to install it on my own computer. I'd just like to take a moment and reminisce about the days when you could run an entire game off of a CD-ROM. The smallest install for SimCopter is two megabytes. The nearly complete install, is a massive 38 megabytes. As a matter of fact, you could run several games like these off a USB flash drive. You could literally have all the original Sim games on one small drive that you could plug in and run on any computer with a version of Windows installed. These days, a game's online manual file can be more than 38 megabytes.
After taking about one minute to install, I loaded up SimCopter and gave it a shot. Obviously, in this day and age it's possible to easily run the game at maximum settings with no problem whatsoever. Strangely enough, I had the game crash within a minute though. I restarted it and then put in the infamous I'm the CEO of McDonnell Douglas cheat code, and I had all of the helicopters at my disposal. I always enjoy flying the Apache and firing missiles at buildings. I have actually played through the game and accomplished my missions way back in the day. You can do a variety of things like rescue people, transport people, put out fires, shoot down UFO's, quell riots and summon public services.
The game is very open-ended, and if you have SimCity 2000, you can import your cities into it and fly around in them unrestricted. It's really helpful to have an airport, although the game will find a place to put a hangar if you don't have one. If you pick this game up, and can look past its dated graphics, you'll see a pretty fun helicopter rescue game underneath looking back at you.
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