LHX Attack Chopper
A Classic MS-DOS 256 Color PC Game
Now's your chance to slide into the cockpit of America's most advanced gunship the LHX ATTACK CHOPPER. Of course, you won't just be going out on test flights your skills are needed to quell a few volatile situations around the world. There are 30 different missions each with unique objectives that will take you to Europe, Libya, and Southeast Asia where you will face 40 different types of enemy targets: Main Battle Tanks, MiG Fighters, Havoc gunships, and SAM missile sites to name a few. You'll experience realistic helicopter flight controls things like altitude control, side slips, and autorotation that will challenge your skills and keep you on your toes. Whether you go into enemy territory alone or with a friend as your gunner, you're in control of the world's most deadly helicopter.
- PC Version MS-DOS
- Sega Genesis
- Megadrive
LHX Attack Chopper is a 1990 war helicopter PC simulation game by Electronic Arts. The game was developed by Brent Iverson, a retired U.S. Army soldier also known for the PC-DOS version of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. As of the year 2000, LHX is still the ONLY flight-sim that simulates the V-22 Osprey.
The game was originally for PC-DOS, but versions for other platforms, such as the Mega Drive/Genesis, were also made thereafter. the PC version was MCGA, 320x200 pixels in 256 colors but did not support a sound card. The game sound was though the PC speaker.
As many other games in those years, it had rudimentary copy-protection in the form of a question displayed after loading the game, which asked some specification from the game manual. This was easily patched so that any user input allowed game play.
The game had two attack helicopters, a model helicopter of the Light Helicopter Experimental, LHX, similar to the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche, and a Boeing AH-64A Apache, and two cargo helicopters, a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and a Boeing V-22 Osprey. It also had three different mission scenarios: Libya, Vietnam and East Germany.
