Chopper Hunt

Chopper Hunt is a side-view shoot 'em up written by Tom Hudson and published by Imagic in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64. It was one of the last games from Imagic before the company went out of business. Chopper Hunt is an enhanced version of the Atari 8-bit game Buried Bucks released by ANALOG Software in 1982. In both games, the player uses a helicopter to shoot holes in the ground and unearth money and other items while an airplane drops dirt to repair the terrain. Contemporaneous reviews cited the original concept, but overall the gameplay was considered repetitive.