Get to the Choppa! One of the best early 80s games ever is Choplifter (1982) developed in a solo effort by Dan Gorlin and published by Brøderbund. Softline in 1982 called the game "the first interactive computer-assisted animated movie", describing it as a fusion of arcade gaming, simulation, and filmic visual aesthetics. You might scoff at that now but for anyone who played games in that era, it actually did feal like quite a quantum leap. The helicopter movement and controls were in fact so realistic (momentum and inertia) in the original version that Brøderbund asked Gorlin to "tone it down a bit" in an effort to make it more playable for casual gamers.