Helicopter Game

[WilliamC23]

I used to play a game at The Franklin Instituite in Philadelphia. It involved a helicopter, it was in simple polygonal 3d. You flew the helicopter around a flat map, and if you crashed it told you the exact cost of the damages and what was damaged. I'm not sure if the game had a point.

[Acethor]

Isn't the Franklin Institute a museum? You played a game at a museum?

Anyways it does sorta remind me of a game I used to play:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/blitzer

[WilliamC23]

Isn't the Franklin Institute a museum? You played a game at a museum?

Anyways it does sorta remind me of a game I used to play:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/blitzer

It's an interactive museum, you can do lots of things at it. Also, the game used polygons.

[RRS]

Maybe it's a museum-specific thing? I mean made exclusively for them? Your description doesn't give us much about gameplay, sounds more like simple simulation - esp. that "damage assessment" part.

[WilliamC23]

Maybe it's a museum-specific thing? I mean made exclusively for them? Your description doesn't give us much about gameplay, sounds more like simple simulation - esp. that "damage assessment" part.

I don't think it was, I swear it has an author's name right on it. I think it was shareware or something.

[RRS]

Maybe you should get in touch with the institute? Surely someone was responsible for making this game available to visitors, there should be some traces left, such institutions are bureaucratic.

[Acethor]

I agree entirely with the poster above :)

[Chris]

just a guess, but maybe it is Sierra's 3D Helicopter Simulator (http://www.mobygames.com/game/3-d-helicopter-simulator)?

[WilliamC23]

If that's not it, it's very similar to that.