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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(OvErLoRd @ Jun 25 2006, 06:06 PM) [snapback]239579[/snapback]</div>

Seems like an upgraded version of Paratrooper.

Which is good reference, of course.
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It so totally is. And it even seems like it improved on the original game a bit. And this ain't just a screenshots conclusion, I'm playing this game right now. Killed on wave 8. At that point I was purely holding down the fire key and sweeping the sky. And I was still making points!

.:EDIT:. Wave 10, 1677 points, 882 troopers, 378 planes. And there's another silly little cutscene after wave 8.

.:EDIT AGAIN:. Wave 11, 2537 points, 1096 paratroopers, 497 planes.

I love this game. I can load it up between classes and die before the next one starts.

[Elon Yariv]

The farest I made was to level 12. It's a bonus level. When I got to it I didn't know what to do so I died quickly. I never managed to get to it again. I usally die at levels 9-11.

Edit:

I made it to level 12. It's not the bonus level, but heck that was a hard one! Sometimes there were 6 rockets on the screen and every plane dropped about 15 paratroopers... the screen was full of them. I nearly made it, only three paratroopers survived at the end of the level. My score was 2832 and a silver star. I killed 1444 Paratroopers and destroyed 579 planes.

I wonder how many point do you need in order to get a golden star...

[guesst]

Cheats? Does this game have cheats?

I was uploading a new screen shot (only slightly abusing my powers of an updater) and noticed that all the other screen shots were on later levels but with strangely low kills. like 1 and 2. Now how do you get to level 3 without making a single kill? There's got to be cheats.

So I did a quick search on the internet and did some experimenting and, yes sir-y bob thar be a way to cheat. Highlight the next line to see it:
Crtl-Alt-# will zip to from level 1 up to level 10 (0) instantly! Enjoy.

[Elon Yariv]

Read one of the readme files included in the zip. It's written in there that you can start from level 1-10...But I forgot how!

Edit:

If, for whatever reason, you'd like to skip some of the lower levels, you
can use the level warp keys - just press Control-Alt-N, where N is a number
from 1-9 (0 warps to level 10).
If you'd like to double the speed of your shots while in the game, run
Night Raid with the /IBCD command line switch like this:
NITERAID /IBCD[/b]

Edit#2:

Doble the speed of your shots? Thats not fun! The slow shots are the things that made this game so hard... quick ones will make it so easy.

Anyway here is how much each kill is worth:

Paratrooper - 2 points (one for the trooper himself(if he falls and crushes on the floor you still get the point for him) and one for the parachute)

Big Plane - 5 points

Small Plane - 10 points

Smart Bomb - 10 points

This game seems to have a slightly bit more reason then I thought before:

They're ugly. They're stupid. They're weak. They're so unfriendly that
they can't even get along with each other. Unfortunately, there are a lot of
them, and they're all out to get you!

You managed to get stuck in an anti-aircraft bunker in a strategic area,
without any troop reinforcements. You know that the enemy is going to be
coming in droves, so you're glad that you have a huge supply of ammo to
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[guesst]

Well I guess my big secret cheat was no secret after all. Ah well.

So what does IBCD stand for? Did a google search and discovered the international buttered chicken day web site. Can not possibly be what it stood for, but at least I have an acronim I can remember.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Joe Schmoe @ Jun 28 2006, 05:48 AM) [snapback]240115[/snapback]</div>

Does anyone know the name of a variation of this game that was on the mac in the mid 80s? Similar idea (paratroopers, helicopters, jets) but you have both a machine gun and mortar (to shoot the guys on the ground) and you're on one side of the screen?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueler?

Thanks,

Joe
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Airborne. I loved that game. I've yet to see another such game where they drop a frickin tank on you. I dont remember a mortar though...

...then again I scratched the floppy to uselessness somehow when I was about 4, and havent seen a hint of it since(at least until that post)...

[angry axe]

i have a variation of this game on my i-pod nano, but it isn't too good as it is hard to control and gets boring after a while