David Walters hasannounced on Twitterthat his “new helicopter game from 1992,”Thunder Helix, is launching on Steam Early Access on March 21.
I’ve been keeping an eye onThunder Helixfor a while now. It’s a helicopter combat game made in the style of early PC flight sims. The style emulates the fractal landscapes used in pre-polygonal flight games, and goes as far as using a 256 color completely with pixel stippling. Although, the store blurb says it can also run at 16-bit color.
I didn’t play very many of those flight sims. I was a bit too young. I did playDungeons & Dragons: Dragonstrike, and a friend once brought overA-10 Tank Killer. I can’t believe I remember that game.
Thunder Helixcontains all the bells and whistles: multiple helicopters, day and night gameplay,a winch. Everything you could possibly want from helicopter flying. It also supports multiple control schemes, including flight joystick. Unfortunately, I think my Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick is packed up at my parents. I haven’t bought anything more modern.
I’m pretty jazzed. I could technically install a DOS flight sim right now, but whenever I do, I usually just struggle to get the controls working for a while and get tired. Something with a modern backend sounds pretty rad right now.
Thunder Helixwill be out on PC via Steam Early Access on March 21.
