Fun School 2: For the Under-6s
DOSEducational
How it plays
The player pilots a helicopter through horizontally scrolling combat areas. The main objectives are to advance through hostile terrain, attack enemy forces and installations, and survive each sortie while managing the helicopter's position relative to threats.
Play focuses on movement, aiming, and repeated attacks. Environments are divided into individual stages rather than one continuous campaign, with progression coming from completing successive missions. The available version's exact weapon and control details are not sufficiently documented here to list them reliably.
Plan your run
Keep the helicopter moving when enemy fire is active, but use short controlled adjustments when lining up attacks. Staying near the safest available altitude makes it easier to react to threats and avoid unnecessary collisions.
Learn the layout of each stage through repeated attempts. Prioritize dangerous targets before advancing and avoid taking risks simply to move faster, since survival is more valuable than a brief gain in position.
Before you begin
Use deliberate horizontal positioning instead of constant uncontrolled movement.
Identify dangerous targets before committing to a forward advance.
Replay stages to learn enemy placement and safer routes.
Chopper Commando is a DOS action game developed by Mark Currie and published by Apogee Software in 1990. It places the player in control of an armed helicopter during combat sorties over hostile territory. The game combines side-scrolling movement with direct helicopter handling and weapon-focused action, making positioning and timing as important as firing. Its presentation is characteristic of early shareware-era DOS games: compact missions, straightforward objectives, and a strong emphasis on replaying levels to improve performance. Chopper Commando was not a major commercial production, and detailed contemporary critical coverage is limited. Historically, it is best regarded as a small independent-style helicopter shooter associated with the early Apogee catalog rather than as a landmark of the genre.
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