Choplifter HD Hits PSN Tuesday (Zombies Included)

[Commander Fury]

I really get a kick out of the fact that I am now considered an "indie" again after all these years. I have been making games for nearly 30 years, having built a top-five PC publishing house called Interplay around such major franchises as The Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Descent and more. In the early days, I developed games for other companies and moved up the food chain to become a publisher so that I could make games "my way.†And here I sit, again readying our first major release in <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/choplifter-hd/">Choplifter HD</a> as a digital publisher and having created the game the way I wanted. Our company tagline at Interplay was "By Gamers. For Gamers" and it are those same values we used in creating <a href="http://us.playstation.com/games-and-media/games/choplifter-hd-ps3.html">Choplifter HD</a>.

 

Choplifter was a very important game when it was originally released back in 1982 and achieved #1 status at the time. Dan Gorlin, the original creator, really understood the humanness of saving little people from tough situations. It was a great action game for sure, but there was something about saving those little guys. And certainly it just never gets dull blowing things up in a big way! I felt that Choplifter would be a perfect game style to bring back, but fully realized with all the modern gameplay expectations.

 

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