Granny Vinnie Reviews

7800 Rank: 53rd Genre Rank: (Flight Sim) 4th Awards: 4th Worst Graphics, 4th Worst Sound, 7th Worst Gameplay, 2nd Worst Originality, 7th Worst Value Um....Please Fly? Pros: This Game Does Not Spontaneously Combust Cons: Ridiculous control system/ Ugly Game Let's End it All! Right Here! Right Now!

Overview: If you know or care anything about me, you know I can't stand the 7800 flight "Simulators". Good lord what a terrible genre. But, it had been over a year since my last slew of reviews, so I decided to give this game a chance. I mean a REAL chance. After about 40 minutes with this game, I discovered that there are 3 modes to this one: "Stupid Mode", "Give me a Break Mode", and "Good Enough to be a Flash Game Mode".

Graphics: I have so many bad things to say about this category, I have chosen to say all the good things about Super Huey's graphics to save space. The control panel is pretty cool, actually. There is a lot of info that makes little sense, but it looks impressive (buttons, knobs, numbers). I like how there are controls above the windshield (is that what you call it in a helicopter?), and also how you can see below the control panel through the small windshields at your crotch. Yep...that's pretty much it. I also like the fact that there are no naked pictures of Raymond Burr in the game.

Sound: There is nothing I like in this category.

Gameplay: I will break the modes down for my homies who care:




"Stupid Mode"
AKA
"Flight School"
This is supposed to teach us how to power up, arm the guns, fuel up, and get off the ground for "Give me a Break Mode". All of those things are so fun to do...I would hate to miss out on "powering up" and "arming guns".... so glad they included that. "Stupid Mode" tells up to power up at the beginning. (Reminds me of 1-800 customer service tech help) It doesn't tell you how, it just tells you to. So after flipping difficulty switches and hitting buttons for about 15 seconds, the power came on. I have no idea how...but it did. Oops....I turned it off by accident. Dang........press press press flip flip flip....ooops....here it is again. From here, "Stupid Mode" lets us guess the next step. And after a minute of hitting every button and direction on two controllers and the console itself, a magical prompt appeared: "Abort Mission?" Gladly! Good bye, "Stupid Mode" Press...

"Give me a Break Mode"
AKA
"Reality Mode"
This mode is actually very true to life. A realistic simulation of holistic truth! I can't get a real helicopter off the ground, nor could I get the 7800 helicopter off the ground! Brilliant!

"Good Enough to be a Flash Game Mode"
AKA
"Arcade Mode"
Thankfully, the 7800 helps us get off the ground by lifting us to the sky automatically. While we hover in the air, "evil black helicopters" appear all around and it is our job to blow them all away. Since I never got the hang of flying at the same altitude and moving towards or away from something, I basically spun around in the same spot, firing away at the foes. It was like a first person Asteroids. Not many other skills were needed, thankfully. The first game I played, I spent 18 minutes wondering if I was indestructible. Finally, I was knocked out of the air after I scored 227 kills! Not very challenging, eh? Heat seeking missiles and unlimited ammo made this game a wee bit fun, along with the fact that prolonged enemy gun fire can damage things like the radar and altitude meter.

Originality: It is very original to create a helicopter flight simulator where it is impossible to get the $@#! thing off the ground. Hats off guys.

Value: "Good Enough to be a Flash Game Mode" is somewhat decent, and could be fun for a little while if you are that desperate...but the other two modes are ridiculous.

Overall: If you like 80's flight simulators and solving complicated calculus problems, this game may tickle your tedious video game funny bone. If you are like the rest of humanity and you enjoy fun video games, stay far far away from Super Huey.



Other Reviews:
Video Game Critic: F
The Atari Times: 4 out of 10
CV's Panoramic Froo-Froo: 2.0 out of 5.0 (Bad)



Additional Info: I would like to take this time to thank Mitch Orman, owner of The Atari 7800 Page for allowing the use of his screenshots for this review.

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