Stunt Copter

Stunt Copter is a monochrome Macintosh action game written by Duane Blehm and published by his Kansas-based company, HomeTown Software, in 1986.^[1][2]

Stunt Copter
Publisher(s)	HomeTown Software
Designer(s)	Duane Blehm
Platform(s)	Macintosh
Release	1986
Genre(s)	Action

Gameplay

The game involves piloting a small helicopter around a playfield. The player has to position the helicopter and drop a person suspended from the aircraft onto a hay bale or moving cart. If incorrectly timed, the person might fall onto the ground or injure the horse or the driver of the cart.^[3]

Legacy

After Blehm's death, his parents released his games and source code into the public domain.^[4]

MacAddict magazine used Stunt Copter to demonstrate software compatibility of Mac OS X public beta.^[5] An OS X version was released by Antell Software.^[6]

An iPhone version was released by nerdgames in 2009.^[6][7] In 2011, an iPad version of Stunt Copter was released by Apollo Software which is similar to the original.^[8]

In 2018, a collection of his games were uploaded to the Internet Archive and made playable in a web browser.^[9]