David Walters has introduced on Twitter that his “new helicopter sport from 1992,” Thunder Helix, is launching on Steam Early Entry on March 21.

I’ve been keeping track of Thunder Helix for some time now. It’s a helicopter fight sport made within the fashion of early PC flight sims. The fashion emulates the fractal landscapes utilized in pre-polygonal flight video games, and goes so far as utilizing a 256 coloration fully with pixel stippling. Though, the shop blurb says it might probably additionally run at 16-bit coloration.

I didn’t play very lots of these flight sims. I used to be a bit too younger. I did play Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonstrike, and a pal as soon as introduced over A-10 Tank Killer. I can’t imagine I do not forget that sport.

Thunder Helix accommodates all of the bells and whistles: a number of helicopters, day and evening gameplay, a winch. All the pieces you possibly can presumably need from helicopter flying. It additionally helps a number of management schemes, together with flight joystick. Sadly, I believe my Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick is packed up at my mother and father. I haven’t purchased something extra fashionable.

I’m fairly jazzed. I might technically set up a DOS flight sim proper now, however each time I do, I often simply wrestle to get the controls working for some time and get drained. One thing with a contemporary backend sounds fairly rad proper now.

Thunder Helix will probably be out on PC through Steam Early Entry on March 21.