Play Koukuu Kihei Monogatari: The Legend Of Air Cavalry Online

Summary

Chopper I (known in Japan as The Legend of Air Cavalry) drops you into a fast‑paced vertical scrolling shoot‑em‑up where you pilot a lone helicopter over hostile terrain. Enemy choppers, armored tanks and naval boats pop up in waves, and taking down the larger gunships rewards you with upgraded weapons or a smart‑bomb for those tight spots. The screen isn’t just filled with airborne threats; ground‑based obstacles periodically rise, forcing you to weave between fire and debris. You can tackle the chaos solo or team up with a friend, each controlling a separate helicopter for cooperative firepower. Behind the action, the cabinet runs on a pair of Z80 CPUs with YM‑3812 and Y8950 sound chips, a setup that helped it rank ninth among Japan’s table‑type arcade units in July 1988, and it even saw a PSP revival in 2012.