neiljones1981

I played this on the 8-bits, specifically the Amstrad, and seeing it featured in 8-Bit Christmas (albeit on the NES) reminded me of it.

And I loved it. Who doesn't love at the age of eight thumping the crap out of anything and everything that moved? And to top it all buildings can fall down too if you thump them enough too.

Yes it was never as addictive as Pac-Man or going to be as cultural as Mario/Sonic/insert name of other major computing character/series here, but for a good 10/15 minute blast of fun you could have done far worse in the 1980s.

Okay the computer AI (particularly on the Amstrad version of this game) was a bit hit and miss in single player mode and sometimes it felt like you were the only one doing anything useful contributing to the rampage but at least you could thump them for doing something stupid, even if they never learnt :)

Airplane! Is quite surely one of the best disaster spoof movies ever made. From the minds of the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker trio (who also would go on to Police Squad and the spin-off Naked Gun films, as well as the two Hot Shot films), this is absolutely brilliant and appeals to my sense of humour. Okay it was near enough a total rip off of 1957's Zero Hour (even down to the dialogue!) with extra elements, but that's the benefit when the production company who made this also owned that.

Airplane stands up to repeated viewing not only for humour purposes but even though I've seen this more times than I care to remember and I'm always finding new visuals that I missed previously on the next viewing.

It was a twist of genius to take then serious actors like the great and much missed Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves and have them play their characters straight while insane things were going on around them.

If you liked Naked Gun and Hot Shots, you'll love this, as its pretty much the same humour in a new environment.

And don't call me Shirley.