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Expert: Helen Joan Casper - 11/9/2006


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Hi,

When I was younger I used to play a game. I think it was on the original NES and it was very simple but so fun and I loved it. Your view was aerial of a river and you were flying a plane along the river. You had to avoid certain things like in the landscape but also (I think) maybe people who were trying to shoot you down? I bought an original NES a couple of years ago and would really love to find this game and buy it if I could just figure out what it's called!!!

Thanks for any help you can give.

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Does this picture look familiar?
http://cafeman.www9.50megs.com/riverraid.html

If so, the game in question is "River Raid". It was released by Activision for the NES in 1990. It's considered a rare game so it may be hard to find.

There's a small, online flash game that's based off of the original River Raid (but, obviously, without the complexity and various levels). You can find it here: http://www.games2web.com/play-2615-River_Raid.html

Let me know if that's not the game and I'll try again. =)

Thanks!
Helen

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Ever since I played "Pong" in the early 80's, I've been a video game aficionado. I can answer hardware & games questions about PSP (PlayStation Portable), all PlayStation (1,2,& 3), Wii, Wii Fit, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance, and antiquated systems (ColecoVision, Atari, Sega, etc). I can answer hardware questions about all systems (including PS1 - PS3, Wii, NES, SNES, PSP, DS, GBA, GB, Xbox and Xbox 360). I can also answer PC game questions, especially CounterStrike: Source, Vampire: Bloodlines, Half-Life 1&2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and all Sims & Sims 2 questions. I am ESPECIALLY knowledgeable in Square-Enix (formerly SquareSoft) games such as ALL the Final Fantasy games (I can even tell you really obscure things about these games). If I haven't played the game yet I will research it and help you find the answer, renting the game if necessary. I can even answer questions dealing with the consoles themselves (hardware questions). I cannot answer questions about Action Replay. I cannot answer questions about football, basketball, or wrestling sports games. I also have very limited knowledge about Xbox & Xbox 360 games unless they are cross-platform. If it is an independent game that has not been widely published and/or a game only released in some countries, I may not be able to help with it either (sadly!)

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I currently am employed as a supervisor for a large, national video game retailer. I am also an expert here in games/roleplaying games, weddings, childbirth, and doulas. My husband is a computer programmer and one of the forefront coders for CounterStrike: Source scripts & mods. He has his own forums for coders/scripters at Mattie.Info. I have been an expert here since 2000 (under the name of Helen Chipman) and also volunteer on numerous other game-related websites and forums.

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