Helicopters are insane machines and should not exist. Yes, I'm sure they have unique and valuable uses, even outside the murder industries. I don't care. They are ludicrous devices and we should not tamper with their like again.

Hardware sims are a bit of a blind spot for me, as a player. I see the appeal of some, but machines generally get less interesting to play with the more automated they become. So I might not normally have paid much attention to Hijong Park’s Defender Patrol.

But Hijong Park is the maestro behind the best reinventions of ancient arcade games around. And rather than jump to modernity, they've applied their usual treatment to early 90s aerial combat sims. I had to know.

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