VertiSim

Remember this?

The Mattel VertBird carried heavy "toy cred" when I was a kid -- especially if you could actually fly it well, (which, modesty aside, I could). If you got two (or better yet, three) VertiBirds together, a few minutes with a yardstick would set up a helicopter battleground. Kinda like "Joust" without the flappy psuedo-ostriches -- but with the exciting possibility of spinning, whirling, eye-destroying pieces of vanquished enemy toys.

Now you can re-live your childhood. Click here to download VertiSim -- a very faithful computer simulation of the original VertiBird toy. You'll need to tweak the controls to get the "feel" right, but it seems to be modeled quite accurately. Alas, there's no possibility of setting up some virtual verti-violence, so you'll have to satisfy yourself with smashing that infuriating astronaut into the deck.